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Baltic Clean

Fuels Project

Investment Overview
Winter 2016
Baltic New Technologies
•  Aim - to build a heavy hydrocarbons-to-diesel processing complex

•  Location – Ventspils, Latvia

•  Unique Technology – Veba Combi Cracking (owned by British Petroleum, licensed by KBR)

•  Expected Output - > 1 mln tpa of diesel

•  Target Revenue per year - > USD 1.7 bln

•  Target Profitability - EBITDA margin 25%

•  Total Investment Cost - estimated at USD 1.6 bln

•  Solving a lack of diesel production capacity in the European Union

•  Expecting to contribute nearly 5% to Latvian GDP

•  Creation of additional thousands of jobs

•  The only private sector project in Latvia formally endorsed under the framework of the European
Commission President’s EUR 300bln Investment Plan 2014-2020 for Europe

•  EUR 102mln tax exemption approved by the Government of Latvia and the European Commission

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Project Snapshot

ADVANCED VCC FEEDSTOCK PRODUCTS


TECHNOLOGY
Coal (30%): Ultra-low-sulphur
State-of-the-art 0.6 mln tpa diesel
process, that Up to 1.2 mln tpa
allows to maximize
conversion of heavy High sulphur fuel
hydrocarbons into oil HSFO (70%): Petrochemical
high quality light 1.4 mln tpa naphtha
oil products Up to 0.4 mln tpa
VCC Advantages

Ready for use high quality products


New opportunities for utilization of low-value feedstock
VCC — Veba Combi Cracker
technology
Progress snapshot to date
Set up of Baltic New Long-term land lease Memorandum of
Technologies, project SPV agreement signed with Free Port Understanding and term sheet
domiciled in Latvia of Ventspils signed with
Vitol Group, leading public
energy and commodities
Company, for supply and take-off
Feasibility study completed Government of the Republic
by KBR of Latvia approved tax
relief in the amount of Memorandum of
EUR 102mln Understanding and term
Proposals for Licenses and (Endorsed by European sheet signed
Basic Design Packages of Commission) with Ventspils Nafta
the main units received Terminals for the use of basic
infrastructure

Commercial proposals Core project team Memorandum of


For FEED received from top- comprising top-ranked Understanding signed with
ranked international industry professionals Linde Group for the
contractors construction of hydrogen unit
of VCC facility under Build-
Own-Operate arrangement

The project is officially sealed as strategically important by the


Government of Latvia and European Commission

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