New technical reports confirm the low yields and are suppressed
In March 2012, Dr. Peter Loezos and Liang Chen wrote a report describing the operations and analyzing the results of the Demo unit’s test results, including bio-oil yields. Loezos was a chemical engineer formerly working for ExxonMobil, and was at this time the Technical supervisor of the Demo unit. He reported to John Hacskaylo. And Loezos and Chen wrote another report in June 2012. Both confirmed that the yields were far lower than the 67 gallons per ton claimed in public documents.
According to a team member familiar with the reports, “they were not allowed by Hacskaylo to publish or discuss their reports and conclusions, even within their own R&D group and their colleagues.”
O’Connor’s Second Strike
On April 21st, Paul O’Connor wrote an update for the Board. His concerns about not receiving raw data were not new, but were revived. But he levels charges at management of preventing him, as a board member, the assistance of an independent expert to review the state of technology advancement. But for the first time, he refers to misleading statements by R&D management. And he called for the hiring of a strong CTO — a position he had himself filled in the distant past.
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