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Borouge inks EPC deals worth $2.6bn

Added: 6 Jul 2010

Abu Dhabi, UAE – Borouge has formally signed three major engineering, procurement and construction …

Drax demands biomass policy change

Added: 30 Jun 2010


London – Drax Group plc has published a briefing paper on biomass, which makes the case that biomas…

Warning over biofuel plant discharges

Added: 30 Jun 2010

Milton Keynes, UK – Instrumentation company Quantitech is urging biodiesel producers in the UK to t…

Take your bets

Added: 29 Jun 2010

One of the least edifying spectacles of the current debacle with BP and the Gulf of Mexico has been…

Honeywell upgrade for Turkey's largest steel producer

Added: 28 Jun 2010

London – Honeywell has been awarded a contract to modernise a key steel manufacturing plant operate…

A nation of shopkeepers?

Added: 22 Jun 2010

I am writing this editorial on the eve of the UK Budget, the first from Britain’s new Conservative/…

Foster Wheeler nets Turkish refinery deal

Added: 21 Jun 2010

Reading, UK – SOCAR & TURCAS Rafineri has awarded Foster Wheeler a FEED contract for its planned re…

Buncefield trio are found guilty

Added: 21 Jun 2010

London – A jury at St Albans’ Crown Court has found Hertfordshire Oil Storage Ltd (HOSL), TAV Engin…

BP over a barrel as oil leak estimate hits 60k

Added: 21 Jun 2010

London - The “most likely” flow rate of oil from BP’s damaged Deepwater Horizon subsea well in the …

Bayer upgrades control and safety system at Norwich site

Added: 18 Jun 2010

Norwich, UK – Bayer CropScience AG has competed a major system modernisation project at its UK site…

Thermal imaging helps Saudi Cement monitor kilns

Added: 17 Jun 2010

Hofuf, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Cement is employing thermal imaging equipment from Thermoteknix at its …

Yokogawa claims ISA100 wireless first

Added: 17 Jun 2010

London – Yokogawa Electric Corp. has developed “the world’s first” field wireless devices based on …

4,500 tonne UK ammonia plant dismantled for reassembly overseas

Added: 17 Jun 2010

Bristol, UK – A complex programme of plant decommissioning, isolation, demolition and ground remedi…

Yokogawa claims wireless device first

Added: 16 Jun 2010

London – Yokogawa Electric Corp. has developed “the world’s first” field wireless devices based on …

Sensors and placement key to vibration monitoring

Added: 16 Jun 2010

Monitran operations director, Andy Anthony, guides on vibration sensor selection and placement:

High…

Wireless improves operational efficiency at brewery

Added: 16 Jun 2010

Pilsen, Czech Republic – Czech brewer Plzensky Prazdroj, part of SABMiller, has reported significan…

Process safety system market set for rebound

Added: 16 Jun 2010

Dedham, Massachusetts – Safety system market growth, which has been hit by the world economic downt…

Severn Trent nets first Irish contract

Added: 16 Jun 2010

Limerick, Ireland – Severn Trent Response, a JV between Severn Trent Services and the Response Grou…

Foster Wheeler for solar power project in Spain

Added: 16 Jun 2010

London – Foster Wheeler is to design, supply and provide site advisory services for two sets of sol…

Nationalism won't wash the oil spill

Added: 15 Jun 2010

British tabloids are not traditionally thought of as havens of good sense and diplomacy. Indeed, fo…