
Energy: Using Hydrogen for Glass
Andrew Keeley and Mike Haden talk about decarbonising the glass manufacturing process using hydro...
Andrew Keeley and Mike Haden talk about decarbonising the glass manufacturing process using hydro...
Andrew Kadak reviews innovations for nuclear
Amanda Doyle speaks to Adrian La Porta about replacing coal-fired boilers with nuclear reactors
Amanda Doyle speaks to Widya Wahyuni about using wind to power seawater electrolysis
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
David Shallcross and Allyson Woodford discuss challenges and methods to teach ethics, using real-...
At-a-glance information on what's in the fourth of our centenary theme specials
Martin Pitt looks at the origins of the pharmaceutical industry
David Gemmell discusses the evolution of continuous and intensified bioprocessing
Adam Duckett on the varied opportunities for energy transition
David Gemmell discusses how chemical engineers play their part in modern-day biopharma
David Bogle and Raffaella Ocone introduce a new series of articles urging chemical engineers to ‘...
Reflections from Uchenna Onwuamaegbu, Jamie Hoar, Heather Williams and IChemE’s National Early Ca...
Andrew Bacon talks to Adam Duckett about plans to launch feedstocks into space, and bring them ba...
Amanda Jasi speaks to pioneering chemical engineer Robert Langer about his successes and offers a...
Kathryn Hadler tells Amanda Jasi about the exciting prospect of extracting and processing resourc...
Amanda Jasi speaks to Nobel Prize winner Frances Arnold about how chemical engineering can help h...
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Chemical engineers gather to discuss how the profession can help shape a better future
Amanda Jasi talks to Gary Calnan about his company’s work on developing a forge for recycling was...
Speaking the truth when others don’t want to hear has to be part of our DNA as engineers, says Da...
At-a-glance information on what's in the third of our centenary theme specials
Editor: Susheel Kalia; ISBN: 9780128205419; Elsevier; 2021; €152.60
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Adam Duckett on the reverberating shocks from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Jonathan McDonough explains how 3D printing will benefit the chemical engineering discipline over...
Discover how smart balances coupled with database storage can boost process and product development
With IChemE’s Centenary celebrations under way, Martin Pitt explores the chemical engineers who i...
Jeremy Chignell speaks to Amanda Jasi about the promise of alternative proteins
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Andrew Livingston, Shaista Bibi and Conor Crowley provide practical advice on this key risk manag...
Trish Kerin explains the power of using Delta HAZOP, a new method for revalidating previous HAZOPs
Experts gather to discuss our discipline’s future in terms of sustainability and the environment
Arie Abo speaks to Amanda Jasi about using microorganisms as ‘cell factories’
Brian Williamson and Chris Jackson talk to Adam Duckett about zero emission closed-loop steam
Paul Hodges discusses the challenges that companies should consider on the path to a sustainabl...
Members of IChemE's Safety & Loss Prevention SIG introduce a series that showcases the roles in p...
A COALITION of volunteer engineers, concerned about the misapplication of hydrogen, have formed a...
Jonathan Wright and colleagues explain how their IChemE Award-winning ion exchange and encapsul...
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Paul Orange explains why testing battery safety matters more than you’d imagine
Iwona Kandpal reports on support for SMEs as they increase their use of digital tech
Adam Duckett on the frustrations and relative successes of COP26
IChemE participated in three events at the climate summit
The new digital age in our workplace isn’t coming, it’s already here, says Craig Smith
Joanne Tanner and Tobias Cleaver-Ross discuss the benefits and challenges of cloud computing and ...
Peter Walmsley explains the role of muon tomography in waste management at the Sellafield site
Rosey Deverall talks about her roles in nuclear safety and decommissioning
In the sixth in a series about chemical engineers who volunteer their skills to contribute to s...
Andrew Jamieson updates on how IChemE is ensuring that there are systems and resources available ...
Amanda Doyle reports from the COP26 climate change summit
Negotiations lead to new commitments on climate action
Darren Broom discusses the need for new developments to address the challenges around multicompon...
How to avoid some common pitfalls in the production and use of a COMAH report; from Robert McGreg...
Gordon Lawrence discusses the need to keep scope to a manageable size and avoid excessive scope g...
A Kayode Coker; ISBN: 978111947641; Wiley-Scrivener; 2021; US$295
Adam Duckett on the need for action on decarbonisation
Low temperature embrittlement is a common, but poorly understood hazard. Paul Denham looks at pre...
Jack Wishart discusses how benchmarking can be used to measure and drive improvements in process ...
Amanda Doyle analyses a survey of oil and gas workers to reveal their thoughts on how the energy ...
Sam Kingman, Chris Dodds, Adam Buttress and Daniel Groszek discuss new technology that offers a h...
Brett Longstaffe talks about his role in engineering novel reactors
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
CORROSION is an age-old problem that is now being effectively contained and prevented due to the ...
A culture of care is the foundation, says Mark Walker
ON 6 October, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss the practical advantages of using...
Adam Duckett on the UK energy crisis and opportunities for change
Noor Al-Rifai and Rene Holm look at the use of nanosuspensions as long-acting injectables
Martin Killcross; ISBN: 9780128240496; Butterworth-Heinemann; 2021; £99
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Gordon Lawrence explains how to get your maintenance turnaround off on the right foot
The future of energy needs chemical engineers, and lots of them, say Jacob Brown, Titi Oliyide, L...
Tahani Kaldéus talks about her work towards a greener fashion industry
Tom Baxter asks five questions about the UK Government's new Hydrogen Strategy.
Adam Duckett on the missing elements of the UK’s hydrogen strategy
Anna Watson discusses the chemical engineering challenges of new modality medicines
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Amanda Doyle explains why the energy transition must be fair for workers in high carbon industries
Mine closure is not just an environmental issue, say Anna Littleboy, Guy Boggs and Glen Corder
In the fourth in a series about chemical engineers who volunteer their skills to contribute to so...
We must do better, says Gordon Lawrence
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
John Downer explains how teams can understand and provide value to projects for clients
James Colley offers sound advice on careers transition when you need to switch sectors
Robert Walker explains the lessons he learned in successfully enabling critical gas supplies to c...
Raffaella Ocone and Nina Baker seek out the stories of chemical engineering’s female forerunners
Adam Duckett discusses the rising threat of cyber attacks
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Adam Duckett asks what are men doing to help support gender diversity and inclusion?
Joanne Tanner and Tristan Hunter introduce a new member-led series on digitalisation, and in this...
Andy Brazier and Nick Wise explain why it’s so important to consider real-world situations in ris...
Jane Cutler talks to Adam Duckett about her inspirations and quest for skills
Amanda Doyle speaks to Rahul Shendure about innovations for lower-emissions cement and storing CO...
Tom Baxter examines the challenges and opportunities of electrifying process heating
Gordon Lawrence discusses the value of a basis of estimate document for a maintenance turnaround ...
Mike Kelland and Greg Rau talk to Amanda Doyle about their clean-tech goals
Lars Krause and Michael Carus discuss crediting the value of bio- and CO2-based and recycled mate...
Khor Bee Chin discusses plans to reclaim precious resources from the wastewater that goes down th...
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Mingheng Li; ISBN: 9780735421813; AIP Publishing; 2020; US$135
Liza Forbes, Kym Runge, Mike Mankosa, Jaisen Kohmuench and Luke Vollert discuss a froth-free flot...
Adam Duckett on the US President’s climate push and jobs plan
Industry will be forced to adapt, says Paul Hodges
Malcolm Wilkinson and members of IChemE’s Sustainability Special Interest Group discuss the futur...
ON 28 April, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar about using data analytics to design the most...
Gordon Lawrence discusses the importance of prescriptive scope criteria in a turnaround premise d...
Ed Round discusses what the patent landscape reveals about the future of manufacturing
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Andy Brazier, David Edwards, Fiona Macleod, Craig Skinner, Ivan Vince; ISBN: 9780128194478; Elsev...
Andy Brazier and Nick Wise introduce a series looking at ALARP
Joe Willmot shares the methodologies and data required to achieve a robust and safe scaleup from ...
Aidan Bushell explains changes for Dust Explosions (Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/878)
Why modern distributed control systems are increasingly important
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Ali Mokhber, Christopher Ross, and Pablo Garcia-Trinanes describe how layers of protection analys...
Clive Lloyd; ISBN: 9780367509538; CRC Press; 2020; US$64.95 (Hardback), US$20.65 (ebook)
Researchers and industry have developed a guide to data analytics for pharmaceutical manufacturing
Oliver Jones; ISBN: 978-981-15-6189-4; Springer Singapore; 2020; US$59.99 (softcover)
Nikodem Siwek explains how to get the most from your pH measurement devices
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Eric Maynard and McKinnon Ray explain how to identify and mitigate bulk solids flow risks
Hedley Rees and Keith Plumb discuss how current methods of drug development are impeding engineer...
Jim Petrie and Jenni Case celebrate a centenary of chemical engineering
Qua Kiat Seng charts the evolution of vegetable oil production
ON 13 January, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss how simulation software can be u...
JMP invites engineers to explore an alternative way of experimenting that can increase your effec...
Huai Nyin (Grace) Yow and colleagues discuss the engineering challenges specific to pharmaceutica...
Mark Apsey shares IChemE’s new position statement on climate change and the consultation process ...
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Digitalisation and automation are great for control loop optimisation - but we still need humans,...
Ian Scott discusses the development of the waste-burning stable salt reactor (SSR)
Tom White, IChemE Trustee and CEO of C-Capture, presses Boris Johnson for support on scaleup
Saul Griffith with Sam Calisch and Laura Fraser; ISBN: N/A; Publisher: N/A; 2020; Free
Rob Kirkpatrick explains teaching of soft skills
CHEMICALS manufacturer Thomas Swan is urging businesses to act now to be ready for new trading ru...
ON 26 November, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar on how mobile refrigeration can be used to...
How far has the technology come, asks Parminder Bansal
How we can learn important safety lessons from success as well as failure
Rotating packed beds can play a part in making carbon capture smaller and cheaper
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
Why process industry economics should be taught in undergrad chemical engineering
Zainuddin Manan describes routes to increasing graduates’ employability
Tony Hasting looks at the options for quality assurance
ON 28 October, The Chemical Engineer is hosting a webinar to discuss the digital transformation o...
Amanda Doyle speaks to Solistra Co-founder Alexandra Tavasoli about the company's process that us...
Stephen Hall provides practical insights into on-the-job problems
David Wong and colleagues discuss how the world’s aluminium smelters could enable the rapid uptak...
John Wilson explains why undergraduate placements are so important
Frank Crawley; ISBN: 9780128195437 (paperback); Elsevier; 2020; £117.30
A long-term moral perspective to process safety is needed, says Marc Reid
Tony Hasting discusses cleaning and disinfection of food process plant
ON 15 September, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar to discuss how design of experiments is a...
What do you do when you unexpectedly lose a crucial piece of your refinery complex? Shahidan Lail...
Tom Baxter looks at the parasitic load challenge of CCS
What’s standing in the way of us closing the loop on plastics? Mark Vester discusses
Simon Jagers and Gerben Gooijers show how you can raise plant reliability using current and volt...
Everything is interdependent, say Eric Maynard and McKinnon Ray
Constantine Tsounis, Bijil Subhash, and Khushal Polepalle chart their journey from undergrad desi...
