
IChemE Sets Out Stance on Climate Change
Mark Apsey shares IChemE’s new position statement on climate change and the consultation process ...
Mark Apsey shares IChemE’s new position statement on climate change and the consultation process ...
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Tom Baxter argues the case for leaving the UK’s inert oil and gas architecture in place, rather t...
What can be learned from inspections of loss of containment audit and assurance systems in the UK...
How enzyme technology could make the industry greener and more efficient
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...
Ten years after Deepwater Horizon, US offshore drilling safety improvements remain elusive
Scott Powell and Scott Vickers look at how industry's emergency response measures have evolved in...
How can the oil majors best measure energy transition and routes to net zero?
Geoff Maitland looks back on the Gulf of Mexico oilspill, ten years ago this month
How we choose to learn can determine whether we will repeat similar situations, says Gabor Posta
Andrew Perry looks at the challenges of tackling global carbon emissions, and asks when the worl...
Obtaining wider support for CCS by emphasising its importance in decarbonising numerous industrie...
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
Hydrogen is recognised as a high purity premium product. Andy Brown describes some of its many ...
Andrew Coe and James Paterson explain developments on part of the solution to the dual energy cha...
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...
How proper design is key to avoiding process accidents
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 ...
UK Government needs to take a lead on forming evidence-based policy on rigs-to-reef decommissioni...
Government reports on the future of the oil and gas industry
As a follow up to the feature “Energy Saviours” (issue 927, September 2018), this article explore...
How to identify threats and achieve ALARP on a big scale
Brent Spar: Is it better to dispose of it or leave in place?
Using drones to replace traditional rope-based visual inspections on offshore platforms
Amanda Doyle travels to Norway on a CCS safari
Increasing chemical engineering contributions to sustainable policy development: an Australian ...
On click-bait and the debate around fracking
20 years on from Australia’s infamous gas explosion, what have we learned, and what should we do ...
Adam Duckett says we must do all we can to share the lessons of Piper Alpha
As testing begins in Texas, Allam shares his thoughts on building emissions-free natural gas plan...
Adam Duckett, editor of The Chemical Engineer introduces the Piper Alpha Perspectives series laun...
Fiona Macleod, chair of the Loss Prevention Bulletin Editorial Panel, and Stephen Richardson, an ...
Robots, big data, wearables, and rig-floor automation are being developed for a transformative bo...
Personal perspective from Sam Ash, a young technician working offshore
Insight from a young geophysicist joining the sector, working for BP's offshore operations.
HSE director Chris Flint discusses the need for all of us to seek to improve the approach to regu...
Shahana Buchanan, chair of IChemE's Safety & Loss Prevention Special Interest Group discusses how...
An offshore safety engineer describes how, as he approaches the ten-year mark of his career, Pipe...
Phil Eames recounts ICI’s response to the Piper Alpha tragedy and offers up a video that all youn...
ON 6 July 1988, 167 men died in the Piper Alpha disaster. This series revisits the accident and ...
Terry Cooper is a chemical engineer by training. This article is an adapted version of a speech h...
Disastercast host Drew Rae offers up a challenging view on the danger of convincing ourselves tha...
A personal perspective from IChemE Safety Centre's Director
Dame Judith Hackitt remembers Piper Alpha and in light of the Grenfell Tower fire reminds us ther...
A personal perspective from Steve Rae, a survivor of Piper Alpha who has made it his duty to ensu...
Deirdre Michie reflects on the success of Oil & Gas UK's Safety 30 conference.
Lord Cullen of Whitekirk gave this speech at the opening of Oil & Gas UK’s Safety 30 Conference i...
People often say they remember where they were when they heard President Kennedy was shot, when P...
The University of Cambridge’s new chemical engineering and biotechnology building is open for b...
Innovation is needed to develop systems to identify problems before they occur
Flare system design and modification.
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 chemical engineering developed in Nigeria
A further call for authorities to leave UK offshore oil assets in place – after making them safe ...
How refineries can overcome CDU challenges to boost the bottom line
An argument for using insulation rather than fixed firewater deluge to protect bulk LPG storage t...
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
Effective use of control valves at critical points can increase conversion and reliability in ole...
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-...
Trude Sundset, CEO of Gassnova and a chemical engineer by training, tells Helen Tunnicliffe why c...
