Achieving the next frontier of chemicals excellence Digital maturity model to help ease the transition

December 30, 2019

The chemicals industry is going through a transformation. Many existing and emerging trends are shaping the future of the industry, which include increasing competition, a shift in economic power, disruptive innovations in end markets, changes in feedstock, accelerating commoditization, sustainability, digitization, and Industry 4.0. These key developments which are determining the future of chemicals broadly fall into three key themes: ‘Growth and innovation’, ‘Performance and cost optimization’, and ‘Sustainability and circular economy’.

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Buckeye Partners, L.P. (NYSE: BPL) is a publicly traded master limited partnership and owns and operates a diversified network of integrated assets providing midstream logistic solutions, primarily consisting of the transportation, storage, and marketing of liquid petroleum products. Buckeye is one of the largest independent liquid petroleum products pipeline operators in the United States in terms of volumes delivered with approximately 6,000 miles of pipeline and more than 120 liquid petroleum products terminals with aggregate storage capacity of over 110 million barrels across our portfolio of pipelines, inland terminals and an integrated network of marine terminals located primarily in the East Coast and Gulf Coast regions of the United States and in the Caribbean. Buckeye has a controlling interest in a company with a vertically integrated system of marine midstream assets in Corpus Christi and the Eagle Ford Shale formation in Texas.

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