Licensed Technologies Innovative | Proven | Value-adding lyondellbasell.com Saudi Ethylene and Polyethylene Company (SEPC), Al-Jubail Industrial City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia LyondellBasell is the world’s third-largest independent chemical company. We have annual revenues of approximately $30.8 billion and more than 14,000 employees worldwide. Our vertically integrated facilities, broad product portfolio, manufacturing flexibility, superior technology base and reputation for operational excellence enable us to deliver exceptional value to our customers across the petrochemical chain – from refining to advanced product applications. Product diversity and vertical integration allow LyondellBasell to capture value at every step of the petrochemical chain. Natural Gas Wellhead Crude Liquids Capturing value along the chain Refining Refining Fuels Olefins Olefins Crackers Olefins Aromatics T echnology Propylene Olefin OxyFuels Polyethylene Polypropylene Polybutene-1 Acetyls Ethylene Oxide Styrene Derivatives Oxide Glycols, Glycol Ethers Glycols 2nd Level PP Catalloy Derivatives Compounding Butanediol Glycol Ethers Refining & OxyFuels Olefins & Polyolefins Olefins & Polyolefins Intermediates & Derivatives Technology Americas Europe, Asia & International 2 A global leader in polyolefins and chemicals technology, production and marketing About LyondellBasell LyondellBasell’s technologies are some of the Global capacity positions most reliable, efficient and cost effective in the With major administrative offices in Houston, world. With over 280 licensed lines around Polyolefin Licensing 1st Texas, and Rotterdam, The Netherlands, the globe based on various LyondellBasell Polypropylene Catalysts 1st LyondellBasell has combined annual revenues technologies, we have an unmatched track of approximately $30.8* billion and more than record of licensing and know-how transfer Polyolefins and Polypropylene 14,000 employees worldwide. that helps our customers to explore new Compounding 1st opportunities across the entire petrochemical At LyondellBasell, we clearly recognize the Polypropylene 1st value chain. importance of being a responsible corporate Oxygenated Fuels 1st citizen in our communities. We are committed to operating our businesses with the highest Fast facts Propylene Oxide 2nd principles of integrity, ethics and corporate Vertically-integrated facilities enable responsibility, as well as the highest standards of Polyethylene 3rd conversion of crude hydrocarbons to health, safety and environmental performance. materials for advanced applications Ethylene 4th Our vertically-integrated facilities, advanced Global reach and scope to compete Propylene 4th technology base and licensing portfolio, broad effectively worldwide product range, manufacturing flexibility, Refining capacity 373,000 and reputation for operational excellence Business segments: Technology; Olefins barrels per day allow us to deliver exceptional value to our & Polyolefins; Intermediates & Derivatives; customers – from refining through to advanced and Refining & Oxyfuels product applications. A technology business that leads its industry As the only licensor worldwide offering in process technology licensing and catalysts process technologies for the production of Annual revenues of $30.8 billion* all polypropylene and polyethylene product families, LyondellBasell also provides a selective 59 manufacturing sites in 18 countries on range of chemical technologies based on in- five continents house manufacturing, product development and process design expertise. Sales in more than 100 countries *Based on 2009 revenues 3 Innovation makes the difference for polyolefins, catalysts and chemical technologies A continuing customer relationship LyondellBasell’s customers continue to benefit from our R&D advancements and integrated know-how in catalysts, processes and products that enhance your manufacturing capabilities. 4 A comprehensive portfolio of licensed technologies Polyolefins Technologies Chemicals Technologies Olefins Conversion PE Lupotech Spherilene Hostalen Olefins Recovery Cracker Aromatics Extraction PP Spherizone Acetyls Spheripol Metocene Oxiranes and Derivatives A sustainable competitive These developments have been pivotal in QVAM-1 catalyst. This legacy has continued advantage the success of the Spheripol PP process and with the recent development of the next- the latest Spherizone multi-zone reactor generation, highly-efficient QVAM-2 catalyst Intense competition, cyclical over-capacity and PP technology innovation. technology, which offers a leading operating- ongoing restructuring are among the many cost position and a catalyst life three times that business pressures facing the chemical industry Pioneering of alternative technologies. today. LyondellBasell