Manufacturing & Marketing (M&M) is responsible for the group's combined operations in the transportation of oil, processing, sale of crude oil and refined products, retail activities and marketing of natural gas in Scandinavia. We operate in 13 countries, run two refineries, one methanol plant and three crude oil terminals. Our international trading activities make Statoil one of the world's largest crude oil traders. Over one million customers visit our 2000 service stations daily, and we operate an international lubricants and aviation fuel business.

Approximately 13,000 people from 30 nations work for M&M, around 10,000 outside Norway. In 2009, we traded 721 mmbbl of crude oil and condensate, approximately 25 million tonnes of refined oil products and 11.7 million tonnes of natural gas liquids (NGL). The refinery throughput was 15.0 million tonnes. Tjelbergodden produced approximately 10% of the European market's demand for methanol. In the energy and retail market, we sold approximately 12 billion litres in 2009, including 8 billion litres of petrol and diesel. Aviation fuelled over 70 airports worldwide and lubricant was distributed to 40 countries.