Paul Willacy

A graduate mechanical engineer and specialist in design, manufacturing, process engineering and project management of multi-million pound developments within the oil industry around the globe. Paul began working with gasification in 2000 whilst working on a research project with Newcastle University for creating energy from oil waste streams.

Since 2007, Paul has been working exclusively in the gasification sector gaining vast experience in all aspects of the sector from designing and running gasification equipment, project development, feedstocks management, planning and permitting, fundraising, etc, which then led to him founding Compact Syngas Solutions in 2020 to look at non power applications for gasification such as hydrogen and liquid fuels. Paul is involved in all aspects of the industry from the technical, project management and the engineering element right through to, project development, fund raising, planning and permitting, health and safety, energy trading, etc.

During this time, he has also been building an expert team of full-time staff, specialist sub-contractors and associates to ensure that all areas equipment design and manufacture can be offered to the highest quality and meeting all aspects in terms if safety and legislation.