Transformational technologies in oil and gas. Could we learn future direction from past innovations?
From fuel hero to climate zero: Claudia Flavell-While on the turbulent life of Thomas Midgley
SHELL has resumed production of LNG from its huge floating processing plant – Prelude – following...
DRAX has agreed to sell four combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power stations to electricity comp...
THE Danish Government has agreed to end all oil and gas exploration and extraction in the North S...
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...
SANTOS’ controversial A$3.6bn (US$2.64bn) Narrabri gas project has received environmental approva...
LINDE Engineering and Siemens Energy have entered a strategic partnership with the aim of acceler...
A FIRE which broke out at a gas well in India, in June, has now been “doused completely”, accord...
US OIL and gas majors are lagging behind European rivals as companies seek to transition towards ...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it will cut 1,900 US jobs as part of ongoing global efforts to achi...
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...
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...
BREAKWATER Energy Partners, which supplies water supply chain solutions to oilfields, has announc...
CHRYSAOR has agreed a merger with Premier Oil to create the largest independent oil and gas compa...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it will cut 1,600 jobs in Europe as the oil industry struggles with...
BP and Microsoft are working together to advance their net zero ambitions and the digital transfo...
SHELL will cut 7,000 – 9,000 jobs as the company is reorganised to transition to a lower-carbon b...
SANTOS has received “phased” and strictly conditioned approval from the independent planning comm...
SEEKING to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, Shell has announced that it will install new stat...
EARLIER this month, ExxonMobil announced that it had launched a voluntary redundancy programme fo...
WOOD has secured a US$42m contract from Equinor to provide engineering, procurement, construction...
THE UK Government has launched a review into how it will license the offshore oil and gas industr...
ENERGY-RELATED CO2 emissions have peaked due to the pandemic, but the world is still on track to ...
RESEARCHERS at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US have received just over US$800,000 ...
AN INTERNATIONAL research team has developed new membrane technology that could reduce carbon emi...
SPANISH energy company Repsol has produced the national market’s first batch of aviation biofuel....
ON 7 August, Chevron was ordered to inspect critical equipment at its Gorgon LNG project in Austr...
FOLLOWING its announcement in February to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner, BP has rev...
REPAIRS are underway to resolve welding issues at Chevron’s Gorgon liquid natural gas (LNG) proje...
OIL and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) has announced a target to reduce the collective average car...
CHEVRON has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire independent energy company Noble Energ...
SAUDI Aramco has announced that it is reorganising its downstream business as part of plans to en...
AUSTRALIA’S New South Wales government has backed Santos’ A$3.6bn (US$2.54bn) Narrabri gas develo...
CHEVRON is selling its stake in Australia’s North West Shelf, the county’s biggest liquified natu...
BP is selling its petrochemicals business, including interests in 14 production sites, to Ineos f...
AN explosion at an oilseed processing plant in the UK has injured three people.
A STUDY examining prospects for activity in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) has projected a sharp...
SAUDI Aramco has announced that it has successfully completed its acquisition of a 70% stake in p...
BP has announced that it will cut 10,000 jobs by the end of the year due to the economic impact o...
TOTAL has become the latest oil major, along with BP, Shell, and Repsol, to pledge to reach net z...
THE engineering expertise of the UK’s gas network operators have joined forces to outline how to ...
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...
FOLLOWING a decision last month to reduce capital spending by 20%, Shell has postponed a number o...
SHELL has announced that it aims to cut emissions from its operations to net zero by 2050 or soon...
SHELL and PetroChina have approved the first stage of their A$10bn (US$6.3bn) Surat Basin coal-se...
ONE hundred and one environmental and public health organisations have sent a letter to the US Go...
OPEC has agreed to cut global oil output by around 10% in response to the coronavirus pandemic, e...
EXXONMOBIL is cutting capital spending this year by 30% and operating expenses by 15% in response...
INEOS has extended plans to postpone the shutdown of the Forties oil pipeline which transports to...
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%...
AUSTRALIA’s Victoria state Government is lifting a ban on conventional onshore gas development an...
Industry reacts to keep staff and plants running during pandemic
ENERGY and services company ENGIE is to supply ‘green gas’ to Heathrow Airport, the major interna...
EXXONMOBIL has released an industry-wide model regulatory framework for methane, and urged stakeh...
AUSTRALIAN Gas Networks (AGN), which owns distribution networks across the country, is to constru...
