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Hertel rebuffs union 'lock-out' claims at ExxonMobil refinery
Added: 6 Jul 2011
London – Engineering company Hertel has defended its position in relation to an employment dispute …
Saudi Aramco contract for Foster Wheeler SOFCON
Added: 5 Jul 2011
Reading, UK – Saudi Aramco has awardedFoster Wheeler SOFCON a contract for the front-end engineerin…
Pump users drive demand for MV soft starters
Added: 5 Jul 2011
Austin, Texas – The worldwide market for medium voltage soft starters was worth around $170 million…
GAMBICA calls for greater VSD awareness
Added: 1 Jul 2011
London – GAMBICA is flagging up the importance of variable speed drives and related energy-saving m…
Modern Water wins 'breakthrough' contract
Added: 22 Jun 2011
Guildford, UK – Modern Water plc, a UK group specialising in technologies for the production of fre…
Shell hit with major fine over UK terminal blast
Added: 20 Jun 2011
London – Shell UK Ltd has been ordered by Ipswich Crown Court to pay a total of £1.24 million in fi…
Oxford Catalysts advances shale gas technology
Added: 16 Jun 2011
Oxford, UK – Small scale gas to liquids (GTL) facilities based on the use of microchannel Fischer-T…
Peel mulls waste projects at 11 UK coal sites
Added: 15 Jun 2011
London – Peel Environmental is considering plans for waste infrastructure developments for 11 UK Co…
Siemens advances hydrogen technology for industry, energy
Added: 14 Jun 2011
Munich, Germany – Siemens claims to have made progress with its development of an electrolysis syst…
Heliex prototype to screw down energy costs
Added: 6 Jun 2011
East Kilbride, UK – Scottish start-up company Heliex Power Ltd has unveiled an energy recovery syst…
Four workers killed in oil refinery explosion in Wales
Added: 3 Jun 2011
Pembroke Dock, UK – Four workers have lost their lives following an explosion at an oil refinery in…
Oil and gas tax to cost UK £50bn, 15k jobs
Added: 27 May 2011
London – The UK government’s 2011 Budget will scupper at least 25 projects, accounting for over 1 b…
Sinopec taps Siemens for wastewater system
Added: 27 May 2011
Anqing, China – Siemens Water Technologies will provide a system to treat wastewater at Sinopec Cor…
BASF to build "world's largest" TDI plant in Europe
Added: 26 May 2011
Ludwigshafen, Germany – BASF has announced plans to build the world’s largest single-train TDI (tol…
Peru miner Volcan taps DavyMarkham
Added: 25 May 2011
Sheffield, UK – DavyMarkham has secured its first contract in Peru with a $5.4m deal to supply two …
Deloitte: Nuclear disaster to shake up power and utility industries
Added: 24 May 2011
New York –In a new report from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd (DTTL), suggests the recent natural dis…
Tata Steel to axe 1,500 jobs in UK
Added: 20 May 2011
London – Tata Steel is to restructure its ’long products’ business unit to target high-value market…
Energy costs worry manufacturers most
Added: 20 May 2011
London – Rising energy costs have pushed ahead of labour costs, falling consumer spend and regulato…
Imtech technology for Plymouth waste-to-energy plant
Added: 20 May 2011
Plyµouth, UK – German group MVV Energie AG has awarded a Euro30m contract to Imtech NV to provide t…
Shell green light for floating LNG facility
Added: 20 May 2011
London – Shell has decided to go ahead with building the world’s first floating liquefied natural g…