Mercedes Maroto-Valer discusses how the chemical industry can contribute to post-pandemic net zero
John Bewsey describes a new ion exchange process for cleaning up acid mines and brackish water
Gaia Vince; ISBN: 9780241281116; Allen Lane; 2019; £20
Malaysia has much to do, say Kok Siew Ng and Eleni Iacovidou
Paige Marie Morse explains how companies have been using digital technologies to adapt to the cor...
HyNet North West will make hydrogen for heat a reality
The promise of storing hydrogen as ammonia
Amanda Jasi speaks to companies that have begun producing hand sanitiser, to help prevent the spr...
A look at what should go into a proper Basis of Design document for a solids handling system
What contribution do chemical engineers make in ensuring our food is safe?
Amanda Doyle speaks to Florence Gschwend, CEO and Co-founder of Lixea, about the company's new pr...
Matthew Duchars and John Challenger describe the plans to design and build a facility that the UK...
Tom Baxter explains why slowing down is better for the planet
Joan Cordiner looks at how operations have adapted to the pandemic
Keith Plumb explains the importance of design of pressure relief systems for stirred tank vessels
Grant Wellwood calls for manufacturers to include environmental impact labels on their products
CPI discusses the importance of bringing an engineering mindset to collaborate with biologists on...
Amanda Doyle looks at how the crisis of coronavirus is impacting the pressing need to go green
Adam Duckett, Editor of The Chemical Engineer, introduces a series looking at Deepwater Horizon o...
A decade on from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, James Pettigrew discusses the efforts to bring t...
Tim Harwood updates us on the collaborative gas industry programme to deliver the evidence on con...
Jonathan Pearce explains how new techniques can improve process efficiency
Chris Best addresses the role blowdown systems play in plant design and why they are essential in...
Rory Stanley explains developments in line blinding systems for total isolation
JMP discusses how to encourage organisations to take a new approach to innovation
You may not be able to control the world, but you can control the flow of your bulk solids, says ...
Vanda Jones discusses how you can cut your compressed air energy consumption
George Wypych; ISBN: 978-1-927885-51-2; ChemTec Publishing; 2019; US$350
Protein sources are gaining increasing attention due to concerns about the sustainability of tr...
Adam Duckett visits the workshop of Nik Spencer to understand more about a pyrolysis unit that ...
Andrew Perry looks at the challenges of tackling global carbon emissions, and asks when the worl...
A Kayode Coker; ISBN: 9781118233696; Wiley-Scrivener; 2018; eBook £200.99; Hardcover, £223.00
Chemicals businesses must not delay on digitalisation if they want to transform their operations,...
David Smith discusses the importance of product packing and filling for formulated dry products
Amanda Jasi speaks to Albert Cabrejo and Leonnardo Probst about their company’s radar-based techn...
Mohamed Azlan Hussain and Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua explain how a natural disaster led to demonst...
Hugh Thomas looks at the challenge of ensuring resilient and wholesome water supplies
Chemengers have a huge part to play in ensuring the safety of low-carbon technologies, says Julie...
Carbon Recycling International (CRI) has pioneered a process to transform CO2 emissions into meth...
Paul Kenny shares insights on a new HAZOP technique trialled at ExxonMobil’s Fawley site in the U...
A topic often overlooked and misunderstood, Grant Wellwood looks at the prevalence of bulk solids...
A bright future awaits chemengers in the water industry, say Richard Hill and Chris Short
Best practice on specifying, designing, commissioning and operating control rooms
Obtaining wider support for CCS by emphasising its importance in decarbonising numerous industrie...
In the run up to IChemE Advances in Process Automation and Control (APAC) conference, Chris Hamli...
Andrew Hopkins AFIChemE; ISBN: 9781925894158; Wolters Kluwer; 2019; £57.22
Stephen Drew reports on why classic pinch technology used in the NZ food industry is just as vali...
Smarter testing for powder development in the dairy industry
Reactor modelling reveals that pharma developers could use CSTRs to perform commercial-scale oper...
Demystifying the art of successful commissioning
Amanda Doyle speaks to Amrit Chandan, CEO of Aceleron, about the company’s battery pack design wh...
Keith Plumb gives an overview of batch heat transfer
Ruby Ray and Fabio Ruggeri describe an innovative process to produce substitute natural gas – a s...
Sean Loughney asks how safety in the offshore industry might be improved via automation
Glen Corder and Artem Golev look at the mining industry’s role in a circular economy
John Blackie; ISBN: 978-1-9993700-0-8; Dyes Publishing; 2019; £15
Andrew Ogden-Swift reviews the pressing challenges
Australia's Chief Scientist Alan Finkel and Orica's Belinda Grealy speak to Rachael Fraser about ...
Adrian Tombling explains why drug developers need AI
Tom Baxter shares more options for chemical engineers to boost energy efficiencies
IChemE President Ken Rivers explains the purpose of Strategy 2024 and why it is fundamental to t...
Barry Perlmutter explains developments in containment for eliminating worker exposure during soli...
Gordon Varney and Lydia Gaunt explain how to select pumps in the water, wastewater and sewage in...
Velocys is a company that has developed technology to convert feedstocks such as household waste ...
C-Capture started as a spin-out from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Leeds, UK i...
AT a webinar hosted by IChemE’s Process Management and Control Special Interest Group (PMCSIG), D...
How atmospheric gases will be key to future additive manufacturing.
Robert Eden discusses thermal stripping in Hong Kong
Hydrogen is recognised as a high purity premium product. Andy Brown describes some of its many ...
A guide to selecting level measurement systems, from Alan Hunt
Andrew Coe and James Paterson explain developments on part of the solution to the dual energy cha...
Mark Yates charts the development of Apollo’s portable life support system
The first shipment of liquified natural gas (LNG) has sailed from Shell’s Prelude floating LNG (F...
TWO IChemE members, as part of an engineering team, have been awarded the Royal Academy of Engine...
Adam Duckett says Government must stand strong with British Steel
The UK’s Royal Mail has revealed ten new special stamps which feature “marvels” of British engine...
Andy Brown looks at the options and challenges of moving hydrogen from A to B in bulk
How do you dismantle a chemical plant for re-erection at the other side of the world? Richard Van...
James Finn describes the development of an award-winning setup for sterile filtration of APIs
David Simmonds explains the challenges of pursuing major projects sustainably
Digitisation is helping to improve predictive intelligence and transform asset management, says M...
Michael Dixey and Pete Hibbs outline ways to optimise preventive maintenance routines
David Bowers explains how to keep compressed air use under control
Barry Perlmutter explains automated clarification technologies
Amanda Doyle visits SaMI to learn about the next steps for steel research
INDUSTRY will not achieve environmentally sound management of chemicals and waste by 2020 without...
Roderick Stanley explains industry efforts towards leak-free valves
Massimiliano Materazzi and Richard Taylor discuss the promise of a bio-substitute for natural gas
Jason Ornstein, Ray Ozdemir & Anne Boehme on adapting failed automotive capture technology for ...
Producing hydrogen with carbon capture via the Low Carbon Hydrogen (LCH) process
We should sell Lean Manufacturing to the food industry, says Ian Madden
THE cheap, abundant and seemingly limitless energy supply of the 20th Century driven by fossil fu...
Why is it that the introduction of innovative process technologies appears to be so slow in the p...
Imagine if heat exchange of process fluids in an industrial setting was as simple as boiling a ju...
As a follow up to the feature “Energy Saviours” (issue 927, September 2018), this article explore...
Adam Duckett speaks to chemical engineer Bill Grieco, CEO of the RAPID Manufacturing Institute, a...
It is increasingly important for companies to maximise the sustainability of their manufacturing ...
Process simulation software has become almost universal in the chemical engineering sector, and m...
Why operators turn advanced controls off (and how to prevent them from doing so)
Amanda Jasi reviews the winners of IChemE's annual awards programme
Adam Duckett speaks to engineers, schoolchildren and teachers who took part in the UK government’...
The challenge for chemical engineers of producing graphene at scale
It is crucial that organisations do not allow cybersecurity and operational digitisation projects...
Filtration is often overlooked during the development of new processes, but at what cost?
Amanda Doyle travels to Norway on a CCS safari
The potential of algae to recover valuable resources from waste could transform the traditional w...
Starting a learned society chain reaction
Are today’s methods of grading and selecting our graduate chemengers lacking?
Increasing chemical engineering contributions to sustainable policy development: an Australian ...
The one challenge that engineers of all stripes need to deal with is material selection.
Ahead of our coming webinar on 9 October, the presenters from JMP and GSK discuss using data to i...
Class of ’82: a chemical engineering cohort study
Improving the employability of chemical engineers
Bringing multi-product distilling to Australia
There is a new player in the wastewater process sector, re-writing the rules of the game
How 3D printing of reactors can help chemical engineers with process intensification
Back to basics on theory and equipment
One radar level gauge can provide two separate and independent layers of protection
Standard routines and their place in continuous improvement
Bryden Wood is a technology and design company that designs residential, commercial, and process ...
Why we should give more thought to these versatile, durable valves
Tips for selecting a pumping system for chemical treatment and comparing different dosing systems
Preventing asset failure in the refining industry using machine learning
20 years on from Australia’s infamous gas explosion, what have we learned, and what should we do ...
How to stay on budget with large, complex projects
Ways for operations and design engineers to boost efficiencies
Mag Sim of Pure Earth takes us inside the collaborative effort that cleaned up a polluted industr...
Can novel uses of blockchain technology in the chemical and process industries justify its cost?
A future where plants will monitor, diagnose potential issues, and even schedule a fix is not far...
Not all parts of a process safety management system are of equal importance
Ahead of our coming webinar on 19 June, Stan Higgins says we are not getting the value from our d...
The University of Cambridge’s new chemical engineering and biotechnology building is open for b...
Adam Duckett reports from the launch of the University of Sheffield’s new continuous powder proce...
Innovation is needed to develop systems to identify problems before they occur
Effective communication a key theme as experts gather to discuss safety
How reverse mentoring is bridging the generational skills gap while encouraging fresh thinking
Cyber attacks on industrial control systems are increasing. What can you do?
Building the UK’s first captured-carbon polymerisation plant
An insider’s view of the technical challenges overcome at the pioneering Boundary Dam CCS project...
How landfill might be the better option for disposal of low-grade plastics
H21: why we need bold thinking for a greener, cleaner, low-cost future
An overview of the scientific and technical challenges that have surfaced because of shale gas
How advanced level measurement technology increases plant efficiency and safety
Getting around the limitations of battery devices with clever ways of teaming different technolo...
Adam Duckett discusses siloed operations
Claudia Flavell-While charts the rise of business giant (and chemical engineer) Jack Welch
Why considered, informed, respectful dialogue is needed
A solution to the world’s plastic problem could be right under our feet. Toby McCartney, MacRebur...
How chemical engineering developed in Nigeria
How an award-winning ensilication technology could remove the need to refrigerate life-saving vac...
Technology transfer: how digital trends in the consumer market might benefit process plant operat...
Expert observations of demolition dangers and how to avoid them
Energy company SolarReserve has announced that it has received developmental approval for its 150...
Adam Duckett says it is time to get nimble and experiment
How augmented reality is ticking all the boxes for the process sector. Simon Clarke, Director at ...
Mobilising chemical engineering resources to mitigate drought
Chemical engineers: start answering climate change questions now
What’s coming, and why the process industries will have to be more nimble. Simon Coombs, Managing...
The promise of AI for industrial automation
Ancient methodologies, such as fermentation and cold pressing, are finding new uses in natural co...
FBP journal – a new avenue for the research
The BioFutures Programme will address the opportunities and challenges faced by the chemical engi...
An argument for using insulation rather than fixed firewater deluge to protect bulk LPG storage t...
