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Automating the past

Added: 9 Sep 2003

The food and beverage sectors are relative newcomers to the field of automated processes, and some …

Making your remote monitoring work

Added: 9 Sep 2003

Remote monitoring can transform the ways in which companies operate and manage their processes, but…

Experience counts

Added: 8 Sep 2003

The launch of Bayer Technology Services as an independent company brings a new player to the global…

Gentle touch for distillation

Added: 8 Sep 2003

A new distillation process developed by German process firm GE Wiegand could bring major be…

Follow the sun to global projects

Added: 8 Sep 2003

Mike Spear reports on how a German company engineered a new plant in the US using the latest engine…

Sandia's shell collection

Added: 8 Sep 2003

Synthetic crystals with structures similar to seashells could form the basis of a new gener…

Phosgene-free process cuts polycarbonate costs

Added: 8 Sep 2003

Korean chemicals manufacturer LG Chem has developed a new process for making polycarbonate in less …

Ondeo Nalco acquired for $4.2 billion

Added: 4 Sep 2003

A consortium of private equity firms comprised of The Blackstone Group, Apollo Management and Goldm…

Purchasing additives

Added: 4 Sep 2003

Rhodia has sold its textile and paper additives business based in Sausheim (Alsace), France…

Chinese power plant gets automated

Added: 2 Sep 2003

Emerson Process Management has won a $10 million contract from the Shaanxi HanCheng Second Power Co…

Block and bleed

Added: 2 Sep 2003

At Offshore Europe today, Parker Instrumentation launched a range of one-piece double-block-and-ble…

Degussa sells vitamins to Reilly

Added: 1 Sep 2003

Degussa is to transfer its vitamin B3 manufacturing business in Antwerp, Belgium to Reilly Industri…

Buying oil and gas

Added: 26 Aug 2003

Patina Oil and Gas Corporation has agreed to acquire all of the assets of Cordillera Energy…

Marathon sells interests in Canada

Added: 22 Aug 2003

Marathon Oil Corporation is to sell its upstream interests in Western Canada to Husky Energy in a d…

Shell signs gas contracts for East China Sea

Added: 20 Aug 2003

Shell has finalised an agreement to explore, develop and market natural gas, oil and conden…

Cleaning up coal power

Added: 15 Aug 2003

Innogy has applied to the UK Department of Trade and Industry for consent to build a Flue Gas Desul…

Commission tackles fluorinated gases

Added: 13 Aug 2003

The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a regulation to reduce emissions of fluo…

OMV and Yukos sign 28 million Euro crude deal

Added: 13 Aug 2003

Austrian energy group OMV today signed a deal with Russia's Yukos for construction of a 28 million …

Venting and flaring

Added: 13 Aug 2003

The Shell Oil Company has agreed to pay $49 million to settle claims under the US False Claims Act …

Total and ADNOC to build 100 million Euro melamine plant

Added: 12 Aug 2003

Total Group and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company have recently signed a memorandum of understandi…