When Measurement is Money
Derek Scott explains how to ensure the robustness of systems that determine the income and tax bi...
Features
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Simon Harrall
Yasmin Ali speaks to Simon Harrall, Associate Attorney at Patterson + Sheridan LLP, based in Hous...
Patents for Processes
Patents are not just for new processes. Changes to existing ones can also qualify for protection,...
Process Patents: Are They Worth It?
What protection does a process patent provide? And how easy are they to enforce?
A Shift in Carbon Capture and Storage Technology?
A look at the growing investment in carbon capture and patent trends to explore the level of inno...
Protecting Intellectual Property in the Chemical Engineering Field
Chloe Flower looks at new strategies for a developing sector
Repurposing Drugs: The Key to a Healthier Future
How repurposing drugs has become an industry in its own right.
Patents and The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Ed Round discusses what the patent landscape reveals about the future of manufacturing
Patenting in the Pandemic
The importance of locking down innovation in troubled times
Common Working Practices Risk Home Office Enforcement Action
While hiring engineers from overseas is helping to ease skills shortages in the UK, employers nee...
Industrial Data Protection
Who owns what, what risks can arise, and how to protect your business.
Deal or No Deal?
No deal is now the base case – are you ready for Brexit?
Forms of Contract: Amend at Your Peril
The risks of modifying general conditions of IChemE's model Forms of Contract.
Cosmetics Industry: Making More of Ancient Methodologies
Ancient methodologies, such as fermentation and cold pressing, are finding new uses in natural co...
News
IChemE Matters – March 2025
Mark Apsey and Duncan Lugton talk policy and we catch up with Dylan Sherman to ask about his expe...
Court: Jackdaw and Rosebank oil field approvals were unlawful
A COURT has ruled that consent given for two UK oil and gas fields was unlawful, but that develop...
HSE fines Scottish solvents manufacturer for Walkerburn explosion
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has fined solvents manufacturer Rathburn Chemicals £40,000 ...
New UK coal mine blocked by High Court
PLANS to build the UK’s first coal mine in more than 30 years have been quashed by the High Court.
Marathon Oil to pay US$242m for Clean Air violations
US PETROLEUM company Marathon Oil has reached a US$241.5m settlement with the Environmental Prote...
Moderna secures partial victory in Covid vaccine dispute with Pfizer and BioNTech
MODERNA has won part of its UK patent case against Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech over th...
Sellafield pleads guilty to cybersecurity failures
SELLAFIELD, which processes the UK’s nuclear waste, has pleaded guilty to all criminal charges re...
Landmark ruling could put UK fossil fuel projects at risk
THE impact of burning fossil fuels should be taken into account when approving energy development...
Norfolk Southern bill for East Palestine train derailment hits US$1.7bn
THE US government and freight operator Norfolk Southern (NS) have reached an agreement to resolve...
TPC Group slapped with US$30m fine for Texas chemical blast
THE Texas Petrochemical Company (TPC) Group has been ordered to pay US$30m in criminal and civil ...
Moderna wins Covid vaccine patent case in ongoing Pfizer, BioNTech battle
MODERNA has won the latest round of its long-running legal battle with Pfizer and its German part...
High Court rules UK climate plan ‘unlawful’ – again
ENVIRONMENTAL groups have won their case against the UK government for a second time over its cli...
BHP, Vale, and Samarco propose US$25.1bn settlement for fatal 2015 dam collapse
MINING giants BHP, Vale, and their joint-venture Samarco have proposed a R$127bn (US$25.1bn) sett...
ExxonMobil arbitration could stop US$53bn Chevron/Hess merger
EXXONMOBIL has filed for arbitration in a bid to stop Chevron from getting Hess’s 30% stake in th...
UK quits ‘climate-wrecking’ Energy Charter Treaty after efforts to modernise it fail
The UK government is leaving the “outdated” and controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), an int...
BHP and Vale ordered to pay US$9.6bn in damages over fatal Samarco dam collapse
A BRAZILIAN federal judge has ordered mining majors BHP and Vale, along with their joint venture ...
Shell sells Nigerian onshore oil business in deal worth US$2.4bn
SHELL has agreed to sell its Nigerian onshore subsidiary, The Shell Petroleum Development Company...
California sues ‘Big Oil’ for decades of cover-up and deception surrounding climate change
CALIFORNIA is suing “Big Oil” for more than 50 years of “deception, cover-up, and damage” that ha...
United Utilities fined £800,000 for illegally removing water from the environment
UNITED UTILITIES, a water and wastewater services provider, has been fined £800,000 (US$1m) for i...
Plans for nuclear waste facility in South Australia scrapped after traditional owners' court win
BARNGARLA traditional owners who fought to stop a nuclear waste facility planned for a site in Na...
Mill owner accused of wilful violation of safety standards following worker’s death
THE US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has accused a mill owner of wilful vi...
London-based company ruled liable towards the victims of fatal Beirut blast
A BRITISH court has ruled that the London-based chemical company behind the shipment of the ammon...
UK’s first coal mine for 30 years faces legal challenge
FRIENDS of the Earth has filed a legal challenge in the UK’s High Court against the government’s ...