Next-generation batch technologies drive productivity and profitability
The route from coffee waste to biofuel: Dickon Posnett, Argent Energy Director of Corporate Affai...
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
Funding up for grabs for Anglo-French projects
A new hazard identification methodology can identify creeping changes, potentially averting catas...
STUNNING 3D images that show the effect of electric fields on ionic winds flowing from a flame co...
Managing the safe discharge of active pharmaceutical ingredients during drug production
What should we do to prevent the next process safety catastophe?
THE appointment this week of a new head of decommissioning at the UK’s Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) ...
THE Scottish government’s recent announcement on fracking was no surprise. No amount of evidence-...
Insights on how a major employer of engineers handles its graduate recruitment process.
Why energy efficiency is a much smarter way of reducing carbon and other harmful air emissions th...
A review of incident trends reveals ways to reduce risks to production
Joan Cordiner, Technical and Change Manager, Syngenta Houston speaks to Helen Tunnicliffe
Introducing the ‘watermelon’ effect, where process safety performance metrics appear ‘green’ sugg...
Every production process has inherent risks. Cyber criminality is now one of these risks.
Why we must harness the power of horizontal innovation in the formulation sector
Connected technologies offer the potential to achieve a step change for industrial markets akin t...
Rethinking the PhD – and your perceptions
Quality by design must be viewed as an opportunity, not as a regulatory burden
Scotland’s first ever commercial goldmine proves that precious metals can be worth more than thei...
Evonik's chief digital officer discusses his expectations for digitalisation at the specialty che...
Adam Duckett on ushering in a new era
A crystal ball view of the chemical process industry
The next big breakthrough in chemical process technology will only be achieved by adopting a rigo...
Following a push by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to accelerate cleaner hydrogen ...
THE UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) says that the country is not on track to achieve its “amb...
An industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant has been opened by Tata Chemicals Europe in No...
ENERGY major BP has agreed to acquire a 40.5% stake in and operate the Asian Renewable Energy Hub...
TotalEnergies has signed a deal to acquire a 25% stake in Adani New Industries Limited (ANIL), to...
CCUS platform 1PointFive and technology company Carbon Engineering have announced a deployment ap...
Freeport LNG, which shut down after a fire earlier this month, has announced that its Texas, US p...
At least eight people are injured, and six others are missing after an explosion at a chemical fa...
BY 2030, Shell aims to increase its supply of UK oil and gas demand to 15% while reducing emissio...
CARBON dioxide removal firm C-Capture has announced the launch of a national project that capture...
The Materials Processing Institute (MPI) has announced it is leading a national project to demons...
THE Australian Government has announced a €555m (US$579.9m) settlement with France’s majority sta...
ONE of the US’s largest LNG export facilities has shutdown after a fire, raising supply concerns ...
CF FERTILISERS UK is proposing permanent closure of its Ince manufacturing facility, near Chester...
THE UK Government is conducting a full national security assessment of a Chinese-owned subsidiary...
ENGINEERING group Jacobs has designed and built a remotely-operated robot to collect debris at th...
The UK Government has announced it is investing more than £31 m (US$38.9m) to help industry cut c...
CEMEX has officially opened its new Climafuel facility at its Rugby, UK cement plant. The plant, ...
WOODSIDE Energy has completed its merger with BHP’s oil and gas portfolio, creating a global ener...
RENEWABLE energy firm Drax is working with the University of Nottingham, UK and Promethean Partic...
SHELL and its joint-venture (JV) partner SGH Energy have taken a final investment decision (FID) ...
BP has joined forces with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and the country’s renewable ...
JOHNSON MATTHEY (JM) has sold its battery materials business and will focus more on hydrogen tech...
GLAXOSMITHKLINE (GSK) has announced it will buy biopharmaceutical company Affinivax, in a deal wo...
BP and Linde plan to advance a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Texas that will ...
ULSTER University, UK is leading a new £50m (US$62.9m) data innovation hub and testbed expected t...
TEESSIDE is set to host the first plant in the UK to produce a drop-in fuel called rDME that is p...
THE US is investing US$3.5bn to create four large-scale direct air capture (DAC) hubs to remove C...
€100m (US$107m) is needed for repairs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant following the Russian ...
THE COST the UK’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power station has risen again, this time by £3bn (US$3....
MEMBRANE reactors, chemical looping processes and thermochemical splitting of water by advanced n...
AUSTRALIA’S oil and gas trade group has said the country should develop new fields to boost energ...
AUSTRALIA’S University of New South Wales Sydney (UNSW) and University of Newcastle have received...
THE World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and sustainability consultancy Eng...
SCIENTISTS at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) have successfully shown that X-ray scanning ...
SHELL has signed an agreement to sell its Russian retail and lubricants businesses to Lukoil, one...
NEURIZER has selected Stamicarbon to deliver the process design package for front-end engineering...
THE UK Government has launched a £120m (US$149.8m) fund to unlock and accelerate new nuclear tech...
THE International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is developing a roadmap for the commercial producti...
THE UK Government has put energy at the centre of its legislative agenda as it announced a series...
BP has signed an agreement to purchase naphtha produced from a plant being built in Teesside, UK ...
A NOVEL reactor that neutralises methane emissions produced in coal mines will be trialled by Sou...
INEOS has awarded Técnicas Reunidas a contract to engineer a world-scale ethylene plant in Belgiu...
A TRIAL is underway at Ineos’s Grangemouth site to help determine how existing natural gas networ...
THE UK Government is extending a compensation scheme to help shield heavy industry from rising en...
BASF has announced that it will wind down its remaining activities in Russia and Belarus by the b...
ENGINEERS are building a pilot plant to electrify production of a clinker replacement that would ...
OIL major BP has plans to invest £18bn (US$22.5bn) in the UK’s energy system by the end of 2030, ...
CONSTRUCTION of a new £15m (US$18.9m) nuclear research facility is underway at Infinity Park Derb...
WITH dispersed industrial sites producing around half of UK industry emissions, an energy systems...
CEMEX has invested in Carbon Upcycling Technologies, which has developed technology that uses cli...
NUCLEAR experts have arrived at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant to help make it safe afte...
OIL and gas company Ithaca Energy is acquiring Siccar Point Energy in a deal worth up to US$1.46b...
CARBON Collect has unveiled its first “mechanical tree” for direct air capture at Arizona State U...
CEMEX, Sasol, and ENERTRAG have set up the Concrete Chemicals consortium to produce sustainable a...
WOOD has announced that it will provide conceptual engineering for a large-scale green hydrogen p...
RWE Ireland has announced plans to invest up to €1.5bn (US$1.6bn) in onshore wind, offshore wind,...
SHELL and Uniper have signed an agreement for a blue hydrogen production facility in in North Lin...
AN international collaboration has been granted €3.4m (US$3.7m) in EU funding to accelerate the u...
ORICA and H2U have announced a strategic partnership to explore opportunities for an industrial-s...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it is assessing the possibility of a carbon capture and storage (CC...
AT the end of March, Cornish Lithium commissioned the UK’s first direct lithium extraction pilot ...
THE UK’s emergency vaccine manufacturing innovation centre (VMIC) has been sold to US manufacture...
THE British Compressed Air Society (BCAS) has launched a campaign to help companies cut their com...
ONE year after announcing its 2050 net zero target, BASF has outlined plans to continue its progr...
AS IT works to commercialise chemical recycling of plastic waste, Neste is conducting a feasibili...
THE UK Government has released its much-delayed Energy Security Strategy, which improves long-ter...
BP is developing educational programmes with Redcar & Cleveland College that will train people fo...
CRODA has been awarded £15.9m (US$20.8m) by the UK Government to increase the output of its plant...
AN oil storage depot has been set on fire in a Russian city north of the Ukrainian border. The lo...
AIRBORNE attacks on Saudi Aramco energy infrastructure demonstrate a threat to Saudi Arabia’s pro...
SHELL has been cleared to restart production at is major floating LNG facility Prelude.
A YEAR after agreeing to the North Sea Transition Deal with the oil and gas sector, UK Government...
WOODSIDE, LanzaTech, and ReCarbon have announced that they are collaborating on a carbon capture ...
SOLVAY has announced that it is reviewing plans to split into two independently-traded companies,...
AS part of its growth strategy, Saudi Aramco has announced that it will increase oil and gas prod...
UNIVERSITY of Birmingham spinout Rheality and investment company Clean Engineering have partnered...
BP and Aberdeen City Council have entered a joint venture to develop a hydrogen hub in the Scotti...
THE Australian Government has announced an updated strategy which it expects will make the nation...
EDF and Hynamics, a subsidiary of the EDF Group which specialises in hydrogen, have announced inv...
FLUOR has won the contract to engineer a chemical recycling demonstration plant for Itero in the ...
VIRIDOR has officially opened its £317m (US$417.3m), state-of-the-art, plastics recycling and was...
HYNET has launched a demonstration project at Unilever’s Port Sunlight site that is fuelling prod...
EVONIK, through its corporate venture capital unit, has invested an undisclosed amount in Laxxon ...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it is planning a hydrogen production plant and carbon capture and s...
NUCLEAR firm Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a non-binding agreement with Perma-Fix Envi...
ESSAR Oil UK and Progressive Energy joint-venture Vertex Hydrogen has unveiled a report detailing...
ONE HUNDRED and seventy-five nations have agreed to create a global treaty to end plastics pollut...
SHELL has announced it will stop buying Russian oil and gas following its contentious purchase of...
SANTOS has signed a memorandum of understanding with SK E&S, K-CCUS Association, CO2CRC, and Kore...
CHEVRON is buying biorefinery owner Renewable Energy Group (REG) in a US$3.15bn deal.
THE IPCC has said that human-caused climate change is already resulting in detrimental effects on...
RUSSIAN forces have shelled the site of Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant. A fire broke out a...
EXXONMOBIL has followed oil majors BP and Shell in committing to exit Russia following its invasi...
SHELL is quitting its joint ventures with Russia’s Gazprom following the invasion of Ukraine.
BP HAS announced that it will divest its stake in Russian state oil company Rosneft, following Ru...
THE UK Government has awarded £6.7m (US$8.9m) to projects across the country that are developing ...
PETRONAS Chemicals claims it will become Southeast Asia’s sole melamine producer after awarding a...
AUSTRALIAN energy providers AGL and Origin Energy have announced the early closures of coal-fired...
ENI UK has achieved 19 memorandums of understanding (MoUs), with as many companies interested in ...
LINDE has entered into an agreement with BASF for the supply of hydrogen to a BASF manufacturing ...
TECHNOLOGY licensor Shell Catalysts and Technologies has announced it will provide the Humber Zer...
THE Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has ordered that the UK’s only shale gas wells must now be sealed.
ESSAR Oil has announced plans for a £45m (US$54m) hydrogen furnace at Stanlow refinery, Ellesmere...
THE Irish Government has launched the Irish Innovation Seed Fund (IISF), which will invest potent...
ICHEME’S inaugural Junior Sargent Medal has been awarded to Fani Boukouvala for her development o...
ENGINEERS at Coolbrook and ABB have set their sights on replacing steam cracking technology with ...
FUSION researchers have achieved a record-breaking sustained burst of energy that they say is the...
BP has acquired 30% of Green Biofuels (GBF), the UK’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable ...
OIL & Gas UK (OGUK) is changing its name to Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) and expanding to include ...
THE Australian Government has backed the Yangibana rare earths mine in the Gascoyne region of Wes...
INEOS is inviting major engineering design contractors to tender for the next stage of the design...
