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Hunt on for Trojan writer
Added: 8 Sep 2010
Siemens officials are hopeful that authorities will trace the source of a recent Trojan attack that…

Deepwater Horizon: More independent inspection for oil & gas
Added: 8 Sep 2010
London – The Deepwater Horizon oil spill will result in oil and gas pipeline installations coming u…

Enter the UK carbon capture 'revolutionary'
Added: 8 Sep 2010
London – UK-based B9 Coal has launched its “revolutionary” proposition for efficient, cheap power g…

BP links Deepwater Horizon disaster to "bad cement job"
Added: 8 Sep 2010
London – Shoddy work, materials and management practices were the likely, basic causes of the Deepw…

US adds $67m to carbon capture development pot
Added: 7 Sep 2010
Washington – The US Department of Energy announced funding for ten projects (see below) aimed at d…

Spotlight on safety
Added: 7 Sep 2010
As a UK House of Commons investigation into the lessons to be learned from the Gulf of Mexico oil s…

US agencies now in Deepwater
Added: 7 Sep 2010
London – After months of solely blaming BP and its chief executive officer Tony Hayward for the Gul…

Benchmarking for process safety management in high hazard industries
Added: 7 Sep 2010
London – Risk management specialist, HFL Risk Services, is joining forces with the Chemical Industr…

UTS nets first UK biogas contract
Added: 7 Sep 2010
Glenfarg, UK – UTS Biogas Ltd, part of UTS Biogastechnik GmbH, has received its first major constru…

Choose correct drive coupling to maximise pump and drive motor efficiency
Added: 6 Sep 2010
Companies that upgrade their pumping systems, or install new systems, both with the objective of im…

Gas recovery cuts energy costs at Port Talbot site
Added: 6 Sep 2010
Corus, part of Tata Steel Europe, recently opened a new £60-million plant at its Port Talbot steelw…

Listening for leaks
Added: 6 Sep 2010
Romanian researchers examine noise-source detection for pipelines

RWE inaugurates biomass power plant
Added: 6 Sep 2010
Wittgenstein, Germany – RWE Innogy and German Pellets have inaugurated RWE’s biomass-fuelled cogene…

Kuwait refinery traps steam savings
Added: 6 Sep 2010
Kuwait – Kuwait Petroleum Association subsidiary KNPC’s Shauiba Refinery has converted 1,750 mechan…

CAT tackles water scale at paper mill
Added: 6 Sep 2010
London – Spanish paper mill Alier Paper was adding three tonnes a day of carbon dioxide (CO2) to it…

Danger on the shopfloor
Added: 5 Sep 2010
Poorly Managed maintenance activities and procedures raise the risks of workplace accidents, includ…

Refinery cuts compressed-air energy costs
Added: 5 Sep 2010
London – An investment in new energy-efficient compressors is expected to save more than 430,000kW/…

Keep on running
Added: 5 Sep 2010
Regular maintenance of pumps and pumping stations in water and wastewater installations is vital if…

Let the buyer beware
Added: 3 Sep 2010
The main reasons and influences when selecting an equipment supplier
Valves supplier HS Pipequipment…

Animal power
Added: 3 Sep 2010
Biosource has developed a continuous anaerobic digestion (AD) process that, it claims, could provid…