Minerals - Koch Industries, Inc.

Koch Carbon LLC, KOMSA and The C. Reiss Coal Company, subsidiaries of koch Mineral Services, are world leaders in trading and marketing petroleum coke, coal, salt, slag, cement, clinker, ocean freight and other dry bulk commodities. This conveyer at Koch Carbon's Chicago site can move 3,000 tons of petroleum coke an hour.

July 23, 2008

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Minerals & Fertilizers

As Koch companies built operating and trading expertise around petroleum-related businesses, they saw opportunities to branch out into other industries. In the early 1970s, Koch Hydrocarbon Company and its affiliates moved into gas liquids gathering and fractionation, a business that was ultimately sold in 2005. In 1976, Koch created a carbon business to sell petroleum coke, a by-product of refining, from the Pine Bend refinery. And following the acquisition of ammonia assets, Koch Nitrogen Company was formed to market nitrogen-based fertilizers.

DIVERSIFYING PORTFOLIOS
Today, Koch Mineral Services, LLC and its affilates are among the world's largest dry-bulk commodity handlers. They market and trade more than 23 million metric tons of product annually, primarily to customers in the utility, cement, steel, fertilizer, and pulp and paper industries.

A BROAD ARRAY OF COMMODITIES
Koch Carbon, LLC and its affiliates globally trade and transport petroleum coke, coal, cement, sulfur and other related commodities through a network of company owned or operated bulk import/export terminals in the United States, Europe and Venezuela. The C. Reiss Coal Company is a leading supplier of coal and related products typically used in industrial applications or to generate electricity.

OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION
Koch Exploration Company and its affiliates are involved in oil and natural gas production, focusing on optimizing and trading the assets within their portfolios. These companies acquire, develop and trade properties in the United States, Canada and Brazil that produce crude oil, conventional oil, unconventional gas (coalbed methane, tight sandstones and fractured shales) and conventional natural gas. Experimenting with drilling and production practices as well as optimizing asset value through trading are key company strategies. The companies have offices in Calgary, Denver and Rio de Janeiro.

NITROGEN FERTILIZERS
From a single ammonia production facility and import terminal in the United States, Koch Nitrogen Company and its affiliates have become one of the world's largest producers and marketers of nitrogen fertilizers. Koch Nitrogen companies continue to expand their capabilities to serve customers' needs to ammonia, urea and UAN.

Koch Nitrogen companies have the capability to manufacture, market and distribute more than 8 million metric tons of fertilizer annually. In addition to its production capacity in North America, Koch Nitrogen companies own interests in plants in Venezuela, and Trinidad and Tobago, and market much of their production. Koch Nitrogen Company and its affiliates’ marketing representatives cover global demand with personnel in Wichita, Kansas; Brandon, Manitoba; Geneva; London; Cayman Islands; Paris, France; and Beijing. Koch Nitrogen companies also offer services through numerous terminals in strategically located, core market regions to ensure stable nitrogen fertilizer supply for customers.

A Koch Nitrogen Company is also an investor in Propileno de Falcon Profalca, C.A., which operates a Venezuelan splitter that produces propylene used to manufacture carpeting, automotive parts and toys.