WOOD has been appointed as Owner’s Engineer by Green Lithium and will build and operate what is e...
UK industry has reached an updated agreement to ensure supplies of CO2 keep flowing as a trade gr...
LINDE has started up its full-scale pilot plant for extracting hydrogen from natural gas pipeline...
EXXONMOBIL is developing emission-reduction roadmaps for its major facilities and assets, which w...
WOODSIDE has entered into front-end engineering design on its H2OK project, after awarding a cont...
THE UK Government has invested £100m (US$135m) in the proposed Sizewell C nuclear power plant, wi...
LG CHEM has invested in Mura Technology’s plastic recycling process, and has also announced that ...
BP has formed a strategic partnership with Oman for a ‘multiple gigawatt’ renewable energy and hy...
EQUINOR has submitted plans for its proposed Humber hydrogen production facility to the UK Govern...
THE Victorian Government in Australia has announced more than A$7m (US$5m) in funding for the sta...
MCDERMOTT and Australia’s national science research agency CSIRO are working together to evaluate...
YARA and Lantmännen have signed a commercial agreement to produce fossil-free fertilisers.
INEOS Olefins and Polymers (O&P) has announced that it is joining the NEXTLOOPP project, which is...
THE UK Government has launched a £5m (US$6.8m) funding programme to support development of new te...
THE Scottish Government has provided £80m (US$109m) in investment for the Scottish Cluster carbon...
GSK has declined three “unsolicited” offers to acquire its consumer health business from Unilever...
THYSSENKRUPP has signed a contract with Shell to supply a 200 MW green hydrogen facility in the p...
VEOLIA is building its first electric vehicle battery recycling facility in the UK, with the capa...
PETRONAS and Shell have teamed up to study opportunities to collaborate on the use of carbon capt...
MCDERMOTT has been awarded a contract to provide topsides and pipelines that will help significan...
JOHNSON Matthey (JM) has launched a new reverse water gas shift technology called HyCOgen to prod...
A NEW nuclear reactor at the Shidaowan nuclear power plant in China has been connected to the gri...
ROLLS-ROYCE has announced that it has received £85m (US$115m) of investment for its small modular...
INDUSTRY workers and researchers from across the steel sector gathered for the virtual bi-annual ...
TWO multimillion-pound frameworks will see experts join the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to...
INEOS and its JV company Petroineos will work with recycling technology company Plastic Energy on...
ENGINEERS have hit out at the UK Government’s reported plans to sell off the country’s emergency ...
WHETHER it’s serious engineering lessons and insights on career opportunities, or irreverent quer...
WOOD has secured a new front end engineering design (FEED) contract with Saudi Aramco to deliver ...
ICHEME has updated its accreditation guidance for chemical engineering degree programmes and publ...
MERCURY Renewables has announced plans for a €200m (US$226m) green hydrogen facility in Mayo, Ire...
THE UK Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has awarded three projects a share of £1m (US$1.3m) for the ad...
PHILLIPS 66 will supply sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to British Airways (BA), under a new supp...
FOLLOWING Shell’s decision to pull out of the controversial Cambo oilfield last week, developer S...
ENGIE, Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG), and Fluence have partnered to deliver a large-sc...
SHELL has temporarily halted production at its major floating LNG facility Prelude, after an elec...
THE UK Government has said that it will launch a consultation next year on the UK REACH chemicals...
SHELL has pulled out of the Cambo oilfield project, saying that the economic case for investment ...
HYDROGEN UK is calling on the Government to ramp up support for the hydrogen industry in order to...
JOHNSON & Johnson and multinational specialty pharmaceutical company Aspen Pharmacare have reache...
VALNEVA and biotech company IDT Biologika are collaborating to produce Valneva’s inactivated Covi...
INEOS Forties Pipeline System (FPS) has deployed AI technology to enable it to further reduce emi...
AS PART of its “gas-led recovery”, the Australian Government has released the first full National...
The European Commission (EC) has selected seven large-scale clean-tech projects for funding that ...
THE UK Government has announced £11.3m (US$15.1m) in funding for distilleries to help them cut em...
BP has announced plans for a large-scale green hydrogen facility known as HyGreen Teesside.
GROWING sugar beet in Scotland and processing it at a new biorefinery could help the country beco...
THE UK Government has backed the construction of an electrolyser in Scotland that will be integra...
A PLASTICS factory near Hull in the UK has been destroyed by a fire.
SHELL will build a new pyrolysis oil upgrader unit at its Pulau Bukom site in Singapore as part o...
BILL GATES’ nuclear reactor company plans to build its first sodium fast reactor at the site of a...
WOODSIDE has approved a US$12bn investment in the Scarborough gas field and expansion of its Plut...
RAY SINNOTT, who had a profound impact on chemical engineers through the book Chemical Engineerin...
ADVANCED BIOFUEL SOLUTIONS (ABSL) has signed an agreement with biofuels supplier Greenergy to con...
ROYAL Dutch Shell (“Shell”) plans to move its headquarters to the UK as it seeks to simplify its ...
WOODSIDE has sold a 49% stake in its venture to add a new LNG train to its Pluto plant in Western...
PETROFAC has been awarded a US$96m contract by Petronas to build a new gas plant onshore at Tanju...
ROLLS-ROYCE is moving ahead with plans to develop small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) and has e...
JOHNSON & Johnson has announced that it plans to separate its Consumer Health business, leaving t...
JOHNSON MATTHEY (JM) is quitting its battery materials business after concluding the costs are to...
SPECIALTY chemicals firm Solenis has merged with Sigura following its completed sale by BASF.
PLASTIC ENERGY has partnered with engineering services firm Axens to license its plastics recycli...
EXXONMOBIL and Petronas are working together to explore opportunities for carbon capture and stor...
23 student-led teams have won the first US$5m portion of the US$100m carbon removal prize launche...
SHELL and energy technology company Baker Hughes have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) ...
BUILDING materials company Cemex has appointed clean-tech company Carbon Clean to work on the fro...
NOVALITH Technologies has raised A$2.5m (US$3.4m) of seed funding that will finance build-out and...
ONE-OFF investment in wet processors for simple, practical improvements could lower environmental...
CARBON Recycling International (CRI) has agreed to design a plant to produce methanol from captur...
SABIC is investing £850m (US$1.16bn) to restart its hydrocarbon cracker in Wilton, Teesside, UK, ...
SANTOS and joint-venture partner Beach Energy have announced a final investment decision on the A...
SOLVAY has announced its plans for achieving carbon neutrality before 2050, building on 2030 targ...
CARBON Clean, an industrial carbon capture company, has launched what it says is the world’s smal...
A NEW £20m (US$27.6m) facility has been launched in South Wales, which is expected to set the reg...
CCUS Council outlines plans to conduct supply chain capability assessment
Experts welcome UK plans to build fusion demonstrator
INEOS will invest more than €2bn (US$2.32bn) in electrolysis projects for green hydrogen producti...
SAUDI Arabia – one of the world’s largest oil producers – has committed to net zero emissions by ...
A FEASIBILITY study published by the South African Government and partners has identified nine pr...
WOOD and technology company Honeywell have announced that they will combine green refining and hy...
A WASTEWATER treatment process that uses bacteria immobilised in plastic lenses has been awarded ...
THE UK Government has outlined how it plans to reach net zero by 2050 in its Net Zero Strategy. T...
AN alliance of experts from across the water sector, including from IChemE, has issued a call to ...
NORWAY is set to host a demonstration plant that will use biotechnology to convert 10,000 t/y of ...
MAJOR producers of food, ceramics, glass, paper and cars – including PepsiCo and Jaguar Land Rove...
DOW plans to create the world’s first net-zero emissions ethylene and derivatives complex, throug...
REPSOL and Versalis have joined the Cracker of the Future consortium, which is working to develop...
INDUSTRY in north-west England has published a manifesto, calling on the UK Government to impleme...
INDUSTRIAL gas users in the UK have struck a short-term deal on the prices they pay for CO2 to ke...
AS both companies work to accelerate to a net zero emissions world, Shell has now added BASF’s So...
THE Australian Government has announced initiatives to encourage carbon capture, use, and storage...
U-BATTERY Ltd has unveiled a full-scale mockup of a first-of-a-kind advanced modular reactor (AMR...
IAN Shott, Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) and IChemE Fellow, has gifted the academy’s Enter...
THE Australian, UK, and US governments have announced a collaboration on nuclear-powered submarin...
ENERGY companies Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), BP, and Masdar have signed strategic par...
RESEARCHERS have developed a method to thoroughly assess the risks associated with fuel supply ch...
CARBON Clean has installed a carbon capture plant at a blast furnace owned by Tata Steel in India.
ELEVEN chemicals, energy, and power companies – including Chevron, Dow, ExxonMobil, and Ineos – a...
BIOPHARMACEUTICAL company Clean Cells has invested €13m (US$15.3m) in a new production facility i...
LG Chem and TK Chemical have announced a memorandum of understanding to produce biodegradable pla...
THE UK Government has been forced to step in and pay for industry to keep producing CO2 after a r...
ASTRAZENECA has announced that it is planning to build a new active pharmaceutical ingredient (AP...
THE Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has launched an investment plan setting out how it...
INEOS has announced plans to invest more than £1bn (US$1.4bn) towards reducing emissions at its s...
SHELL plans to build an 820,000 t/y biofuels facility in the Netherlands, which it claims will be...
SHELL has announced the sale of its Permian assets to ConocoPhillips for US$9.5bn.
CLIMEWORKS has started operations at the world’s largest direct air capture and CO2 storage facil...
HYDEPLOY has announced the first successful UK trial of blending hydrogen into the gas network.
JOHNSON Matthey has teamed up with waste-to-chemical technologies company MyRechemical to commerc...
TOTALENERGIES has signed an agreement with the Government of Iraq, and the country’s National Inv...
BIOTECHNOLOGY company LanzaTech and clean technology company Twelve – formerly Opus 12 – have joi...
WIND power company Siemens Gamesa has launched a “world first”, recyclable wind turbine blade for...
A SHORTAGE of chemicals used to treat wastewater in the UK has led the Environment Agency to rela...
ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing has introduced ExxonMobil Renewable Diesel (EMRD) process tech...
CANADIAN oil major Imperial Oil is advancing plans for a 1bn L/y renewable diesel complex at its ...
STYRENICS supplier Ineos Styrolution has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact, a collaborative initiativ...
THE UK Government has awarded £4m (US$5.5m) across 24 projects to increase biomass production tha...
A REPORT published by the Scottish Government, has recommended areas for research collaboration b...
GLENCORE and Britishvolt have signed an agreement for the mining company to supply responsibly-so...
LINDE has signed an agreement to supply green hydrogen to semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Tec...
A TRIAL has shown that a glass furnace can successfully be powered with hydrogen instead of natur...
RENEWABLE fuels company Raven SR has entered into an agreement with a Republic Services sanitary ...
MITSUBISHI Chemical Corporation (MCC) will develop a 20,000 t/y HydroPRS plastics recycling facil...
CARBON Clean and Green Power International (GPIPL) have been selected to design and build a carbo...
ARCELORMITTAL said it will use direct reduced iron (DRI) and Smart Carbon technologies to reduce ...
TOMAGO Aluminium, Australia’s largest aluminium smelter, is aiming to operate on 100% renewable e...
SEVEN UK-based organisations including Johnson Matthey have signed a memorandum of understanding ...
UK Export Finance (UKEF) has awarded the first ever green transition loan – worth £430m (US$585m)...
A STUDY by BP Australia has proved the technical feasibility of producing green hydrogen and ammo...
