TOTAL Additifs et Carburants Spéciaux
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TOTAL Additives and Special Fuels
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Sharing values
Customized solutions
Progressing together – in strength
Total Additives and Special Fuels mobilize men and women with recognized and complementary skills to satisfy our
customers expectations. Every project is led by engineers focused on specific product lines and sales managers
close to their markets. This organization conjugates their different areas of expertise and ensures dynamic response in
discussions with customers. An approach that ensures our researchers develop ideal solutions to client challenges…
To have our skills fully recognized in terms of the quality of our products and our environmental management practices,
Total Additive and Special Fuels has set up a Quality and Environmental Management System (QEMS) compliant with
two International standards: ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.
Working together to ensure we fully understand all the problems.
Our objective :
to help you win…
To win new customers’ confidence, to improve your
profitability, to win races…
….Total Additives and Special Fuels objective is to
New horizons for
technical excellence
The huge resources of a
major oil group
Our expertise impacts our whole approach from
Fifth largest oil company in the world, Total is the biggest
product formulation to logistics, commercial assistance
that these solutions continue to evolve. Our commitment
European refiner and manages a network of over
and technical support. In close cooperation with Total
16,000 service stations. Total Additives and Special
brings new clients into your filling stations – and shaves
group research centers, our teams use leading-edge
Fuels has direct access to the Total group’s refining
technologies and the latest machines to optimize
and distribution experience. Our business experience is
product formulation so as to insure you performances,
further supported by very strong partnerships with the
consumption improvements and decresing of the
largest car and motor bike manufacturers, for standard
pollution levels.
and racing engines.
TOTAL Additives and Special
Fuels: experts in fusion
Beating the competition
through anticipationn
provide you with winning solutions. Our solutions
improve your profitability by extending your blending
options. The technical assistance we provide ensures
hundredths of seconds on race circuits. Total Additives
and Special Fuels people are obsessed by product
performance and victory… yours!
…by creating your solution!
Finding solutions is good. But creating specific solutions
for your specific problems is even better! We market a
huge choice of additives and special fuels. This policy
is only possible because we continuously expand our
Your chalenges
knowledge base with a single objective – to create your
are a part of ours
Our technical and human resources dedicated to
solution.
providing you with the best solution, dedicated to solving
your specific problems are the basis of our know-how:
a close cooperation between our research teams,
our test laboratory, our flexible production equipment,
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our logistics service, which is totally familiar with the
Total Additives and Special Fuels policy is to customize products and tailor our range to our clients specific needs. Fine
world,
tuning results in a very wide range and the corresponding logistics on all five continents.
A high skilled team
Total Additives and Special Fuels uniquely deep market knowledge and vast technical expertise acquired through local
networks of businesses engineers and close contact with the field via Total group subsidiaries, distributors and agents
mean we can respond extremely quickly to new demands.
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Unity for understanding and performance.
complexities of sending any product to anywhere in the
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Refining additives
Progressing
together – in strength
Managing differences
for profit
Every refinery has its own requirements for
The refining industry requires solutions adapted to
operating environments and markets.
We are used to accompany our customers in their
main fields of activity with members of staff speaking
the same language as end users.
When making a delivery on the other side of the world
or discussing with international players, our ability to
abolish frontiers is always a priceless asset, enabling
us to increase our knowledge and our expertise with
a single aim – to serve our customers better.
additives. These needs basically depend on:
• The refinery’s outlets where the products are
marketed: specifications differ according to
the end location.
• The nature of the different crude blends
to be processed.
• The types of units and processes at the
refinery (converters, desulfurizers, etc).
Whatever the details, the challenge is always the
same: to optimize plant output to satisfy local
The huge resources of a major oil group
market needs. Additives are “musts” for success.
A length on your needs
A refiner
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understands
what other
refiners need!
For middle distillates like diesel fuel and
heating fuel, we continuously develop and
improve the performances of our very wide
range of:
• Cold flow,
• Lubricity,
• Cetane number improvers.
