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BASF to acquire Ciba for Euro4bn

Added: 15 Sep 2008

Swiss group's board supports offer. BASF to expand its position in speciality chemicals

Emerson automating ultra-supercritical power plant in China

Added: 9 Sep 2008

Plantweb digital plant architecture for new coal-fired power plant being built in China’s Guangdong…

Stormscreens and pumps for Spanish wastewater plant

Added: 9 Sep 2008

Upper-Middle Arroyo Culebro (UMAC) Wastewater Treatment plant is the largest facility of its type i…

Rocky road to global biofuels

Added: 9 Sep 2008

Creation of worldwide industry will be much more difficult than previously thought, Accenture study…

Technology Briefing - September

Added: 9 Sep 2008

Borealis lab breakthrough ... 112 sensors in a mould ... Simpler wireless ... CHP advance ... Forg…

UK energy under threat from China, Russia

Added: 8 Sep 2008

ERC: Nuclear plans could be derailed by China's far larger programme. Over 55% of gas reserves in …

Vattenfall cranks up carbon capture plant

Added: 5 Sep 2008

Pilot unit in Germany billed as "the world's first carbon dioxide-free oxyfuel test facility in pil…

United Utilities targets alarms

Added: 5 Sep 2008

Monitoring systems generated around 40 alarm texts, day and night, but significant improvements hav…

BP moves to settle Russia JV dispute

Added: 4 Sep 2008

Management restructure at TNK-BP, Russia's third largest oil company, to resolve bitter difference …

Forgemasters takes on 32 apprentices

Added: 4 Sep 2008

Latest intake of school and college graduates bring the total number of apprentices there to 70 - a…

ABB predicts wireless to takeoff in mid-2009

Added: 4 Sep 2008

The arrival of the HART 7 open specification is enabling vendors to develop field instruments and …

Petrofac acquires Caltec, targets marginal oil & gas reserves

Added: 4 Sep 2008

Oil & gas facilities services provider nets Caltec, a production technology firm focused on enhanci…

Engineers' pay growing fastest up North

Added: 2 Sep 2008

North-South pay gap for engineers narrows as wages in the North grow 26% faster than the South

Fern device bends radio signals around solid structures

Added: 29 Aug 2008

Tests in oil & gas industry show how FRX-i can bend signals around a solid platform structures so …

Record numbers to study chemical engineering

Added: 28 Aug 2008

Demand increases for all science and engineering disciplines led by year-on-year increases of 13.9%…

Siemens gasification technology for Canada IGCC plant

Added: 28 Aug 2008

EPCOR to employ technology for planned facility in Genesee near Edmonton, Alberta. The demonstratio…

LyondellBasell launches autoclave technology for polymers

Added: 28 Aug 2008

Lupotech A process technology employs new reactor design with multiple zones, a new injection schem…

Arkema opts for wireless alarm management system from IPS

Added: 28 Aug 2008

Chemicals major choses Invensys to supply hand-held system to enable field operators to stay in tou…

Hosokawa applies mixing technology to dry coating

Added: 28 Aug 2008

Trials use of shear mixer as a dry coating device to product functionality by modifying surface pro…

ABB thermowells for Shell LNG plant in Nigeria

Added: 28 Aug 2008

Devices for Bonny Island refinery in Nigeria. The full assembly thermowells, complete with associat…