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Nautical Petroleum has raised £10m in a share placing to fund development and appraisal drilling programmes at three fields in the North Sea and south-west France. 29-Dec-2005 ConocoPhillips is to seek permission to build a liquefied natural gas import and power generation plant at the Teesside Oil Terminal. 22-Dec-2005 Marine Current Turbines has secured a licence to set up an experimental £8.5m tidal energy project at Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland next year. 21-Dec-2005 BiFab is to create 60 new jobs at its fabrication yard in Burntisland, having won orders from Talisman Energy and Scottish & Southern to manufacture seabed support structures for two wind turbines. 21-Dec-2005 UK Coal has won planning permission from Durham County Council for a 121-acre opencast mine at Stony Heap, near Leadgate, with the creation of 40 jobs. 21-Dec-2005 Eon is looking into the possibility of building a coal-fired power station somewhere on the east coast, as part of a £2.5bn investment in its UK energy infrastructure over the next three years. 21-Dec-2005 Centrica is planning to shed hundreds of back-office jobs and reduce its cost base by £180m by 2007. 19-Dec-2005 Eon is seeking government permission to build a £350m 1,200 MW gas-fired power station on the Isle of Grain in Kent. 15-Dec-2005 KP Renewables and Wave Dragon are to jointly develop a £12m wave power project off the coast of Milford Haven by 2009, in order to provide electricity to 60,000 homes. 15-Dec-2005 Drax Power is considering plans to sell electricity directly to large industrial users next year, and also wants to use more biomass to fuel its Yorkshire power station. 15-Dec-2005 Shell has announced plans to increase its capital expenditure by $4bn to $19bn next year, most of which will go towards bringing more oil and gas into production. 14-Dec-2005 Moray Council is considering plans from Catamount Energy for the development of a wind farm with 29 turbines at Berry Burn on the Altyre Estate. 13-Dec-2005 Celtic Energy is seeking permission from Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot councils to extend an opencast coal mine at Coed Hafod Heulog, with the creation of 70 jobs. 12-Dec-2005 Cromarty Firth Port Authority has been selected as preferred bidder to acquire the KBR Caledonia offshore yard at Nigg in Easter Ross, which could lead to the creation of 1,000 jobs in the manufacture of equipment for wind and wave power. 12-Dec-2005 CMR Fuel Cells is to raise £8m in a flotation on Aim to fund the commercial development of its fuel cell technology, and production is expected to be outsourced in 2008. 12-Dec-2005 Vattenfall of Sweden is looking to acquire UK energy companies, and has appointed NM Rothschild and McKinsey to consider potential targets. 12-Dec-2005 The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has announced plans to invest £20m in Cumbria over the next two years, including the launch of a nuclear research institute in Whitehaven and a skills academy. 08-Dec-2005 Scottish Coal is to close its coal mining operations at Spireslack in east Ayrshire, with the loss of 40 jobs. 08-Dec-2005 Scottish & Southern is in negotiations to acquire the Autoliv site in Havant, in order to establish a new regional headquarters for 1,500 staff. 06-Dec-2005 Biofuels has secured a £71m debt facility from Barclays to ensure completion of its £43m biodiesel plant at Seal Sands on Teesside. 05-Dec-2005 BP is to invest £4.6bn in wind, hydrogen and solar power over the next ten years, with the creation of about 500 jobs in a new division called BP Alternative Energy. 29-Nov-2005 Global Marine Energy is to raise £5m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its Leeds-based oilfield services business. 28-Nov-2005 Peel Holdings and the Northwest Regional Development Agency are to look into the possibility of setting up the UK's largest wave and tidal power project in the Mersey estuary. 