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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…