Industries: Chemicals and petroleum

Stakes are high. Your success hinges on effective exploration and production. How can you improve discovery and recovery rates? Reduce lifting costs? Extend and manage maturing fields? IBM solutions can help you find oil faster and lift it more efficiently. Evaluate and maintain oil field assets remotely. In realtime. Manage performance and regulatory compliance.

How can you get leaner, meaner and more efficient? Optimise production and maximise profitability across your portfolio of refinery assets. IBM solutions can help you address fluctuating product demand. Optimise asset utilisation. Improve facility and personnel safety. Outsource non-core functions. Become more profitable.

Fuel margins are low. Competition is fierce -- your competitor's station is across the street. High volume retailers are selling gas at cut rates. How can you draw more traffic into your station? Offer a better standard of service and facilities. Leverage your brand. IBM solutions can help improve your total profitability with increased operational efficiencies. Advanced merchandising techniques. More effective customer loyalty programs.

Global competition. Increasing environmental regulations. Emerging concerns about security. How can you continue to drive down costs and grow your business, while responding to these challenges? IBM solutions can help your commodity chemicals company deliver products at the lowest price possible. Exploit new market opportunities. Increase operational efficiency. Protect the safety of your people and assets.

How can you increase your specialty chemicals market share? Get to know your customers and their customers-and deliver the specialty products they need to solve their business problems. IBM solutions can help you accelerate the innovation process. Rebalance your portfolio. Enter new global markets. Realise the full value of acquisitions faster and with less disruption. Exploit market opportunities.