23-Nov-2005 ITI Energy is to invest £9.3m in the development of a hi-tech battery system for industrial-scale power storage, which will involve the formation of a new Scottish company called Plurion with the backing of Applied Intellectual Capital and Lotus Engineering. 22-Nov-2005 EDF Energy is considering plans to build a £450m 1,200MW gas-fired power station at its existing site in Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire, by 2010. 21-Nov-2005 National Grid is to increase expenditure on gas and electricity infrastructure from £1.5bn to £2bn a year over the coming years, including a £800m investment in two gas projects in Milford Haven and the Isle of Grain. 21-Nov-2005 UK Coal is planning to shed up to 80 jobs at Welbeck Colliery in Nottinghamshire, although some workers may transfer to Thoresby Colliery. 17-Nov-2005 Scottish & Southern Energy is to invest £225m in flue gas desulphurisation equipment at the Fiddler's Ferry and Ferrybridge coal-fired power stations in Cheshire and South Yorkshire, which will extend their life to beyond 2015. 17-Nov-2005 Amec and Alstom have won a £108m contract from RWE Npower to reduce sulphur emissions at the Aberthaw coal-fired power station in South Wales, which will involve the creation of 50 new jobs. 16-Nov-2005 Shell is to reorganise the management of its 580 UK-based filling stations with the loss of an unspecified number of jobs, and each manager will control up to six sites. 16-Nov-2005 Scottish Power has acquired the Callagheen wind farm project in Northern Ireland, which will be fully operational by March 2006, for £18m. 15-Nov-2005 EcoSecurities is planning to raise £54m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its greenhouse gas consultancy. 15-Nov-2005 Scottish Power is to close the Longannet and Cockenzie coal-fired power stations in 2015, having decided not to install emission filters required by new European regulations. 14-Nov-2005 TallOil of Sweden is to invest £5m in the expansion of its new biofuels storage centre at Tees Dock over the next two years. 09-Nov-2005 Caledonian Petroleum Services is to relocate its 50 staff to a 40,000 sq ft workshop and office at the Kirkhill Industrial Estate in Aberdeen in December. 09-Nov-2005 BG Group is to invest £500m in gas exploration and development projects in countries such as the UK and Tunisia, in addition to the previously-announced planned expenditure of £2.6bn for 2005-06. 09-Nov-2005 Npower has bought Great Yarmouth power station from BP for £155m. 09-Nov-2005 Venture Production is planning to invest £96m in the development of the Ensign gas field in the North Sea, with production starting in 2007 or 2008. 07-Nov-2005 Hargreaves Services, the coal, haulage and waste company, is planning to raise £22m in a share placing on Aim this month, in order to reduce debt. 07-Nov-2005 Drax, the Yorkshire-based coal-fired power station, has announced plans to list on the London Stock Exchange in December. 31-Oct-2005 BP is considering plans to shed up to 2,500 of the 28,000 jobs in its European downstream operations. 31-Oct-2005 National Grid has announced proposals for a multi-million pound 115-mile gas pipeline from Felindre, near Swansea, to Tirley in Gloucestershire, with construction work starting in 2007. 28-Oct-2005 Economy Power, the electricity provider for small businesses, is to close its Cardiff offices in June with the loss of 210 jobs. 26-Oct-2005 Darlington Borough Council has approved plans from EDF Energy for the development of a wind farm with five turbines at Royal Oak Farm, near Shildon. 25-Oct-2005 ATH Resources is seeking permission to develop an opencast coal mine on a 181-acre site at Muir Dean near Dunfermline, which could create up to 118 jobs. 24-Oct-2005 AWE, the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston, is planning to recruit 1,000 new scientists and support staff, as well as 1,200 building contractors, as its budget will double to £2bn over the next three years. 21-Oct-2005 East Lindsey District Council has approved plans from Ecotricity to build a wind farm with 20 turbines at Conisholme, near Louth. 21-Oct-2005 Chevron is to expand its Aberdeen headquarters by building a new 110,000 sq ft office on an adjacent site over the next 12 months, in order to provide more space for its 490 staff. 