MODERNA has announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Canadian Government to build a...
PETRONAS has awarded energy consultancy Xodus the conceptual engineering design contract for the ...
BHP is exploring options to exit the oil and gas sector by merging its assets with Woodside.
THE Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) now has a wider remit that includes funding CCS an...
BAYER is acquiring biopharmaceutical company Vividion Therapeutics, which uses novel discovery te...
FACED with an increasingly complex and interconnected world, the Royal Academy of Engineering (RA...
METHACRYLATE manufacturer Rӧhm has partnered with engineering consultant Wood to launch a signifi...
BP has signed MoUs with four customers interested in using hydrogen produced at its proposed prod...
CHEMICAL engineers at MIT have genetically engineered yeast that are tolerant to toxic biorefinin...
PRIMETALS has successfully tested a pilot-scale process that promises several breakthroughs in th...
THE UK Environment Agency has published guidance on the best available techniques (BAT) for post-...
THE UK’s glass industry has said it faces a challenging road ahead in meeting net zero targets, a...
SANOFI will acquire its partner Translate Bio in a US$3.2bn deal to further develop mRNA vaccines...
THE UK Government has nationalised steel producer Sheffield Forgemasters to secure the supplies o...
ARCELORMITTAL and Sekisui Chemical have entered a partnership to capture CO2 from the steelmaking...
HIGH temperature gas nuclear reactors (HTGRs) could provide low-carbon process heat to help decar...
TWO workers have been killed by an acetic acid leak at a LyondellBasell plant in Texas, US.
AN EXPLOSION at a hazardous chemical disposal site in Germany has killed at least two people, wit...
NOURYON is investing in its Kromasil manufacturing facility in Bohus, Sweden, to help meet increa...
AN international consortium has announced plans to build a large-scale green fuels project in Wes...
PFIZER and BioNTech have signed a letter of intent with South African biopharmaceutical company B...
SIEMENS has started construction of an 8.75 MW “green” hydrogen plant in Germany, that is expecte...
THE Humber and Teesside industrial clusters have formed the East Coast Cluster, a collaboration t...
THE partners in the UK’s Acorn CCS project have signed three new memorandums of understanding (Mo...
PLATINUM Equity, an investment firm, is to acquire specialty chemicals company Solenis for US$5.2...
A COMMITTEE for the UK’s Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) says Gover...
SHELL has started operations at what it claims is Europe’s largest polymer electrolyte membrane (...
AN AGREEMENT has been made between the UK Government and EDF for the safe and efficient decommiss...
JOHNSON MATTHEY has announced targets to heavily focus its sales and R&D spend in line with UN Su...
RIO TINTO is investigating the technical implications of using hydrogen feedstock instead of natu...
SIEMENS and BioNTech say they will build a Covid-19 vaccine facility in Singapore, as part of eff...
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority has entered into an agreement with General Fusion, that will see t...
SCHLUMBERGER New Energy and Panasonic Energy of North America (PENA) have entered a collaborative...
A REPORT by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has found that UK clean steel develop...
DOW has announced that it will build a new methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) facility in Texa...
GIDARA Energy has announced that it will construct an advanced biofuels facility in Amsterdam tha...
AIR Products has announced a multibillion-dollar plan for a “landmark”, world-scale net-zero hydr...
THE controversial Keystone XL pipeline has been formally scrapped, ending a decades-long struggle...
DRAX has entered into carbon capture agreements with services company Bechtel, and industrial fir...
THE Australian Government has announced six winners of a A$50m (US$38.7m) carbon capture fund. Th...
AIR Liquide Engineering & Construction has signed a contract with Zeeland Refinery for a carbon c...
THE UK’s Dungeness B nuclear power station will begin decommissioning activities some seven years...
HEIDELBERGCEMENT plans to retrofit its plant in Sweden to capture 1.8m t/y of CO2, and become wha...
MALAYSIA’s state of Sarawak is pressing ahead with the construction of its first methanol plant, ...
ABU Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has awarded a contract for Wood to design a 'blue' ammonia...
PEEL NRE has announced plans to develop a waste plastic to hydrogen facility in West Dunbartonshi...
TOTAL has changed its name to TotalEnergies, to reflect its transformation from an oil and gas ma...
CIMAREX Energy and Cabot Oil & Gas have announced that they will combine, in an all-stock merger ...
NEW ZEALAND’S sole refinery is another step closer to being converted into an import terminal aft...
CARBONBUILT has announced that it has entered into a purchase agreement with financial services a...
SPECIALITY chemicals company Grace has completed the expansion of its manufacturing plant in Kuan...
A MEMORANDUM of understanding has been signed by a group of partners for a development study on t...
AS PART of its 2021–22 Budget, the Australian Government is investing up to A$600m (US$464.3m) to...
A CONSORTIUM has outlined proposals to create a ‘hydrogen valley’ in the Hunter Valley region of ...
LIXEA has received a grant of €2m (US$2.4m) from the European Innovation Council Fund to support ...
A CROSS-SECTOR group of Scottish industrial CO2 emitters, along with the Acorn CCS and Hydrogen p...
BP and building materials company CEMEX have partnered to accelerate progress of CEMEX’s ambition...
A PARTNERSHIP between Unilever, LanzaTech, and India Glycols has commercialised what they claim i...
UNILEVER, Croda and Crown Paints have joined a taskforce convened by the Royal Society of Chemist...
AFTER a five-day shutdown, operator Colonial Pipeline Company (CPC) has restarted operations at i...
SOLVAY says its soda ash plant in Rheinberg, Germany will become the first in the world to use 10...
AKER SOLUTIONS has won a contract to design a plant in Norway that will use renewable power, wate...
MCDERMOTT has announced that it has been awarded a front end engineering design (FEED) contract f...
CARBON Clean has announced three new agreements with power-to-fuels, cement, and hydrogen product...
AFRICAN-based energy group Engen has announced that it will be progressing plans to convert its 1...
SHELL has entered a collaboration which will trial the use of hydrogen fuel cells on ships in Sin...
PENDING discussions with employees, renewable materials company Stora Enso plans to permanently c...
RESEARCHERS in Canada and the UK have developed a coating for commercially-available sponges that...
SUPPORTING global supply demand, Sanofi will help Moderna manufacture up to 200m doses of the bio...
SPECIALTY materials company Arkema has said despite challenges from the pandemic it is on track t...
AIR Products has announced that it has acquired the remaining 50% stake in a gasification joint v...
JACOBS is going to provide “cutting-edge” technical support to two companies as they continue to ...
ON 28 April, The Chemical Engineer hosted a webinar about using data analytics to design the most...
AUSTRALIA’s budget for this fiscal year will see it invest A$539.2m (US$416.6m) in hydrogen and c...
THE Japanese Government will allow TEPCO to discharge treated wastewater stored at the Fukushima ...
ENERGY companies Equinor and SSE Thermal have unveiled plans to jointly develop two projects incl...
SOUTH Australia has agreed a A$1bn (US$770m) investment with the Federal Government that includes...
WOOD and NEL Hydrogen have signed an agreement to support the delivery of large-scale green hydro...
VEOLIA has agreed a deal to buy its rival Suez, ending a fraught takeover battle that merges the ...
LANXESS is taking its first step into the battery chemistry market through a deal to manufacture ...
SANTOS has sanctioned a US$3.6bn investment in the Barossa gas project off Australia’s Northern T...
A R1.5bn (US$102m) investment fund has been launched in South Africa to boost investment in the c...
WOOD has announced a decade of action with new goals to improve lives, reduce impact on the plane...
BASF has raised its climate goals and now aims to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
COVESTRO has begun to pilot a chemical process to recycle the foam from used mattresses. If succe...
WOOD and advanced recycling company ReNew ELP have partnered to build the world’s first commercia...
THE Australian Government has announced that funding is now available for recycling and clean ene...
ENI’s new biomass treatment unit (BTU) has begun production at its site in Gela, Italy.
PLASTIC ENERGY has agreed another partnership with an industry heavyweight – this time ExxonMobil...
FONTERRA – New Zealand’s huge dairy cooperative – has come out in support of plans to end coal us...
INEOS Energy has announced that it is selling its oil and gas business in Norway to PGNiG Upstrea...
GSK, Novavax, and the UK Government Vaccines Taskforce have reached an agreement in principle for...
AN EXPLOSION, which occurred at 00:45 local time on 29 March at an Indonesian refinery, has serio...
6 May will see the first round of a new £40m (US$55.2m) collaborative competition expected to enc...
THE UK oil and gas industry has come to an agreement with the UK government over how the industry...
BASF, SABIC and Linde aim to construct a multi-megawatt plant to demonstrate that steam crackers ...
THE UK Government has released its Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy, outlining its plans to re...
BP is planning to build a 1 GW hydrogen production project in Teesside, UK, that would meet 20% o...
DUPONT has agreed to buy Laird Performance Materials for US$2.3bn.
JACOBS and its supporting partners have been awarded a six year contract, worth an estimated US$1...
Petronas and Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) have signed a memorandum of unders...
CLIMEWORKS and Northern Lights have agreed to explore the possibility of capturing CO2 using dire...
ICHEME President Stephen Richardson has recommended to a House of Lords select committee that sys...
AUSTRALIA’S Yallourn coal-fired power plant, which meets 20% of electricity demand in Victoria, w...
SABIC and BP are working together to produce recycled plastics at the Gelsenkirchen chemical comp...
NOVARTIS has signed an agreement to manufacture CureVac’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate at its site ...
CONCERNS have been raised over a stockpile of hazardous waste at Rio Tinto’s Tiwai Point aluminiu...
THE Australian Government has opened the A$50m (US$38.5m) Carbon Capture, Use, and Storage Develo...
E10 fuel – petrol blended with 10% bioethanol – is set to be introduced in the UK in September.
WASTE-to-fuel company Fulcrum BioEnergy, along with Essar Oil UK and its subsidiary Stanlow Termi...
CIVIL engineering is now underway for a first-of-its-kind 110,000 t/y carbon dioxide (CO2)-to-met...
DRAX has decided to abandon a controversial plan to build Europe’s biggest gas-fired power plant,...
EQUINOR and Engie have announced a partnership for the development of low-carbon hydrogen.
GSK is closing two UK antibiotics manufacturing operations, in Barnard Castle and Ulverston.
FOURTEEN companies have won contracts in a £3.9m (US$5.5m) competition aimed at developing a wast...
A RESEARCH consortium led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia is invest...
CEMEX has been awarded a grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a pilot carbon c...
RIO Tinto has launched a sustainability label that will ensure transparency and traceability for ...
VELOCYS has signed a collaboration agreement with Toyo Engineering to produce renewable fuels in ...
EXXONMOBIL has created a new business unit to commercialise its low-carbon portfolio, which it is...
SWINBURNE University of Technology in Australia has received A$10m (US$7.8m) from the Victorian G...
BP and Rosneft have signed a strategic collaboration agreement to focus on their carbon managemen...
OIL and gas major Shell has set out a strategy for achieving net zero energy transformation by 20...
EXXONMOBIL is closing its Altona refinery in Victoria, Australia. The decision comes hot on the h...
THE UK Government is offering £40m (US$56m) in funding for energy-intensive companies to conduct ...
A NETWORK of hydrogen technology clusters is to be established across Australia with the aim of c...
A SURVEY by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has found that 93% of engineering...
MINING giant Vale and Brazilian authorities have agreed on a global settlement of about R$37.69bn...
WITH Covid-19 vaccine manufacture making headlines for all the wrong reasons, I spoke with expert...
