banner4copy

Energy industry column

Dutch IGCC pioneers chalk up pain and gain
Site manager talks of 5000 plant modifcations [June 07]

Emergency response is behind schedule in the European public sector
Commission threatens legal action against lax COMAH planning [May 07]

A new refining industry in Europe's Asian Corridor
South East Privatisations full steam ahead [Apr 07]

Commission proposes milestone energy proposal
A sea change in climate policy [Mar 07]

Replace fuel oil with distillate?
But how, ask refiners [Feb 07]

Cancelled projects will sustain margins
66 new refineries. 180 upgrading projects and another 180 for clean fuels [Jan 07]

“Marine distillate not fuel oil from 2010”
Tanker association shocks bunker fuels world [Dec 06]

Branson's biofuels megastore
Virgin Fuels has already invested heavily in new fuels [Nov 06]

You heard it here first: refinery CO2 storage a reality in Norway
Mongstad told to sequestrate [Oct 06]

Buncefield 2: Investigation critical
A breathtaking overfilling equivalent to 50 open firehoses of gasoline – for hours! [Sep 06]

Where now for Swedish Class 1 diesel
Oil companies at each other's throats over the need for Europe's cleanest diesel [Aug 06]

My slow awakening to climate change
This is the article that marked my epiphone and outraged climate sceptics [Jul 06]

The luckiest motorist alive
The Buncefield investigation tells of the driver who stalled – and then restarted – his car inside the gas plume [Jun 06]

Safety row goes on over Europe's largest LNG terminal
liquid gas safety caused a firey debate here at the magazine too [May 06]

New WHO guidelines on city air quality put focus on diesel
particulates are still a major killer in failing European cities [Apr 06]

Would LNG really 'evaporate harmlessly' in an accident?
Some experts think maybe not [Mar 06]

Another lesson in the thermobaric bomb
But the physics of Buncefield comes as a surprise [Feb 06]

Fat margins, large pay rises, small clichés
Last new year I asked if the good times would continue. They did [Jan 06]

Spare a thought for the oil-rich
Join me at this festive time in sparing a thought for the fantastically wealthy [Dec 06]

But will the good times keep on rolling?
- some rellish the highs of a hot fuels and process technology market, others are bracing themselves for the decent[Nov 05]

Carbon storage and the zero emissions refinery
- the arguments are stacking up for fundamental changes in refi nery design [Oct 05]

Everything just changed
-Bush at G8 statement has massive implications [Sept 05]

E85 and high octane gasolines
- some are whacky some profitable [August 05]

The problem of small-minded young engineers
- at Europe's largest chem eng meeting [July 05]

New Permit Regulations
- a trickle of small cap projects became a flood [June 05]

Biodiesel newbuilds and a new green superfuel
- The new Neste Oil looks to clean up [May 05]

Spilled wine and our split industry
- Exxon Mobil CEO targeted on Kyoto entry-into-force day [April 05]

Drilling down into the prospects for IGCC
- Refinery power a nuclear alternative? [March 05]

The beginning of the start of the end of oil
- A painful 100-year adjustment [Feb 05]

Download Energy Industry Resumé with work samples
Screen (665k)
Print

Profile: Tim Lloyd Wright MA

Here you'll find a brief profile of my work with international energy, transport and associated environmental issues.

Energy trends articles

You heard it here first: refinery CO2 storage a reality in Norway
Mongstad told to sequestrate [Oct 06]

From the archive...

Over-processed fuel leaves oil tankers adrift
Oil tankers powerless at sea with fuel problems are part of the legacy of Auto Oil II [Nov 03]