19-Oct-2005 Npower has won government approval to build a £50m 26-turbine onshore wind farm at Little Cheyne Court in the Romney Marsh area. 18-Oct-2005 Eon has confirmed plans to build a £90m biomass power station in Lockerbie by 2007, with the creation of more than 300 jobs in the area. 14-Oct-2005 Celtic Energy is to shed about 36 jobs at the Nant Helen opencast coal mine near Coelbren next month. 10-Oct-2005 Scottish Power is to shed 450 jobs across the UK over the next 18 months, including 120 at the Cathcart business park in Glasgow and 90 in Bellshill. 07-Oct-2005 Ineos Enterprises is to seek planning permission to build an underground gas storage plant at Holford Brinefields in Cheshire. 06-Oct-2005 D1 Oils is aiming to build its first biodiesel refinery on Teesside, in order to produce 8,000 tonnes of biofuel a year, having previously announced plans to move its test refinery to Billingham Industrial Estate. 03-Oct-2005 British Nuclear Fuels is looking to sell its BNG nuclear clean-up operations for at least £150m. 03-Oct-2005 British Gas is to create a further 112 new jobs in Leeds with the expansion of its Home Services division in Wortley. 28-Sep-2005 Edmund Nuttall is expected to win a £33m contract to build a waste-to-energy plant at Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire. 28-Sep-2005 Cenergie of Redcar is seeking a suitable site for a new alkaline fuel cell production plant, which could lead to the creation of up to 90 jobs. 26-Sep-2005 D1 Oils has announced plans to set up a biodiesel research facility on a 60,000 sq ft site at the Billingham Industrial Estate on Teesside, with the creation of up to 30 jobs. 23-Sep-2005 BowLeven is to raise £53m in a share placing to fund its oil exploration programme off West Africa. 21-Sep-2005 Centrica has announced a £150m deal to increase its stake in the South Humber Bank gas-fired power station from 60 to 100%, as part of a strategy to supply more of its customers from its own sources. 21-Sep-2005 Centrica is to spend £2.5bn securing new gas reserves over the next five years, and is currently bidding for Caledonia Oil & Gas, the North Sea operator that could fetch up to £300m. 15-Sep-2005 Wood Group has raised £51m in a share placing to fund expansion projects and acquisitions for its Aberdeen-based oil services business. 14-Sep-2005 Drax, the Yorkshire-based coal-fired power station, has received a £1.9bn takeover approach from Constellation Energy and Perry Capital of the US. 14-Sep-2005 Virgin is to hold talks with various airlines about proposals to build a $2bn oil refinery to produce aircraft fuel, and the company is also interested in setting up an oil exploration business. 14-Sep-2005 Geothermal International has raised £3m of new capital to fund the expansion of its Coventry-based energy business, and has also announced the acquisition of stakes in Geothermal Heating International and GHI Installations. 13-Sep-2005 Welsh Biofuels of Bridgend is to receive a £0.9m investment from the Environment Trust, in order to expand its output of wood pellets from 2,000 to 33,000 tons a year by 2007. 12-Sep-2005 Clipper Windpower is planning to float on Aim this week with a market capitalisation of £180m, in order to fund the expansion of its renewable energy business in the US, Canada, Mexico and the UK. 12-Sep-2005 Mersey Docks & Harbour Company has submitted plans to build three wind turbines in Sefton and two in Liverpool, at a cost of £12m. 09-Sep-2005 Scottish Power is planning a £60m cost-cutting campaign, which could affect hundreds of staff in Glasgow and Bellshill. 09-Sep-2005 South Derbyshire District Council is to consider plans from E.ON UK to build a £350m gas-fired power station at Drakelow by 2009. 08-Sep-2005 UK Coal is to mothball the Rossington coal mine near Doncaster early next year, and some of the 300 staff are expected to be redeployed at other sites around the country. 08-Sep-2005 The Department of Trade & Industry has awarded 152 offshore oil exploration licences, including 24 new entrants to the North Sea, and this has prompted renewed optimism about the UK oil industry. 