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| BP to create 100 jobs at Sullom Voe |
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The oil company is planning to invest about £600m refurbishing the site and building a new gas plant. |
| BBC News Fri 18 Apr |
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| Closure threat to Murco oil refinery as deal collapses |
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A Pembrokeshire oil refinery could face closure with the threat of up to 400 job losses after talks broke down with a potential buyer. |
| BBC News Fri 4 Apr |
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| UK Coal mines face closures as insolvency threatens |
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UK Coal is likely to close two of the last three deep mines in Britain as it battles to stave off insolvency. |
| BBC News Thu 3 Apr |
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| BP to close Australia refinery due to Asian competition |
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BP says it will cease production at its Bulwer Island refinery in Brisbane, Australia, by 2015. BP said the growth of large refineries in Asia made smaller refineries like Bulwer unprofitable. |
| BBC News Wed 2 Apr |
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| Intertek, Exovia and Glacier Energy. |
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An update on who is buying who, in the world of NDT. |
| NDTCabin Sun 30 Mar |
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| £310m invested in UK wind turbines |
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Manufacturing giant Siemens and the UK's Associated British Ports are to invest a total of £310m in UK wind turbine factories, creating 1,000 jobs. |
| BBC News Tue 25 Mar |
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| Boeing checks 787 Dreamliners for wing cracks |
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The move came after Japanese supplier Mitsubishi Heavy Industries warned Boeing that a change in its manufacturing process may cause cracks. |
| BBC News Sat 8 Mar |
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| Bombardier wins £1bn Crossrail deal |
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The company will provide 65 trains for the Crossrail service, which is set to open in 2018. The trains will be manufactured and assembled at Bombardier's plant in Derby. |
| BBC News Fri 7 Feb |
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| Amec offers £1.9bn to buy Swiss rival Foster Wheeler |
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UK engineer Amec has provisionally agreed a £1.9bn takeover of Swiss rival Foster Wheeler |
| BBC News Mon 13 Jan |
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| SSE to close two coal-fired power stations |
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Units at Ferrybridge and Uskmouth to close as power supplier invests in new wind farms and other forms of generation |
| Guardian Sat 21 Dec |
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| Grangemouth to import US shale gas |
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Grangemouth is set to become the first chemical plant in the UK to receive shale gas from the United States, the site's operator has said. |
| BBC News Wed 4 Dec |
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| Harland and Wolff refits oil rig from Brazil in Belfast |
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The 360ft-high rig - the Blackford Dolphin - is undergoing a multi-million-pound refurbishment in advance of a drilling project in the North Sea. |
| BBC News Tue 3 Dec |
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| China oil pipe blast: Qingdao pipeline blast 'kills 44' |
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At least 44 people in China have been killed in an explosion after a leaking oil pipeline caught fire in the city of Qingdao, state media has reported. |
| BBC News Sat 23 Nov |
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| Latvia mourns victims of Riga supermarket collapse |
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Latvians have begun three days of national mourning for 52 people who died when a supermarket in the capital Riga collapsed on Thursday. |
| BBC News Sat 23 Nov |
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| EnQuest cleared to develop £4bn Kraken oil field off Shetland |
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A £4bn investment in a major oil field off Shetland has been given the go-ahead. |
| BBC News Sat 16 Nov |
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| BAE Systems cuts 1,775 jobs at English and Scottish shipyards |
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BAE Systems is to cut 1,775 jobs at its yards in Scotland and England and end shipbuilding altogether at Portsmouth. |
| BBC News Thu 7 Nov |
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| Grangemouth dispute: Ineos says plant will stay open |
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Political leaders and unions have welcomed news that the Grangemouth petrochemical plant is to stay open after a deal was struck with workers. |
| BBC News Sat 26 Oct |
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| UK nuclear power plant gets go-ahead |
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France's EDF Energy will lead a consortium, which includes Chinese investors, to build the Hinkley Point C plant in Somerset. |
| BBC News Mon 21 Oct |
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| Osborne agrees to China investing in UK nuclear plants |
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The Chancellor, George Osborne, has announced that the UK will allow Chinese companies to take a stake in British nuclear power plants. |
| BBC News Fri 18 Oct |
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| Japan halts last nuclear reactor |
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Japan is shutting down its last functioning nuclear reactor, with no timetable for a restart. |
| BBC News Mon 16 Sep |
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