A DUTCH appeals court has ruled that Shell is responsible for the consequences of oil spills in t...
LINDE has announced that it will build a new 24 MW electrolyser for the production of green hydro...
Businesses and industry groups warn of costly administrative burdens and the impacts on supply ch...
THE US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans for US$160m of federal funding aimed at dec...
CHEVRON is investing in Blue Planet, a startup that captures CO2 and uses it to develop carbonate...
A COMPETITION has been launched in England and Wales to seek innovative responses to challenges i...
CPI, an independent technology centre, has announced the launch of a programme aiming to support ...
KBR has signed an agreement with Mura Technology under which KBR will be an exclusive licencing p...
SHELL has withdrawn from a collaboration with Velocys and British Airways to develop the commerci...
WOOD has secured a contract with Sinopec Hainan Refining and Chemical to provide engineering, pro...
TOTAL has become the first oil major to leave the American Petroleum Institute (API), a trade ass...
Project partners Equinor, OGE, and thyssenkrupp Steel Europe have completed their joint feasibili...
RIO TINTO has reversed its plans to close its New Zealand aluminium smelter this August, agreeing...
SMALL modular nuclear reactors (SMR) could be twinned with wind power, in a project that has been...
SHELL has resumed production of LNG from its huge floating processing plant – Prelude – following...
SHELL is taking a 40% stake in a Canadian plant that will use Enerkem’s processing technology to ...
SOLVAY has sold its amphoteric surfactant manufacturing business, including production plants in ...
CUREVAC has agreed to work with Bayer to accelerate the development and supply of its Covid-19 va...
VEOLIA has announced that it has expanded its wood recycling and processing capacity by 50,000 t/...
BASF has completed the first phase of its push to double production of MDI at its integrated chem...
DUPONT Nutrition & Biosciences and global chemicals company Kemira have partnered to develop and ...
NESTE has acquired a minority stake in plastics recycling company Alterra Energy. The companies w...
THE UK Government has awarded a share of £8m (US$11m) to six regional projects to develop ways to...
BASF and Eramet, a global mining and metallurgy group, have signed an agreement to jointly assess...
DRAX has agreed to sell four combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power stations to electricity comp...
WITH the editorial team having shut down their laptops until 4 January, we wanted to close with a...
THE UK Government has released its long-awaited Energy White Paper on how the country’s energy sy...
THE Climate Change Committee (CCC), an independent body that advises the UK Government on climate...
AUSTRALIA’S Government has agreed to provide A$76.8m (US$59.5m) in funding in a bid to secure the...
ASTRAZENECA has agreed to buy US biotech firm Alexion for US$39bn in a move that will expand its ...
AUSTRALIAN energy company Transborders Energy has signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs)with ...
ENGINEERS from Air Liquide who are 3D printing reactors for the purpose of process intensificatio...
THE Danish Government has agreed to end all oil and gas exploration and extraction in the North S...
FOLLOWING three highly-encouraging Covid-19 vaccine trials, the light at the end of the tunnel su...
LYONDELLBASELL and SUEZ have jointly acquired plastics recycling company TIVACO, which will becom...
MINING company Vale has opened a pilot plant that will make products for civil construction using...
C-CAPTURE has announced that it will work alongside glass manufacturer Pilkington to assess the p...
SHELL has partnered with the Singapore Shell Employees’ Union (SSEU) to set up a council focussed...
FOLLOWING its announcement earlier this year that it was setting a target to be net zero by 2030,...
EXXONMOBIL has abandoned plans to sell its 50% stake in Bass Strait gas fields off Victoria, Aust...
PETRONAS has said it aspires to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, becoming the latest oil and g...
A PROCESS to chemically recycle plastic waste that cannot be mechanically recycled won IChemE’s t...
ENERGY infrastructure company Jemena has entered a partnership with Sydney Water to inject biomet...
SUEZ will explore developing a modular system to capture carbon dioxide from energy-to-waste plan...
RECENT funding, announced as part of the UK’s ten-point plan for an industrial revolution, will h...
SANTOS’ controversial A$3.6bn (US$2.64bn) Narrabri gas project has received environmental approva...
SHELL Catalysts & Technologies, which licenses technologies and brings capabilities to market, ha...
WOOD and industrial software company Cognite have partnered to accelerate industrial transformati...
BASF Petronas Chemical (BPC), a Malaysian-based joint-venture (JV) between BASF and Petronas Chem...
MAJOR port group PD Port and Wentworth Clean Power (WCP) have entered an agreement for a project ...
UK PRIME Minister Boris Johnson has announced £12bn (US$15.87bn) in funding for a ten-point plan ...
MICROPORE Technologies has announced a licence agreement for its membrane technology with South K...
LINDE Engineering and Siemens Energy have entered a strategic partnership with the aim of acceler...
A PROJECT between Swansea University, UK, and Tata Steel will assess if a thermochemical heat sto...
US OIL and gas majors are lagging behind European rivals as companies seek to transition towards ...
INEOS has launched a new clean hydrogen business to develop capacity for clean hydrogen across Eu...
ENEOS has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sarawak Economic Development Company (S...
TAKING a step to achieving a fusion power plant, the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA’s) £55m ...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it will cut 1,900 US jobs as part of ongoing global efforts to achi...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released its factual update on the explosion that took pla...
PREEM’s refinery in Lysekil, Sweden, will be converted to produce renewable fuels.
BP will stop fuel production at its Kwinana Refinery in Western Australia and convert it to an im...
CHEMICALS companies are being urged to get going on key actions as the UK counts down to its new ...
SHELL and Linde have agreed to collaborate to commercialise low-carbon technology for the product...
CONSULTANCY WSP has been appointed as an advisory service for HyNet North West’s CO2 pipeline.
SOLVAY has started up its second dedicated plant for manufacture of sustainable bio-based solvent...
LYONDELLBASELL has released its 2020 Sustainability Report in which it sets the target of produci...
THE Australian and Singaporean governments have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance c...
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has invested £20m (US$26m) in four proposed plastic recycling p...
SERVICES company BES has been appointed to fit out the UK’s new Vaccine Manufacturing Innovation ...
BP, Eni, Equinor, National Grid, Shell and Total have formed the Northern Endurance Partnership (...
THE Australian Government has backed a green hydrogen and ammonia production facility in Western ...
CLEAN technology company Monolith Materials plans to build a large-scale carbon-free ammonia plan...
SHELL has said its huge floating LNG production plant – the Prelude FLNG facility – is not expect...
THE Australian Government and “struggling” oil refiners are in talks to secure a rescue package b...
COGENERATION of heat by new nuclear plants could help balance intermittent renewables and provide...
SCIENCE company Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced plans to expand sterile filling capacity f...
CLEAN Power Hydrogen (CPH2) has formed a joint venture to manufacture its membrane-free electroly...
SERIOUS consideration should be given to decontaminating and reusing PPE to alleviate shortages a...
BREAKWATER Energy Partners, which supplies water supply chain solutions to oilfields, has announc...
UK COMPANY Carbon8 Systems will run its first energy-from-waste (EfW) pilot project at an AVR sit...
EVONIK and Siemens have commissioned a pilot plant that uses microorganisms to convert water and ...
SASOL has sold half its stake in its Lake Charles petrochemicals complex in the US to LyondellBas...
TECHNOLOGY company Loop Industries and environmental services company SUEZ have announced that th...
CHRYSAOR has agreed a merger with Premier Oil to create the largest independent oil and gas compa...
CEMEX has signed an agreement with carbon capture tech company Carbon Clean that will see them jo...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it will cut 1,600 jobs in Europe as the oil industry struggles with...
DOW has announced it will close manufacturing sites in Europe and North America as it seeks to cu...
BP and Microsoft are working together to advance their net zero ambitions and the digital transfo...
WORLEY has been awarded an early front-end engineering and design (pre-FEED) contract for Drax’s ...
SHELL will cut 7,000 – 9,000 jobs as the company is reorganised to transition to a lower-carbon b...
SEEKING to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, Shell has announced that it will install new stat...
LYONDELLBASELL has started operation of a new pilot plant for a pyrolysis process that it is deve...
BASF has signed an agreement with New Energy, a Hungarian technology company which has developed ...
EUROPE’S chemicals industry trade body, Cefic, has called for the EU to use its rescue funding to...
THE Norwegian Government has committed 16.8bn NOK (US$1.8bn) to the full-scale carbon capture and...
INDUSTRY has to do more to ensure that it is learning lessons to help prevent it from repeating t...
IN what has been called a surprise announcement by multiple media outlets, Xi Jinping, President ...
EARLIER this month, ExxonMobil announced that it had launched a voluntary redundancy programme fo...
PALE Blue Dot has signed an agreement with Carbon Engineering to work together on deploying direc...
WOOD has secured a US$42m contract from Equinor to provide engineering, procurement, construction...
PETRONAS Chemicals Group (PCG) and German chemicals and energy company PCC have signed a shares s...
THE UK Government has published its response to a 2019 consultation on business models for carbon...
THE UK Government has launched a review into how it will license the offshore oil and gas industr...
HITACHI has announced that its UK subsidiary will cease development of its 5.8 GW UK nuclear proj...
ENERGY-RELATED CO2 emissions have peaked due to the pandemic, but the world is still on track to ...
THE Nuclear Industry Association (NIA), a UK trade association for civil nuclear industry, has re...
THE UK’s Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre has expanded its partners to include PSE, Siem...
EDF has brought back online reactor 3 of its nuclear power station Hunterston B after receiving a...
Oxy Low Carbon Ventures and private equity firm Rusheen Capital Management have formed a developm...
MSD, known as Merck & Co within the US and Canada, has selected to build its future US$1.32bn sta...
SHELL has announced that its manufacturing site in Pulau Bukom, Singapore, home of Singapore’s fi...
SPANISH energy company Repsol has produced the national market’s first batch of aviation biofuel....
CONCERNS have been raised by the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) that the lack of a clear hyd...
MOLTEX Energy, a nuclear energy company, has selected Jacobs to build a bespoke experimental faci...
BASF will release data on the carbon footprints of its entire portfolio of approximately 45,000 p...
PACKAGING company Sealed Air has announced a partnership with advanced recycling technology compa...
ENERGY Exploration Technologies (EnergyX) has announced a partnership with ProfMOF to further enh...
ON 7 August, Chevron was ordered to inspect critical equipment at its Gorgon LNG project in Austr...
ON 5 August, the Global Tailings Review (GTR) initiative established the first global standard fo...
AIR LIQUIDE is buying the world’s largest oxygen production site – from Sasol in South Africa – a...
SABIC’S polycarbonate facility in Cartagena, Spain, is set to become the world’s first large-scal...
AS technology company Apple seeks to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030, 71 of its suppliers have ...
BASF and industrial artificial intelligence (AI) company IntelliSense.io have announced the joint...
FOLLOWING its announcement in February to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner, BP has rev...
RIO Tinto has announced that it is winding down operations at its Tiwai Point aluminium smelter i...
AIR Products and Thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers have signed a strategic cooperation agreeme...
NOURYON has announced that it will construct a hydroperoxide manufacturing facility at its site i...
CARBON Recycling International (CRI) has successfully shown that its renewable methanol can be us...
INEOS has launched Ineos Hygienics as part of its pandemic response to produce hand gel and sanit...
REPAIRS are underway to resolve welding issues at Chevron’s Gorgon liquid natural gas (LNG) proje...
ACELERON has announced that it has received £2m (US$2.6m) in equity investment which will allow i...
