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Cameron fracking backing against public opinion
Added: 13 Aug 2013
Prime Minister David Cameron’s public backing of shale gas development goes largely against public …
Nuclear upgrades aided by virtual control room
Added: 13 Aug 2013
Extending the life of ageing nuclear power plants and upgrading their control rooms can be improved…
Operators failing to maintain pipe networks
Added: 12 Aug 2013
Companies are at risk of being hit with unexpected bills if they fail to maintain their supporting …
Chemical engineer to lead AMEC infrastructure team
Added: 12 Aug 2013
Project manager AMEC has appointed chemical engineer Rob Brown as managing director of its Environm…
ConocoPhillips to sell Clyden oil sands
Added: 9 Aug 2013
The company yesterday announced it has agreed to sell the entirety of its Clyden oil sands leasehol…
Subsea processes driving oil & gas market
Added: 6 Aug 2013
Process automation technologies capable of operating on the seabed at ever-increasing depths will b…
Subsea firm wins R&D funding
Added: 5 Aug 2013
Subsea control and instrumentation specialist Tracerco today secured funding to help it build a new…
Scientists unveil first lab-grown burger
Added: 5 Aug 2013
Dutch food scientists cooked and ate the first ever lab-grown burger on Monday afternoon.
Water firms "worst polluters"
Added: 5 Aug 2013
Water utilities have been accused of being the worst polluters of England’s waterways following the…
UK biofuel projects to receive £25m
Added: 5 Aug 2013
Transport minister Norman Baker has announced a biofuels funding scheme to help advance waste-to-fu…
Threat to Schneider's Invensys takeover
Added: 2 Aug 2013
Schneider’s proposed £3.4 billion takeover of Invensys is still under threat of being beaten by a b…
Yokogawa wins SSE gas storage upgrade
Added: 1 Aug 2013
Yokogawa has won a contract to supply an integrated control and safety system for SSE’s Hornsea gas…
Process automation market to hit $124bn
Added: 1 Aug 2013
Revenues in the global process automation market are expected to grow at a rate of over 6% per year…
Schneider acquires Invensys for £3.4bn
Added: 31 Jul 2013
UK-based Invensys today accepted an offer from France’s Schneider Electric to acquire the company f…
Biomass firms face subsidy fight
Added: 31 Jul 2013
Developers of new biomass projects across England and Wales are bracing themselves for a race to se…
Centrica gas storage projects face axe
Added: 31 Jul 2013
Centrica today revealed that its two planned gas storage projects worth a combined £1.5 billion are…
Siemens names Kaeser as new CEO
Added: 31 Jul 2013
Siemens today replaced CEO Peter Loescher with the company’s chief financial officer Joe Kaeser.
Drax biomass running at half capacity
Added: 30 Jul 2013
A lack of storage facilities has forced the first of Drax’s converted biomass units to run with an …
BP Gulf oil spill fund dries up
Added: 30 Jul 2013
BP today announced it has just $300 million remaining in its $20 billion Gulf of Mexico compensatio…
Thames supertunnel contracts launched
Added: 29 Jul 2013
Thames Water today published a contract notice for up to £2.3 billion of tunnelling works to build …