ACCORDING to Shell’s LNG Outlook 2020, published on 20 February, global demand for LNG is to doub...
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...
NEW BP Chief Executive Bernard Looney has pledged that BP will reduce its emissions to net zero b...
RESEARCHERS at Imperial College London, UK and the University of Toronto (UoT), Canada have devel...
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...
BP is selling its North Sea interests in the Andrew area and its non-operating interests in the S...
THE UK’s first project to inject hydrogen into the gas grid is underway at Keele University.
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...
UK oil and gas contractors have reported a significant increase in demand for their services from...
SAUDI Aramco has announced its intention to proceed with its long-awaited public stock listing, w...
THE UK Government has temporarily halted fracking on the basis of a new scientific study from the...
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...
OIL and gas company Petronas scooped four out of the eight trophies given at IChemE’s Malaysia Aw...
HUSKY Energy has received the required permit approvals to move forward with its more than US$400...
OIL and gas companies Shell and BP have joined the Collaboratory to Advance Methane Science (CAMS...
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...
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...
FRACKING at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site in Lancashire, UK, will remain suspended until a fu...
DRONES have targeted the world’s biggest oil exporter, Saudi Aramco, reducing the state-owned Sau...
THE Barrow Group, in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick, UK, has developed ...
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...
OIL and gas companies have approved US$50bn of investment since 2018 in major projects that under...
OIL and gas company Santos and diversified company Perdaman have signed a heads of agreement to f...
BP is selling its entire Alaska business to energy company Hilcorp for US$5.6bn, including its sh...
CHEVRON and Woodside Energy are to supply South32-operated joint venture (JV) Worsley Alumina wit...
MINING company BHP has announced a five-year, US$400m Climate Investment Program (CIP) to develop...
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...
ON 31 July an explosion and subsequent fire broke out at an ExxonMobil plant in Baytown, Harris C...
CUADRILLA plans to frack a second well in Lancashire, UK, before its planning permission expires ...
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...
LOCALISED corrosion can cause failures in steel pipes used in the oil and gas industry, but new r...
BP HAS warned of a “worrying vicious cycle” of energy use in its new global energy report, as ext...
Qatar Petrochemical and Chevron Phillips Chemical have signed agreements to jointly develop petro...
PETRONAS Chemicals Group (PCG) and Scomi Energy Services have agreed to work together to research...
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 ...
EQUINOR and its partners are to release datasets from the Sleipner field, the world’s first offsh...
ON 14 June, as part of a cross-professional engineering institution working group, IChemE release...
HURRICANE Energy has produced first oil from the UK’s first fractured basement field in the North...
The first shipment of liquified natural gas (LNG) has sailed from Shell’s Prelude floating LNG (F...
WOOD has been awarded a contract by Duqm Refinery and Petrochemicals Industries Company (DRPIC) f...
OIL and gas company Ithaca Energy is to acquire ten of Chevron’s UK North Sea producing fields fo...
SUBSIDIARIES of energy infrastructure company Sempra Energy and Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s stat...
SCIENTISTS at Swansea University, UK have developed a novel, ‘green’ surfactant which improves oi...
ANADARKO Petroleum has accepted Occidental’s hostile acquisition bid, after Chevron announced tha...
BP AND its partners are to invest US$6bn in the Azeri Central East (ACE) project to further devel...
EXXONMOBIL is to invest US$2bn to expand its chemical plant in Baytown, Texas, US, to maximise th...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it has ceased unplanned flaring at its Fife Ethylene Plant (FEP) at...
CHEVRON’S agreed merger with Anadarko Petroleum looks under threat after the US independent said ...
OCCIDENTAL has made a hostile bid for Anadarko Petroleum, trumping a US$50bn bid from Chevron.
SAUDI ARAMCO is buying Shell’s 50% share of the SASREF joint venture in Jubail Industrial City, S...
CHRYSAOR has agreed to buy ConocoPhillips North Sea assets for US$2.67bn, making it one of the la...
OCCIDENTAL Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub has said she wants the international oil firm to become car...
A PROCESS has been developed that can remove nearly all traces of oil in produced water.
CHEVRON has agreed to buy Anadarko Petroleum for US$33bn, propelling it into the position of four...
AN explosion and fire occurred at the Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) in Johor, Malaysia, a re...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that it is investing in an expansion project for its Singapore refining ...