Our fuel expertise enables us to identify
directions for progress and to respond to
refineries requests extremely rapidly.
Total is the 1st European refiner and co-leader in
Africa. Our refining background gives us a global
view of the use of additives in the industry. All are
developed in a spirit of compromise, reflecting the
need to optimize product performance and reflect
the individual valorization objectives of each refiner.
To imagine and engineer specific solutions for
different filling stations networks, our teams harness
the vast resources of the Total group. We not only
treat group fuels, we also work closely with national
networks everywhere in the world. This expertise
helps us to understand the problems “hands-on”
and anticipate market trends. Total is world leader
in the distribution of diesel fuel and our additives
contribute to this success. We benefit from the
huge research capacities of the 5th largest oil
group in the world, using molecules developed
in its Research Centers. We design additives that
we sell in packages defined to satisfy each client’s
expectations.
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Performance additives
A daily used product
by 1 billion people!
Refining additives
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New horizons
for technical excellence
Fuels are no longer the same everywhere. Now,
The problems and expectations of our distribution
every filling stations network proposes different
networks and customers are different everywhere
solutions. Fuel additives are major factors in
we sell our services and products. Total Additives
convincing end users to make network choice
and Special Fuels has always been an active
a pro-active purchasing decision. For example,
force in marketplaces, both through our existing
drivers in Mexico seek engine protection and more
products and new opportunities for range
miles per gallon while Indonesian clients want more
extensions detected by our business engineers
power, our additives are tailor-made formulated.
and technical staff. Through Total subsidiaries, we
To make this marketing need a reality, we listen
stay close to our customers to ensure they benefit
very closely to what our clients tell us and provide
from the added value solutions and customized
extremely precise technical assistance.
services we provide.
Our expertise in the field of performance
additives is proved by
our with many different filling stations
networks for many years has generated a unique
experience in performance-boosting additives.
We contributed to the successful creation of a
distinctive image for the Total filling stations
network throughout Europe and all over the
world, from Asia to South America.
Our expertise enables us to understand all the
expectations of end users concerning:
• More efficient fuel combustion,
• The fuel saving,
• Extra power,
• Pollutant emissions reduction, etc.
Performance additives
Our additive range can support every marketing
strategy adopted. Our knowledge of molecule
properties and our skills in blends and mixtures
mean we can design and manufacture products
which, although complex, remain stable both
before and after their addition to fuels.
Crude oil
Refinery
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Fuel meeting standard
specifications
Tank farm
Complementary
additivation
Filling stations network
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Industry fuels
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A prime partner of the biggest automobile
manufacturers, we help them to solve efficiently
the technological problems they encounter. Over
the years, through partnerships accompanying the
technical progress made by our customers and
by supplying specific fuels and in-depth technical
collaboration, we have continued to deepen our
knowledge about challenges facing the industry.
Optimized solutions can only be developed by
close team work.
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Developing
high added value
tailor-made fuels
For adaptation to markets with local or regional specificities, automotive and trucks industries require
solutions optimized for their operating environments. We are always present where our products and
services are used, to accompany our customers in their fields of activity with members of staff speaking
the same language as end users. When making a delivery on the other side of the world or discussing with
international players, our ability to abolish frontiers is always a priceless asset, enabling us to increase our
Dedicated to your technological challenges
knowledge and our expertise.
In fields as varied as first fill, R&D or
reference and long-distance fuels, Total
Additives and Special Fuels continuously
develops new fuels to assist manufacturers
with their own technical progress.
Simultaneously, our expertise in additives
The huge resources of a major oil group
makes it possible to generate significant
synergies with the specific fuel matrices
we create.
We contribute in R&D programs regarding
bio-components and biofuels to overcome
associated technical challenges.
Finding the right solution to a fuel problem often
leads to the development of a specific product the
production of which involves implementing new
petrochemical and oil fraction blends and mixes.
Total group research capacity gives us access to
a huge range of fractionation bases, permitting
extremely flexible formulations able to meet
R&D FUEL
technical specifications which initially may appear
to be incompatible.