OIL and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) has announced a target to reduce the collective average car...
NOURYON has completed a project to double the capacity for organic peroxides at a plant in Itupev...
THE UK Government has announced £350m (US$445m) in funding for a green recovery from the Covid-19...
CHEVRON has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire independent energy company Noble Energ...
THE European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Surveillance Authority has approved the Norwegian full...
EVONIK has developed a novel anion exchange membrane (AEM) that could contribute to commercial re...
SAUDI Aramco has announced that it is reorganising its downstream business as part of plans to en...
TECHNOLGY developer Avantium has awarded Worley the front-end engineering design (FEED) contract ...
CLARIANT and Ineratec have entered a partnership to use Clariant’s catalysis experience to suppor...
KEPPEL Data Centres and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Asia Pacific (MHI-AP) have signed a memorandu...
ATKINS has been awarded a contract for front end engineering design (FEED) of coolant loops for t...
THE EU Commission has launched a call for proposals for its €1bn (US$1.1bn) Innovation Fund for l...
BP and Reliance Industries have announced the start of their joint venture, Reliance BP Mobility ...
AUSTRALIA’S New South Wales government has backed Santos’ A$3.6bn (US$2.54bn) Narrabri gas develo...
ENVIRONMENTALISTS have criticised the Climate Action Plan released by Minerals Council Australia ...
GLENCORE is a step closer to having a new A$1.5bn (US$1.05bn) open-cut coal mine approved by Aust...
DOW has set a target to be carbon neutral by 2050 and that all the packaging its chemicals produc...
GOOGLE and WWF Sweden are partnering to create a data-driven platform to enable the fashion indus...
HIGHVIEW Power, a cryogenic energy storage company, has received £10m (US$12.3m) from the UK Gove...
CHEVRON is selling its stake in Australia’s North West Shelf, the county’s biggest liquified natu...
JOHNSON Matthey’s combined reforming methanol technology has been selected by JSC Technoleasing f...
THE UK’s Recycling Association has called for Government to support investment in UK paper and ca...
THREE partners have joined forces in Canada to demonstrate a 15 MW small modular reactor that wou...
RENEWI, Nordsol, and Shell have signed an agreement to build a plant to produce bio-based liquid ...
PETROFAC has been awarded a contract for engineering and project support for Pale Blue Dot Energy...
DRAX has announced that a new bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) pilot facility wi...
AIR Liquide Engineering & Construction has signed a contract to build an air separation unit for ...
BASF has announced that in 2021 it will close its manufacturing facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, w...
PHILLIPS 66, Uniper, and Vitol have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop Humber ...
AN explosion at an oilseed processing plant in the UK has injured three people.
SIEMENS has formed a partnership with process plant designer Exyte to quickly deliver turnkey bio...
A STUDY examining prospects for activity in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) has projected a sharp...
THE UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has signed a four-year, multimillion-pound framework agree...
GLOBAL engineering and consultancy company Wood has pledged to set a science-based target to redu...
THE Alberta Carbon Trunk Line (ACTL) in Canada is now fully operational as carbon capture begins ...
THE UK Government has unveiled its UK Emissions Trading System (ETS) for a carbon trading market ...
SAUDI Aramco has announced that it has successfully completed its acquisition of a 70% stake in p...
THE UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is now open for entries into its 2020 Emerging Technolo...
SUSTAINABLE fuels company Velocys has received further funding from the UK’s Department for Trans...
SPECIALTY chemicals producer Solenis has closed on its acquisition of ChemSystems’ paper business...
FOUR heat network projects have been awarded almost £25m (US$31.6m) of funding, in the third roun...
THE Hybrit initiative has taken another step towards the production of fossil-free steel in Swede...
AIR Products is to invest US$2bn as part of a long-term agreement for a world-scale coal-to-metha...
BP has announced that it will cut 10,000 jobs by the end of the year due to the economic impact o...
NORTH American cobalt company First Cobalt has announced a C$2.1m (US$1.6m) work programme as par...
DOXA Plast, a stretch film manufacturing company, is commercialising a family of bio-based high p...
SHELL, CNOOC, and the Huizhou Government have announced a cooperation agreement to expand their p...
A CONSORTIUM of seven companies is collaborating on a demonstration plant to produce sustainable ...
FLUOR has been awarded a FEED contract for Minnkota’s Project Tundra, a CCUS project in North Dak...
THE Australian Government is looking to deploy a A$2bn (US$1.32bn) fund to support adoption of te...
TOTAL has become the latest oil major, along with BP, Shell, and Repsol, to pledge to reach net z...
MICHELIN and Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) are planning to join forces to develop Enviro’s...
THE UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Hydrogen has called for submissions to inform an...
THE Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC) has received funding from the UK Governme...
FORTUM Oslo Varme’s Klemetsrud site in Oslo, Norway, has successfully validated carbon capture te...
THE engineering expertise of the UK’s gas network operators have joined forces to outline how to ...
AUSTRALIAN company Hunter Energy is to refire Redbank Power Station, a 151 MW coal plant in New S...
EVONIK is spending €25m (US$27.1m) on the first stage of a long-term project to increase contract...
THE UK Government has given funding to groups that are competing to develop the world’s first net...
MORE than 20 scientists, campaigners, and politicians have signed a letter in which they warned t...
ICHEME members are working with representatives of the wider engineering discipline to advise the...
VATTENFALL will design a heat network to supply more than 10,000 homes in London, using heat capt...
INTEGRATED chemicals and energy company Sasol has appointed Wood as its engineering partner in a ...
A US$130trn investment to 2050 could help to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2060, according t...
UP to A$300m (US$193m) will be made available for a new advancing hydrogen fund to support Austra...
US President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency over threats to the country’s power s...
LG CHEM is more than tripling its production of carbon nanotubes for the burgeoning electric vehi...
INEOS and recycling technology company Plastic Energy are collaborating to construct a new plant ...
ASTRAZENECA says it could begin production of a vaccine for Covid-19 by the end of the year after...
SOUTH African integrated energy and chemicals company Sasol has announced production cuts to help...
UPTO 30,000 jobs in the UK's oil and gas industry are at risk due to the coronavirus pandemic and...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalised changes to a rule that requires coal a...
A CONSORTIUM of three Japanese companies is to jointly research effective recycling of carbon dio...
EXXONMOBIL and the Global Center of Medical Innovation (GCMI) have initiated multi-sector and joi...
SYNTHETIC biology will develop over the next decade from creating niche, environmentally friendly...
FOLLOWING a decision last month to reduce capital spending by 20%, Shell has postponed a number o...
JACOBS has been awarded several contracts in fusion power, with an estimated value of more than U...
SPECIALIST plastic recycling technology provider Recycling Technologies has signed an agreement w...
WOOD has been appointed GSK’s capital delivery partner for the pharmaceutical company’s Ware site...
A NOVEL steam reforming catalyst, produced by Clariant, has proved successful in its first commer...
NET-ZERO goals and policies are needed to allow hydrogen to help address hard-to-abate greenhouse...
SHELL has announced that it aims to cut emissions from its operations to net zero by 2050 or soon...
CHEMICAL engineer Andrew Liveris, former CEO of Dow Chemical, has joined a commission established...
SHELL and PetroChina have approved the first stage of their A$10bn (US$6.3bn) Surat Basin coal-se...
WOODSIDE has joined a consortium to study exporting hydrogen as ammonia from Australia to Japan.
THE UK Government has today announced the formation of a new taskforce that will help prepare the...
OPEC has agreed to cut global oil output by around 10% in response to the coronavirus pandemic, e...
AROUND 6.6m t/y – or 26% – of Europe’s ethylene production capacity is threatened by reduced acti...
LIFE science company Bayer has boosted Germany’s coronavirus analysis capacity by several thousan...
ARKEMA is to exit the intermediate chemicals business as it seeks to realise its ambition of beco...
EXXONMOBIL is cutting capital spending this year by 30% and operating expenses by 15% in response...
SPECIALTY chemicals company Nouryon is to acquire the merchant triethyl aluminium (TEAL) business...
INEOS has extended plans to postpone the shutdown of the Forties oil pipeline which transports to...
THE UK risks a shortage in material for vital packaging needed to protect food and medical suppli...
AS part of a project to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) by turning it into pure carbon bl...
TEPCO, Japan’s largest power company group, has released a report which outlines two potential me...
SINGAPOREAN and Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi, have signed a memorandum of understandi...
WATER UK has announced that it will develop plans to achieve net zero emissions across the water ...
WOODSIDE says it will add a carbon capture project to its Browse gas project off the coast of Wes...
BP has announced that it will not be cutting any jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic.
INEOS is postponing the shutdown of the Forties oil pipeline which transports to shore around 40%...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced temporary policy that will allow non-c...
AUSTRALIA’s Victoria state Government is lifting a ban on conventional onshore gas development an...
INEOS has completed construction of two new hand sanitiser production plants in the UK and German...
A CONSORTIUM of life sciences companies including GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and Pfizer, is c...
NOURYON and Ineos Nitriles have started construction of new facilities in Germany that will produ...
NORWAY’S carbon capture research hub, Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM), has been given government...
Industry reacts to keep staff and plants running during pandemic
EARLIER this month, members of the new IChemE Malaysia Board paid a courtesy visit to Her Royal H...
IN its response to the coronavirus crisis, BP has said that it will ensure supplies of energy, fu...
INEOS has announced that it will start to make hand sanitiser and will build plants in the UK and...
ENERGY and services company ENGIE is to supply ‘green gas’ to Heathrow Airport, the major interna...
THE UK’s first plastic-to-hydrogen facility has received planning consent at a site near Ellesmer...
EXXONMOBIL has released an industry-wide model regulatory framework for methane, and urged stakeh...
ASAHI announced last year its intentions to acquire Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) and has now ...
BASF, Fortum and Nornickel are planning a recycling centre in Finland that would recover metals f...
RESEARCHERS have presented a new view of chemical and biochemical (C&B) engineering, which sees t...
AUSTRALIAN Gas Networks (AGN), which owns distribution networks across the country, is to constru...
FATALITIES and accidents at work are likely to increase, and a better understanding of engineerin...
A CONSORTIUM operated by BP is pitching for the UK Government to support the development of a net...
AN explosion at a small chemicals plant in Barcelona, Spain has killed one and injured 13 others,...
THE UK has confirmed in its budget today that it will invest £800m (US$1bn) in a carbon capture a...
SANTOS and BP have entered a non-binding agreement to support the Moomba carbon capture and stora...
SHELL, Gasunie, and Groningen Seaports have launched the NortH2 project, which aims to build a gr...
RIO Tinto has announced that it will spend US$1bn over the next five years to reduce its carbon f...
MINING giant Vale is to begin disposing of the mine tailings from the fatal collapse of one of it...
IN A report to mark its launch, the Hydrogen Taskforce – which involves energy majors Shell and B...
ACCORDING to Shell’s LNG Outlook 2020, published on 20 February, global demand for LNG is to doub...
UK ENGINEERING consultancy BPE has been bought by On Line Group, an integrated engineering servic...
EQUINOR has pulled out of controversial plans to drill for oil and gas in the Great Australian Bi...
BP HAS announced that it will leave the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), the...
FLUOR has been awarded a contract to provide engineering, procurement and construction for INVIST...
THE UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has awarded around £90m (...
UK Research and Innovation has appointed Mercedes Maroto-Valer, IChemE Fellow and Professor at He...
CARBON capture technology company Carbon Clean Solutions (CCSL) has announced the completion of a...
INEOS has signed an agreement to use naphtha derived from wood pulp processing to manufacture bio...