Company fined £800,000 for near-fatal 2020 explosion
COATINGS company International Paint has been fined £800,000 (US$976,512) for a near-fatal 2020 e...
ExxonMobil exits Russia after ‘expropriation’ of Sakhalin-1
EXXONMOBIL has safely exited Russia following the Government’s “expropriation” of Sakhalin-1, a m...
Fukushima bosses ordered to pay billions for failing to prevent nuclear disaster
FOUR former bosses of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been ordered by a Tokyo court to p...
‘Biotech pioneer’ Elizabeth Holmes found guilty of fraud
ELIZABETH HOLMES, a former chemical engineering student who garnered praise as a Silicon Valley b...
Claimants to appeal fatal Samarco disaster ruling in UK court
THE Court of Appeals, the most senior court in England and Wales, has ruled to allow proceedings ...
Landmark court ruling will see Shell reduce emissions by 45% by 2030
IN A landmark ruling, the Netherlands’ District Court of The Hague has ordered international ener...
Parties reach US$7.02bn settlement for fatal Brazil dam collapse
MINING giant Vale and Brazilian authorities have agreed on a global settlement of about R$37.69bn...
Court finds Shell liable for Nigerian oil spills
A DUTCH appeals court has ruled that Shell is responsible for the consequences of oil spills in t...
Brazil dam collapse victims take TÜV SÜD to court
TWO years after the fatal collapse of a Vale dam, victims have brought landmark action against TÜ...
US court blocks rollback of power plant emissions rule
A US court has vacated a rule brought in by the Trump administration that relaxed regulations on ...
Lebanon Prime Minister charged with negligence over Beirut explosion
AN investigating prosecutor has charged Lebanon’s acting Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three for...
Criminal charges dropped against Arkema for chemical plant fire
A US court has dismissed charges against Arkema relating to the peroxide fire and harmful emissio...
Bayer pays US$10bn to settle Roundup cancer lawsuits
BAYER has announced a US$10bn settlement for thousands of lawsuits claiming that that its Roundup...
Judge accepts fatal dam collapse charges
REUTERS reports that a Brazilian state judge has accepted homicide and environmental crime charge...
16 charged with homicide over fatal Brazil dam collapse
BRAZILIAN prosecutors have charged 16 people – including former Vale CEO Fabio Schvartsman – with...
US rolls back Chemical Disaster Rule
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rescinded most of the Chemical Disaster Rule – w...
EPA’s new energy plan gives boost to coal-fired plants
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has introduced a new energy rule that will extend th...
Brazil dam collapse prosecutors investigate collusion
THE lead prosecutor investigating the cause of the fatal dam collapse at a mine in Brazil has all...
UK Government warned that no-deal Brexit REACH plans are ‘vague and insufficient’
THE UK Government has published draft legislation for chemical registration in the event of a no-...
Employees arrested after Brazil dam breach
EIGHT Vale employees have been arrested as part of a criminal investigation into the collapse of ...
Trump administration says mercury regulations not appropriate or necessary
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed to change the way ...
Bayer to sell businesses and cut 12,000 jobs
BAYER, the German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company, has announced plans to ...
UK and Canada sign agreement for civil nuclear cooperation
THE UK and Canada have signed a bilateral Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (NCA) which will ensure t...
Chemicals coalition calls on EU leaders to allow UK to remain within REACH
A COALTION of European chemicals NGOs has called on politicians negotiating the terms of Brexit t...
Trump administration scraps methane emission laws
THE Trump administration has rolled back two Obama-era laws on reducing methane emissions in the ...
Attempt to hasten compliance with chemical safety law overruled
THE US’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not have to comply with the Chemical Disaster ...
No deal Brexit will hit chemicals sector hard, government warns
THE UK Chancellor has warned that the chemicals sector will be one of the hardest hit by a ‘no de...
Courts block Trump administration from further delays of chemical safety law
A FEDERAL appeals court has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop delaying an...
Fire at chemical plant on Stanlow refinery site
A fire broke out yesterday at a chemical plant on the same site as the Stanlow oil refinery in Ch...
Monsanto ordered to pay US$289m to cancer patient
A JURY has ruled in favour of a terminally ill cancer patient who claimed that Monsanto’s glyphos...
Update: Chester engineering faculty faces relocation due to proximity to oil refinery
THE University of Chester is facing the possibility of relocating its science and engineering fac...
Chester engineering faculty faces relocation due to proximity to oil refinery
THE University of Chester is facing the possibility of relocating its £120m (US$160m) science and...
UK pay gap shows scale of male senior dominance
KEY employers of chemical engineers in the UK have published their gender pay gap information but...
Blood-testing 'disruptor' charged with fraud
THE CEO and former-president of Theranos – a company which claimed to have developed technology t...
UK must remain within REACH as it exits EU
ICHEME has backed calls for the UK to remain within the EU’s chemicals regulation (REACH) despite...
ExxonMobil pulls out of deal with Rosneft
EXXONMOBIL is pulling out of its joint venture with Rosneft, Russia's largest oil company, follow...
