The UK’s new Engineering Diploma for 14-19-year-olds is being taught from this September. Rupal Mehta explores its development, and what it means for education in the country and a sector dominated by an ageing workforce.
Reviewing a two-day conference and exhibition entitled ‘Energy Materials: Meeting the Challenge’, organised by the Energy Materials Working Group of Materials UK, held at Loughborough University, UK, on 9-10 October. Sessions covered fossil energy, renewables, transmission, nuclear, and distribution and storage, clear and consistent messages and priorities.
There is a common misunderstanding that corrosion engineering and corrosion management are identical concepts with similar features and applications. This article explains the difference and importance of both.
The importance of managing corrosion in the offshore industry, the difficulties faced and the drivers for action. The Health and Safety Executive has challenged the industry to improve performance and is undertaking an inspection focused on production installation duty holders.
A unique application of oil and gas well drilling fluids has created a profitable new opportunity for the Bernic Lake pegmatite in Manitoba, Canada. Drilling for oil and gas requires the well to be filled with a dense fluid or drilling mud to prevent highly-pressured fluids and gases entering the well bore and flowing to the surface, cesium formite drilling mud improves project economics and reduces the operational risk of developing oil and gas reservoirs.
The Atlantic Basins of Ireland are an under-explored frontier petroleum province with proven working hydrocarbon systems. A new evaluation of the area focuses on a major revision of the tectonic and deposition systems evolution.
