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Elgin platform gas leak plugged following well intervention
 
Elgin platform gas leak plugged following well intervention Total has today (May 16, 2012) announced that its well intervention operation, started yesterday, has stopped the G4 well leak on the Elgin complex, 240km from Aberdeen in the North Sea.

The operation, which involved pumping heavy mud into the leaking well, stopped the gas escape after 12 hours. The G4 well had been leaking following an incident on 25 March, which led to 238 people being evacuated from Elgin and an adjacent drilling rig, the Rowan Viking. From an estimated initial gas flow of ... More
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Baroness lifts the lid on new manufacturing plant
 
Baroness-lifts-the-lid-on-new-manufacturing-plant- A new £1.2 million manufacturing plant that is already delivering a boost to Liverpool's economy was opened yesterday ... More
Quality award counts for Brammer in Ireland
 
Quality-award-counts-for-Brammer-in-Ireland Brammer in Ireland, part of the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) products and services group that looks after ... More
High efficiency water filter in demand for IPS | 15/05/2012
NSK’s long life EP steel saves €38,400 on Sendzimir steel mill | 15/05/2012
EEMUA certifies design engineers for hazardous areas | 14/05/2012
Drives play major part with Royal Shakespeare Company | 14/05/2012
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Building Britain’s industrial future
 
Building Britains industrial future Building Britain's industrial

With Chancellor George Osborne's Budget now out in the open – offering some useful business tax incentives – and the CBI's latest Industrial Trends Survey indicating output growth expectations at their strongest for a year, engineering looks slightly healthier. According to the CBI, factory order books in March remained well above the recent average – albeit, on balance, weaker than 'normal' – suggesting slow, but progressive recovery. And the picture was much the ... More
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Pumping iron
 
Pumping-iron- The vast majority of pumps and fans could be running more efficiently and saving their plant operators serious money. ... More
Safe operation of escalators and moving walks
 
Safe-operation-of-escalators-and-moving-walks- SAFed's guidelines for the safe operation of escalators and moving walks was published in May last year. In the first ... More
Is your boiler house safe?
As de-manning on steam and hot water boiler plant continues to gain momentum, operators need to consider best practice and their legal duties in respect of operational safety, warns S Moore Holmes More
 
Managing maintenance
Anything that can help maintenance managers to realise cost and time-savings, while simultaneously improving plant uptime and product quality outcomes, has to be worth considering. Brian Wall looks at modern CMMs in action More
 
Falling foul of the law
Slips, trips and falls remain a problem are across a wide range of facilities and industry types. Leigh Carter spells out the regulatory position and examines issues and solutions More
 
Laser focus
Energy from waste plants are shining a light on the power of laser-based, real-time gas analyser instrumentation. Brian Tinham talks to Bob Lane of Siemens More
 
What’s your poison?
For plant engineers keen to avoid disaster caused by flammable or toxic gas leaks, Steed Webzell provides an update on some of the latest sensing equipment and methodologies More
 
Testing times
The power of sensing systems today is to be found less in the range of techniques, technologies and hardware designs, and more in their on-board software. Brian Tinham reports More
 
Total Organics tighten effluent for Greencore
Greencore Foods' plant in Selby,Yorkshire, has dramatically improved its wastewater treatment process, managed by Veolia Water Industrial Outsourcing, since installing a continuous TOC (total organic carbon) monitor. More
 
Operator-driven reliability programme does it for Stora Enso
Global paper, packaging and wood products firm Stora Enso is reporting significant benefits since introducing SKF's operator-driven reliability (ODR) programme. More
 
Ocean energy test rig testing get programmable power
A laboratory scale rig at the Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre (HMRC), University College Cork, is now capable of emulating the variable power testing required at sea, thanks to control equipment from Emerson Industrial. More
 
Fuchs Lubricants sees operational improvements from Siemens PCS 7
Fuchs Lubricants UK says it has seen cost and operational efficiency improvements at its Stoke-on-Trent lubricants plant since migrating to Siemens' PCS 7 distributed control system (DCS) and Simatic Batch. More
 
Moving experience
Although aimed primarily at commercial vehicle operators, engineers and technicians, the CV Show offers useful opportunities for those whose careers span the fixed and moving plant divide. Brian Tinham reports More
 
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