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1 Products &ServicesTechnologiesfor the refining , Petrochemicals & Gas IndustriesAxens is an established name in the hydrocarbon industry. Our objective is to be yourtechnologybenchmark company for applications in the refining , petrochemicaland gas processing sectors. This brochure is furnished to give you a better idea ofthe overall Axens offer as a technology, catalyst & adsorbent and service hope that you will find this information of interestand will visit our Internet site,at , or contact our business units for additional our name is new, we are a company backed by nearly fifty years of commercial combination of the technology and services group with the catalyst & adsorbents manu-facturing and supply business has created an efficient organization that handles your needs asa single your performance and helping you to be more successful is our only business.

2 We area non-aligned, pure technology company. We do not sell motor fuels or chemicals; we do notoperate service stations. There is only one thing that we do provide technology and the productsand services that are needed to make your hydrocarbon processes operate at their top perfor-mance. And our goal is to do this better than anyone else in the is built on an image of reference technology quality Products that are commerciallyproven, dependable, reliable and cost effective. We hope that this image is transmitted throughour corporate identity, through our technical and commercial personnel and through ourtrademarks. Welcome to Axens, the home of.

3 ACE Technology, Alkyfining, Alphabutol,Arofining, Benfree, CRSC laus catalysts, Dimersol, EquiFlow, H-Oil, HR seriescatalysts, Hyvahl,LD seriescatalysts, Liquefin, Manufacturing Quick Wins, Multibed, Octanizing, Oparis,ParamaX, Prime-G+, Prime-D Toolbox, and many, many SentenacPresident & Chief Executive OfficerJean-Pierre FranckChief Operating OfficerJean SentenacJean-Pierre Franck4A Historical Perspective Axens was created by IFP (Institut Fran aisdu P trole) on June 30, 2001 through themerger of the Procatalyse Catalysts andAdsorbents company with IFP s IndustrialDivision specialized in technology licensingand services.

4 This provides us with a singlesource offering of technology, Products andservices and enables us to more efficientlyand rapidly respond to customer was created in 1959 by IFP,to leverage IFP s knowledge in catalystsfor the refining and petrochemical industryand to have the Products required for itsprocess s Industrial Division traces its originsto its first technology license in immediately after its creation,in 1944, IFP began assembling a firstclass graduate school for engineeringin the fields of petroleum and motorsciences and an active program to developimproved methods and technologies forrefining crude oil to motor fuels and Service CenterFranceSolaizeSalindresRueil-Malmai son(Headquarters)[Built on Rock-SolidBuilt onRock-Solid FoundationsAxens North America and Axens Far Eastare wholly owned companies serving theNorth American and Far East marketsrespectively.]

5 Our operational organizationhas three business units covering: technol-ogy licensing, catalyst & adsorbent manu-facturing and supply and operationalimprovement programs. Three technicaldepartments serve the business units, TechService and two marketing and technologygroups: Gasoline & Petrochemicals ; Hydro-processing, Conversion & MissionAxens mission is to continually improveour customers performance. We will growby a combination of internal growth andtargeted alliances and acquisitions with thecontinuous objective of providing our cus-tomers with the best overall technologies, Products and services available ServiceGasoline & PetrochemicalsHydroprocessing, Conversion & ClausAxens North America (Princeton, Houston)Axens Far East (Tokyo)Process LicensingProcatalyse Catalysts & AdsorbentsPerformance ProgramsMarketing, Technology & ServicesBusiness UnitsExecutive ManagementIn 1995, the Princeton, NJ, USA basedHydrocarbon Research Institute (HRI)was acquired.

6 Created in 1943 with along history of heavy oil and coal upgradingtechnologies, the HRI heritage is now animportant part of Axens North Organization[[d FoundationsOur Customers Span the GlobeWorldwide NetworkOur Products and services are present in virtuallyevery country having hydrocarbon processing us on the web or anytime, operate a worldwide is one of the world s foremostsuppliers of technologies, Products andservices to the refining , petrochemicalintermediates and gas processing markets. Our strong position in petroleum refiningcovers virtually every area from naphthahydrotreating through vacuum residueconversion and offers commercially provensolutions for clean fuels production.]]

7 We are a world class provider in the petro-chemical sector, with leading positions inAxens is a premier technology deliver to our customers: optimizationand feasibility studies; basic engineeringpackages for small revamps through tomajor grassroots complexes; hazop studies;detailed engineering reviews; and much,much purification of monomer-intermediatesand specialty olefins and in the productionand purification of aromatic intermediates:benzene, toluene and gas processing, Axens is a long-standingleader as a performance catalyst supplierin sulfur removal by the Claus company is also entering the naturalgas liquefaction field (Liquefinprocess)and positioning itself in GTL technology,based on Fischer-Tropsch ServedTechnology Licensing6 GasolineGasoline production and specification at-tainment are areas in which we are marketpace setters.

8 Our Octanizing(CCR Reform-ing) and R2R(FCC) technologies arecornerstones for gasoline Prime-G+(naphtha desulfurization),Benfree(benzene reduction), Ipsorb(recycleisomerization), C5/C6isomerizationand ethers technologies are key processblocks for ensuring gasoline specificationattainment. Classed by the number ofawarded licenses, all of these technologiesare either worldwide market leaders orsecond in their advantages: our human resources,our commitment to continuous develop-ment and the search for improvement, andour large array of technologies, productsand services. One of our strongest corebusinesses is in motor fuels production,purification and optimization.

9 [The Motor FuelsThe MotorFuels ExpertGasoline & Diesel Fuel Solutions7 Manufacturing Quick WinsOur Performance Programs team providesstudies to optimize production goalsthrough many different services, such as:hydrogen hunting to find unexploitedrefinery hydrogen; carbon dioxide auditing to reduce fuel and electrical consumption;crude assay studies to optimize refinerymargins; and advanced process controland complete refinery optimization have been in diesel hydrotreatinglonger than in any other refining technol-ogy. Our Prime-D Toolboxis a market front-runner in ensuring high quality, ultra lowsulfur diesel (ULSD).]

10 We provide highactivity and high stability HR seriescatalysts and the most advanced reactorinternals in the industry EquiFlow. Whenit comes to diesel production, we havetechnologies that are either dedicatedto producing ULSD or to producing dieselin combination with feeds for other units,for example: H-Oil, Hyvahl, MHDC(mild hydrocracking), HyTail(intermediatefraction hydrocracking) and HDC-HP(high severity hydrocracking).[[Alkyfining, Catacol, Dimersol-G, Prime-D Toolbox, Prime-G+,Polynaphtha, Selectopol, R2R8 Naphtha & Middle DistillatesFCC ComplexBenfree, CCR Octanizing, Dualforming, Ipsorb, Hexorb, Prime-D ToolboxRefiningRefiningProviding technological solutions for all production goals9 Residues & Heavy FractionsLube Oils, White Oils, ParaffinsHDC-HP, Revivoil, SelectopropaneHDC-HP, H-Oil, HyTail, Hyvahl, MHDC, R2R, Solvahl, T-StarOur satisfied customers have made us a lead-ing provider of petrochemical intermediateproduction and purification ProcessingSteam crackers are the heart of the world solefins production.]]