Intermar Energy and Investment Inc.

Independent international trading and processing of crude oil and supply of petroleum products

Our competence is based on long term experience in international trading and marketing, ensuring reliable supply for our clients.

Crude Oil and Petroleum Products

Physical oil trading and marketing is our core business. By cooperating with our worldwide partners we provide logistic, insurance and inspection services for oil commodities.

Consulting Services

We provide consulting and project development services related to commodity trading, coal mining and power supply.

Infrastructure Services

Our experienced employees and affiliated companies are engaged in the planning and construction of infrastructure systems for crude oil transportation. In addition we devlop the international trade and production with Bio Ethanol (2nd Generation), LBG and LNG.

What we do

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Energy Trading Services

Our core business is crude oil trading and processing with focus on the CIS and Middle East region. Intermar is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany and holds worldwide representations. Through many years of experience in trading, our crude team has developed an intense understanding of today's and tomorrow's market. We are in the position of evaluating chances and risks, analyze tomorrow's markets and to react fast due our lean organizational structure. Facing energy demands of tomorrow we are also specialised in producing and wholesaling of Bio-Ethanol and Bio Diesel.

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Asset Management

Maroil Ltd invests in mid- and downstream projects. MAR is a subsidiary of InterMar and manages assets of associated companies within InterMar. The company invests in the areas of mid and down stream oil business with focus on tank farm, transport, and refinery projects. MAR provides with its financial and operative administration services opportunities for investors to invest in oil infrastructure projects.

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Infrastructure Services

Exploring new transport capacities for efficient access of Russian crude oil towards northwestern European markets InterMar is planning the construction of a new crude oil pipeline and acts as the project development company. For local pipeline operations TEP will establish regional subsidiaries with the participating countries.

Intermar Group Structure

 
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Projects


TEP TRANS-EUROPEAN PIPELINE PROJECT

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Significance of the Project

 

– Oil will remain the most important energy source in the foreseeable future.


– The worldwide demand is widely expected to rise steadily.

Benefits of the Project

 

The extension of the Druzhba pipeline from Schwedt to Wilhelmshaven has the advantage of using the deep water port of Wilhelmshaven for the import of crudes from Russia – Arctic drilling projects - Libya, Nigeria, Middle East Countries. This operation guarantees the security of the crude supplies quantities up to 50 million tons per year to East Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus etc.

 

NEW VISIONS FOR ETHANOL

 

Or, how to make the transition to the new bio-refinery era and future vision for ethanol plants

 

Many of those who listened to my presentation on the transition to a bio-economy were enthusiastic about it. The use of the existing bioethanol infrastructure and plants is technically capable of being expanded with a range of value-added products.

A unique and affordable complementary technology that I have developed is available as a license, and can provide opportunities for the current and future ethanol infrastructure to expand and create new sustainable solutions.

For mre Information, please get in touch and email Bernd Ahlers, Gen. Manager, BIOTEC Berlin

Vision for 2.G Bioethonal Plants

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The start of a Bioethanol Plant in Romania.

Please download a presentation with more details about the 2nd Generation Bioethanol plant in Calarasi, Romania.

New life for ethanol plants

 

When I started working with "renewable energies" more than 20 years ago, alternative energy production technologies were available, which could only ensure economic survival with high subsidies, grants and tax exemptions. Photovoltaic-, Wind-, Hydrogen- Cellulose Ethanol, Power to X and whatever else is romping on the market, without tax money no economic basis is guaranteed. Nordex is not the first, but the most recent example of how the state had to save a company from bankruptcy and its shareholders' returns.  

The ethanol industry is the only one on the market that tries to survive even at less than 0.40 €/l. This industry has been able to fight against adversity and not only survive, but thrive in a market where fossil fuels have been the unique selling point for over 100 years.

The ethanol industry in the U.S. alone expanded from 8.7 billion liters per year in 2003 to over 54 billion in 2019, with innovation and a commitment to renewable fuels creating this expansion and providing a solid foundation for future biorefinery innovation. Ethanol producers were able to innovate and build highly efficient plants, expand production, and make North America the world's largest ethanol producer.

My partners, in particular attorney Michael Seibold, and I, are used to fighting and winning battles. We are now at a new turning point for new innovations and opportunities that we can and will exploit.

The introduction of petrol blends of at least 10% will lead to growing markets in the EU, so this situation will change in the future. The question we have to ask ourselves is why we only use valuable raw materials for the production of ethanol as a fuel when it can be used as a raw material for higher quality materials. Ethanol plants contribute to the development of the rural economy, reducing farmers' dependence on state subsidies. Ethanol is a great product worth a new life, except that it is only burned mixed with gasoline.

What if we used ethanol as a raw material for the production of chemicals, and residual material for a protein animal feed? Can ethanol plants be used economically in these higher value applications? The answer to both questions is yes, it can. And more importantly, yes, we will.

Alcohol chemistry has been around for several years. We have already seen companies that produce ethylene or ethyl acetate from ethanol. Now we can introduce a new technology. A technology that was registered as a patent at the German Patent and Trademark Office in February 2019.

A technology that goes one step further, as its technology can convert ethanol into other basic products such as mineral fertilizers, protein animal feed and higher value molecules. Imagine only institutions spread across Europe that can offer a range of bio-based and sustainable products that offer favourable logistics and value chain advantages by harnessing the power of agricultural and renewable raw materials.

A broad process technology can be used to convert ethanol to higher linear alcohols by chemical catalysis using a proprietary and patented catalyst and process. In the condensation reaction, two molecules of ethanol are converted into one molecule of butanol and one molecule of water. This reaction, also known as the Guerbet reaction (Marcel Guerbet 1861-1938).

In the basic reaction, two smaller primary alcohols are transformed into one primary alcohol product. The product is a primary alcohol based on the primary alcohol functional group of the reactants. For ethanol, this product is n-butanol.

2CH3CH2OH ® C4H9OH + H2O

That every new technology on the market is competitive, to produce the products at lower costs than the established manufacturers, that was always my goal. The advantages of sustainability and renewable energies offer a competitive advantage over the established fossil-based products. The fact that my products can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 100% compared to petroleum-based products is not enough for me to take the lead. My claim to licensees is that they are able to produce products of the same quality and more economically.