Total Additives and Special Fuels is able to find the
necessary resources, collate them and use them to
implement new projects. The same system applies
to delivery logistics, particularly for administrative
procedures and customs clearance.
HOMOLOGATION
FUEL
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F1 RACING FUEL
FIRST FILL
FUEL
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Racing fuels and lubricants
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Performance, therefore Elf (A brand of Total) racing
fuels and lubricants products recognition, hold a
prestigious record of achievements: 18 Formula
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1 world champion titles, almost 200 victories in
World Rally Championship, 10 Motor bike GP
Fuels sold in filling stations are « ready to burn », but those developed for racing are « totally customized ».
world championship titles,…Elf racing products
To develop them, we have to work extremely closely with our customers, wherever they are.
have achieved a large number of victories and have
become the world standard for motorsports and
the symbol of the highest level of performance.
We owe these results to a long history of close
co-operation with the major car manufacturers
and leading teams worldwide. By listening to
your needs in the field and sharing your appetite
for victories we are happy to give you the benefit
of our unrivalled experience in all kinds of motor
sports.
This is why we are present all season long on race and rally circuits and assist teams and engine developers
Only winning counts
In all motor sports, victory depends on a
combination of choices, technical limits,
rules and regulations.
Our solutions integrate all the parameters
which contribute to success :
• an extra power,
• our products constant quality and
characteristics,
• the guarantee of total fuel burn.
For lubricants, our efforts aim to boost
performance by reducing friction and
protecting the moving parts of the drive
train from mechanical wear. So many
challenges, so many limiting factors which
we continuously strive to overcome.
Environmental protection is a parameter
to formulate our racing fuels. We try to
reduce sulphur and aromatic contents of our
fuels and we ensure that renewable fuel
components are used in Formula 1 fuels.
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at their test centers. Over 60 distributors in 50 countries accompany our customers to help them to win
each week-end.
The huge resources
of a major oil group
Because racing fuels must vaporize quickly and
evenly, over 300 people work at the Total Research
Center in Solaize, near Lyon, how the flame burns
inside engine cylinders. Because the stresses and
strains on mechanical components are enormous
in racing, the tribology department staff make
major contributions to the success of ELF racing
lubricants.
ELF has acquired
a TOTAL expertise
from working
with racing teams
over the years.
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Sharing expertise
Sharing our expertise
with the automotive
industry
Sharing our expertise
with the networks
For fuels, automobile manufacturers have extremely
ingredients, and banal because they are daily-
specific demands to meet legal requirements and
satisfy increasingly demanding customers. Our
special fuels are specifically and confidentially tailored
to each project and backed by close technical
Fuels are both complex, containing dozens of
used in more than 1 billion vehicles: a wide market
in which each filling stations network needs to
develop its differences. Additive developments helps
networks to sell fuels with high added values that
support which leds us to innovate together.
are less pollutant, boost power, cut consumption
Partners in technological
our expertise, our products guarantee immediate
challenges
and increase lubrication. Recognized worldwide for
performance enhancement.
Developing fuels with
high added values
Sharing our expertise
with racing teams
accumulated over more than 40 years in collaboration
Sharing our expertise
with refiners
with top racing teams and car makers. Our expertise
In-depth knowledge about refiners’ expectations and
in these disciplines contributed to many other wins in
restrictions in the use of additives is essential, but not
events like go-karting, offshore racing and jet skiing.
enough. Suppliers also need exceptional technical
Product developments, like racing success, result
capabilities and proximity.
from close team work and technical partnership
We enjoy privileged relationships with Total group
between our people, manufacturers and racers.
refineries and with many other customer companies.
Each season, shared expertise leads to a host
Total Additives and Special Fuels can also call
of new “candidate products”, which are selected
on unique product and development know-how
then validated in tests before contributing to race
to develop products suited to the technical and
victories.
economical challenges of our clients.
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Two “musts”:
ELF expertise in racing fuels and lubricants was
champion titles
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exceptional technical
capabilities and proximity