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UK’s first 21 carbon storage licences handed out by North Sea Transition Authority
FOURTEEN companies have been awarded 21 licences by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) in the UK’s first ever carbon licensing round. The NSTA says the locations could store almost 10% of the nation’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Type: News
Chevron to buy Hess in US$53bn all-stock deal
AMERICAN oil giant Chevron is buying oil and gas producer Hess in an all-stock deal worth US$53bn. This is the second major oil buy-up this month, following ExxonMobil’s agreement to acquire US shale firm Pioneer Natural Resources in a deal worth US$59.5bn.
Type: News
Engineers plotted onto iconic London Underground map for National Engineering Day
You can now travel from Dame Julia Higgins to Nigel Hirst via Dame Judith Hackitt thanks to a reimagined London underground map charting the contributions made by engineers, including several IChemE members, in shaping the world.
Type: News
Student team’s water sterilisation system wins sustainability competition
A TEAM of school students who designed a solar water sterilisation system has won this year’s Davidson Inventors Challenge.
Type: News
3M to pay water companies up to US$12.5bn over PFAS contamination
3M will pay US public water companies up to US$12.5bn to tackle PFAS, after a district court gave final approval to a previously announced settlement agreement.
Type: News
US environmentalists call for ‘total ban’ on PFAS usage in response to new standard
THE LONG-AWAITED US standard for PFAS in drinking water has been met with a lukewarm response from experts and environmental bodies, who say there is still a “fundamental problem” with the industry legislation.
Type: News
enfinium commits to net zero by 2033 ahead of summer carbon capture project
ONE of the UK’s largest waste-to-energy companies, enfinium, has committed to using carbon capture technology to achieve net zero by 2033.
Type: News
Rio Tinto says steel industry will need ‘every technology in the book’ to decarbonise
MINING company Rio Tinto says the steel industry will need “every technology in the book” to decarbonise, after announcing its plan to develop a R&D facility for its low-carbon ironmaking process in Western Australia.
Type: News
Volunteer Spotlight: Maria Papathanasiou AMIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Type: Feature
US industry risking lives due to lack of remote isolation equipment, CSB warns
US CHEMICAL facilities are putting lives at risk by failing to heed lessons learned from loss of containments, says the country’s Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB). It recommends industry adopt the use of remote isolation equipment which can quickly stop the release of hazardous materials, preventing accidents from escalating and killing people.
Type: News
Mark McBride-Wright MBE CENG; ISBN: 979-8887970738; Publish Your Purchase; 2024; US$25.40 (Print)
Type: Feature
Safe AI Innovation Needs Robust Regulation
Aniqah Majid joined industry leaders as they came together for an IChemE roundtable on AI’s use in plant operation and the role of policymakers in its future
Type: Feature
EU prepares ban on PFAS in consumer products as industry seeks exemptions
THE EUROPEAN Union will push ahead with proposals to ban PFAS in consumer products, the EU’s environment commissioner Jessika Roswall told Reuters this week.
Type: News
Food and drink companies urged to improve fertiliser use transparency in supply chains
FOOD and drink companies are not disclosing adequate information about the risks of synthetic fertiliser in their supply chains, according to a new report.
Type: News
Watch: ship delivers vast €150m furnaces for major chemicals plant
INEOS has released a video showing the moment two huge furnaces worth €150m (US$156m) completed a 20,000 km sea trip to Belgium ahead of installation at the heart of a vast new ethane cracker.
Type: News
US-based SAF producer becomes latest company to announce plans to open plant in Teesside
AMERICAN sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) producer LanzaJet has become the latest multinational company to select Teesside, northeast England, as the location for a manufacturing plant.
Type: News
Safe AI innovation needs robust regulation, warns IChemE roundtable
Industry leaders come together for a roundtable discussion on AI’s use in plant operation and the role of policymakers in its future
Type: News
RFK Jr eyes ban on synthetic dyes in food
ROBERT F Kennedy Jr has told US food and drink manufacturers he intends to ban synthetic dyes being added to their products.
Type: News
Book Review: Origins of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Peter Collins; ISBN: 978-1-909327-46-7; Royal Academy of Engineering; 2019; £30
Type: Feature
Electrochemistry for greener steel
Amanda Jasi speaks to technology developers working to use electrolysis to reduce emissions from steel manufacture
Type: Feature