SAUDI Aramco has agreed to buy a 70% stake in SABIC for US$69.1bn. It is part of national plans t...
BP has reduced its oil and gas exploration activities and could keep some of its resources in the...
BP HAS agreed to a resolution from investors to disclose how its greenhouse gas reduction and fut...
SHELL is set to become one of the largest power companies in the world, its Director of New Energ...
THE UK’s Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) is funding a project for software firm Akselos to dev...
EXXONMOBIL is investing in a new polypropylene production unit at its Baton Rouge complex in Loui...
BASF and The Linde Group’s Engineering Division have announced a collaboration to serve natural g...
SPANISH energy company Repsol has made the largest gas discovery in Indonesia for 18 years. It is...
WESTERN Indian state Maharashtra, is to relocate a planned Saudi Aramco refinery due to protest b...
INEOS will invest £1bn (US$1.3bn) in the UK, modernising the Forties pipeline system, building a ...
MERIDIAN Energy Group has announced plans to build what it claims will be the world’s cleanest re...
BP has invested US$5m in artificial intelligence technology in a bid to speed up projects.
EXXONMOBIL has started building a third crude unit at its Beaumont refinery in Texas, US, in a mo...
THE Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has sold off a 35% stake in its refining business to I...
WOOD and KBR have won a contract to design the facility that will provide backfill gas to Shell’s...
EXXONMOBIL and Qatar Petroleum will invest more than US$10bn in the Golden Pass LNG export projec...
SAUDI Arabia plans to build an oil refinery and a petrochemicals complex in South Africa. This is...
SAUDI Arabia is to invest US$10bn in Pakistan. The Wall Street Journal reports that this investme...
CHEVRON and Occidental Petroleum have invested in Canadian direct air capture (DAC) company Carbo...
SHELL and its partners ExxonMobil and BP have announced a final investment decision (FID) for a S...
THE oil company Neste is to invest €1.4bn (US$1.6bn) to enable the production of additional renew...
AN explosion at MarkWest natural gas processing facility in Pennsylvania, US, has injured four pe...
Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Britain’s national workplace health and safety regulator, has ...
ARGENTINA’s state-owned energy company YPF has entered into a US$2.3bn joint venture with Malaysi...
OIL and gas major Shell has started to supply energy from the Clipper South gas field into the UK...
BP has started production at the £4.5bn (US$5.75bn) Clair Ridge oil field in one of the largest n...
SHELL has given in to pressure from investors to commit to specific goals in limiting climate cha...
THE UK government has unveiled an action plan for developing carbon, capture, utilisation and sto...
THE Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) has announced a strategic partnership with six oil and ...
ENGINEERS have called on the UK government to immediately spend £125m (US$159m) designing a hydro...
Husky Energy has spilled an estimated 1572 barrels of oil off Canada’s Atlantic coast. CBC News r...
SAUDI Aramco has signed a framework agreement with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) to ...
INEOS is in talks with ConocoPhillips to acquire its North Sea oil and gas fields.
AIR Products has agreed to buy General Electric’s gasification business, which will expand Air Pr...
FLUOR has announced that it has been awarded a contract for Valero Energy’s combined heat and pow...
FLOODING due to heavy rainfall has caused damage to the US$10bn Dangote refinery site in Nigeria.
RESEARCHERS at Dartmouth College, US, have released a study explaining the transfer of radium to ...
EXXONMOBIL has started operations of a new unit for producing high-value transportation fuels at ...
ENI and Total have signed an agreement with Sonatrach for offshore oil and gas exploration in Alg...
SAUDI Arabia has announced more than US$50bn worth of deals in oil, gas, infrastructure and other...
A CATALYST has been developed that almost eliminates carbon dioxide emissions in the Fischer-Trop...
RESEARCHERS from the Livingston Group at Imperial College London, UK, in collaboration with BP, h...
THE UK is set to see a 50% rise in biomethane plants operating by 2020, with as much as £400m (US...
FRACKING is set to restart in the UK today after a High Court judge dismissed a last-minute legal...
A NEW, multi-university research centre, headquartered at the US' University of Texas at Austin (...
LIMITING global warming to 1.5°C requires rapid and unprecedented changes to society, UN climate ...
GERMANY’S BASF and LetterOne have agreed to merge their oil and gas subsidiaries Wintershall and ...
