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'National interest' simply has no meaning in today's world
Added: 2 Nov 2010
Does it matter if UK business and industry is owned and controlled by ‘foreigners’? This was an iss…
Maersk award for Emerson in North Sea
Added: 1 Nov 2010
London – Emerson’s METCO Services has been awarded a contract by Maersk Oil North Sea UK Ltd, to pr…
There's no good news, Bob
Added: 26 Oct 2010
I was slightly bemused by the speech of Bob Dudley, chief executive of BP, to UK business leaders a…
Kingsnorth bites the dust
Added: 21 Oct 2010
London – E.ON has scrapped plans to build a 1,600MW coal-fired power plant, linked to a carbon capt…
Microbubbles to make biofuel plants more economic
Added: 15 Oct 2010
Sheffield, UK – A University of Sheffield researcher has won national recognition for the developme…
Contracts & Projects Tracker - September 2010
Added: 12 Oct 2010
Foster Wheeler has won a contract with Gulf Farabi Petrochemical Co. to provide project management …
Yorkshire Water project will add gas to AD process economics
Added: 12 Oct 2010
Bradford, UK – Eco-Solids International (ESI) is about to commission its first commercial Cellrupto…
Props for the world economy
Added: 12 Oct 2010
India and China – the rising nations that are going to save to the world’s economic bacon. Or at le…
Delays on US coal plant project hit Aker profits
Added: 12 Oct 2010
London – Delays have forced Aker Solutions to reverse previously reported third quarter profits on …
UK fuel cell partnership advances clean coal plans
Added: 11 Oct 2010
London – UK companies Powerfuel Power Ltd, B9 Coal Ltd and AFC Energy Plc have signed an agreement …
Metso supplies 1,350 valves for Shell's Singapore project
Added: 11 Oct 2010
London – Metso has supplied 1350 valve assemblies for Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex Houdini …
From toilet flush to national grid in 20 days (Updated)
Added: 11 Oct 2010
Didcot, UK – UK households are cooking, and heating their homes with gas produced from human waste …
'Dazed and confused' by CRC scheme
Added: 7 Oct 2010
London – The Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) energy efficiency scheme, which came into force this…
"Dazed and confused" by CRC regulation
Added: 7 Oct 2010
London – The Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC), which came into force this…
Foster Wheeler wins carbon capture contract
Added: 7 Oct 2010
Zug, Switzerland – Foster Wheeler AG has been awarded a contract by the CO2 Capture Project (CCP)* …
Air Liquide bags US carbon capture storage project
Added: 7 Oct 2010
Paris – The US department of energy (DOE) has appointed Air Liquide to participate in the developme…
Proctor & Gamble aims to use only renewable energy, materials
Added: 6 Oct 2010
Cincinnati, Ohio - Procter & Gamble Co. will, one day, power all its plants with 100% renewable ene…
Industrial sites most focussed on CCTV security
Added: 6 Oct 2010
London – Industrial site operators are increasingly turning to CCTV technology, certified to Britis…
BP Deepwater Horizon kit reaches UK facility
Added: 6 Oct 2010
Oil Spill Response group receives two Gulf of Mexico containment devices at Southampton centre
Give me an estimate
Added: 5 Oct 2010
Why do we so easily accept a culture of over-runs and delays?
I was asking myself this question as I…
