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After the COP26 show time, now It’s ‘how?’ time
Added: 10 Dec 2021
If we park the non-attendance of two of the world’s largest countries and greatest polluters, COP26…
Clean machines
Added: 4 Feb 2021
The crucial role of pumping systems in influencing the world’s energy usage for better or worse is …
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.
We must help MPs understand the importance of the process industries
Added: 6 Nov 2017
There is, we know, a substantial job of work to do in terms of enabling the rest of the United King…
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…
Sellafield: too big to be private
Added: 14 Jan 2015
Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey made a startling admission yesterday as he informed pa…
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 …
Wholly Cow?
Added: 5 Feb 2014
A year has passed since some frozen beef lasagnes were found to have more of an equine flavour to t…
Summer Spending Spree
Added: 21 Aug 2013
The football transfer markets are feeble compared to the money changing hands in the process indust…
Cyber care in the community
Added: 26 Jun 2012
Cyber attacks on UK industrial companies, including those targeting control and automation systems,…
Can Twitter improve safety and productivity?
Added: 12 Jun 2012
Many major accidents in the process industries could be avoided if companies were more switched on …
Turning a blind eye to workers' role in safety
Added: 14 May 2012
London – Plant operators and technicians are clearly on the frontline of things when it comes to pr…
HSE inspectors to become industry 'traffic wardens'?
Added: 21 Oct 2011
London — The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) is proposing to charge industry for any ‘material brea…
Take a tablet, and some paper
Added: 16 Sep 2011
London — At the recent official opening of Bentley Systems’ new London office, CEO Greg Bentley gav…