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Shell and CNOOC to build $4.3 billion petrochemicals complex

Added: 4 Nov 2002

The board of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and Shell have agreed to proceed w…

High pressure fitting

Added: 4 Nov 2002

Parker Instrumentation has launched a new tube fitting for liquid and gas instrumentation s…

Talisman to sell Sudan assets for $758 million

Added: 31 Oct 2002

Talisman Energy has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its interest in the Greater Nile Oi…

Bug business worth billions

Added: 29 Oct 2002

Bayer CropScience intends to sell a package of selected insecticides and fungicides to BASF…

Cleaning up pollutants with sunlight

Added: 23 Oct 2002

UK researchers are developing a new type of reactor to destroy persistent contaminants such…

It's a gas

Added: 22 Oct 2002

Shell Gas Transmission and Enterprise Products Partners are to develop a $40 million deepwa…

CITIC and Ivanhoe Energy form strategic alliance

Added: 18 Oct 2002

China International Trust & Investment Corporation (CITIC) and Ivanhoe Energy Inc. have formed a st…

Technip-Coflexip awarded contract worth 100 million Euros

Added: 17 Oct 2002

Pars Petrochemical Company has awarded Technip-Coflexip and its Iranian partner Nargan an EPC contr…

Keeping up the pressure

Added: 15 Oct 2002

The Pressure Equipment Directive is now part of UK law, but it may still hold some unexpected pitfa…

CIA and trades unions join forces

Added: 15 Oct 2002

The Chemical Industries Association has joined forces with the trades unions representing industry …

Microbe makes corn-based chemical

Added: 15 Oct 2002

Scientists from DuPont Bio-Based Materials and Genencor have 'developed' a microbe which p…

Managing information

Added: 15 Oct 2002

Italian engineering contractor Snamprogetti has adopted a new document management strategy. Project…

Move with the times

Added: 15 Oct 2002

Dinosaur-like? Heel-dragging? How can the engineering industry be so reliant on constant innovation…

Composites tackle tank repair

Added: 15 Oct 2002

Resin composite-based techniques for repairing storage tanks and vessels are proving to be a cheape…

Material success for Garlock seal

Added: 15 Oct 2002

Garlock Sealing Technology's Ultra-Flex seal, which was designed jointly with the French at…

Two-in-one meter for the professional

Added: 15 Oct 2002

A new professional test tool from Fluke combines two tools frequently used by process techn…

Scanners don't live in vain

Added: 15 Oct 2002

Using 3D visualisation techniques, Transco is ensuring the highest standards of safety on all its s…

Coriolis flowmetering comes of age

Added: 15 Oct 2002

Despite their direct mass-reading capabilities, Coriolis flowmeters have long had their own particu…

Shell and BASF open Singapore SM/PO plant

Added: 15 Oct 2002

Shell and BASF have opened the largest styrene monomer/propylene oxide (SM/PO) in Asia, the…

Look in glass

Added: 15 Oct 2002

James Martin, a chemist at North Carolina State University, says that liquids and glasses have a di…