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Adam Duckett gets two of his five-a-day while asking for more systems thinking from politicians on net zero
Type: Feature
Shell to sell Singapore petchem assets in ongoing effort to decarbonise the region
OIL AND GAS company Shell is set to sell off all its petrochemical and refinery assets in Singapore as it moves to decarbonise its operations in the Asia-Pacific region.
Type: News
ConocoPhillips to acquire Marathon Oil in US$17.1bn deal
CONOCOPHILLIPS has agreed to acquire exploration and production company Marathon Oil in an all-stock deal worth US$17.1bn, enhancing its leading position in unconventional resource production. It marks the latest in a series of consolidating transactions in the prospering oil and gas sector.
Type: News
Volunteer Spotlight: Adisa Azapagic
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Type: Feature
Caltech chemical engineer Frances Arnold wins Nobel Prize
CHEMICAL engineer Frances Arnold has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pioneering work that mimics evolution to engineer enzymes.
Type: News
Organisations call for halt to US mining and drilling decisions, due to coronavirus
ONE hundred and one environmental and public health organisations have sent a letter to the US Government, calling for federal agencies to suspend active or pending mining and drilling decisions, for at least 60 days, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. They ask for it to cover all permitting, leasing, and rulemaking for oil, gas, and mining, and associated infrastructure.
Type: News
Engineered yeast strain could revive interest in non-food bio-feedstocks
CHEMICAL engineers at MIT have genetically engineered yeast that are tolerant to toxic biorefining conditions, a development that offers a route for converting tricky non-food feedstocks into fuel.
Type: News
BASF commercially produces metal-organic frameworks for CO2 capture in world first
BASF claims to be the first company to produce metal-organic frameworks at a scale of several hundred tons per year, after completing a scaleup project on behalf of CO2 capture and removal company Svante Technologies.
Type: News
Modelling with Excel Part 9: Digitising a Chart
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Type: Feature
UK offers £5m funding for North Sea exploration
NORTH Sea oil and gas exploration will receive £5m (US$6.7m) in funding from the UK government in 2018/2019 to find potential new deposits.
Type: News
Russia signs nuclear agreements with Nigeria
RUSSIA has signed agreements to build a nuclear power plant and a research centre housing a multi-purpose reactor in Nigeria.
Type: News
Air Products buys Shell’s coal gasification business
AIR PRODUCTS has agreed a deal to buy Shell’s coal gasification technology business and its patent portfolio for liquids (residue) gasification.
Type: News
BASF signs MoU for a US$10bn Verbund chemicals site in China
BASF is considering building a new highly-integrated – or ‘Verbund’ – chemicals site in Guangdong, China, and if it goes ahead it will be the company’s largest investment.
Type: News
US invests in water treatment research projects
The US Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees water resource management, has announced that it will provide US$3.5m in funding for laboratory and pilot-scale desalination and water purification research.
Type: News
Saudi Aramco signs agreement with ADNOC to collaborate in natural gas sector
SAUDI Aramco has signed a framework agreement with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) to collaborate in the natural gas and LNG sectors.
Type: News
Call for evidence on CCS ahead of UK spending review
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for carbon capture and storage has issued a call for evidence on carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) ahead of the UK Government’s spending review.
Type: News
University of Canterbury student wins New Zealand Postgraduate Researcher of the Year 2019
ICHEME has awarded Leatham Landon-Lane, chemical engineering post-graduate student at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, the 2019 New Zealand Postgraduate Researcher of the Year prize.
Type: News
IChemE Member attends palace ceremony for Queens Award
ICHEME Member Irteza Piracha has attended a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after the company he leads won a Queen’s Award for International Trade.
Type: News
Nouryon acquires Chinese triethyl aluminium business
NOURYON has acquired Zhejiang Friend Chemical (Friend), the largest Chinese producer of triethyl aluminium (TEAL).
Type: News
Fire burns through two tanks at US fuel depot
A FIRE has raged through two tanks at a fuels storage facility in California, US.
Type: News
