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INEOS links with PetroChina, CNPC
Added: 11 Jan 2011
Grangemouth, UK – INEOS has agreed to partner with PetroChina in new trading and refining joint ven…

Contracts & Projects - December 2010
Added: 11 Jan 2011
Eni has selected Wood Group to provide long-term engineering services to support Eni’s Australian a…

Water resistance
Added: 11 Jan 2011
The MCERTS emissions-to-water scheme is still very much a work in progress. Patrick Raleigh reports

Through a glass, darkly
Added: 11 Jan 2011
For the past week all at Processingtalk towers have been busy gazing into a set of crystal balls (a…

Glenmorangie turns to vortex recovery at new plant
Added: 11 Jan 2011
Livingston, UK – The recently opened Glenmorangie bottling plant in Livingston, Scotland, is employ…

Shanks set to start construction of second AD plant
Added: 11 Jan 2011
Milton Keynes, UK – Shanks has gained planning permission for its second AD facility in the UK. The…

Foster Wheeler announces senior appointments
Added: 10 Jan 2011
London – Foster Wheeler AG has announced three executive promotions in its global engineering and c…

Petrofac takes stake in UK gas storage project
Added: 10 Jan 2011
London - Petrofac has acquired a 20% interest Gateway Storage Co. Ltd, the developer of the 1.5bn c…

Environmental training: Knowledge is money
Added: 10 Jan 2011
When the going gets tough, think about environmental training, advises Richard Ball

Flushing for fuel
Added: 10 Jan 2011
As they cook their meals and heat their homes, residents in some 200 Oxfordshire households must no…

Energy efficient plant of the future
Added: 10 Jan 2011
By 2020, process plants will consume much less energy than their present-day equivalents, thanks to…

BSC wants fundamental safety changes after Deepwater Horizon reports
Added: 7 Jan 2011
Neal Stone, director of policy and research of the British Safety Council responds to the partial f…

Veolia and Peterson SBS invest following Shell decommissioning contract
Added: 5 Jan 2011
London – Veolia Environmental Services (UK) Plc with its offshore decommissioning partner, Peterson…

Underground storage project progresses in France
Added: 4 Jan 2011
London – Amiad Filtration Systems has completed the first stage of its project providing a salt lea…

Dairy farm benefits from automatic slurry handling system
Added: 4 Jan 2011
Aars, Denmark – A chronograph-controlled slurry pump and mixing system from Landia that can also h…

Reporting emissions can pay off
Added: 4 Jan 2011
London – A recent report produced on behalf of the UK Government found that of those organisations …

PE March/April: Steam versus thermal fluid for heating
Added: 3 Jan 2011
Despite the many advantages offered by thermal fluid systems – higher temperatures, improved accura…

Keep your motors running
Added: 1 Jan 2011
Amid all the advances in condition monitoring and related technologies, motor breakdowns seem as pr…

Protecting the maintenance skills base as engineers retire
Added: 24 Dec 2010
Martin Ward of Yokogawa UK highlights how software systems, such as his company’s PRM (Plant Resour…

Scheduled and emergency valve maintenance
Added: 24 Dec 2010
Brighouse, UK – Koso Kent Introl (KKI), based in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, is highlighting the val…