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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…