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Contracts & Projects Tracker: Who's doing business and where (November 09)

Added: 23 Nov 2009

November 2009

SABIC and Linde Group have announced the first commercialisation of their jointly deve…

Emerson targets complexity, cost and workload with new automation platform

Added: 23 Nov 2009

The Hague, The Netherlands - Emerson Process Management has applied human-centered design (HCD) tec…

Thames Water notes big gains after STW dosing upgrades

Added: 23 Nov 2009

Surbiton , UK - Three separate upgrades to the chemical dosing plant at Thames Water’s Hogsmill Sew…

Wireless merger 'won't happen'

Added: 23 Nov 2009

Lisobon - An International Society of Automation (ISA) sub-committee has concluded that merging Wir…

BJ Services nets Eni well services contract

Added: 23 Nov 2009

BJ Services Co. has netted a contract with Eni SpA to carry out a range of well services in Italy: …

Get off the scare-story bandwagon

Added: 21 Nov 2009

Last week David Workman, director general of the British Glass Manufacturers’ Confederation, seemed…

Emerson automates pilot ethanol processing plant in Sweden

Added: 21 Nov 2009

 

Karlskoga, Sweden - Chematur Engineering AB has selected Emerson Process Management’s PlantWeb dig…

Coal in the firing lines

Added: 20 Nov 2009

Investments totalling up to £200 billion will be needed to secure energy supplies and meet environm…

Bayer process to shrink chlorine production costs and emissions

Added: 13 Nov 2009

Industrial-scale plant due on stream by 2011. Technology also made available to Chinese partner B…

Total pleads guilty to Buncefield charges

Added: 13 Nov 2009

Total UK pleaded guilty to the charges brought against it by the Heath and Safety Executive (HSE) a…

Coal in the firing line

Added: 13 Nov 2009

London – Investments totalling up to £200 billion will be needed to secure energy supplies and meet…

End users can help end technology wars

Added: 13 Nov 2009

Such vendor-led disharmony has served the industry poorly over the years: creating often justified …

Acetonitrile headaches to ease

Added: 13 Nov 2009

INEOS has claimed a technology breakthrough that, it says, will significantly improve the global se…

Ginsters drives down pastry production costs

Added: 13 Nov 2009

Bakery is saving up to 17% per annum on the chilled water energy bill at its Callington bakery in C…

Suppliers unified for field device integration - the latest on FDI

Added: 13 Nov 2009

Suppliers agree to enlarge the scope of the EDDL Cooperation Team and will become the FDI Cooperati…

New nuclear plants central to UK energy strategy

Added: 13 Nov 2009

New framework for a quicker transition to a low carbon economy. The NPSs major on a new nuclear pro…

UK firms up 'clean coal' plans

Added: 12 Nov 2009

Framework document confirms position announced earleir this year that there will be no new coal-fir…

Scottish and Southern Energy pushes Ferrybridge CCS project

Added: 12 Nov 2009

Project is intended to bridge the gap between lab-scale trials currently underway and the larger-sc…

Response to 'Wireless merger' report

Added: 12 Nov 2009

Paul Sereiko, co-chair ISA100.12: We are developing recommended practice to show how a field device…

Peel Energy consortium exits UK carbon capture demo competition

Added: 11 Nov 2009

The consortium of Peel Energy, DONG Energy and RWE npower is no longer a runner in the UK Governmen…