US fracking expert says Gatwick oil find a "gamechanger for England"
Fracking expert Chris Faulkner, CEO of Dallas-based Breitling Energy Corporation has described yesterday’s announcement that there could be 100 billion barrels of oil in the Jurassic Kimmeridge formation near Gatwick as a gamechanger for England.
Oil find near Gatwick has potential for "significant daily production"
London quoted UK Oil & Gas Investments PLC is has announced that US-based Nutech Ltd estimate that the Horse Hill-1 well in the Weald Basin has a total oil in place (OIP) of 158 million barrels per square mile (MMBO), with the potential for significant daily oil production.
Graphene water & wastewater tech secures £4m funding
Innovative water and wastewater treatment company ArviaTM Technology has secured £4 million in its latest round of investment funding. The company is now embarking on a series of demonstration installations in industrial treatment facilities.
Severn Trent Water tests new wind turbines
Severn Trent Water’s new wind turbines, Winnie and Tony at Derby, yesterday started turning intermittently, as the world’s first 3D holographic radar system is brought into operation to support them.
DECC says England's waterways could heat 1 million homes
The Department for Energy and Climate Change says that a new online tool for communities has revealed that at least one million homes and businesses across England could be tapping into clean renewable heat embodied in the country's waterways.
Wave Energy Scotland: first £7m innovation competition opens to UK and EU technology developers
Wave Energy Scotland (WES), a new research and development body funded by the Scottish Government, is open for business with the launch of its first international technology innovation competition for developers in the UK and across the EU.
New joint industry initiative to support UK wave and tidal energy
The Crown Estate, Marine Scotland and the Welsh Government have announced they will be funding Aquatera Ltd and their delivery partners MarineSpace and the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to run a secretariat function for the new Offshore Renewables Joint Industry Programme (ORJIP) for Ocean Energy.
Sensing in Water Conference 2015 issues call for papers on AMP6
The Sensors for Water Interest Group (SWIG) has issued a call for papers for its upcoming Sensing in Water Conference in September - the main theme is how using sensors and instrumentation can help to deliver water company outcomes in AMP6 and over the next 25 years.
UKTI webinar to help UK firms export to French water market
UK Trade & Investment is running a webinar tomorrow afternoon at 2pm designed to help UK companies who want to find out more about export opportunities in the French water sector.
Veolia: €5m energy efficiency WwTW project to deliver €600k savings pa
An energy efficiency and effluent quality improvement project being carried out by the Spanish subsidiary of Veolia Water Technologies at the La Cartuja Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Zaragoza will save 600,000 euros a year in energy costs on a total investment cost amounting to nearly 5 million euros.
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Safe access solutions a key requirement for water sector and other Critical Infrastructure Providers
Craig Nienaber, Business Development Manager for Safe Access Solutions (SAS) at HUBER Technology, explores why the company is seeing a growing level of interest in its safe access solutions for critical infrastructure providers, including their application in wastewater treatment assets. -
Albion Water appoints new Director of Business Development
Albion Water, the first NAV (New Appointment & Variation) to have been established in1999 and now under the ownership of SDS Water Group, has appointed Andy Holland as its new Director of Business Development. -
Webinar to explore moving indirect potable water reuse to full implementation
UK water companies are invited to join an upcoming webinar which will explore how the sector can take indirect potable reuse (IPR) from concept to full-scale operational reality. -
Kohtari CEO says joined-up water intelligence needed to predict, not just react - not more data
James Sumsion, CEO of predictive water intelligence specialists Kohtari, says the water sector needs to take a giant leap forward, so that it can anticipate and act upon water quality issues - rather than merely react.
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