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Exploration
and Production (E&P)
Profile: Explores for and produces crude oil, natural gas
and natural gas liquids on a worldwide basis. Also mines oil sands
to produce Syncrude. A key strategy is to accelerate growth by developing
legacy assets — very large oil and gas developments that can provide
strong financial returns over long periods of time — through exploration,
exploitation, redevelopments and acquisitions; and by focusing exploration
on larger, lower-risk areas.
Operations:
At year-end 2002, ConocoPhillips held a combined 102 million net
developed and undeveloped acres in 29 countries, and produced hydrocarbons
in 14. Crude oil production in 2002 averaged 682,000 barrels per
day (BPD), gas production averaged 2.05 billion cubic feet per day
and natural gas liquids production averaged 46,000 BPD. Key regional
focus areas include the North Slope of Alaska; Canada; offshore
China; the Lower 48 United States, including the Gulf of Mexico;
Kazakhstan; Nigeria; the North Sea; Southeast Asia; the Timor Sea;
and Venezuela.
Strengths:
Seismic imaging technology; deepwater exploration; reservoir management
and exploitation; enhanced oil recovery; managing large offshore
developments; operations in the North Sea, Arctic and other environmentally
sensitive areas.
Competitors:
Major integrated petroleum companies, including ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco,
BP, Shell and TotalFinaElf; independent exploration and production
companies, including Apache, Burlington Resources and Devon Energy;
and national oil companies.
Customers:
Third-party refiners and processors, large industrial users and
ConocoPhillips’ refining operations.
Refining
and Marketing (R&M)
Profile: Refines crude oil and markets and transports petroleum
products. ConocoPhillips is the largest refiner in the United States
and the fifth-largest refiner in the world.
Operations:
Refining — At year-end 2002, ConocoPhillips owned 12 U.S.
refineries (excluding two refineries held for sale), owned or had
an interest in five European refineries and had an interest in one
refinery in Malaysia, totaling a combined net crude oil refining
capacity of 2.6 million barrels of oil per day. Marketing
— At year-end 2002, ConocoPhillips’ gasoline and distillates were
sold through approximately 17,000 branded outlets in the United
States, Europe and Southeast Asia. In the United States, products
were primarily marketed under the Phillips 66, 76 and Conoco brands.
In Europe and Southeast Asia, the company marketed primarily under
the Jet and ProJET brands. ConocoPhillips also marketed lubricants,
commercial fuels, aviation fuels and liquid petroleum gas. ConocoPhillips’
refined products sales were 2.3 million barrels per day in 2002.
The company also participated in joint ventures that support the
specialty products business. Transportation — R&M owned or
had an interest in about 31,500 miles of pipeline systems in the
United States at year-end 2002.
Strengths:
Branded wholesale marketing; refining technologies; aviation gasoline
sales; and refining capabilities.
Competitors:
Major refiners and marketers in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific
including ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil, Shell, TotalFinaElf and BP;
independent refiners/marketers, including Valero, Tesoro and Sunoco;
and hypermarts such as
Wal-Mart.
Customers:
Independent marketers and the consuming public.
Midstream
Profile: Midstream consists of ConocoPhillips’ 30.3 percent
interest in Duke Energy Field Services, LLC (DEFS), as well as certain
ConocoPhillips assets in the United States, Canada and Trinidad.
Midstream gathers natural gas, extracts and sells the natural gas
liquids (NGL) and sells the remaining (residue) gas. Headquartered
in Denver, Colo., DEFS is one of the largest natural gas gatherers,
NGL producers and NGL marketers in the United States.
Operations:
At year-end 2002, DEFS’ gathering and transmission systems included
some 60,000 miles of pipelines, mainly in seven of the major U.S.
gas regions, plus western Canada. DEFS also owned and operated,
or owned an equity interest in 71 NGL extraction plants. Raw natural
gas throughput averaged 7.4 billion cubic feet per day, and NGL
extraction averaged 392,000 BPD in 2002. In addition to its interest
in DEFS, ConocoPhillips owned or had an interest in an additional
13 NGL extraction plants at year-end 2002.
Strengths:
Assets in major gas-producing regions; efficient, reliable low-cost
operations; and critical mass for growth transactions.
Competitors:
Williams, El Paso, BP, ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, ONEOK and Koch.
Customers:
Primarily major and independent natural gas producers, local gas
distribution companies, electrical utilities, industrial users and
marketing companies. Among DEFS’ customers for NGL are Chevron Phillips
Chemical Company and ConocoPhillips’ R&M operations.
Chemicals
Profile: ConocoPhillips participates in the chemicals sector
through its 50 percent ownership of Chevron Phillips Chemical Company
LLC (CPChem), a joint-venture company formed with Chevron (now ChevronTexaco)
on July 1, 2000. Headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, its major
product lines include: olefins and polyolefins, including ethylene,
polyethylene, normal alpha olefins and plastic pipe; aromatics and
styrenics, including styrene, polystyrene, benzene, cyclohexane,
paraxylene and K-Resin® styrene-butadiene copolymer; and specialty
chemicals and plastics.
Operations:
CPChem’s major facilities in the United States are at Baytown, Borger,
Conroe, La Porte, Orange, Pasadena, Port Arthur and Old Ocean, Texas;
St. James, La.; Pascagoula, Miss.; and Marietta, Ohio. The company
also has nine plastic pipe plants and one pipefittings plant in
eight states, and a petrochemical complex in Puerto Rico. Major
international facilities are in Belgium, China, Saudi Arabia, Singapore,
South Korea and Qatar. CPChem also has a plastic pipe plant in Mexico.
Strengths:
One of the world’s largest producers of ethylene, polyethylene,
styrene, alpha olefins, and one of the largest marketers of cyclohexane.
Competitors:
Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, BP, Equistar and Shell.
Customers:
Primarily companies that produce industrial products and consumer
goods.
Emerging
Businesses
ConocoPhillips has four emerging businesses under development: fuels
technology, natural gas-to-liquids technology, power generation
and emerging technologies. These businesses are closely tied to
the company’s core operations and offer growth potential.
Fuels Technology:
S Zorb is ConocoPhillips’ proprietary technology for removing
sulfur from gasoline and diesel streams during refining. The technology
is proven to reduce sulfur content in fuels to levels well below
allowable limits proposed by regulators in the United States and
Europe. The technology has been licensed to five refiners worldwide,
and ConocoPhillips plans to install the technology at several of
its U.S. refineries.
Gas-to-Liquids:
Commissioning of a gas-to-liquids demonstration plant will begin
in 2003 at the Ponca City, Okla., refinery. Once the technology
is proven, ConocoPhillips will be capable of building a commercial-scale
plant. The company’s new gas-to-liquids technology has the potential
to convert stranded natural gas reserves in remote locations to
liquids that can be economically transported to market.
Power Generation:
ConocoPhillips is using creativity and innovation to access new
high-growth markets for natural gas and electricity. By integrating
power generation with ConocoPhillips’ upstream and downstream businesses,
the company is able to structure power projects — such as cogeneration
— to provide maximum value for both ConocoPhillips and its customers.
Emerging
Technologies: The emerging technologies portfolio includes a
variety of business ventures and technical programs that are pioneering
the future energy landscape, including renewable energy, advanced
hydrocarbon processes, energy conversion technologies and hydrocarbon
upgrading opportunities.
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