Lubricants, LPG and Oxygenates

Lubricants
Eni operates 7 (owned and co-owned) blending plants, in Italy, Europe, North and South America and the Far East. With a wide range of products composed of over 650 different blends, Eni masters international state of the-art know-how for the formulation of products for vehicles (engine oil, special fluids and transmission oils) and industries (lubricants for hydraulic systems, industrial machinery and metal processing).
In Italy Eni is leader in the manufacture and sale of lubricant bases.
Base oils are manufactured primarily at Eni refinery in Livorno. Eni also owns one facility for the production of additives and solvents in Robassomero.
In 2008, retail and wholesale sales in Italy amounted to 125 ktonnes with a 24.8% market share. Eni also sold approximately 5 ktonnes of special products (white oils, transformer oil and anti-freeze fluids). Outside Italy sales amounted to approximately 111 ktonnes, of these about 50% were registered in Europe (mainly Spain, Germany, and France).

LPG
In Italy Eni is leader in LPG production, marketing and sale with 566 ktonnes sold for heating and automotive use (under the Agip brand and wholesale) equal to a 17.8% market share. Additional 234 ktonnes of LPG were marketed through other channels mainly to oil companies and traders.
LPG activities in Italy are supported by direct production, availability from 5 bottling plants and 4 owned storage sites, in addition to products imported at coastal storage sites located in Livorno, Naples and Ravenna.

Oxygenates
Eni, through its subsidiary Ecofuel (Eni's interest 100%), sells approximately 2 mmtonnes/y of oxygenates mainly ethers (approximately 10% of world demand) and methanol (approximately 1.5% of world demand). About 72% of products are manufactured in Italy in Eni's plants in Ravenna, in Venezuela (in joint venture with Pequiven) and Saudi Arabia (in joint venture with Sabic), the remaining 28% is bought and resold. In 2008 Eni started distributing bio-ETBE on the Italian market in compliance with the new legislation indicating the minimum content of bio-fuels. Bio-ETBE is a kind of MTBE that gained e relevant position in the formulation of gasoline in the European Union, due to the fact that it is produced from ethanol from agricultural crops and qualified as bio-component in the European directive on bio-fuels. World market for ETBE is currently limited to the European Union and Japan and in 2008 was estimated to amount to 2.2 mmtonnes.