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BP advances oil recovery technology
Added: 10 Sep 2012
Aberdeen, UK – BP is deploying a new technology that, it believes, could significantly increase the…
Aberdeen's global status under threat
Added: 10 Sep 2012
London - Aberdeen is in danger of losing it status as an international oil & gas hub if it does not…
Shell taps Foster Wheeler for Qatar MEG project
Added: 9 Sep 2012
Zug, Switzerland - Shell Global Solutions International BV has awarded Foster Wheeler the contract …
Biofuel waste recycled for electricity
Added: 7 Sep 2012
Distillers Dried Grain with Solubles (DDGS) is a waste product from bioethanol production that is c…
UK oil & gas workforce getting younger
Added: 7 Sep 2012
Aberdeen, UK – There has been an increase in the number of people working offshore in the UK oil an…
Step Change targets worksite safety
Added: 6 Sep 2012
Aberdeen, UK – Step Change in Safety, an organisation dedicated to improving safety in the UK oil a…
TEG secures £21m for AD plant
Added: 3 Sep 2012
Organic waste group TEG has secured funding to construct a £21m waste facility at East London’s Dag…
Waste oil cuts cost of bioplastics
Added: 3 Sep 2012
‘Bioplastics’ that are naturally synthesised by microbes could be made commercially viable by using…
Process industries to present vision of CCS
Added: 3 Sep 2012
The Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) industrialists are brief Northeast MPs in…
Gazprom pulls out of Shtokman gas field
Added: 31 Aug 2012
Russia’s state-owned gas company, Gazprom, has pulled out of plans to develop the Shtokman gas fiel…
Japanese researchers improve coating technique
Added: 31 Aug 2012
A research group at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan have improved a co…
Teaching microbes to produce fuel
Added: 29 Aug 2012
Scientists at MIT have modified the soil bacterium, Ralstonia Eutropha, to turn carbon dioxide or w…
Blaze extinguished at Amuay refinery
Added: 28 Aug 2012
A fire that has blazed for three days at Venezuela’s largest oil refinery has been extinguished, ac…
Cobalt catalyst advances water splitting process
Added: 28 Aug 2012
Researchers at Cambridge University have produced hydrogen, H2, from water using a catalyst under i…
Woodside places Pluto expansion on hold
Added: 28 Aug 2012
Woodside Petroleum, Australia’s largest oil and gas company, said it will shelve plans to expand th…
Glass could improve disposal of nuclear waste
Added: 23 Aug 2012
A method of storing nuclear waste normally used only for High Level Waste (HLW), could provide a be…
Research to investigate impact of biofuel processes
Added: 23 Aug 2012
Aston University Bioenergy Research Group (BERG) has been awarded £424,000 of research funds, as pa…
CBI: Manufacturing optimism evaporates
Added: 23 Aug 2012
London – UK manufacturers have reported a deterioration in both their total and export order books …
Nanosensor array detects harmful substances
Added: 22 Aug 2012
The University of California has enabled a US company to develop a novel sensor that can detect sma…
Petrofac to raise skill levels in global drilling industry
Added: 21 Aug 2012
London – Petrofac has secured a contract with the International Association of Drilling Contractors…
