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UK will fast track visas for top scientists post-Brexit
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that top scientists will be allowed to apply for fast-track visas under new immigration rules post-Brexit.
Type: News
ExxonMobil to sell 50% stake in Bass Strait assets
OIL and gas company ExxonMobil is to sell its 50% stake in its Bass Strait oil and gas assets, off the coast of the Gippsland region in Victoria, Australia. The Australian reports that the deal could be worth A$3–4bn (US$2–2.7bn).
Type: News
100+ partners commit to the Circular Plastics Alliance
MORE than 100 public and private partners, including from the chemical sector, have signed the Declaration of the Circular Plastics Alliance, thereby joining the EU-wide movement to increase recycling and the EU’s uptake of recycled plastics by 2025.
Type: News
Unilever invests €1bn to develop sustainable cleaning products
UNILEVER has announced that it will invest €1bn (US$1.18bn) over the next ten years, as it seeks to replace fossil-fuel derived ingredients in its cleaning and laundry product formulations with recycled and renewable alternatives, by 2030.
Type: News
Hunterston B begins operating after two-year shutdown
EDF has brought back online reactor 3 of its nuclear power station Hunterston B after receiving approval to start generating low-carbon power at the site following a two-year shutdown. The power company also announced that that station will move into the decommissioning phase by January 2022, a year earlier than previously expected.
Type: News
Nuclear cogeneration pushed as solution for low carbon heat
COGENERATION of heat by new nuclear plants could help balance intermittent renewables and provide a low-carbon source of process heat for hydrogen production and domestic heating, says a report from The Royal Society.
Type: News
Shell lays out net-zero strategy
OIL and gas major Shell has set out a strategy for achieving net zero energy transformation by 2050, which it says will be powered by growth in its customer-facing businesses.
Type: News
UK sets target to cut emissions by 78% by 2035
THE UK has set a new legally-binding target of cutting emissions by 78% from 1990 levels by 2035, building on its previous target of cutting emissions by 68% by 2030.
Type: News
Partners share open-source PFAS-free packaging technique
FOLLOWING nine months of collaboration, partners Solenis and Zume have open-sourced a recipe and method for manufacturing non-plastic PFAS-free food and consumer packaging.
Type: News
Risks of Cyber-attacks are Closer Than They Appear
In the sixth article in his series, David Jamieson looks at what we can learn from the movie Jurassic Park
Type: Feature
New initiatives support global climate efforts
Today, on Science and Innovation Day at COP26, global coalitions of businesses, nations, and scientists, announced new initiatives expected to support existing climate and emissions goals and commitments.
Type: News
HyNet developers share FEED lessons from first hydrogen plant
ESSAR Oil UK and Progressive Energy joint-venture Vertex Hydrogen has unveiled a report detailing the development of the UK’s first large-scale low carbon hydrogen production plant, to share lessons learned.
Type: News
Clean energy partnership supports UK and UAE goals
ENERGY companies Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), BP, and Masdar have signed strategic partnership agreements to provide clean energy technologies to the UK and UAE, including carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) and hydrogen.
Type: News
UK picks Midlands to host prototype fusion reactor
THE site of a coal-fired power plant in Nottinghamshire is set to host the UK’s prototype nuclear fusion energy plant.
Type: News
Carbon-neutral Steelanol plant to start production within weeks
ARCELORMITTAL, BHP, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (MHIENG) have signed a funding agreement that will see the trio work together on a multi-year trial of carbon capture technology at steelmaking plants owned by ArcelorMittal. Once captured, the CO2 at one facility in Europe will then be used to produce bioethanol.
Type: News
Consultants & Contractors Guide 2023: Forms of Contract – 50 Years and Still Going Strong
John Challenger recounts the development of IChemE’s Forms of Contract and trails the launch of a new Blue Book covering EPCM contracts
Type: Feature
Drax in talks with UK government after pausing BECCS investment
DRAX has paused its £2bn (US$2.48bn) investment programme in bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) while it awaits clarity on the UK’s commitment to the technology.
Type: News
Orsted awarded first Danish CCUS subsidy tender and signs major carbon removal offtake contract
ORSTED has announced major carbon capture and storage deals, having won a 20-year contract under which Denmark will subsidise a project to capture and store 430,000 t/y of biogenic CO2, and signed an agreement with Microsoft for 2.76m t of carbon removal.
Type: News
Final deuterium-tritium tests begin at the UK-based Joint European Torus fusion facility
YESTERDAY scientists and engineers at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Culham site, in Oxfordshire, started running the third and final experiments using deuterium-tritium fuel at the Joint European Torus (JET) research project. The experiments will inform the design and operation of next generation fusion machines, playing a vital role in shaping future projects.
Type: News
HAVING failed to heed warnings that its offshore wind budget in the latest Contracts for Difference (CfD) round was too low to address rising development costs, the UK government has failed to secure any new offshore bids. The record 95 successful projects – up from 93 last year – are set to deliver 3.7 GW of renewable energy, down from the 11 GW achieved last year led by offshore wind.
Type: News
