Energy Efficiency

Energy Use and Efficiency

Using calendar 2007 as our baseline year, we have set new intensity-based energy efficiency goals for our large ASUs and HyCO facilities, which today represent approximately 70% of our company’s total global energy requirements. These global goals are meant to achieve a 7% reduction in energy consumption at our ASUs per quantity of gas produced and a 7% reduction in fuel and feedstock consumption per quantity of hydrogen produced at our HyCO plants by 2015.

In addition to these energy goals, programs aimed at improving our energy consumption in other areas include:

• Targeted fuel efficiency improvement of 1%–2% per year for our Merchant hauling fleet
• Use of advanced controls and data evaluation techniques to improve product yields and efficiencies at our
Performance Materials facilities