경영진 답변Brian MandellPresident, Marketing, Commercial, and Renewable Fuels
Thanks, Steve. This is Brian. Appreciate the question on commercial. Maybe I'll start by saying I'm incredibly proud of the commercial team, particularly through this period of historical volatility. The team has done an excellent job. And for P66, commercial is kind of a key source of optimization value because it connects our physical assets to market dislocations and opportunities around the world. As you know, we have six global offices. The organization optimizes feedstocks, moves products into the highest value markets, and also captures value from optionality, from arbitrage, captures value from market structure opportunities as well. And our model at Philips is an asset backed model, which means we use our physical footprint. We use our logistics capabilities and integration and our market access to capture value when markets dislocate. So maybe just give you some examples. In today's market, we can substitute lower cost domestic grades for more expensive international grades in our U.S. refining system and then sell those more expensive international grades at a profit. or as you talked about on freight, you know, our time charter freight position has given us a lot of optionality in tight logistics markets. We've expanded our fleet four fold in the past two years, and now it supports roughly 40% of our asset backed demand, also generating a new third party business. And then Jones Act is another example, you know, of how commercial creates value. We've been granted about 20% of the Jones Act waivers issued since the current waiver took effect in March. And combined with our freight position, these waivers have improved our ability to optimize feedstock and product flows from our refining business, marketing business, and midstream businesses. And then finally, as a result of our time charter fleet growth and increased Panama Canal transits, we now hold a favorable canal ranking. You haven't heard a lot of people talk about this. We're 26 out of 556. which allows us to schedule transits well in advance, avoid high auction fees and reduce waiting times and improve on time reliability. So ultimately I'd sum up by saying commercial is focused on creating value across our integrated businesses by capturing the embedded optionality within and across the system. Thanks so much.