LONDON, Dec. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifty-five percent of private equity (PE) executives cite the growing capital requirements of the oil and gas industry as the foremost driver of their investment activity in the industry, according to a ...
Tags: the oil and gas industry, private equity, major capital investment
The UK's largest city will also get the country's largest deployment of LED street lights by 2016 aiming for 40% energy savings, while a project in Rhode Island may change the thinking in the US on lighting ownership, and North East ...
Tags: LED Street Light, Lights, Lighting
Fresher for Longer's conference will run on 5 February in central London. The conference is aimed at supporting councils, retailers, brands and related supply chain organisations to take forward the Fresher for Longer campaign in 2014. ...
Offers for China's domestic spot aluminum alloy ADC12 slipped, affected mainly by weaker aluminum ingot prices, while the demand remained steady, seeing no significant change from the previous week, industry sources said. Domestic offers ...
Tags: China Aluminum, LME Prices
The UK High Court has held BT liable for infringing patents of ASSIA, a solutions provider to broadband service vendors. The High Court of Justice in London ruled that BT infringes one of ASSIA's patents on DSL management in its Next ...
Tags: BT, Infringing Assia Patents
It's not easy to find IT staff with the right skill-set, and it's even harder to find people with good Cisco skills. That's according to Steve Capper, director of IT at construction firm Skanska, as he told Computing recently. Further ...
Tags: Cisco Skills, Harder Still, IT Staff
Dolce & Gabbana, the famed Italian luxury fashion house, has opened its first kidswear store in London’s plush Sloane Square street, located in Kensington area. The outlet, which follows the label’s already existing two ...
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The CO2 EOR market is a well established sector of the oil and gas industry in the United States with the first commercial projects dating back to the early 1970s. The key enabler of this success has been the availability of a large volume ...
Tags: CO2, Oil Recovery
Transport for London is introducing Harvard's LeafNut system as part of a massive overhaul of its street lighting. TfL says it's the largest ever single investment in London's street lighting history. There are two main parts of the ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Street Lights
A simple alternative to FEMA flood insurance Underwritten by Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's of London was presented to the Pennsylvania Department of Insurance this week and is now available for most property owners of one to four unit ...
The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) recently hosted a practical workshop for technical lighting students at The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, part of the University of London. The 'Light Play' workshop was ...
A guitar owned and signed by Queen guitarist Brian May will be up for grabs at the UK Lingerie Awards 2013 in association with Fashion Forms, with 100% of the sale price being donated to charity Breast Cancer Campaign through Rock & Ribbon, ...
China and Britain have agreed to enhance cooperation in areas including high-speed railway, nuclear power and finance, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday. Li told a joint press briefing with visiting British Prime Minister David ...
Tags: high-speed railway, nuclear power
Rio Tinto will move to suspend alumina production at Gove and focus on its bauxite operations after determining the refinery is no longer a viable business in the current market environment. Rio Tinto will now work on the scope and phased ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Cape plc is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Cape Australia Onshore has entered into an agreement with Bechtel for the provision of Painting, Insulation and Fireproofing Services on the Chevron-operated Wheatstone ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, oil