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Treasury launches North Sea tax review
Added: 14 Jul 2014
The government today launched a review of the oil & gas tax regime aimed at making the UK Continent…
Biomass pre-processing study launches
Added: 11 Jul 2014
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) today launched a programme assessing the impact of pre-proc…
Minister offers assurance on biogas tariffs
Added: 10 Jul 2014
The government is seeking to avoid the stalling of biogas projects under development by offering as…
Drax CCS secures Euro funding
Added: 9 Jul 2014
Drax’s White Rose Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) project has received €300 million in funding from …
Pharma leads manufacturing fall
Added: 9 Jul 2014
UK manufacturing has suffered biggest fall in output since January 2013, with pharmaceuticals among…
£53m to boost science talent
Added: 8 Jul 2014
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will lead a consortium of industrial and scientific sector employers to help …
AD sector 'guilty of poor pump maintenance'
Added: 8 Jul 2014
Many of the country’s anaerobic digestion (AD) plants are ignoring maintenance of their mixing syst…
Regulator to speed oil recovery
Added: 4 Jul 2014
The UK’s new regulatory body for the oil & gas industry will be given powers to speed up work on th…
Capita acquires process project manager
Added: 4 Jul 2014
Capita today announced it had acquired project management firm Projen, a specialist in process sect…
C&I news roundup
Added: 3 Jul 2014
Process control and instrumentation stories to have appeared elsewhere on the web over the past wee…
Sector growth drives pump uptake
Added: 2 Jul 2014
The food & beverage and pharmaceutical sectors are helping sustain the positive displacement pump m…
GE acquires water and biogas firm
Added: 1 Jul 2014
GE’s water business today announced it had acquired UK process firm Monsal, which specialises in th…
Scottish shale amount ‘modest’
Added: 30 Jun 2014
Shale oil and gas resources beneath Scotland’s Midland Valley are modest, according to a British Ge…
Government sets capacity auction at 53GW
Added: 30 Jun 2014
The UK’s first ever electricity generating capacity auction will take place later this year, the Go…
Toshiba seals Sellafield build deal
Added: 30 Jun 2014
Toshiba today completed its £102 million deal to acquire a 60% stake in NuGen, the company developi…
Chemical industry claims 5% growth
Added: 27 Jun 2014
The UK chemical industry is on course to achieve 5% growth in 2014, the boss of the sector’s trade …
Subsea research initiative launched
Added: 25 Jun 2014
A new UK initiative will focus of subsea research and development.
Eaton serves up remote safety solution
Added: 24 Jun 2014
Operating terminal built for use in hazardous areas across industry.
Fanuc milks new market
Added: 24 Jun 2014
The dairy industry is embracing pick and place robots, says robotics firm.
£2.6m for CCS research
Added: 20 Jun 2014
Fourteen Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) research projects in the UK are set to receive a combined…