A large-scale LNG project in Canada has been given the final go-ahead by project partners.
DRAX, the UK power company, has entered talks to discuss acquiring Scottish Power energy assets f...
TOTAL, the world’s fourth-largest oil and gas company, has announced a major gas discovery on the...
CUADRILLA, the natural resource company, has been granted government approval for fracking at a s...
EXXONMOBIL, Chevron, and Occidental Petroleum have joined the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGC...
THE Trump administration has rolled back two Obama-era laws on reducing methane emissions in the ...
INDIGENOUS communities and Chinese companies are planning to build a 167,000 bbl/d refinery in Al...
SHELL has said it will reduce methane leaks by installing new equipment at its operations, as the...
EXXONMOBIL is planning on upgrading its Fawley refinery, in the company’s biggest investment in t...
ENGINEERS at Rice University, US, in conjunction with Shell Global Solutions, have developed magn...
THE Cullen Report into the Piper Alpha disaster is now available to download for free from the He...
NORWAY could become the first country to directly connect an offshore wind farm to oil and gas pl...
WOOD has been awarded two strategic modifications contracts for Equinor’s Mongstad refinery in No...
AIR Products, a world-leading industrial gases company, headquartered in Pennsylvania, US, has be...
A fire broke out yesterday at a chemical plant on the same site as the Stanlow oil refinery in Ch...
DRAX, which operates the largest power station in the UK, and supplies 6% of the country’s energy...
RESEARCHERS at Rice University, US, are developing a novel water treatment technology to selectiv...
EXXONMOBIL has announced that its new 1.5m t/y ethane cracker has commenced operations at its int...
BP has announced that it will be buying BHP’s US shale oil and gasfields for US$10.5bn.
CUADRILLA has been granted permission to begin fracking in the UK’s first onshore horizontal shal...
SAUDI Aramco is evaluating the possibility of buying a stake in petrochemical company SABIC, whic...
A MULTI-BILLION dollar petchems complex is to be built in Egypt, and is expected to create thousa...
VITOL and Peabody Energy have invested US$20m in a firm that has developed technology that it say...
WASTEWATER from oil and gas facilities can be spread on roads for dust suppression or de-icing, b...
SNC-Lavalin has signed an agreement with Florexx International Investments to construct an advanc...
A FIRE at the Kemaman Bitumen Company (KBC) refinery in Malaysia has destroyed two crude oil tank...
CHEVRON expects to start its carbon capture and storage project for the Gorgon liquified natural ...
AN ARMED assault has caused catastrophic damage to two oil storage tanks at the Ras Lanuf termina...
THE University of Chester is facing the possibility of relocating its science and engineering fac...
THE University of Chester is facing the possibility of relocating its £120m (US$160m) science and...
PHIL KIRK, CEO of Chrysaor, has issued challenges to the oil industry community at a UK conferenc...
THE oil and gas community has been urged to “maintain a chronic sense of unease” at a conference ...
PETRONAS is buying a 25% stake in LNG Canada, after previously scrapping plans to develop its own...
SUEZ has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Rosneft to improve water and wastewater pr...
SPANISH energy company Repsol has announced that it is working with Google to use big data and ar...
EXXONMOBIL has announced plans to cut methane emissions by 15% and reduce flaring by 25% by 2020.
The UK Oil and Gas Authority has granted oil and gas exploration licences to 61 companies in its ...
BASF and ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing will work together to develop new gas-treating solven...
IN a bid to diversify its economy away from oil production, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (A...
KBR has been named the second project management contractor for the design of Saudi Aramco and SA...
HSE has warned the UK’s offshore oil and gas operators that they must do more to tackle hydrocarb...
BP has given the green light for the development of two North Sea oil fields worth a combined £42...
Saudi Arabia’s state oil company Saudi Aramco has made an agreement with a consortium of Indian o...
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that no future permits will be awarded fo...
THE release of an edition of Monopoly that marks the anniversary of the tragic Piper Alpha oil pl...
MOTIVA ENTERPRISES has signed MoUs with UOP and TechnipFMC worth as much as US$10bn to explore us...
HARBOUR ENERGY has made a A$13.5bn (US$10.4bn) bid for Australian oil and gas producer Santos.
SAUDI ARABIA and Japan’s Softbank have agreed to build the world’s largest solar power project, w...