07-Sep-2005 Petrofac, the London-based oil services company with 3,000 staff in Aberdeen, is planning a £550m flotation next month. 05-Sep-2005 Ecotricity is seeking permission to set up a new wind farm with six turbines at Poplars Farm and Bambers Farm on the Lincolnshire coast. 05-Sep-2005 Able UK has submitted plans to Hartlepool Council to build a £0.25m biogas plant at the Seaton Meadows landfill site, in order to convert waste gas into electricity. 02-Sep-2005 Amerada Hess, the US energy company, is to set up a European headquarters at the Adelphi building in London WC2, having agreed to lease 52,000 sq ft. 29-Aug-2005 Associated British Ports is to build a £1m green fuel storage tank at the port of Goole, in order to import wood pellets, olive residue and other materials for Renewable Fuels. 26-Aug-2005 B9 Energy of Larne is to create 12 new jobs, having won contracts to operate wind farms in Cornwall, Yorkshire, Cumbria, Wales and Co Leitrim. 24-Aug-2005 ATH Resources has won planning permission to extend the Skares Road opencast coal mine near Cumnock in Ayrshire, and now expects to submit plans for the 2m tonne Muir Dean project in Fife later this year. 18-Aug-2005 British Gas is to recruit 116 customer service staff for a new office due to open at the Leeds City Office Park in October. 15-Aug-2005 Scottish Gas is expanding its call centres in Dennistoun and Uddingston, with the creation of 140 jobs. 12-Aug-2005 Central Networks is to spend £40m replacing the electricity supply network in the east side of Birmingham over the next ten years. 11-Aug-2005 Scottish Power is planning to spend £750m expanding its wind farm division, increasing capacity from 250MW to 1,000MW by 2010. 11-Aug-2005 Perth & Kinross Council is considering plans from RWE Npower to build a £5m hydroelectric generating scheme at the River Braan near Dunkeld. 10-Aug-2005 Centrica is to acquire stakes in four North Sea gas fields from Kerr-McGee for £318m, in order to secure supplies for its British Gas customers. 09-Aug-2005 Imperial Energy has raised £50m in a share issue to fund its oil exploration programme in Siberia and Kazakhstan. 25-Jul-2005 Wham Energy is planning to raise up to £12m in an initial public offering to fund its gas exploration programme in the southern North Sea. 25-Jul-2005 Whessoe Oil & Gas has confirmed plans to relocate its headquarters to the Morton Palms business park in Darlington in October, securing the future of more than 135 jobs. 21-Jul-2005 UK Coal is planning to mothball the Harworth colliery in Nottinghamshire, but hopes to transfer many of the 460 jobs to other pits. 20-Jul-2005 Venture Production has raised £29m in a placement of bonds to fund the acquisition of oil assets in the North Sea. 20-Jul-2005 The Welsh Development Agency is setting up a Welsh Energy Research Centre at its Engineering Centre for Manufacturing & Materials in Port Talbot, as part of a collaboration between the universities of Cardiff, Swansea, Glamorgan and Bangor. 19-Jul-2005 Carron Energy is planning to build a £400m gas-fired power station next to its existing Uskmouth coal-fired plant in Newport by 2008, with the creation of 85 permanent jobs. 19-Jul-2005 The University of Manchester is to set up a new centre for nuclear teaching and research called the Dalton Nuclear Institute, and more than 100 academics, research staff and students will work there. 19-Jul-2005 Airtricity has announced plans for the development of a £50m wind farm with 36 turbines at Braes of Doune in Stirlingshire by mid-2006. 18-Jul-2005 Eclipse Energy is considering plans for a flotation early next year, in order to help with the development of the world's first offshore gas and wind energy project off the coast of Barrow. 18-Jul-2005 Centrica is considering plans to shed up to 2,000 back-office jobs at British Gas offices in Manchester, Oldham and Solihull, following the introduction of a computerised billing system. 18-Jul-2005 Centrica has paid £5m for a 40% stake in a gas exploration licence off the coast of East Yorkshire, and has also acquired a 20% stake in a liquefied natural gas project at Canvey Island. 