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BP wins approval to convert Kwinana into a biorefinery

BP has been granted approval to produce biofuels as its former Kwinana refining site in Australia.

Type: News

Snapshot – Birmingham takes the fifth

Photos from the UK’s annual Frank Morton Sports Day, where The University of Birmingham took top spot again.

Type: Feature

Birmingham steams to fourth title

Photos from the UK’s annual Frank Morton Sports Day, where The University of Birmingham took top spot again.

Type: Feature

Unilever cutting 7,500 jobs and splitting off ice cream division

BEN & JERRY’S and Marmite owner Unilever is set to split off its ice cream division and axe 7,500 jobs as part of a major cost-cutting overhaul.

Type: News

MIT retains top university ranking for chemical engineering

MIT has retained its position as the best university for studying chemical engineering, according to the latest QS World Rankings.

Type: News

IChemE invites nominations for 2025 medals and prizes

ICHEME is urging chemical and process engineers from across the globe to highlight the world-leading contributions of their colleagues with nominations for the Institution’s 2025 medals and prizes.

Type: News

Costain wins multimillion-pound FEED contract for Teesside hydrogen pipeline network

COSTAIN has been awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract by bp for a new hydrogen pipeline network in Teesside as part of the East Coast carbon capture cluster.

Type: News

AstraZeneca to boost US R&D with US$3.5bn investment

BRITISH pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is investing US$3.5bn into expanding its research and development (R&D) operations across the US.

Type: News

Empirisys Launch Memorial Fund to Inspire Future Data Scientists

Grant in memory of Alex White, who died at 29 from meningitis, aims to support students pursuing careers in process safety and data science

Type: Feature

IChemE calls for contributors for returning ChemEng digitalisation conference

ICHEME is inviting abstract submissions for its Advances in the Digitalisation of the Process Industries conference, taking place on 16–17 October in Manchester, UK.

Type: News

No pollution seen following North Sea collision due to ‘fortunate’ circumstances

THE MARITIME and coastguard agency (MCA) has confirmed that no jet fuel appears to have spilled into the ocean following a collision between two ships near Hull, UK on Monday.

Type: News

Korean energy firm hunts for gas off Australia’s East Coast

SOUTH KOREA’S state-owned energy company has partnered with ConocoPhillips in a new offshore gas drilling campaign off Australia’s East Coast.

Type: News

ChemEng Culture – Issue 1006

The first in a regular feature looking at chemeng-related culture

Type: Feature

Johnson Matthey to open its first hydrogen internal combustion engine plant

JOHNSON MATTHEY (JM) is set to open its first hydrogen internal combustion engine (H2ICE) plant for heavy duty vehicles at its site in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Type: News

Wood to deliver engineering to bp gas field in Trinidad

BRITISH engineering firm Wood is set to deliver key operational upgrades for a brownfield site on bp’s Juniper platform, located off the coast of Trinidad.

Type: News

Drax shuts down Canadian pellet plant amid tightening UK sustainability rules

DRAX, the UKs largest power station, will shut down one of its wood-pellet mills in Canada after declaring the facility “no longer commercially viable”, even as the UK places greater pressure on the company to demonstrate sustainable biomass sourcing.

Type: News

Rules of Thumb: Chromatography Systems

Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems

Type: Feature

Drax starts commissioning Europe’s first BECCS pilot plant

DRAX, the energy company, has started commissioning of its innovative bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) pilot plant. It is the first project of its kind in Europe. Commissioning started today, on the tenth anniversary of the Climate Change Act.

Type: News

Ray Sinnott, 1931–2021

RAY SINNOTT, who had a profound impact on chemical engineers through the book Chemical Engineering Design that he wrote as Volume 6 of the Coulson and Richardson textbook series, has died aged 90.

Type: News

Delta Force

Trish Kerin explains the power of using Delta HAZOP, a new method for revalidating previous HAZOPs

Type: Feature