Ecofuel – a company 100% owned and controlled by Eni S.p.A. as part of the Refining & Marketing Division – manages the production and the marketing of clean fuels gasoline components (in particular oxygenates) and methanol.
Ecofuel is a global operator in the international market of its business. In particular, since the beginning of its activity Ecofuel has mainly operates through the setting up of Joint Ventures with international partners.
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MODEL 231The most important Ecofuel's product is MTBE, of which Ecofuel has availability both by its own production made in Ravenna – Italy and by purchases from abroad Joint Venture Companies in which Ecofuel is partner.
In particular, Ravenna plant has been the first ever built in the world, in 1973. In Venezuela, Ecofuel owns a partnership of 49% in SuperOctanos CA, that manages an MTBE production plant with a capacity of 500,000 tons/yr. In Saudi Arabia, Ecofuel owns a partnership of 10% in Saudi European Petrochemical Co. "Ibn Zahr", the biggest MTBE producer of the country, with 1.4 million ton/yr of total capacity installed.
Ecofuel markets also methanol mainly originated by the production of Supermetanol CA,a company where Ecofuel owns a partnership of 34,5% and that manages in Venezuela a methanol plant production with a capacity of 720,000 ton/yr.
Ecofuel markets worldwide (Europe, the Americas, Asia) approximately 2 million ton/yr of products, carrying out its sales either directly from the production plants or indirectly throughout distribution out from coastal terminals.
The products list is completed with bio-ETBE and with iso-octane.
The bio-ETBE, which may also be produced in Ravenna plant by using bio-ethanol as feed-stock, is a product that, once blended with gasoline, allows to comply with the legislative obligations , recently introduced in Italy, of having a bio-quota in the automotive fuels pool. In Venuezuela is in progress the investment to convert the MTBE SuperOctanos plant for the alternate production of iso-octane and MTBE. Such technology is patented by Snamprogetti-Saipem and Ecofuel.
Ecofuel Headquarter is located in San Donato Milanese:
Ecofuel S.p.A.
Via Felice Maritano, 26
20097 San Donato Milanese – Italy
Tel: + 39 025201
Fax: + 39 0252056186
e-mail: marketing@ecofuel.eni.it
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Last updated on 15/10/09