18-Jul-2005 Biofuels Corporation is considering plans to set up a second biodiesel plant, having secured contracts for the sale of most of the output from the first plant due to open on Teesside in September. 18-Jul-2005 The Scottish Executive has approved plans from Fred Olsen Renewables for the expansion of the Crystal Rig wind farm near Dunbar with an extra 52 turbines. 14-Jul-2005 Climate Change Capital has raised £6m from institutional investors to fund the expansion of its environmental advisory business. 14-Jul-2005 Npower, the electricity and gas company, is planning to create 60 new jobs at its call centre in County Durham. 08-Jul-2005 Scottish & Southern Energy and Viking Energy are planning to build a 600MW wind farm in the Shetlands. 07-Jul-2005 Bristol Port Company is to submit plans later this year to build a wind farm with three turbines in Avonmouth. 05-Jul-2005 Paladin Resources has secured government approval to proceed with the £165m development of the Blane oilfield in the North Sea. 05-Jul-2005 Birmingham City Council has secured a £1.3m government grant to build a £4m green energy centre at the Eastside development, which will involve a network of underground pipes to carry heat and electricity to buildings. 04-Jul-2005 Hargreaves is considering plans to relocate its headquarters from Esh Winning to Yorkshire, following the acquisition of the Monckton coke production plant near Barnsley, which has 88 staff. 04-Jul-2005 British Nuclear Fuels is looking to sell its Westinghouse nuclear power plant construction business in the US, having been approached by 15 interested companies. 04-Jul-2005 BP and Scottish & Southern Energy have announced plans to build a new kind of power plant in Peterhead at a cost of £335m, which will involve the conversion of natural gas into hydrogen and carbon dioxide. 04-Jul-2005 British Energy is planning to set up a multi-million pound 16,000 sq ft training facility at Hartlepool Power Station. 01-Jul-2005 Hunting has raised £45m in a rights issue, and some of the proceeds will be spent on acquisitions for its energy services division. 30-Jun-2005 Camcal is planning to create about 40 jobs at Arnish on Lewis, having won a contract from Ocean Power Delivery to produce tube segments for a wave-farm project off the coast of Portugal. 20-Jun-2005 Western Isles Council is planning to set up a hydrogen teaching and research laboratory, with the eventual aim of using the Hebrides to pioneer the development of wind farms that produce hydrogen. 17-Jun-2005 National Grid Transco is planning to drop Transco from its name, and a new logo will be unveiled later this month. 16-Jun-2005 Stolt Offshore is looking to recruit up to 50 engineers for its oil and gas engineering business in Aberdeen. 15-Jun-2005 The Department of Trade & Industry is to allocate £40m to support the development of cleaner electricity generation projects, including hydrogen, fuel cells and technologies to store greenhouse gases under the North Sea. 15-Jun-2005 Granby Oil & Gas is raising £10m in a share placing to fund its North Sea exploration programme. 13-Jun-2005 Wessex Grain is to conduct a feasibility study to build a bioethanol plant on Teesside, and is also planning to create 40 jobs at a new £45m plant in Somerset. 08-Jun-2005 Renew Tees Valley is in talks with Progressive Energy about plans to build an 800MW "clean coal" power plant on Teesside. 08-Jun-2005 Shell Wind-Energy, E.ON UK and CORE have submitted plans to build a £1.5bn wind farm with 270 turbines in the Thames estuary by 2011. 08-Jun-2005 Coressence has announced plans to build a plant in Herefordshire that will use surplus cider apples to generate electricity. 08-Jun-2005 Canatxx is considering plans to build a 1,200MW power station at its recently-acquired bromine works site in Amlwch, Anglesey. 03-Jun-2005 Npower is to proceed with plans for the £100m upgrade of its coal-fired Aberthaw power station in South Wales, in order to meet new EU emissions rules. 