understands that there The same Glacido Acetic Acid process first is no simple formula that meets the needs of LyondellBasell pioneered the high-pressure commercialized by LyondellBasell in 1980 each and every company. Our strategic focus tubular LDPE market with Lupotech T, and in now incorporates LyondellBasell’s latest is to create innovative polyolefin and chemical 2000 invested in the first world-scale plant proprietary “low-water” catalyst promoter products with flexible process technologies in Aubette, France. LyondellBasell’s Hostalen system technology. This technology can which deliver superior performance and technology, which was first commercialized in deliver optimum process economics, material cost-effective solutions to meet the changing 1964 and now produces a globally established selection enhancements and economies of requirements of our customers. product range, has been further enhanced with the multimodal Hostalen ACP configuration scale while producing more than double the LyondellBasell offers process technologies for high-performance HDPE products. original capacity. and associated services for the entire PP and The strength of LyondellBasell’s proven PE portfolio. From the first industrial polypropylene and polyethylene processes to the latest Spherizone Trans4m process technologies lies in the Our customers benefit from LyondellBasell’s multi-zone circulating reactor and Spherilene simplified modular approach to achieving Avant family of polyolefin catalysts and the gas-phase polyethylene platform, LyondellBasell a complete solution. The Trans4m chemical integrated know-how we have in catalysts, and its predecessors have delivered state-of- processes include catalytic technologies for the processes and products that enhance your the-art polyolefin catalysts, technologies, and selective conversion, separation, purification manufacturing capabilities. products to customers worldwide. and isomerization of low-value, mixed-olefin streams from crackers. The comprehensive Heritage Extensive experience Trans4m process technology range includes Butadiene extraction; skeletal isomerisation of It began with the polyolefin catalyst discoveries In terms of chemical technologies, LyondellBasell C4 and C5 olefins; etherification of isobutene of Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, who were benefits from a rich heritage of breakthroughs to MTBE and ETBE; separation of saturated C4 awarded the Nobel Prize in 1963. This legacy and achievements in the design and operation products, isomerization of C4 and C5 olefins; has continued through five revolutionary of processes. LyondellBasell commercialized and separation and purification of isoprene, generations of Avant Ziegler-Natta catalysts to its Vacido Vinyl Acetate Monomer (VAM) piperylene and dicyclopentadiene (DCPD). the development of a new metallocene-based technology in 1969 with the first-generation polypropylene catalyst, Metocene. 5 Polyolefin technologies Sustained leadership in polyolefin processes LyondellBasell is a global leader in the development and licensing of polyolefin processes and related catalysts for the production of the entire polyethylene and polypropylene product portfolio. A leading share of the world’s polyolefins capacity is based on the six key LyondellBasell polyolefin technologies: Lupotech, Spherilene, Hostalen, Spherizone, Spheripol and Metocene. 6 Olefins Conversion PE Olefins Recovery Aromatics Extraction PP Acetyls Oxiranes and Derivatives Licensed polyethylene technologies and services Lupotech Spherilene Hostalen Leading high-pressure tubular and autoclave Flexible gas-phase process technology for Low-pressure slurry process for high- processes for the production of LDPE and the production of LLDPE, MDPE and HDPE performance multimodal HDPE EVA copolymers Simple process design High-performance grades using multimodal More than 10 million tonnes of total HDPE including film, blow molding and licensed capacity* Extended process flexibility, very competitive pipe applications capital costs and very low operating costs State-of-the-art 400 kt/a single-line Eight million tonnes of global tubular plant in Saudi Arabia More than 3.5 million tons of bimodal and multimodal HDPE capacity licensed capacity Wide grade slate, including EVA-copolymers Forty-one licensed lines and nine with up to 40% VA content Eleven lines in operation and two lines lines under construction* under construction or in start-up Low investment and operating costs Excellent operability Propietary Avant catalysts for the entire Stable, flexible and optimized operability range of products Proven single-line capacities up to 400 kt/a Single-line autoclave capacity >100 kt Entire range of products covering the full *as of May 2010 and tubular capacity