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| Japanese company admits faking safety reports on seats it made for 32 airlines |
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A Japanese company admitted last night that it had falsified data after its seats, used by dozens of international airlines, failed safety tests. |
| Times Online Tue 9 Feb |
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| French firm puts HQ of renewables in Aberdeen |
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Technip is to locate its headquarters for renewable technology in Aberdeen. |
| scotsman.com Tue 9 Feb |
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| Connecticut power plant gas explosion kills five people |
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A huge explosion has rocked a power plant in the US state of Connecticut, killing at least five people |
| BBC News Sun 7 Feb |
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| Shell to cut 1,000 jobs and close six refineries |
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Royal Dutch Shell yesterday announced plans to shed a further 1,000 jobs and sell six refineries as the oil company fights to stem widening losses from its global refining operation. |
| Times Online Thu 4 Feb |
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| Wind turbine tower firm creates 240 jobs in Chepstow |
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A firm making towers for wind turbines is creating 240 jobs and investing £38m in its base in Monmouthshire. |
| BBC News Thu 28 Jan |
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| Cammell Laird wins £44m MOD warship contract |
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A shipbuilding firm in Wirral has secured a £44m contract to build part of one of the biggest and most powerful warships in the UK. |
| BBC News Mon 25 Jan |
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| Engineering work starts on Irish Sea gas storage project |
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Design work has now commenced for the construction of a £600m offshore gas storage facility in the Irish Sea, with construction planned for the end of the year. |
| NDTCabin Fri 22 Jan |
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| Up to 1,400 UK jobs at risk as Chevron plans deep refinery cuts |
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As many as 1,400 jobs at one of Britain’s largest oil refineries are under threat after Chevron said last night that it was planning a restructuring that would involve sweeping cuts across its global refining operation. |
| Times Online Thu 21 Jan |
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| Shell signs Iraq oil field deal |
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Oil giant Shell and Malaysia's state-run Petronas oil company finalised a contract on Sunday to develop Iraq's giant Majnoon oil field. |
| BBC News Sun 17 Jan |
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| Apache loses bid to keep Varanus report secret |
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The WA Court of Appeal has dismissed attempts by Apache Energy to block the public release of a report on the Varanus Island gas explosion. |
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| Bay Bridge metal failures still a mystery |
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Emergency repairs to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge this fall will cost $21.5 million after critical parts on the span cracked and snapped, but Caltrans officials still can't explain the metal failures |
| Sacbee.com Tue 22 Dec |
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| Wave power project planned for Shetlands |
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Scottish company Pelamis Wave Power and Swedish energy company Vattenfall are planning to build a wave farm off the coast of the Shetland Islands. |
| NDTCabin Fri 18 Dec |
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| Wind turbines may be built at Nigg creating 2,000 jobs |
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Two thousand jobs could be created in the Highlands if an American firm invests in a project to build offshore wind turbines. |
| BBC News Thu 17 Dec |
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| Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner finally takes off |
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Boeing’s hope for a more profitable future took off yesterday with the maiden flight of its much-delayed 787 Dreamliner, the company’s first new aircraft in 15 years. |
| Times Online Wed 16 Dec |
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| Airbus A400M finally flies for first time but faces £10bn cost overruns |
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More than three years late, Airbus's A400M military transport finally has finally taken to skies in a successful first flight in Seville. |
| Telegraph Fri 11 Dec |
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| Iraq oil development rights contracts awarded |
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A joint venture between the UK's Shell and Malaysia's Petronas oil companies has won the right to develop Iraq's giant Majnoon oil field. |
| BBC News Fri 11 Dec |
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| Board passes on plant explosion probes |
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Blaming shortages in money and manpower, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board won't look into two Houston industrial explosions |
| Houston Chron Wed 9 Dec |
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| National Grid to build Cotswolds pipeline |
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National Grid is to construct a 28 mile 36 inch gas pipeline in Gloucestershire. |
| NDTCabin Tue 8 Dec |
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| Steelmaker Corus to cut 1,700 more jobs |
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Steelmaker Corus has been forced to mothball parts of its Teeside plant with the loss if 1,700 jobs across the region. |
| Telegraph Fri 4 Dec |
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| New nuclear facilities announced |
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A research centre and factory to support the UK's civil nuclear industry are to be based in South Yorkshire |
| BBC News Thu 3 Dec |
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