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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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| Boom and bust in Australia's coal country |
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Falling resource prices have seen thousands of workers laid off in Australia, and towns like Mackay, at the heart of the coal mining region on the east coast of Queensland, have suffered more than most. |
| BBC News Mon 16 Sep |
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