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Condition monitoring can be an insurance policy for oil & gas processors
Added: 3 Sep 2010
London – In the downstream oil & gas sector, ’lost’ production time can equate to hundreds of thous…
Working higher
Added: 3 Sep 2010
A consortium of sector skills councils, universities and ’industry champions’ is working with emplo…
Turnaround time
Added: 3 Sep 2010
When a major petrochemical site was suffering from a worse-than-average turnaround (TAR) safety and…
BASF, Linde and RWE claim carbon capture advance
Added: 3 Sep 2010
Ludwigshafen, Germany – BASF, Linde and RWE, claim to have made significant progress in their joint…
UK energy probe 'should be extended to business users'
Added: 3 Sep 2010
London – M&C Energy Group, which represents some of the UK’s largest users of energy, has highlight…
Top 10: Process Safety
Added: 3 Sep 2010
Shoddy work, materials and management practices were the likely, basic causes of the Deepwater Hori…
Welsh Water takes a shine to solar pump
Added: 3 Sep 2010
Manchester, UK – NOV Mono has installed a solar powered recirculating pump at Welsh Water’s Llanrhi…
Kingsmill 'eye opener'
Added: 2 Sep 2010
Allied Mills has managed to fully reverse the ratio of unplanned versus planned maintenance followi…
Mind the biogas service gap
Added: 2 Sep 2010
Biogas plant operators in the UK should be wary of the lack of back-up services for much of the equ…
Daleel Petroleum increases output of crude oil shipping pumps by 45%
Added: 1 Sep 2010
London – WEG Middle East has supplied 250kW HGF motors to fit in the same space envelope previously…
Workshop of the world
Added: 31 Aug 2010
A headline-grabbing story of recent weeks was that China’s economy was now bigger than Japan’s. Of …
We can be heroes
Added: 24 Aug 2010
I have been looking on as the saga of the miners trapped in the San Jose gold and copper mine, near…
Tapping the barometer
Added: 20 Aug 2010
London – UK-based industry analysts are picking up mixed signals about the pace and direction of t…
Corus to expand and improve operations at Port Talbot steelworks
Added: 19 Aug 2010
Port Talbot, UK – Corus, part of Tata Steel, is to invest £185m in the no 4 blast furnace at its Po…
Petrochem cuts energy bills at UK refinery
Added: 17 Aug 2010
Harwich, UK – An investment in new energy-efficient compressors is expected to save over 430,000kWh…
After the horse has bolted
Added: 17 Aug 2010
The phrase ‘after the horse has bolted’ certainly rings true when considering the US administration…
Codelco installs Honeywell Wi-Fi in copper mine
Added: 16 Aug 2010
Santiago – Copper producer Codelco has installed a wireless network system to improve a water-recov…
Burkert expects move to decentralised automation
Added: 12 Aug 2010
Decentralised automation systems have become a suitable alternative to control cabinet systems in m…
CRC still a damp squib as September deadline looms
Added: 12 Aug 2010
London – Only 1229 companies had signed up to the CRC (Carbon Reduction Commitment) Energy Efficien…
UK industrial gases market to stay flat to 2015
Added: 12 Aug 2010
Manchester, UK – The UK market for industrial gases declined by 4% in 2009, which is projected to b…
