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| Outrage as it is revealed foreign firms to supply steel for new Forth Bridge |
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Around 8500 tons of bridge sections will be fabricated at Tecade-Megusa in Seville, Spain, and 24,500 tons at Zhenhua Heavy Industries in Shanghai, China. |
| DailyRecord 28 Jan |
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| Shift to natural gas coming for U.S., Kinder Morgan CEO says |
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A tremendous amount of transportation infrastructure needs to be put in place, making additional investment in natural gas pipelines inevitable. |
| Houston Chron Thu 26 Jan |
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| Airbus says 'solution found' to A380 wing cracks |
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Airbus says it has found a solution to cracks which appeared on parts inside the wings of some A380 Superjumbos |
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| Coryton refinery shipments start as deal signed |
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The future of the 500 people who work at the refinery is still unclear. The number of staff includes 350 contractors. |
| BBC News Thu 26 Jan |
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| Oman in talks with BAE over fighter deal |
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BAE Systems is in talks with the government of Oman to supply a number of Typhoon fighter aircraft. |
| Yorkshire Post 24 Jan |
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| Damaged tanker Genmar Companion docks in Belfast |
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A damaged oil tanker, which had been sheltering off the Copeland Islands near Belfast since mid-December, has finally docked for repairs |
| BBC News Tue 24 Jan |
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| A380 wings to be checked for cracks, EASA says |
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Twenty Airbus A380s will have to undergo checks for cracks in their wings, the safety regulator has said. |
| BBC News Sat 21 Jan |
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| Network Rail to be prosecuted over Grayrigg crash |
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Network Rail is to be prosecuted over the Cumbrian rail crash at Grayrigg in which one passenger died. |
| BBC News Sat 14 Jan |
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| Llandinam wind farm switched off after turbine damage |
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One of the UK's largest wind farms stopped producing energy after a turbine head containing the blades came off last month. |
| BBC News Sat 14 Jan |
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| HS2 go-ahead sees mixed reaction |
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Plans for a £33bn high-speed rail network have received a mixed reaction, after being approved by the government. |
| BBC News Wed 11 Jan |
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| Putin brings forward South Stream gas pipeline build |
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Russia has brought forward to late 2012 from 2013 the start date for building a pipeline to transport gas to Europe under the Black Sea, bypassing Ukraine. |
| BBC News Sat 31 Dec |
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| UK issues offshore drilling licences |
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The UK government has awarded 46 new exploratory drilling licences to firms, including Shell and Centrica, looking for oil and gas. |
| BBC News Sat 31 Dec |
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| Many missing as Russia oil rig capsizes off Sakhalin |
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An oil drilling rig has capsized in freezing seas in the Russian far east, with the loss of two lives and more than 50 people missing, officials say. |
| BBC News Sun 18 Dec |
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| Tanker with big oil cargo diverted to Belfast after cracks found on deck |
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The 'Genmar Companion', carrying more than 55,000 tonnes of gas oil, was en route from Rotterdam to New York when Dutch maritime inspectors discovered the cracks. |
| Indepenent.ie Sat 17 Dec |
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| Heerema to start work on Golden Eagle jackets |
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Heerema is to start construction in February of two 6,000 ton jackets for Nexen's Golden Eagle development in the North Sea. |
| NDTCabin Thu 15 Dec |
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| Whistleblower: Marlins Stadium contractors cut corners |
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Engineering specifications ignored. Contractors cutting corners to save time and money. He even caught a fellow inspector falsifying records and signing off on welds he never examined. |
| wstp.com Dec 14, 2011 |
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| Poisoning link threatens future of fracking |
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Britain's fledgling shale gas industry could be stopped in its tracks after dramatic new evidence established a link for the first time between the 'fracking' technology used to dislodge natural gas trapped in rocks and water pollution. |
| Independent Wed 14 Dec |
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| Repeated safety concerns ahead of Swanland sinking |
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Over the past five years, 85 faults were highlighted - including cracks in the ship's decks. |
| BBC News Sun 11 Dec |
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| Three die in Borneo as suspension bridge collapses |
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The bridge, 720m long and completed in 2002, is reported to be the longest suspension bridge in Borneo. |
| BBC News Sun 27 Nov |
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| Pipeline failure caused huge Morgan County blast |
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The natural-gas transmission pipeline explosion that raked a portion of Morgan County yesterday was caused by a pipeline failure, investigators announced this afternoon. |
| Dispatch.com Nov 23 |
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