Oil and Gas companies

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.
ExxonMobil functions within global operating divisions that are grouped into three categories:
Upstream: The company holds exploration and production acreage in 38 countries and conducts production operations in 23 countries around the world; this is oil exploration, extraction, shipping, and wholesale operations.
Downstream: Marketing, refining and retail operations span 37 oil refineries, and fuels and lubes marketing activities around the world. ExxonMobil is the largest global refiner, manufacturer of lube basestocks, and supplier/marketer of petroleum products.
Chemical: A global leader in the petrochemical industry. Over 90 percent of our chemical businesses rank first or second, by market position, worldwide.
The upstream division dominates the company’s cash flow, accounting for approximately 70% of revenue. The company employs over 82,000 people worldwide, as indicated in ExxonMobil’s 2006 Corporate Citizen Report, with approximately 4,000 employees in its Fairfax downstream headquarters and 27,000 people in its Houston upstream headquarters.
ExxonMobil strives to improve the reliability of its products and services, whilst improving the sustainability of society. In May 2008 the company announced its commitment of over $100 million to complete development and testing of an improved natural gas treating technology (CFZ); one objective was to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In November 2009 ExxonMobil Production Company received a 2009 Continuing Excellence award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under its Natural Gas STAR Program, which recognizes companies that apply cost-effective technologies and management practices to improve operational efficiency and reduce methane emissions.