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BP helps to ‘future proof’ students’ skills
BP has launched the Skills Refinery, an online global portal developed to help improve student employability. In addition, a global challenge will be instituted in which the inaugural winning team will win a trip to the 2019 One Young World Summit in London.
Type: News
Using open-source tech and ChatGPT to create virtual analysers of chemical dosage
A new online dashboard of chemical concentrations for an offshore oil production facility used open-source technology stack and ChatGPT to achieve the holy grail in digital: better, faster, and cheaper – built for less than a tenth of the cost of installing new instrumentation offshore
Type: Feature
Origin Energy may delay closing Eraring coal power station
ORIGIN Energy’s plans to close its Eraring coal power station seven years ahead of schedule, might now be put on hold over fears the country will run into electricity shortages. This is due to ageing coal plants closing potentially faster than new renewables and storage projects coming online
Type: News
HIGHVIEW POWER has received £300m (US$379m) in funding to build the UK’s first commercial-scale liquid air energy storage plant (LAES), designed to balance peaks and troughs in power demand as more renewable energy sources are brought online.
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
Wood gets contract for green ammonia facility
WOOD has announced that it will provide conceptual engineering for a large-scale green hydrogen production facility in Chile, where the hydrogen will be used to produce ammonia.
Type: News
ThaiBev buys US$4.8bn stake in Sabeco
THAI Beverages (ThaiBev) has won an auction to buy a US$4.84bn majority stake in Vietnam’s top brewer, Sabeco.
Type: News
Blood-testing 'disruptor' charged with fraud
THE CEO and former-president of Theranos – a company which claimed to have developed technology that would revolutionise blood testing – have been charged with “massive fraud”.
Type: News
Dominican officials accuse plastics company of causing explosion that killed 31 people
AUTHORITIES in the Dominican Republic are pursuing a criminal case against a plastics company following a powerful explosion that killed at least 31 people. Officials have said it could take months to identify some of the victims.
Type: News
Frances Arnold awarded ACS ‘highest honour’
NOBEL prize-winning chemical engineer Frances Arnold has been handed the American Chemistry Society’s (ACS) “highest honour” for her contributions to chemistry.
Type: News
Chemical Engineering Education in the Age of Disruption
Esther Ventura-Medina wonders what will the future look like after Covid-19?
Type: Feature
NTU Singapore launching hybrid chemeng-chemistry course to fill skills gap
IN AN EFFORT to produce graduates with chemical engineering and chemistry skillsets, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore is launching a new course in process engineering and synthetic chemistry.
Type: News
New MOF makes plastic manufacturing more energy efficient
RESEARCHERS have developed a metal-organic framework (MOF) containing iron-peroxo (Fe2(O2)) sites which could reduce the amount of energy required for extracting ethylene, the key ingredient in polyethylene plastic.
Type: News
IChemE announces results of Congress elections
IChemE has announced the names of 32 volunteers who have been elected to the new member advisory body.
Type: News
3D-printed sponge could reduce side effects of chemotherapy
CHEMICAL engineers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, US, have developed a 3D-printed ‘drug sponge’ which could help reduce the side effects of chemotherapy by absorbing excess drugs.
Type: News
Bayer pays US$10bn to settle Roundup cancer lawsuits
BAYER has announced a US$10bn settlement for thousands of lawsuits claiming that that its Roundup weedkiller caused cancer.
Type: News
Operations suspended at Barrick gold mine
Spilled process solution caused temporary shutdown
Type: News
Roche buys Ignyta for US$1.7bn
ROCHE has agreed a deal to buy oncology drug company Ignyta for US$27/share, a total of US$1.7bn.
Type: News
New York City sues five oil majors over climate change
NEW YORK CITY has filed a lawsuit against five of the world’s largest investor-owned fossil fuel companies – BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil and Shell – for billions of dollars to cover its costs for climate change.
Type: News
