Börger celebrates 20th anniversary in the UK This year marks the 20th anniversary of pump company Börger establishing what has become a very successful UK operation. From day-one, the company in the United Kingdom and Ireland has been led by one David Brown. How did you come to be at Börger, setting up the UK subsidiary? DB: I was working in sales for a large compressor... [Read More]

Lummus Technology and MOL Group, the leading integrated Central Eastern European oil and gas corporation, have announced the commencement of the design phase for the first Lummus Advanced Waste Plastic Recycling unit. The first plant, which will be located at MOL Petrochemicals in Tiszaújváro, Hungary, will have a processing capacity of 40,000 tons of mixed waste... [Read More]

Essar Energy Transition (EET) has launched EET Hydrogen Power - Europe’s first hydrogen-ready combined heat and power plant (CHP) to be built at its Stanlow refinery. The aim is to complete construction in 2027. The investment will support EET Fuels’ ambition to become the lowest carbon process refinery, globally and EET Hydrogen’s ambition to become the leading... [Read More]

New entrant Cleanova has won a contract to supply filtration systems for a multi-billion dollar blue hydrogen manufacturing facility in Louisiana, US. The clean energy project will come on stream in 2026. It will produce over 750 million standard cubic feet per day of blue hydrogen for pipeline customers on the US Gulf Coast and blue ammonia for global hydrogen markets.... [Read More]

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced over $420 million (€387 million) from President Biden's Investing in America agenda for New York drinking water and clean water infrastructure upgrades. While the State Revolving Funds have been a foundational source of water infrastructure investments since 1988, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, under the Biden-Harris... [Read More]

In many industrial processes, three-way valves perform the important function of mixing or splitting flowing media. Schubert & Salzer has now developed the first three-way ball sector valve for the ideal control of the flow rate of liquids and gases. "Our approach of using the ball sector design for three-way valves is completely new. In this way, we achieve about 20%... [Read More]

Wood has been awarded a contract by Centrica Energy Storage (CES) for the redevelopment of the UK’s Rough field in readiness for future hydrogen storage. The Rough reservoir, located in the Southern North Sea, has been used to store natural gas safely for over 30 years and has the potential to provide over half of the UK’s hydrogen storage requirements. The front-end... [Read More]

Shell Trinidad and Tobago, a subsidiary of Shell plc, has taken Final Investment Decision (FID) on the Manatee project - an undeveloped gas field in the East Coast Marine Area (ECMA) in Trinidad and Tobago. Manatee will allow Shell to competitively grow its integrated gas business by building on development efforts in the ECMA, one of the country’s most prolific gas-producing... [Read More]

Cornwall’s ongoing issue with a lack of facilities able to treat septic waste could be replicated in other parts of the UK, according to one leading equipment manufacturer. With South West Water turning septage tankers away from its treatment works during what have now become prolonged periods of heavy rainfall, some residents have been unable to flush their toilets... [Read More]

Wood, a global leader in consulting and engineering, has secured a six-year contract to provide brownfield engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCm) solutions for Shell’s Prelude Floating Liquified Natural Gas (FLNG) facility in Western Australia. Ken Gilmartin, CEO at Wood said: “LNG is a key transition fuel as industry balances the need for global... [Read More]

ABB’s Distributed Control System (DCS) has been changed from a legacy version Advant MOD 300 to the new AC 800M - extending a plant’s life as well as improving performance, availability and reliability. The project, marking a significant evolution from Advant MOD 300 to AC 800M in France, is part of a plan to modernise the entire digital control system for the Naphtachimie... [Read More]

ORLEN, through its subsidiary PGNiG Supply & Trading, has signed a contract with a Slovak company ZSE Group for the sale of gas, the volume of which will cover approximately 30% of ZSE’s demand during the year. The contract exemplifies increasing cooperation among CEE companies to diversify supply sources and enhance gas security within the region. Under the contract,... [Read More]

Kent has secured $ 1.2 billion (€1.1 billion) in new contracts in the first half of 2024. This achievement underscores the company's strong market presence and its continued growth across multiple regions worldwide. In the UAE, Kent has been awarded multiple Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) and Project Management Consultancy (PMC) contracts. These projects contribute... [Read More]

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced over half a billion (€472,950,121) from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda for California drinking water and clean water infrastructure upgrades. This historic funding is part of over $50 billion (€46 billion) in water infrastructure upgrade investments from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure... [Read More]

BDI-BioEnergy International (BDI) has announced that it has acquired the chemical plastics recycling technology from the Next Generation Elements (NGE) and now holds the majority of shares for the first plant in Kühnsdorf. This strategic acquisition marks an important milestone in the long-standing partnership between BDI and NGE, which has existed since 2020 and works... [Read More]