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Ineos proposes closure of Grangemouth ethanol plant
INEOS is looking to close its ethanol plant at the Grangemouth petrochemicals complex in the UK and says all 44 employees involved will be offered alternative roles.
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Scottish biotech firms to benefit from £847,000 investment
BIO-BASED manufacturing companies in Scotland are set to reap the benefits of an £847,000 (US$1.1m) investment from Scottish Enterprise.
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Shell adds CCS projects to Canada energy and chemicals complex
SHELL is expanding CCS capabilities at its refinery and chemicals complex in Alberta, Canada with the addition of the Polaris carbon capture facility and its connected Atlas Carbon Storage Hub.
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£70m for engineers to design and build advanced nuclear fuel plants
THE UK government is offering £70m (US$90m) for engineers to design and build plants needed to manufacture advanced nuclear fuels for the country’s next generation of nuclear reactors.
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Woodside agrees US$2.35bn deal for OCI clean ammonia plant
WOODSIDE is buying a low-carbon ammonia plant in the US for US$2.35bn as it looks to expand into a growing market for cleaner energy and chemical feedstocks.
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A shot of whisky and some chemical feedstocks please
WHISKY waste could provide high-value feedstocks such as lactic acid for the pharmaceuticals and cosmetics industries as researchers push to scale up a separations process.
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Hinkley Point welcomes UK’s first nuclear reactor in over 30 years
CONSTRUCTION at the Hinkley Point C power plant in Somerset has reached an important milestone with the installation of the UK’s first nuclear reactor in over 30 years.
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Wanted: Danckwerts lecturer for 2025
NOMINATIONS are open to find a speaker for the prestigious Danckwerts Lecture.
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Eni launches Europe’s ‘most powerful’ supercomputer to aid decarbonisation efforts
ITALIAN oil giant Eni has switched on its next generation supercomputer, ranked the most powerful in Europe, marking a “pivotal” step forward in the company’s decarbonisation strategy.
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Materials Processing Institute unveils £1m sustainable cement centre
A STATE-OF-THE-ART sustainable research and development centre led by the Materials Processing Institute (MPI) is set to progress “novel formulations” for low-carbon cement and concrete.
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Honeywell shakeup continues with US$2.16bn buyout of pumps firm Sundyne
HONEYWELL is buying pumps and compressors manufacturer Sundyne for US$2.16bn, in a move to bolster an automation business that will soon stand alone after a major split was announced last month.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE could one day help us clean up microplastics after researchers at Monash University showed AI can help with rapid identification. The system could eventually sweep the oceans and carry out real-time wastewater analysis.
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UKAEA awards £3.5m to develop the sensors engineers need to operate fusion plants
TECHNOLOGISTS developing sensors to withstand the extreme conditions inside a fusion reactor – providing engineers with crucial operational and maintenance data – have received £3.5m (US$4.6m) to advance their work.
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Qatar to boost LNG production by 30%
QATAR PETROLEUM has announced that it will ramp up its LNG production by 30% over the next five to seven years, from 77m t/y to 100m t/y.
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South Australia calls Musk on storage bet
SOUTH AUSTRALIA has called Elon Musk on a bet he made in March, and has challenged the billionaire entrepreneur to build an energy storage system that will help the state overcome its blackout woes.
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Transocean to buy Songa Offshore
TRANSOCEAN announced today that it has agreed a deal to buy Norwegian offshore drilling competitor Songa Offshore for NOK 9.1bn (US$1.1bn).
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Tarmac becomes Bronze Corporate Partner
BUILDING materials and construction firm Tarmac has been made an IChemE Bronze Corporate Partner.
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Acorn CCS gets £100,000 Scottish government funding
THE Acorn CCS project, a full-chain CCS project in northeast Scotland, UK, has been awarded £100,000 (US$130,000) funding by the Scottish government.
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Saudi Aramco signs ‘diversification’ deals worth US$4.5bn
SAUDI ARAMCO has signed eight agreements, worth around US$4.5bn, with oil and gas service contractors as the state energy giant pushes ahead with national plans to diversify the economy.
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Maersk Oil gets approval for US$3.36bn Tyra gas investment
THE Danish Underground Consortium (DUC) has approved a DKK21bn (US$3.36bn) investment, allowing Maersk Oil to redevelop the Tyra gas field in the Danish North Sea.
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