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US shale sector steps off the gas
Added: 17 Aug 2012
London - A combination of lower North American natural gas prices and relatively high oil prices pr…
Pump makers battle Green Deal exclusion
Added: 17 Aug 2012
London – The British Pump Manufacturers Association (BPMA) is challenging the Building Research Est…
Ensus to restart biofuels facility
Added: 15 Aug 2012
London – Ensus is to restart its bioethanol plant on Teesside in late August, the company has annou…
Wood Group PSN to build CMMS for Shell Prelude
Added: 15 Aug 2012
London – Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) has been awarded a $10 million (AUD) contract by Shell to build the…
Technologies to Watch
Added: 15 Aug 2012
Honeywell has introduced an application control and whitelisting solution to help combat viruses an…
Work starts on "world's largest" renewable energy plant
Added: 14 Aug 2012
London, UK – Air Products has started work on the site of a pioneering renewable energy plant in t…
EU chemicals industry taps the brakes
Added: 13 Aug 2012
Brussels - EU chemicals production fell 2.1% in the first five months of 2012 compared with the sam…
Reusing co-streams from fish and oil plant processing
Added: 13 Aug 2012
Researchers are developing together new ways of using the substantial co-streams from fish and oil …
Microbes convert energy to pure methane
Added: 10 Aug 2012
Microbes that convert electricity into methane gas have been discovered by scientists from Stanford…
Nottingham Uni signs research deal with Wahaha
Added: 10 Aug 2012
The University of Nottingham has signed a memorandum of agreement to undertake research and develop…
ABB launches hazardous-area wireless devices
Added: 8 Aug 2012
London – ABB has launched a wireless mesh router and wireless bridge for hazardous field automation…
Instrumentation: Engineers not using their intelligence
Added: 8 Aug 2012
London – Over 40% of companies are not using intelligent features embedded within process instrumen…
Solid approach to oil pollution
Added: 8 Aug 2012
London - UK Power Networks, the UK’s largest public utility, is to trial a pollution prevention sys…
Major UK investments unveiled at Olympics summit
Added: 7 Aug 2012
London – Global oil & gas and petrochemicals companies are to announce plans for major investments …
Lotte Chemical advances Wilton PET project
Added: 7 Aug 2012
Wilton, UK - Lotte Chemical UK Ltd (LCUK) has progressed its project to expand PET (polyethylene te…
Honeywell bolsters cyber-security arsenal
Added: 6 Aug 2012
Introduces whitelisting system to combat viruses and malware attacks on DCS system
Wanted - 350 senior engineers
Added: 6 Aug 2012
Middlesbrough, UK – Some 350 senior engineer vacancies were up for grabs at a recruitment event sup…
Early closure for E.ON power plant
Added: 3 Aug 2012
London – E.ON UK has is to mothball its Grain-A oil-fired power station on the Isle of Grain in Ken…
Legionella outbreaks spark industry response
Added: 2 Aug 2012
London - The recent outbreaks of legionella in Stoke-on-Trent and Edinburgh have led to a spike in …
BP 'slipped and tripped' to Macondo disaster
Added: 31 Jul 2012
Houston, Texas – Prior to the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, BP, Transocean, tr…
