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Year of the 'grease monkey'
Added: 20 Jan 2011
Starting into a New year, it’s interesting to note that for all the impressive and continuing advan…
Automation firm snaps up axed ABB staff
Added: 19 Jan 2011
London – Control engineering firm Booth Welsh Automation (BWA) has taken on 10 former ABB employees…
Sasol selects Honeywell control systems
Added: 19 Jan 2011
Offenbach, Germany – Honeywell has a new contract with Sasol Solvents Germany GmbH to upgrade the D…
Emerson valves for INEOS Chlor plant
Added: 19 Jan 2011
Runcorn, UK – INEOS Chlor has reduced process variability by 5% at its Runcorn chlor-alkali and chl…
Comeback kids?
Added: 18 Jan 2011
It seems as if world markets have reacted reasonably cautiously to the news that BP will be involve…
LV motor sales: Efficiency rules kick in
Added: 17 Jan 2011
Wellingborough, UK – The market for low voltage integral horsepower AC motors will more than double…
Buncefield: five years on
Added: 17 Jan 2011
Peter Davidson explains the actions being taken by the authorities and the petroleum industry to ma…
BP inks major deal with Rosneft
Added: 17 Jan 2011
London – BP and Rosneft have agreed to explore and develop three license blocks - EPNZ 1,2,3 - on t…
In-house checks could save 8,000 lives a year
Added: 17 Jan 2011
Simon Bull takes the mystery out of monitoring hazardous substances
EU project targets energy from food waste
Added: 17 Jan 2011
New Milton, UK – Eco-Solids International is set to commence tests for the EU-funded VALORGAS progr…
Silent killer on Deepwater Horizon
Added: 14 Jan 2011
A couple years ago at a Safety Users Group (SUG) meeting in London, I asked a top official of the o…
Shell okays ABB control system for projects worldwide
Added: 14 Jan 2011
London – ABB’s Extended Automation System 800xA has passed a technical evaluation by Shell Global S…
More strings to the bow
Added: 14 Jan 2011
Patrick Raleigh reports on how major players are exploring new field communications options
Emerson seals Iraq oil contract
Added: 14 Jan 2011
Baghdad – Iraq’s South Oil Co. has awarded Emerson Process Management a contract to provide crude o…
UK government responds to Deepwater Horizon report
Added: 13 Jan 2011
Report of the US National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and offshore drilling: W…
Default retirement age to go
Added: 13 Jan 2011
London – Further to our recent comment piece on the subject on the Process Engineering website, the…
CO2 science turns to alcohol
Added: 12 Jan 2011
London – GEA Niro is developing a process to convert CO2 into fuel alcohol, proteins for animal fee…
US final report: Deepwater Horizon down to BP ... and many others
Added: 12 Jan 2011
London – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig disaster happened because of failings at many levels am…
Death of the permanent job
Added: 12 Jan 2011
Hemel Hempstead, UK – SJD Accountancy, which claims to be the UK’s largest accountants to contracto…
Leeds team aims to burn deep-lying coal seams
Added: 12 Jan 2011
Leeds, UK – A University of Leeds research team is working with partners from across Europe, to dev…
