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Fluor to test carbon capture technology at Norwegian facility
FLUOR has signed an agreement to test its carbon capture processes at the Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) in Norway.
Type: News
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals renamed Nouryon
AKZONOBEL Specialty Chemicals has been renamed Nouryon following its sale to the Carlyle Croup and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund (GIC).
Type: News
Recycling carbon dioxide in steel production
A EUROPEAN project is researching how to use the carbon dioxide produced during steelmaking to make methane and methanol.
Type: News
First apprenticeship survey released
SCIENCE Industry Partnership (SIP), a membership organisation for employers across the UK’s science industries, has released its first ever Apprenticeship Survey. The survey offers the first opportunity to analyse information on apprenticeships across the science industries, which are strategic centres of the UK’s economy.
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Report finds more ‘D’ needed in UK R&D
A Royal Academy of Engineering report has found that more support is needed for the final development of new technologies in the UK.
Type: News
ExxonMobil starts new unit at Antwerp refinery
EXXONMOBIL has started operations of a new unit for producing high-value transportation fuels at its Antwerp refinery in Belgium.
Type: News
Nuclear reprocessing ends at Sellafield’s Thorp plant
THE thermal oxide reprocessing plant (Thorp) at Sellafield, UK, has ceased reprocessing spent nuclear fuel.
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Wood and KBR win backfill project for Shell’s Prelude FLNG
WOOD and KBR have won a contract to design the facility that will provide backfill gas to Shell’s mammoth Prelude floating LNG project off Australia.
Type: News
OGTC funds effort to create digital twins of pressure vessels
THE UK’s Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) is funding a project for software firm Akselos to develop digital twins of pressure vessels in a bid to reduce maintenance costs.
Type: News
Fire at Petronas refinery in Malaysia
AN explosion and fire occurred at the Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) in Johor, Malaysia, a refinery being developed by Petronas.
Type: News
Covestro to transform process engineering workflow
PLASTICS company Covestro has signed a deal with industrial software company AVEVA, to help digitally transform its process engineering workflow using AVEVA’s process simulation platform.
Type: News
Hurricane Energy produces first oil at fractured basement field
HURRICANE Energy has produced first oil from the UK’s first fractured basement field in the North Sea.
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Two dead and one missing after explosion at Indian chemicals plant
AN explosion and fire at Punjab Chemicals and Crop Protection in Dera Bassi, India, has killed two employees, injured at least 12, and one person is still missing.
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LyondellBasell signs MoU with Liaoning Bora Enterprise Group for China expansion
LYONDELLBASELL has signed a memorandum of understanding for a joint venture with Liaoning Bora Enterprise Group to expand its business in China.
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Expansions to lithium plants in Australia on hold due to market downturn
CHINA-based Tianqi Lithium has halted work on the expansion of its lithium hydroxide refinery in the Kwinana Industrial Area in Australia, as well as an expansion on its Talison Lithium joint venture at the Greenbushes lithium mine.
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New Zealand refinery goes solar
REFINING NZ is building New Zealand’s largest solar farm to power its refinery at Marsden Point.
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BASF sells Construction Chemicals to Lone Star
GLOBAL private equity firm Lone Star has signed a purchase agreement to acquire BASF’s Construction Chemicals business.
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Ineos to build world-scale styrene plant in China
INEOS Styrolution, a global styrenics supplier, is to build a 600,000 t/y greenfield acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plant in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China.
Type: News
Atkins wins Shell technical safety contract
ATKINS has been awarded a five-year contract to provide technical safety and human factors services to Shell.
Type: News
Santos and BP sign CCS agreement
SANTOS and BP have entered a non-binding agreement to support the Moomba carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Australia.
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