Driven by the need to develop cleaner and more efficient energy systems, an extraordinary array of chemical-looping-based process concepts have been proposed and researched over the past 10 years. An overview of these technology options, particularly those proposed/developed over the last 3 years, is presented in this paper. The focus, however, would be primarily on process-related aspects of such advanced chemical looping concepts for novel energy and fuels applications rather than aspects such as oxygen carriers, redox properties, and solid circulation/transport, which have been adequately covered in several other reviews.