03-Jun-2005 British Nuclear Group is to shed about 500 jobs at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria over the next two years. 03-Jun-2005 Npower is seeking a contractor to build a £100m wind farm with 30 turbines at Rhyl Flats off the coast of North Wales. 02-Jun-2005 RWE Nukem of Harwell is planning to expand its workforce from 150 to 300 over the next year, in order to benefit from a new government effort to renovate power stations and handle nuclear waste efficiently. 01-Jun-2005 D1 Oils is raising £25m in a share placing to fund the development of biodiesel production projects in China, Saudi Arabia and India. 01-Jun-2005 Advantage West Midlands has awarded a £1m grant to Eccleshall Biomass to fund the development of a £6.5m grass-fuelled power station in Staffordshire. 30-May-2005 Harworth Power is planning to build the first wind farm in the West Midlands, involving six turbines on the site of a former colliery near Cannock Chase. 26-May-2005 Peel Holdings has won government approval to set up a £50m wind farm with 26 turbines at Scout Moor near Rochdale. 26-May-2005 Shell has announced a "significant" gas discovery at Onyx South West in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. 24-May-2005 Whessoe Oil & Gas is looking to relocate its 200-strong workforce to an alternative location in Darlington, as the lease on its Brinkburn Road site expires later this year. 24-May-2005 Energy4All is looking to set up a co-operative to develop a £15m wind farm with seven turbines near Banff, in partnership with Falck Renewables. 20-May-2005 EarthFirst Technologies of the US and Midwest Transport of Ireland are looking to set up two UK facilities to generate electricity from old tyres over the next three years. 20-May-2005 Ocean Power Delivery has won a £5.5m contract to set up the world's first commercial wave energy installation on the north coast of Portugal. 19-May-2005 Shell is to start the £1.5bn auction of its liquefied petroleum gas business in July. 18-May-2005 Star Capital is looking to sell Inexus, the gas transportation company, for up to £400m. 16-May-2005 ATH Resources is raising £17m in a share issue to finance the acquisition of two undeveloped opencast coal sites at Grievehill and Glenmuckloch from Scottish Coal. 11-May-2005 Scottish Power is to link up with the Co-op to develop a wind farm with eight turbines on a Co-op farm in Coldham, Cambridgeshire, by the end of the year. 11-May-2005 Northern Petroleum is to drill for oil on the Isle of Wight, following the publication of a report that values the island's reserves at £52m. 05-May-2005 RBG is planning to create 250 new jobs at its Aberdeen-based oil services business, having won a number of new contracts. 04-May-2005 AgCert, the Irish company that taps methane from farm slurry pits and then sells the emission credits, is planning to raise £68m in a flotation on the London Stock Exchange. 03-May-2005 Dragon Oil is planning to raise £87m in a share placing to fund the development of its oil and gas fields in Turkmenistan. 02-May-2005 Regal Petroleum has raised £45m in a share placing to fund its exploration activities in Romania, Egypt and Greece. 26-Apr-2005 Vertex is to create 300 jobs at its call centre in Knowsley, having won a new contract to produce gas and electricity bills and statements for PowerGen. 22-Apr-2005 Shell is looking to sell the Auk, Fulmar, and Dunlin oil fields in the North Sea, and industry analysts expect the company to make similar disposals over the next two years. 22-Apr-2005 KP Renewables is to raise up to £15m ahead of a flotation on Aim, in order to invest in alternative energy projects. 18-Apr-2005 HydroVenturi is to invest £2.5m in the commercial development of its renewable energy technology, which harnesses tidal power without the need for moving parts to be submerged under water. 11-Apr-2005 Scottish Coal has won permission to set up three new opencast mines near the village of Douglas in South Lanarkshire. 08-Apr-2005 UK Coal has received a preliminary takeover approach that could value its coal mining business at up to £233m. 07-Apr-2005 Rolls-Royce is forming a joint venture with EnerTek Singapore to invest £53m in the development of a commercial fuel cell-based power system. 