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British Gas, Bio Group in waste-to-gas project
Added: 13 Sep 2011
London — British Gas and Bio Group are to jointly establish a facility to convert commercial food w…

Industry's "first" condition monitoring iPhone app
Added: 13 Sep 2011
Dewsbury, UK —Parker Filtration, part of Parker Hannifin claims to have released the industry’s fir…

Oxford Catalysts earns US technology award
Added: 13 Sep 2011
Oxford, UK — Microchannel technology developed by the Oxford Catalysts Group was named as the winne…

Real-time process optimisation market looking stronger
Added: 13 Sep 2011
Dedham, Massachusetts - Demand for real-time process optimisation and training (RPO) market is to g…

Swedish mill adds new analyser technology
Added: 13 Sep 2011
Mörrum, Sweden – Södra Cell’s Mörrum mill in southern Sweden is currently installing a new Metso Ka…

INEOS ramps up technology licensing in China
Added: 9 Sep 2011
London – INEOS Technologies has licensed its Innovene PP process for the manufacture of polypropyle…

United Utilities plant turning human waste into usable energy
Added: 7 Sep 2011
Blackburn, UK – United Utilities is converting a by-product of wastewater treatment at the giant Bl…

BP inks £700m North Sea development
Added: 6 Sep 2011
London – BP is to invest up to £700 million to progress a project to develop the Kinnoull reservoir…

Sludge treatment 'first' in Scotland
Added: 6 Sep 2011
Hamilton, UK – The first Scottish installation of Zickert sludge treatment technology from Hydro In…

New UK refinery?
Added: 1 Sep 2011
GE Oil & Gas is planning to build a new oil refinery on Teesside in the north east of England, acco…

Invensys control system for Saudi refinery
Added: 16 Aug 2011
London – Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Co. (SATORP) — a JV between Saudi Aramco and T…

US majors target Israeli wastewater-to-electricity technology
Added: 15 Aug 2011
Caesarea, Israel – Energy Technology Ventures – a joint venture between GE, NRG Energy and ConocoPh…

Renewable ethanol for fuel additives, rubber and solvents
Added: 3 Aug 2011
Richland, Washington – US researchers claim to have developed catalysts that could replace chemical…

BASF moves polyacrylamide production to UK plant
Added: 1 Aug 2011
Ludwigshafen, Germany – BASF is to consolidate the production of polyacrylamide (PAM) beads into it…

Bayer advances energy-saving chlorine production technology
Added: 29 Jul 2011
Leverkusen, Germany – Bayer MaterialScience has started up a 20ktpa demonstration plant for the pro…

RWE power plants near startup
Added: 29 Jul 2011
Essen, Germany – RWE has announced that two new Essent power plants that are currently under constr…

Bechtel, Linde target N American cracker projects
Added: 28 Jul 2011
San Francisco – Bechtel Corp. and Linde AG are to work together to expand and build ethylene cracke…

Think tank: Mandatory reporting should replace costly CRC scheme
Added: 28 Jul 2011
London – The UK government should scrap the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, and instead oblige busine…

GSK to squeeze supply chain costs
Added: 27 Jul 2011
London – GlaxoSmithKline is targeting improvements in its supply chain in the next stage of its str…

Dow, Saudi Aramco to build major chemicals complex
Added: 25 Jul 2011
Midland, Michigan – Dow Chemical Co. and Saudi Aramco are establishing a joint venture to build and…