Health and Safety

New Generation LEDS Increase Safety Success

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The new ATEX approved Wolflite XT Handlamp range from Wolf Safety (UK), represents the most significant Safety Handlamp development for over 25 years, and signifies a quantum leap in battery, light...

Global biofuel production guidelines issued

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An official measure of the effect biofuel development on the local people and environment has been agreed by 23 leading global nations.Today (May 24th), the Rome-based Global Bioenergy Partnership (GB...

Oil Refineries unveils first quarter figures

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Oil Refineries has announced healthy results for the first quarter of 2011. Israel's largest integrated refining and petrochemical group revealed that its Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreci...

Manual Call Points for Hazardous Areas

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R. Stahl’s (Germany) Yodalex range of signalling devices for hazardous areas includes manual call points suitable for use in Ex zones 1, 2, 21 and 22. The units have been designed for installa...

Iran oil refinery blast kills one injures others

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A blast at an oil refinery in Iran has killed one person and injured several others.The incident at Abadan oil refinery occurred during a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and although the leade...

Targets to reduce emissions are attainable

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Experts in energy-efficiency within business have suggested that the government's proposals to reduce emissions are ambitious but attainable.John Barwise, chair of the Cumbria Green Business Forum...

Shale drilling halted following earthquake

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Shale gas drilling has been suspended in Lancashire following a second earthquake in two months.Cuadrilla, the company responsible for drilling for the combustible gas, stopped the operation on Friday...

Rig Protector Critical Monitoring System

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The R. C. Systems (USA) "Rig Protector" package offers up to four points of critical monitoring. The wireless option transmits monitored modbus data up to 10 miles with a high gain mast mo...

Oil refinery blast kills four

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Four people have died in an explosion in an oil refinery in Wales, sparking a safety inquiry.An investigation into the blast at Chevron refinery in Pembroke is now underway but early reports suggest t...

Methane leaks identified in Australia

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A state-wide audit of the gas and oil industry in Queensland, Australia, has highlighted a number of methane leaks.While results of the audit by the Petroleum and Gas Inspectorate on almost 3,000 coal...