Downstream engine

The implementation of our strategy will see us actively manage our assets around three themes in Downstream:

• operational excellence and cost efficiency, to maximise the uptime and operating performance of our asset base, and to reduce costs and complexity;
  
  
  
• optimise profitability of our portfolio of refineries that best integrate with crude supplies, marketing outlets and local petrochemical plants; and
  
  
  
• selective growth in countries such as Brazil, China and India, which have high growth potential, while maintaining or increasing our margins in our core countries. This includes researching, developing and marketing biofuels.