BASF and German startup JenaBatteries are cooperating to produce battery technology suitable for ...
BRAZILIAN mining giant Vale is to invest in technology to reduce tailings dam use and increase op...
SHELL has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Chinese petrochemicals manufacturing co...
NEW BP Chief Executive Bernard Looney has pledged that BP will reduce its emissions to net zero b...
SPECIALTY chemicals company Evonik and catalysis research institute Leibniz Institute for Catalys...
AN expert report says that 12 deaths are likely to occur over any five-year period within the Que...
ATKINS has been awarded a five-year contract to provide technical safety and human factors servic...
DRAX has announced a partnership with cleantech company Econic Technologies, to explore the poten...
A JOINT study will assess the viability of a commercial-scale carbon capture facility at LafargeH...
NOURYON has signed a framework agreement with Semiotic Labs to implement technology that will pre...
BRAZILIAN prosecutors have charged 16 people – including former Vale CEO Fabio Schvartsman – with...
THE oil and gas industry needs to “step up” climate change efforts, says the International Energy...
TIM Eggar, Chairman of the UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), has said the industry’s “social lice...
GULF Coast Ammonia (GCA), owned by a joint venture (JV) of Starwood Energy and Mabanaft, has reac...
INEOS Styrolution, a global styrenics supplier, is to build a 600,000 t/y greenfield acrylonitril...
BP is selling its North Sea interests in the Andrew area and its non-operating interests in the S...
DUPONT has bought out OxyMem, a wastewater technology company that was spun out of University Col...
THE UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) has announced funding for four new biofuel plants.
GLOBAL private equity firm Lone Star has signed a purchase agreement to acquire BASF’s Constructi...
THE UK’s first project to inject hydrogen into the gas grid is underway at Keele University.
PRINCE WILLIAM has launched a new initiative, billed as the world’s most prestigious environmenta...
NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has visited milk processing company Synlait for a tour ...
DRAX power station in North Yorkshire, UK, plans to become carbon negative by 2030 through its us...
STAKES in state-energy firm Petronas could be sold to Malaysia’s oil-producing states to raise mo...
SPAIN’S oil and gas firm Repsol has outlined plans to be carbon neutral by 2050.
SAUDI Aramco has raised US$25.6bn in its initial public offering (IPO), making it the world’s lar...
ENGINEERING biology must learn to communicate better if the breakout discipline is to achieve its...
THE UK Government is investing £18m (US$23m) in a partnership with industry led by Rolls Royce to...
UK oil and gas contractors have reported a significant increase in demand for their services from...
RESEARCHERS at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia have ...
HIGHVIEW Power, the designer and developer of the CRYOBattery, is to build what it claims will be...
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rescinded most of the Chemical Disaster Rule – w...
BRAZIL’s National Mining Agency (ANM) has released a technical report on the history of the taili...
ENERGY efficiency can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but with efficiency improvements slow...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised £800m (US$1.03bn) in funding for CCS along with doub...
CHINESE steel firm Jingye is buying British Steel’s business and assets, including its steelworks...
DRAX has strengthened its biomass sustainability policy and appointed an Independent Advisory Boa...
RESEARCHERS have shown for the first time that a cheap catalyst can be used to split water for hy...
A UK sustainable steel research network is offering up to £1m (US$1.3m) in funding for other rese...
SAUDI Aramco has announced its intention to proceed with its long-awaited public stock listing, w...
AN international team of researchers has, for the first time, shown that the carbon dioxide (CO2)...
THE UK Government has temporarily halted fracking on the basis of a new scientific study from the...
NESTE will provide its renewable propane to Borealis for production of polypropylene as part of a...
NOURYON has produced the first ethylene amines products at its demonstration plant in Stenungsund...
MURRAY Energy, the largest private coal miner in the US, has filed for bankruptcy as utilities co...
EVONIK and Siemens have launched the second phase of their joint research project Rheticus, in wh...
BREWING company Carlsberg has announced investment in a state-of-the-art water recycling plant th...
ENERGY Exploration Technologies (EnergyX) has developed a scalable lithium extraction process usi...
MINING giant Rio Tinto has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China’s largest steel ...
BASF will expand its ethylene oxide capacity at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium.
RAWWATER Engineering Company, which developed specialist alloys for the oil and gas industry that...
LINDE has developed a novel process to recover high-value products, including helium, from natura...
SOUTH Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has updated its Integrated Resou...
MORE than 100 public and private partners, including from the chemical sector, have signed the De...
OIL and gas company Petronas scooped four out of the eight trophies given at IChemE’s Malaysia Aw...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a factual update on the explosion and fire which ...
THE Fuel and Energy Research Forum held its Workshop on Combustion-related Research and the Inaug...
NRG, a nuclear research and consultation organisation, has reached a historic milestone in the de...
ENAPTER, which manufactures modular hydrogen electrolysers, has unveiled a new serial fabrication...
RENEWABLE fuels company Velocys has signed an agreement with Oxy Low Carbon Ventures (OLCV) to ca...
HUSKY Energy has received the required permit approvals to move forward with its more than US$400...
CHEVRON’s Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, one of the world’s largest LNG projects, co...
OIL and gas company ExxonMobil is to sell its 50% stake in its Bass Strait oil and gas assets, of...
WHITEHAVEN Coal, Australia’s largest independent coal producer, expects to survive a range of low...
NOURYON and Van Remmen UV Technology have teamed up to combine their technologies to remove pharm...
THE UK Government has announced £220m (US$271m) in funding for a nuclear fusion power station to ...
INEOS has announced that it is consulting with employees over the potential closure of its Seal S...
ERAMET, BASF, and SUEZ have partnered to develop an innovative closed-loop process to recycle lit...
CHINA-based Tianqi Lithium has halted work on the expansion of its lithium hydroxide refinery in ...
HUGH Morgan, owner of Comet Minerals, has announced a new process which could be used to extract ...
SPECIALTY chemicals company Clariant has opened a new High-Throughput Experimentation (HTE) Labor...
EXXONMOBIL has signed an agreement with Vår Energi to sell its upstream assets in Norway for US$4...
EQUINOR has signed a memorandum of understanding with seven European companies to develop value c...
CLIMEWORKS has announced that it has acquired Antecy, combining the technology of the two direct ...
THE Australian minerals industry has released a communiqué, which reinforces its position as a gl...
FRACKING at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site in Lancashire, UK, will remain suspended until a fu...
LYONDELLBASELL has signed a memorandum of understanding for a joint venture with Liaoning Bora En...
FRASER Whineray, CEO of state-owned energy company Mercury, has been appointed as the new chairpe...
SIX companies with European petrochemical operations have established a consortium that will join...
EXXONMOBIL will invest £140m (US$173m) in its ethylene plant in Fife, UK, over the next two years...
GEOLOGISTS could one day determine the age of rocks by measuring the amount of plastic found in s...
DRONES have targeted the world’s biggest oil exporter, Saudi Aramco, reducing the state-owned Sau...
BP says it is deploying technology to continuously detect, measure and reduce methane emissions f...
THE UK Government has warned in a document it has been forced to disclose that a no-deal Brexit c...
USING North Sea oil rigs to generate power from methane and bury the resulting emissions would be...
RESEARCHERS at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Potsdam (IASS) have concluded th...
AUSTRALIAN lithium mining company Pilbara Minerals has raised A$91.5m (US$62.7m) in equity. The t...
A container-based test facility has successfully produced synthetic fuel from renewable energy an...
OIL and gas companies have approved US$50bn of investment since 2018 in major projects that under...
BASF, Solvay, and Domo Chemicals have reached an agreement for the acquisition of Solvay’s polyam...
OIL and gas company Santos and diversified company Perdaman have signed a heads of agreement to f...
EXXONMOBIL and separations technology company Mosaic Materials have agreed to explore the advance...
QUEENSLAND Government-owned power generation company Stanwell is spending A$5m (US$3.4m) to study...
BASF is to sell its global pigments business to fine chemicals company DIC for €1.15bn (US$1.3bn)...
BP is selling its entire Alaska business to energy company Hilcorp for US$5.6bn, including its sh...
THE National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC) has published a manifesto for a prosperous and secu...
THE Science and Technology Committee (STC) has highlighted policy gaps in the Government’s plans ...
FRAMES Group, Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies (HLT), and MAN Energy Solutions (MES) have entered a...
WOOD is to sell its nuclear business to Jacobs for £250m (US$303.5m). The sale proceeds will go t...
CHEVRON and Woodside Energy are to supply South32-operated joint venture (JV) Worsley Alumina wit...
SPECIALTY chemical company Clariant and diversified petrochemicals company SABIC have “temporaril...
MINING company BHP has announced a five-year, US$400m Climate Investment Program (CIP) to develop...
BELGIAN brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) has agreed to sell its Australian subsidiar...
NESTE is investing US$1.4bn in an expansion to its Singapore renewable fuels refinery.
OCCIDENTAL Petroleum and Colombian state-run oil company Ecopetrol have entered into a US$1.5bn j...
CHEVRON’S US$54bn Gorgon LNG project has started operation of one of the world’s largest carbon c...
GLENCORE will stop production at the Mutanda cobalt and copper mine in the Democratic Republic of...
NUSCALE has finalised agreements with Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction (DHIC) and power e...
ON 31 July an explosion and subsequent fire broke out at an ExxonMobil plant in Baytown, Harris C...
NOURYON has acquired Zhejiang Friend Chemical (Friend), the largest Chinese producer of triethyl ...
BP and agricultural trader Bunge have announced a joint venture to produce biofuels and bioenergy...
CONSTRUCTION has begun on a pilot project in Victoria, Australia, which will convert brown coal t...
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has partnered with BASF in a pilot research project to trial plastic recy...
GREEN Biologics (GBL), a biobased chemical firm headquartered in the UK, has announced that it wi...
CUADRILLA plans to frack a second well in Lancashire, UK, before its planning permission expires ...
The International Society of Automation (ISA) has created an open forum to advance cybersecurity ...
LED by the World Economic Forum (WEF), chemical companies are to collaborate to reduce the chemic...
DUPONT Clean Technologies is licensing its alkylation technology to Shenghong Petrochemical for a...
SAUDI ARAMCO has awarded contracts worth US$18bn to build process plants and expand oil productio...
Liquid Gas UK (formerly UKLPG) has launched its new vision, which sets a goal for the liquid petr...
THE All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for British Bioethanol has released a report saying that...
COVESTRO is working to scale up the production of a resin developed by Silicon Valley firm Carbon...
SAUDI manufacturing company SABIC has launched its sustainability roadmap aligned to the UN Susta...
BP HAS warned of a “worrying vicious cycle” of energy use in its new global energy report, as ext...
BP has invested US$30m in startup Calysta’s “breakthrough” technology, which uses bacteria to pro...
NESTE and LyondellBasell are claiming an industry-first with the parallel, commercial-scale produ...
Qatar Petrochemical and Chevron Phillips Chemical have signed agreements to jointly develop petro...
LINDE is investing US$1.4bn to expand its gasification complex at Jurong Island in Singapore as p...
PETRONAS Chemicals Group (PCG) and Scomi Energy Services have agreed to work together to research...
DRAX is partnering with startup Deep Branch Biotechnology (DBB) on a new bioenergy carbon capture...
CHEMICALS company Avantium is commercialising production of polyethylene furanoate (PEF), a 100% ...
THE US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has urged regulators to develop safety standards for onshore o...
REFINERY owner Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) has announced that it is to permanently close ...
PETRONAS Chemicals is investigatin