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Tata Steel awards npower UK's "biggest ever" power contract
Added: 13 Apr 2011
London – Under one of the UK’s biggest ever industrial energy supply contracts, npower is to provid…
Vivergo workers target BP AGM over "lock out"
Added: 11 Apr 2011
London – Unions are to stage a protest at the BP AGM on 14 April over the plight of 430 workers who…
UK oil assets on the block
Added: 7 Apr 2011
Shell, BP and INEOS all announce proposals to divest operations by the end of 2011
Fluor nets Tata Steel power plant contract
Added: 7 Apr 2011
London – Fluor Corp. has won a six-month early engineering works contract by Tata Steel for a new p…
GE claims battery-free wireless 'first'
Added: 6 Apr 2011
Minden, Nevada – GE Measurement & Control Solutions claims to have developed the world’s first elec…
Superconductor devices to tackle growing power network problems
Added: 5 Apr 2011
London – Power networks are generally designed with a relatively low impedance between the generato…
ABB targets power factor savings at process plants
Added: 5 Apr 2011
London – Power factor (PF) is a big issue for UK industry that impacts energy efficiency and electr…
Almost half of businesses want the CRC tax/scheme binned
Added: 1 Apr 2011
London – On the first anniversary of its implementation – perhaps tellingly 1 April – UK businesses…
UK Budget: Oil & gas showdown for UK chancellor
Added: 31 Mar 2011
London – Industry group Oil & Gas UK is to meet UK chancellor George Osborne in a bid to limit the …
UK slips down global 'green' projects league
Added: 31 Mar 2011
Philadelphia – UK-based investment in ’green’ energy projects slumped to $3.3 billion (around £2 bi…
Power from small amounts of waste process gas
Added: 31 Mar 2011
Amberg, Germany – Generating energy from process gasses that currently escape into the atmosphere i…
BP Oil awards storage terminals contract to AMEC
Added: 31 Mar 2011
London – BP Oil UK Ltd has appointed AMEC to carry out the engineering, procurement and constructio…
Lonza to expand UK manufacturing site
Added: 29 Mar 2011
Basel, Switzerland – Swiss group Lonza is to invest £16 million to further develop the flexibility …
Water infrastructure: Better 'snapshot' technologies needed
Added: 29 Mar 2011
Boston, Massachusetts – The market for technologies that help inspect and repair the world’s aging …
Stuxnet spurs ISA into action
Added: 29 Mar 2011
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina – The ISA (International Society of Automation) has set up a…
Foster Wheeler for Russian oil refinery
Added: 28 Mar 2011
Reading, UK – Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by JSC Novo-Ufimsky Refinery, part of Russ…
Yokogawa joins Profibus group
Added: 23 Mar 2011
Runcorn, UK – Yokogawa Electric Corp. has joined the PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation eV (PNO), an inter…
Watson-Marlow sales up 23%
Added: 23 Mar 2011
Falmouth, UK – Watson-Marlow Pumps Group has reported a 38% rise in its operating profit to £30.8 m…
Polymers from CO2
Added: 22 Mar 2011
Bayer has started up a pilot plant at its Chempark Leverkusen site to turn CO2 emissions into feeds…
Thermal transfer: Technologies to watch
Added: 22 Mar 2011
Heat Transfer Systems is introducing its HTfluidfit rig to customer sites following field trials. D…
