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Buncefield 'vapour cloud' probed
Added: 13 Jul 2012
London - The UK’s Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a report on the formation of the fuel …
RWE studying Tilbury Power Station fire
Added: 13 Jul 2012
London – RWE is continuing to study lessons learnt from the recent fire at Tilbury Power Station an…
BP settles Texas City refinery citations
Added: 13 Jul 2012
London – BP Products North America Inc. has reached an agreement with the US Occupational Safety an…
Alkaline fuel cell for UK chemical plant
Added: 12 Jul 2012
London – AFC Energy has commenced a joint project with Industrial Chemicals Ltd (ICL) to install an…
New Saudi Aramco venture to target energy technologies
Added: 12 Jul 2012
Dhahran Saudi Arabia – Saudi Aramco has launched of a new corporate venturing subsidiary Saudi Aram…
Tata refurbishes Welsh steel line
Added: 12 Jul 2012
Newport, UK – Boulting Group has completed the refurbishment and installation of a turret head edge…
Ministers 'not trusted' to reveal power plant risks
Added: 10 Jul 2012
London – Independent regulators should take a more prominent role in communicating the risks associ…
Oil & gas tax move could free up investment billions
Added: 10 Jul 2012
London – The UK government has published a consultation aimed at giving oil and gas companies more …
Capturing the electrical charge between plastics
Added: 10 Jul 2012
Triboelectric generator produces electricity by harnessing friction between surfaces
Fukushima disaster "made in Japan"
Added: 9 Jul 2012
Tokyo – The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was “man-made” and not the unfore…
UK chemical engineers report positive pay trends
Added: 4 Jul 2012
London – UK chemical engineers have experienced positive pay trends with salaries continuing to ris…
Lafarge using wireless to monitor critical instruments
Added: 4 Jul 2012
Bristol, UK - Lafarge Plasterboard is monitoring critical field instruments remotely from the plant…
BASF to build butadiene plant in Antwerp
Added: 4 Jul 2012
Ludwigshafen, Germany – BASF plans to build a butadiene extraction plant at its Verbund site in Ant…
Argex claims TiO2 process 'breakthrough'
Added: 4 Jul 2012
Montreal, Quebec – Canadian company Argex Mining Inc. claims to have made a breakthrough with its p…
Sold Coryton refinery to be turned into a fuel terminal
Added: 3 Jul 2012
London – The Petroplus Coryton refinery site in Essex will be turned into a fuel storage facility a…
Improving miner safety
Added: 3 Jul 2012
A penny-sized device is being developed to improve miner safety
Klinger UK nets Energy Industry Award
Added: 2 Jul 2012
Leeds, UK – Klinger UK, a developer, manufacturer and distributor of sealing products for the globa…
HSE to proceed with controversial cost recovery scheme
Added: 29 Jun 2012
London – The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is to proceed with its controversial Fee for Interve…
Virtual reality goes underground to monitor nuclear waste
Added: 29 Jun 2012
Cologne, Germany – Research agencies in Germany have joined forces to develop what they believe wil…
Kawasaki Heavy Industries invests in CompactGTL
Added: 28 Jun 2012
London – Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has taken a minority shareholding (2.2%) in CompactGTL –a …
