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Elite role for Centre for Process Innovation
Added: 21 Mar 2011
London – The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is to be part of a new UK “elite technology innova…
Saudi Aramco taps Samsung for major gas projects
Added: 21 Mar 2011
Dhahran – Saudi Aramco has selected Samsung Engineering Co. Ltd. to perform the EPC work for all fo…
Uhde building 'first ever' skid-mounted chlor-alkali plant
Added: 18 Mar 2011
Leuna, Germany – Uhde GmbH has started construction of what, it believes, will be the world’s first…
Shell to spend $100bn over next four years
Added: 16 Mar 2011
London – Buoyed by strong demand fundamentals in world energy markets, Shell is planning to deliver…
RWE pulls plug on German nuclear plant
Added: 15 Mar 2011
Essen, Germany – RWE is shutting down its Biblis Block A nuclear power unit in Germany to carry out…
Wireless market growing 18%
Added: 15 Mar 2011
Wellingborough, UK – World shipments of industrial products that are wireless-enabled are growing 1…
Carbon pricing policy could 'floor' industry
Added: 15 Mar 2011
The UK government has been warned that its ’Floor Price’ policy for carbon - intended to accelerate…
UK secures well-capping device
Added: 15 Mar 2011
Aberdeen, UK - UK offshore oil and gas industry group Oil & Gas UK has announced the start of manu…
UK officials seize counterfeit SKF bearings
Added: 14 Mar 2011
London – Trading Standards officers have seized around one tonne of counterfeit SKF bearings in a 9…
Texan group buys Chevron Pembroke refinery
Added: 14 Mar 2011
Pembroke, UK – Valero Energy Corp. of San Antonio, Texas, is to acquire Chevron’s Pembroke refinery…
RWE, BASF, Linde in clean coal power advance
Added: 11 Mar 2011
Ludwigshafen, Germany – RWE Power, BASF and Linde have advanced a CO2 scrubbing solvent, which they…
HFG awarded Centrica York platform contract
Added: 11 Mar 2011
Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands - Heerema Hartlepool, part of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG), has bee…
Nuclear Island gets funding go-ahead
Added: 10 Mar 2011
London – The employer-backed Nuclear Island skills project is being moved to the next stage followi…
UK process plant spend to increase 14% to 2015
Added: 10 Mar 2011
Manchester, UK – Overall, process plant expenditure is set to increase by 14% in real terms between…
Borouge awards Coperion its biggest ever contract
Added: 9 Mar 2011
Stuttgart, Germany – Coperion GmbH has landed its biggest ever single contract – a Euro100m deal wi…
Siemens Water technology for Marcellus Shale project
Added: 8 Mar 2011
Munich, Germany – Siemens Water Technologies is providing Hydro Recovery LP with a wastewater treat…
US team claim biofuels process advance
Added: 8 Mar 2011
Washington – A US researh team has devloped a technology using bacteria to convert plant matter dir…
BP to expand petrochemicals ops in China
Added: 16 Feb 2011
London – BP is to increase purified terephthalic acid (PTA) production capacity at the BP Zhuhai Ch…
Carbon price could floor UK chemicals and steel makers
Added: 14 Feb 2011
London – The UK government Electricity Market Reforms and ”Floor Price’ policy for carbon could ser…
McAfee reports cyber attacks on oil, energy, petrochemical majors
Added: 11 Feb 2011
Santa Clara, California – Global oil, energy, and petrochemical companies have been the targets of …
