The Chief Guest at the seminar will be Mr. Methsiri Wijegunawardena, the acting Chairman of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC). The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation is partly sponsoring the seminar and the speakers include Mr. Cyril Suduwella Deputy General Manager (CPC), researchers at the Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, working on biofuel projects and leading scientists from the University of Peradeniya, University of Colombo and University of Kelaniya.

At the seminar, different fossil fuel types, their world wide distribution, current use and future risks of depletion, comparability of biofuels with petrochemicals and advantages, new trends of fuel research, wood gas production, carbon trading towards sustainable energy development, environmental pollution and health risks of fossil fuel burning and biotechnology in the production of ethanol as a fuel will be discussed.