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Shell's new chemistry

Added: 1 Mar 2011

Patrick Raleigh reports on a rediscovered “passion” for chemicals

Keeping heads above water

Added: 1 Mar 2011

There have been some major shifts in the status of the market for process engineering projects over…

Cogent: Demise of Train to Gain heralds new era for skills funding

Added: 1 Mar 2011

Warrington, UK – With the last learners to benefit from Train to Gain Funding complete their traini…

Noble Energy leads return to drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Added: 1 Mar 2011

Houston, Texas - Noble Energy Inc. has received an approved permit to resume drilling at the Santia…

Xstrata-Nickel solves sticky problem at Canadian mine

Added: 1 Mar 2011

Ely, UK - Xstrata-Nickel has installed two sub-surface B&W Samson Feeders to intake mine tailings a…

CHP helps Adams Foods cut emissions

Added: 1 Mar 2011

Leek, UK – Adams Foods has saved energy and cut emissions through the introdiction of combined heat…

30% rise in daily pay rates for oil and gas engineers

Added: 25 Feb 2011

Hemel Hempstead, UK – Daily rates for oil and gas contractors increased by 30% in 2010, according t…

Cooling towers for UK cheese maker

Added: 25 Feb 2011

Hatherton, UK – Cheshire-based cheesemaker Joseph Heler Cheese has installed two new custom-designe…

Redcar steel plant to reopen under SSI

Added: 24 Feb 2011

London – Tata Steel UK Ltd has signed a definitive agreement to sell certain assets of Teesside Cas…

Bayer, RWE advance CO2-to-polymers project

Added: 18 Feb 2011

Leverkusen, Germany – Bayer has started up a pilot plant to turn CO2 emissions into feedstock for t…

Infra-red aids control at UK flooring plant

Added: 18 Feb 2011

Maidstone, UK – Infra-red systems from Heraeus Noblelight are being used at various points in a vin…

Weighing system chips in to raise McCain's productivity

Added: 18 Feb 2011

Scunthorpe, UK – McCain Foods UK Ltd’ has recently improved the process performance of the existing…

Measuring human impact on process safety regimes

Added: 17 Feb 2011

London – A new independent research report has presented industry with a practical way to measure t…

Cranfield seeks microalgae biofuel partners

Added: 16 Feb 2011

Cranfield, UK – Cranfield University, in association with the European Regional Development Fund, O…

UK deputy PM backs carbon capture

Added: 16 Feb 2011

Rotherham, UK - The UK’s deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has highlighted the importance of investi…

Emergency motor repair at Rio Tinto Alcan

Added: 16 Feb 2011

London – When a large, bespoke-framed fan motor failed at Rio Tinto Alcan the consequences could ha…

Colombian oilfield reverses downward trends, digitally

Added: 16 Feb 2011

London – Exploration and production company Hocol SA operates four production fields, currently gen…

Siemens launches integrated automation 'framework'

Added: 16 Feb 2011

London – Siemens Industry Automation and Drive Technologies is claiming an “industry first’” for it…

Yokogawa releases new modules for power and upstream oil and gas applications

Added: 15 Feb 2011

Tokyo – Yokogawa Electric Corp. has released new modules for its STARDOM network-based control syst…

Major iron ore handling project in Brazil

Added: 15 Feb 2011

Rio de Janeiro – The TAIM WESER group has been chosen by LLX, the logistics company of the EBX grou…