Corporate Fact Sheet

  Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc. is a production-oriented business encompassing refining and petrochemical operations.   The company is a world-scale petrochemical manufacturer with production facilities in Texas and Louisiana.

It operates a refinery with an integrated joint venture steam cracker adjacent to the facility.  The company built its business with a strong manufacturing bias, based on world-scale plants and technologically advanced operations with refining synergies.

The strategy of Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc. has been four-fold:

• to target growth of market share
• integration of well-matched business groups
• focused geographical development
• synergistic opportunities presented from mergers

In the last five years, Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc. has significantly increased capacity and flexibility to meet the demands of the market at four of its manufacturing locations - La Porte, Bayport and Port Arthur, TX and Carville, LA.

Total Petrochemicals USA, Inc. is 40% owner of the largest steam cracker in the world located in Port Arthur, Texas, strategically beside its 174,000 barrel per day refinery.