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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]

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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]

Comment and analysis on fuels and refining

– from Hydrocarbon Processing's Europe Editor

When I went off at this tangent into refining and fuels, my Goldsmiths Alumni buddies rolled their eyeballs and set their own sights on shift work at the London broadsheets and media channels.

But 10 years on what an amazing experience it is turning out to be. Cutting my teeth in energy, fuels and the environment for a decade covering Europe's epic 'Clean Air Act', has been a great preparation for the industrial journalism assignment of the century.

The fuels industry I write about is about to re-invent itself – to undergo change that most of those I talk with yet can't quite yet appreciate. I've learned these last ten years to admire the engineer's focus on solving problems, but also to pan back to reveal the helicopter view of the marketplace or policy environment of this crucial industry.

Business journalism has a vital role to play now as the Third Estate of the monumental project to rebuild the world's energy industry on a sustainable, climate-safe foundation.

These articles to the left are magazine columns, so they're opinionated. Nevertheless that opinion's been tested against readers, interviewees and conferences I've chaired and organised since 1997.

For the leading authority on technology in fuels and processing, it's hard to find a better source than the magazine in which this column runs – Hydrocarbon Processing magazine.