07-Apr-2005 Argent Energy is looking to set up at least two more biodiesel production plants in the UK, having just opened a £15m plant in Motherwell that produces fuel from animal fat and cooking oil. 05-Apr-2005 British Gas is to recruit a further 400 door-to-door salesmen, as well as 300 telephone sales staff. 04-Apr-2005 National Grid Transco is to invest £355m in the expansion of the Isle of Grain terminal in Kent by 2008, in order to increase imports of liquefied natural gas. 04-Apr-2005 Centrica is planning to recruit 300 technology experts in the Reading area, in order to handle the upgrade of its customer management and billing systems. 31-Mar-2005 Monitor Oil, the Aberdeen-based supplier of floating production vessels, is planning a £45m flotation on Aim. 30-Mar-2005 Bord Gais Eireann has secured licences to provide natural gas to towns beyond the greater Belfast area, and has committed to making gas available to about 65,000 properties by 2018. 29-Mar-2005 Drax, the Yorkshire-based coal-fired power station, is planning a £1.5bn flotation by the end of the year, following a strategic review by Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. 23-Mar-2005 Seapower of Sweden is seeking permission to test a tidal turbine at Bluemull Sound in the Shetlands this summer, which could lead to the development of a 1.2MW tidal power station. 21-Mar-2005 OSG, the oil tanker group, is in the process of relocating its Tyneside headquarters and 70 staff to the Quorum development at Balliol. 18-Mar-2005 BG Group and Keyspan have agreed to sell the Premier Transmission gas pipeline between Scotland and Northern Ireland to a debt-funded trust called Premier Transmission Financing. 18-Mar-2005 Suffolk Coastal Council has received plans from Saxon Windpower to build a wind farm with six 100m turbines at Parham airfield near Framlingham. 16-Mar-2005 Centrica is inviting tenders to build a £400m gas-fired power station plant at Langage near Plymouth. 16-Mar-2005 Scottish Power has won permission to set up a £20m wind farm with 14 turbines at Wether Hill in Dumfries & Galloway by 2006. 15-Mar-2005 Eclipse Energy is to submit plans for a combined gas and wind farm site six miles off the coast of Barrow to the Department of Trade & Industry in May. 10-Mar-2005 Global Commodities UK is looking to relocate its Norfolk-based biodiesel production facility, and a number of potential sites are being considered. 09-Mar-2005 British Gas is to shed 31 line management jobs at its call centre in Southampton, as part of an ongoing business transformation programme to improve productivity. 09-Mar-2005 SembCorp Utilities has announced plans to build a £60m wood-burning power plant at Wilton on Teesside by 2007, with the creation of about 400 construction jobs and 15 permanent jobs. 08-Mar-2005 The International Petroleum Exchange is to close its open outcry trading floor in London in April, putting up to 200 jobs at risk, following the recent introduction of an electronic trading platform. 08-Mar-2005 Masefield is planning to float its North Sea oil discovery business on Aim, by reversing its Nautical Holdings division into cash shell Bullion Resources in a £20m deal. 07-Mar-2005 Rix Petroleum is to open a new fuel distribution site at Besthorpe in Norfolk by the end of the year, offering a range of fuel products to both private and business users. 03-Mar-2005 British Gas is planning to shed 450 of the 12,000 jobs in its call centres, following the introduction of new IT systems. 03-Mar-2005 The Scottish Executive is to award more than £1m towards the creation of a £6m centre to investigate the commercial viability of tidal power, in order to extend the work being carried out at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney. 01-Mar-2005 ATH Resources is seeking permission to open a further three coal mines in Scotland, including a plan to mine 500,000 tonnes of coal at Laigh Glenmuir in Ayrshire. 28-Feb-2005 UK Coal has secured the future of 520 jobs at Welbeck Colliery in Nottinghamshire, having agreed new working practices with the miners. 