With several years of seminal experience ExxonMobil have become pioneers in the petroleum and natural gas industry under the unswerving brands of Exxon, Esso and Mobil. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, it is the largest publicly traded company worldwide with over thirty oil refineries spanning twenty-three countries. The company also owns (or co-owns) hundreds of smaller subsidiaries including Canada’s largest petroleum company Imperial Oil Limited and SeaRiver Maritime, a petroleum shipping company. Read the rest of this entry »
Royal Dutch Shell PLC engages efficiently, responsibly and profitably in oil, oil products, gas, chemicals and other selected businesses whilst participating in the search for and development of other sources of energy to meet evolving customer needs and the world’s growing demand for energy. With approximately 30,000 technical staff in centers across the world, scientists and business experts, Shell’s employees and contractors work to deliver research and development programs – finding innovative solutions to the world’s energy challenge. Read the rest of this entry »
Established 1989, Gazprom is the largest extractor of natural gas worldwide and the largest Russian company. The company was later privatized in part, but currently the Russian government holds a controlling stake. Read the rest of this entry »
ConocoPhillips Company, an international energy corporation with its headquarters located in Houston, Texas is one of the fortune 500 companies and the fifth largest private sector energy corporation in the world. Created through the merger of Conoco Inc. and Phillips Petroleum Company in 2002, ConocoPhillips is the second largest refiner in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation more commonly known as Sinopec Corp. is the largest energy and petrochemical company in China that engages in oil and gas and chemical operations through its subsidiaries; they are the largest refiner and distributor of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and other major refined products in China and Asia. Distribution sites include Beijing, Shandong, Hunan, and Shanghai. Read the rest of this entry »
Eni S.p.A. is one of the six largest vertically integrated oil companies in the world. Its business is synonymous to the upstream and downstream activities of most of the oil majors. Eni is also a major natural gas and electric utilities company, and operates in the oilfield services industry through its stake in Saipem S.p.A. Read the rest of this entry »
Total S.A. is a multinational energy corporation established as the fifth largest publicly traded integrated international oil and gas producer, with production of over 2 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. The company’s assets are evenly distributed among the world’s leading petroleum provinces. Read the rest of this entry »
PetroChina Co Ltd. is the largest storage and transportation service provider of oil and gas pipeline in China; the Company is responsible for transmission and marketing of natural gas as well as transportation and storage of crude oil and oil products. Read the rest of this entry »
Chevron is one of the world’s largest integrated energy companies with business interests in more than 100 countries. The company is a leader in the crude oil and natural gas industry, including exploration and production, manufacturing, marketing and transportation, chemicals manufacturing and sales, geothermal, and power generation. The company has extensive oil and gas exploration and production operations worldwide. In 2008, production consisted of 2.53 million barrels of net oil-equivalent daily. The company’s exploration areas of focus in 2008 were the deepwater regions of West Africa, the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, offshore northwest Australia and the Gulf of Thailand. It is the largest private producer of oil in Kazakhstan and the top oil and gas producer in Thailand. The company produce’s nearly half of the crude oil in Indonesia and In Australia, Chevron is the largest holder of undeveloped natural gas resources. They are also among the largest holders of deepwater acreage in Nigeria. Read the rest of this entry »
From local oil company to global energy group BP PLC have made its footprints in an industry that comprises over 100 years of tremendous work and growth. Read the rest of this entry »