Since 1943, EIC has been helping its members, energy supply chain businesses, to understand, pursue and win energy market opportunities around the globe, helping them to export, diversify and grow. Over the last 2-3 years, we have been compiling an EIC History Book, capturing some of the most notable steps taken by EIC teams, past and present, to help our members, to grow and develop, and to adapt and be resilient to market changes. We are now delighted to begin the process of publishing the EIC History Book, chapter by chapter, over the next year. We hope you find these chapters both fascinating and insightful, and that you will learn what we have also learnt while researching this book and these stories, that there is much to learn from history, that can be directly applied to today.