AN INDUSTRY forum held in Texas has discussed the response of chemical companies to Hurricane Har...
AN EXPLOSION at a Unipetrol refinery is reported to have killed six people and injured others.
THE UK’s gas and electricity operator, National Grid, has set out its long-term goals in its repo...
CHEMICAL engineer Andrew Liveris will step down in April as executive chair of DowDuPont, the hol...
AN ANALYSIS by climate science website Carbon Brief has shown that the UK's carbon dioxide emissi...
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics are starting field trails for their joint algae...
AN ENERGY trial at Keele University, UK, will assess the feasibility of adding hydrogen to the ga...
EXXONMOBIL is pulling out of its joint venture with Rosneft, Russia's largest oil company, follow...
MICROBES that use oil as a food source offer the only way to degrade oil after a spill, however a...
BP has released its annual Energy Outlook report, which suggests a significant increase in the us...
ICHEME Fellow Tan Sri Wan Zulkiflee Wan Arrifin has had his contract as CEO of Petronas extended ...
INEOS has restarted the UK’s Forties Pipeline after the closure of a valve forced a shutdown of t...
Angola’s state oil company Sonangol has announced plans to reduce the country’s fuel imports by b...
EXXONMOBIL says there is little risk that climate change policies will force it to leave its prov...
FIVE people are missing after an oil and gas drilling rig near Quinton in Oklahoma, US, exploded ...
SAUDI ARAMCO, CB&I and Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) have signed a joint development agreement (JDA...
SHELL and ITM Power have announced a plan to build the world’s largest hydrogen electrolysis plan...
SHALE gas is one of the least sustainable options for producing electricity, according to a new s...
SHELL will redevelop the Penguins oil and gas field 240 km northeast of the Shetland Islands, a p...
AN oil tanker that had been ablaze since it collided with a freight ship in the East China Sea on...
NEW YORK CITY has filed a lawsuit against five of the world’s largest investor-owned fossil fuel ...
A NEW platinum and copper alloy catalyst developed at University College London, UK, and Tufts Un...
AN oil tanker is on fire and at risk of exploding after colliding with a freight ship off the eas...
PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s administration has revealed a plan to open almost all US offshore waters...
CANADA’s Alberta province has brought eight charges against Nexen Energy after an on-site explosi...
AN Italian judge has ruled that Shell and Eni must face charges of aggravated international corru...
A BILL banning new fossil fuel exploration licences in France immediately and all fossil fuel ext...
STATOIL has bought a 25% stake in Petrobras’ Roncador oil field in the Campos Basin in Brazil.
WORLD BANK GROUP president Jim Yong Kim has announced that the organisation will no longer financ...
ONE person has been killed and 21 are injured after a huge explosion and fire at the Baumgarten N...
INEOS has closed its Forties oil pipeline, which transports 40% of the UK’s oil production, aroun...
BASF and LetterOne have signed a letter of intent to merge their oil and gas subsidiaries, Winter...
A MAERSK Drilling employee has died after falling into the sea during maintenance work on the Mae...
THE Danish Underground Consortium (DUC) has approved a DKK21bn (US$3.36bn) investment, allowing M...
SAUDI ARAMCO and SABIC have agreed to develop plans for the world’s largest crude oil-to-chemical...
THE UK government has published its long-awaited Industrial Strategy as it seeks to boost industr...
EXXONMOBIL will reorganise its refining and chemical operations in an attempt to boost profits am...
BASF has announced that its Wintershall unit is in talks to merge with Letter One’s oil and gas a...
EXXONMOBIL has been awarded IChemE Gold Corporate Partner status for its UK sites in Fawley, Hamp...
EIGHT global energy majors have committed to reducing methane emissions from their natural gas as...
INEOS will move into deep water oil and gas exploration, after agreeing to buy a majority stake i...
SYNGAS made from solar energy has been processed into kerosene for the first time, which research...
TELLURIAN has awarded four contracts worth US$15.2bn to Bechtel for the engineering, procurement ...
Shell has sold two-thirds of its remaining stake in Woodside Petroleum to two unnamed investment ...
SAUDI ARAMCO has signed eight agreements, worth around US$4.5bn, with oil and gas service contrac...
AIR PRODUCTS has signed an investment cooperation agreement with Yankuang Group to build a US$3.5...
