BRITISH oil and gas producer Harbour Energy is entering the US Gulf of Mexico through the US$3.2bn acquisition of privately ...

GERMAN energy firm RWE has secured UK government approval to build an offshore wind farm with a capacity of just over 1 GW in ...

OFFSHORE oil and gas operators must improve their process isolation practices or risk serious accidents and fatalities, the ...

THE NORTH SEA TRANSITION AUTHORITY (NSTA) has opened a second licensing round for carbon storage, which could add up to 2bn t ...

Geoff Maitland looks back on the Gulf of Mexico oilspill, ten years ago this month 20 April 2010 was to be a special day for the rig and crew of Deepwater Horizon, Transocean’s semi-submersible ...

Scale-up is hard-wired into chemical engineering, with one textbook even claiming it is the profession's raison d’etre. Jamie Cleaver looks at the principles of scale-up from an equipment-based ...

FLUID flow principles can be used to calculate the time needed to drain the contents from a tank. This month I will show you how. The formulas for tanks with simple geometries can be integrated to ...

On 8 August 1975, about one hour after midnight, China's Banqiao dam failed. A tidal wave of water 10 km wide, over 5 m high and travelling at up to 50 km/h raced across flat farmland in Henan ...

The investigation into the Piper Alpha disaster has much to teach us thirty years on. Most of the physical evidence sank to the bottom of the North Sea, so the testimony of survivors and witnesses had ...

Mike Menzies asks what effect does injected hydrogen have on furnace, flame and exhaust in natural gas combustion plant? THE world is rising to the exciting challenge of controlling CO 2 emissions.

Martin Pitt looks at how acquiring gunpowder know-how shaped the world as we know it IN 1561, Queen Elizabeth I paid £300 (equal to about £100,000 today) to German engineer Gerard Honrick, for an ...

David Gemmell looks at key unit operations, and why chemical engineers are heavily involved in their design, troubleshooting or optimisation TO DATE, the Covid-19 pandemic has taken the lives of over ...