THE UK water regulator Ofwat has proposed a £22.46m (US$29.9m) fine for South East Water (SEW) over failures that led to five major supply outages between 2020 and 2023.

MULTIPLE failures led to a “completely preventable” labelling error that caused a fatal release of hydrogen sulfide at a Pemex oil refinery in Texas in 2024, a US investigation has concluded.

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INADEQUATE control systems led to 1,700 L of flammable solvent spilling onto the floor of a semiconductor materials facility ...

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NASA’S ARTEMIS II is being wheeled back in for repair because a disruption of helium flow to the moon rocket’s space launch ...

PRICE hikes have hit the global oil and gas industry following escalating tensions between the US and Iran, with disruptions to critical trade networks causing widespread economic uncertainty.

AFTER more than a decade of development, Geothermal Engineering Limited (GEL) has opened its United Downs power plant near Redruth, making it the UK’s first operational geothermal electricity facility ...

Luisa Rondon says that for chemical engineers, entrepreneurship is not a leap into the unknown, but an extension of engineering thinking into the market ...

In the final part, Hugh Stitt, Joe Emerson, Carl Jackson and Robert Gallen examine how machine learning models can be made more transparent, giving chemical engineers the insight needed to question ...