ALASKA and China have signed an historic joint development agreement for the Alaska LNG project, ...
TOTAL has bought Engie’s upstream liquefied natural gas assets for US$1.49bn.
METHANE emissions from natural gas have been underestimated by governments, and the “bridging fue...
A CONSORTIUM including energy companies BP, Shell and Statoil is developing a blockchain-based di...
ICHEME SINGAPORE has joined a unique alliance with the country’s government and industrial trade ...
THE OIL AND GAS CLIMATE INITIATIVE (OGCI) has selected the first three low carbon projects to ben...
ARGENTINA’S state energy company YPF is to invest US$30bn to boost hydrocarbon production in the ...
ALTERNATIVE and renewable energy firm Renergen says that its gas production subsidiary Tetra4 is ...
ASPHALTENE, the cholesterol of the oil industry, clogs pipelines and interrupts flow, but dispers...
A NOVEL electrochemical process to convert methane into methanol precursors could reduce the need...
HONGHUA GROUP has awarded Wood Group the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract for its...
A WORKER is missing and five have been taken to hospital in Louisiana, US, after an oil platform ...
GLENCORE has announced that it will spend US$973m acquiring Chevron’s oil assets in South Africa ...
WORLEYPARSONS has bought Amec Foster Wheeler’s North Sea upstream oil and gas business for a tota...
RESEARCHERS have reported a “major breakthrough” in reforming CO2 and CH4 into liquid fuels and c...
THE SCOTTISH government has announced an effective ban on fracking activities, following “overwhe...
STATOIL, Shell and Total have signed a partnership to further develop CO2 storage on the Norwegia...
MICHAEL WIRTH, currently Chevron vice chairman and executive vice president of midstream and deve...
NORTH Sea oil and gas exploration will receive £5m (US$6.7m) in funding from the UK government in...
BP AND Bridas Corporation have formed a joint venture combining their interests in Pan America En...
THE Acorn CCS project, a full-chain CCS project in northeast Scotland, UK, has been awarded £100,...
SARAWAK’S state government plans to set up its own oil exploration company, despite the national ...
ARKEMA’S organic peroxide plant in Crosby, which has already suffered reported explosions and a s...
A SAFETY alert has been issued by the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), ur...
TRANSOCEAN announced today that it has agreed a deal to buy Norwegian offshore drilling competito...
PETRONAS has released photos showing the installation of a record-breaking crude distillation col...
AMEC FOSTER WHEELER has been awarded a FEED contract to help upgrade Total’s Donges refinery in F...
PETROFAC and Samsung Engineering say they are to be awarded a US$2bn contract for a 50/50 joint v...
SHELL CEO Ben van Beurden says that the company is adopting a “lower forever” mindset as it seeks...
A STANFORD University study suggests that ageing oilfields can demand more energy even while petr...
PETRONAS and its project partners have decided to cancel the vast US$28bn Pacific NorthWest LNG p...
MORE oil could be recovered from wells by injecting a mixture of ‘nano-sand’ and a surfactant, ac...
A NEW type of cellulose composite material which can turn spilled oil into a rigid floating gel t...
EXXONMOBIL is suing the US Treasury in response to a US$2m fine, which was imposed yesterday for ...
A NEW £5m (US$6.5m) project led by BP and the University of Manchester, UK, will seek to better u...
A 100-YEAR law used to describe how fluid flows through rocks has been overturned by engineers at...
OIL & GAS UK has launched new guidelines aimed at increasing oil and gas production efficiency on...
CHEMISTRY Australia has said that manufacturing and jobs are still being affected by rising gas p...
IRELAND has passed a private member’s bill that bans onshore hydraulic fracturing, making it the ...
VATTENFALL has signed a memorandum of understanding with Statoil and Gasunie to investigate conve...
QATAR PETROLEUM has announced that it will ramp up its LNG production by 30% over the next five t...
RUSSIAN oil firm Gazprom Neft has formed a joint venture with Spain’s Repsol, taking a 25.02% sta...
TOTAL has signed a contract with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), to develop phase 11 of ...
A NEW metal-organic framework developed at the University of Adelaide, Australia, can convert CO2...
FRANCE plans to pass a law later this year to stop granting licences for oil and gas exploration ...
EXXONMOBIL and biotech pioneer Synthetic Genomics have announced a breakthrough in biofuels resea...
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