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Nervous Petroleum Week crowd thinks the geopolitically unthinkable
These are nervous times in energy markets and on the bridges of oil tankers. Things are going belly up for oil users (which is everyone) and, as I fly home from International Petroleum week in London, my fellow passenger relates that he has been chased through the Indian Ocean by pirates. Nothing surprises me after
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- European consumers mull their options as oil industry takes its leave
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The climate crisis
As a conference chair and journalist I followed closely the long effort to solve Europe's local air quality problems, reporting from the European Parliament on the passage of what I believe remains the largest body of European environmental rule-making.
So, when the game suddenly changed in 2006, and climate came to the fore, I saw the potential of the engineers within the oil industry to make a difference. So I wrote a landmark editorial not quite realising the torrent I'd unleash.About this site
On this site you'll find out some of what greases the wheel of the global economy from a writer who is involved in the world's most powerful commodity markets every day.
Market analysis, technology trends and the story of the policy and strategic sands as they shift to accommodate the great energy memes of our time – climate change and diminishing resources.
There's more information about Tim Lloyd Wright AB here.
Climate change
The world’s first Sailing Climate School
The Sailing Climate School, aboard Sweden’s longest tall-ship, T/S Gunilla, was probably the first floating school of its kind. Tim Lloyd Wright, along with members of the climate initiative he founded, brought an international team together for the four-day voyage to the renewable energy island of Samsø in Denmark.
Where the common ground between my best friends in engineering and I becomes a parkland with fireworks is when we share “aha moments”. It brings out the 10-year-old in me, and I suspect it’s from that curious, excited child in them that they confide these new ways of seeing things, of saving some energy in
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Unhappy about the dieselisation of the marine fleet, then how’s this for a gas?
Forget that smoke and mirrors fuel cell engine that exudes only water vapour, a German company has developed one that emits substantial amounts of CO2, and this may be a very good thing. I generally deride the automotive fuel cell in this column – it’s the less than overwhelming supply of hydrogen that underwhelms me
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Oil market
Nervous Petroleum Week crowd thinks the geopolitically unthinkable These are nervous times in energy markets and on the bridges of oil tankers. Things are going belly up for oil users (which is everyone) and, as I fly home from International Petroleum week in London, my fellow passenger relates that he has been chased through the Indian Ocean by pirates. Nothing surprises me after
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Although I’ve watched it coming, it still feels like a historic moment to see the oil industry pack up its things and leave. If you sell catalysts or pumps, inspection services, display ads or ant-static additives then that low rumble is your market is changing under your feet. Not least, people who buy fuel are
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Energy trends
China finds role as European downstream landscape is redrawn Like for the local couple that went long-distance ice skating here on the Swedish west coast recently, there are disconcerting rumblings of change underfoot in
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Analyze this, Robert De Niro famously demands of his unwilling therapist in the film of the same name. Playing Paul Vitti, a New York gangland
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