25-Feb-2005 North British Windpower and Roxburghe Estates are planning to develop a wind farm with 62 turbines at Fallago Ridge in the Lammermuir Hills of Berwickshire. 25-Feb-2005 Wood Group is to shed a further 70 of the 300 jobs at its energy services business in Dundee. 21-Feb-2005 British Energy is planning to recruit 230 extra staff at its seven power plants, as part of an investment aimed at improving their condition and reliability. 16-Feb-2005 British Nuclear Fuels is to shed 20 jobs at Sellafied over the next 18 months, in order to consolidate its 14 stores into two. 14-Feb-2005 Total SA, the oil company, is to relocate its London office from Cavendish Square to a 26,000 sq ft office at Canary Wharf. 09-Feb-2005 Merthyr Tydfil Council has approved plans for the extraction of 10m tonnes of coal at Ffos Y Fran, with the creation of 200 jobs. 09-Feb-2005 Airtricity is said to be drawing up plans for a £1.2bn wind farm with 5,000 turbines in the North Sea. 08-Feb-2005 Angus Council is to consider plans from Wind Prospect and Ridgewind for the development of a £28m 19-turbine wind farm at Montreathmont Moor. 08-Feb-2005 Intelligent Energy has received a £60m takeover approach from Dickie Walker Marine of the US. 07-Feb-2005 Airtricity has won planning permission to set up a £10m wind farm at Bessy Bell Mountain between Strabane and Omagh by early next year. 01-Feb-2005 MCC Energy is to raise £3m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its renewable energy business. 31-Jan-2005 Transco is to close its gas distribution support office in Mansfield in July, with the loss of 180 jobs. 27-Jan-2005 UK Coal is to close Ellington colliery in Northumberland with the loss of 340 jobs, due to flooding problems. 27-Jan-2005 Premier Asset Management is planning to launch a global renewable energy fund to invest in wind farm projects, and hopes to raise £100m in a flotation on Aim. 25-Jan-2005 Eco2 has won permission to develop two landfill gas projects near Bristol and Merseyside, and the electricity generated will be sold to Economy Power. 21-Jan-2005 BP has announced plans to install a £13m sulphur recovery unit at its Grangemouth refinery by the end of the year. 20-Jan-2005 Calpine Corporation is considering plans to sell the 1,200MW gas-fired Saltend power station near Hull for more than £500m. 19-Jan-2005 Shell is planning to recruit 1,000 engineers to improve the accountability and performance of its worldwide oil exploration and production business. 18-Jan-2005 Peterborough City Council is considering plans from Global Olivine to build Europe's largest recycling plant in the Fengate area of the city, as part of a £250m renewable energy park. 17-Jan-2005 Voller Energy is planning to raise £10m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its fuel cell manufacturing operations in Basingstoke. 17-Jan-2005 Shell is to start transporting supplies from Norway to its North Sea oil rigs in March, prompting speculation that jobs could be lost in the Aberdeen area. 14-Jan-2005 Greenergy is seeking permission to build a £10m biodiesel plant in Immingham, and will use a variety of vegetable oils as fuel. 13-Jan-2005 Shell is in preliminary talks to sell its London-based liquefied petroleum gas business to Texas Pacific Group and Bain Capital for an estimated £1.6bn. 12-Jan-2005 UK Coal is expected to shed jobs at the Kellingley Colliery near Pontefract, due to geological problems at one of the coal seams. 12-Jan-2005 PowerGen has announced a £800m project to convert the Isle of Grain power plant in the Thames Estuary into a gas-fired plant. 10-Jan-2005 Npower Renewables is considering plans to build an onshore wind farm with 26 turbines at Bradwell-on-Sea in Essex. 07-Jan-2005 HgCapital Trust has acquired the Tir Mostyn wind farm project in Nantglyn, Denbighshire, from Windjen Power. 04-Jan-2005 Scottish Fuels is in negotiations to acquire the BP oil depot in Scrabster. 04-Jan-2005 The information below comes from the UK Activity Report. 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