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Oil and gas have incentives to embrace the new
Added: 28 Oct 2021
Most sectors within the process industries have their rugged aspects, where the demands on the work…
Necessity is the midwife to innovation in pumping
Added: 28 Oct 2021
Necessity is credited in the often-repeated proverb as being the mother of invention. The truth is …
Remember to count industry among the climate worriers
Added: 13 May 2019
The appearances of the youthful environmentalist Greta Thunberg have drawn some predictably Old Buf…
Technical advance helps downstream negotiate the petrochemical switch
Added: 19 Mar 2019
“Global energy demand is growing… fuelled by a bigger middle class coming on the market with more c…
Digitalisation could transform oil and gas pumping
Added: 19 Mar 2019
The concept of reliability is both a watchword and in some ways a curse for the oil and gas sector.
When you invest in pumps, you invest in industry's future
Added: 12 Sep 2018
Beyond the sectors in which they operate, pumps have a profile so low that they might as well be no…
Like football, pumps expertise requires thinking outside the box...
Added: 3 Sep 2018
“A competent pump supplier is somewhat like a competent coach, they should be able to offer more th…
Industry strategy can't wait for Westminster
Added: 3 Sep 2018
Government and industry appear to occupy two parallel universes when it comes to the subject of 29 …
Investing in pumps modernisation is essential for survival
Added: 8 May 2018
It’s a bald reminder to anyone who assesses a product’s overall cost purely on the basis of its pri…
Another dimension for pumps
Added: 6 Apr 2018
The traditional belief in the oil and gas industry that reliability needs to come first where techn…
Brand new age for STEM recruitment
Added: 22 Mar 2018
Words such as branding and marketing are, one suspects, anathema to the average engineer.
Editor’s comment: hope amidst the turmoil for oil & gas?
Rob Smith | Added: 11 Jul 2016
The UK’s oil and gas industry is in a state of turmoil. The price of oil plummeted from a high of r…
Pump up the volume
Added: 2 Nov 2015
Pumps and valves technology will have to adapt if shale gas is ever to be extracted in the UK.
Hacked off?
Added: 22 Sep 2015
Microsoft’s new operating system (OS) Windows 10 was officially launched in July. But how has it af…
Fracking quick
Added: 19 Aug 2015
Is the government’s decision to ‘fast-track’ fracking applications a misguided masterstroke?
Have a safe summer
Added: 3 Jun 2015
So summer is here, and there’s more than whiff of safety issues in the air.
Safety: a ticking timebomb
Added: 11 Mar 2015
Later this year the process industry will mark an anniversary it would prefer to forget: 10 years s…
Shale ambiguity helps nobody
Added: 16 Feb 2015
Delaying vital decisions on shale gas development until after the general election doesn’t help sup…
The next Milford Haven?
Added: 17 Dec 2014
Oil prices may be tumbling, Russia may be brought to its knees, but for Europe’s refineries little …
It’s the economics, stupid
Added: 5 Nov 2014
Everyone, it seems, has an opinion on fracking. But what exactly are those opinions based on?
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