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Environment & Safety

Navy climbers arrest environmentalists as drilling set to begin at Arctic oil rig

An occupation team from environmental activist group Greenpeace that scaled an Arctic oil rig to prevent deepwater drilling was arrested by climbers believed to be from the Danish navy.

Update your reliability performance to meet process safety expectations

Flint Hills Resources, L.P.: Bloch, K.  |  Bertsch, J.
Western ROPE, LLC: Dunmire, D.

Better risk assessment can identify root causes for potential site catastrophes before they occur

HP Automation Safety: Is it possible to communicate risk issues successfully?

exida LLC: Goble, W.

A safety project has a better chance of being approved if the person making the payback decision understands the concept of “risk cost.” If there is a likelihood of a $1,000,000-cost event h..

Linde, Daimler announce infrastructure plans for fuel-cell vehicles in Germany

Car manufacturer Daimler and technology company The Linde Group are pressing ahead with the development of infrastructure for hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicles, the companies said on Wednesday.

Chem Safety Board to investigate third accident at metal powder plant in Tennessee

A four-person investigation team from the US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) was deployed on Friday to the site of a third serious accident at the Hoeganaes Corp. plant in Gallatin, Tennessee. An explosion was reported earlier on Friday at the plant, injuring five, including three who were in critical condition at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center burn unit in Nashville.

Air Products inks deals with Valero, Denbury for carbon capture project in Texas

US industrial gases major Air Products has signed agreements with Valero Energy and Denbury Onshore to proceed with a planned carbon capture and sequestration project in Port Arthur, Texas.

Dow to power truck fleet with lithium-ion batteries

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies said Wednesday that it received a contract from Dow Chemical to deliver 100+ plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) pickup truck fleet vehicles powered by Dow Kokam’s lithium ion battery technology.

Sweden group picks engineering firm Jacobs for biomass gasification, methanation project

Jacobs Engineering Group announced Tuesday that it received a contract from Goteborg Energi AB for the GoBiGas project, a 20-megawatt biomass gasification and methanation project in Goteborg, Sweden.

Dow generates energy from recycled plastic in US

Dow Chemical said on Monday that it had successfully used recycled plastic to generate energy. The successful pilot test measured how plastic that has been reused and recycled to the full extent possible can be used as fuel for an end-of-life option instead of going to a landfill for disposal.

Honeywell 'green' jet fuel used in US Air Force aircraft demonstration

Honeywell’s Green Jet Fuel powered two Air Force F-16 aircraft as part of a Thunderbirds demonstration at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland over the weekend.