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| Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), is the leading player in the oil sector in Abu Dhabi. |
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| Anadarko is one of the largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies in the world. |
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| Amoco was formed as Standard Oil (Indiana) in 1889 by John D. Rockefeller as part of the Standard Oil trust. However it is now part of BP. |
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| The website of Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company. Saudi Aramco has crude oil reserves of 259.8 billion barrels as of year-end 2005 (one-quarter of the global total) and produced 3.3 billion barrels of oil in 2005. |
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Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco), wholly owned by the Government of Bahrain, is engaged in the oil industry including exploration and prospecting for oil, drilling, production, refining, distribution of petroleum products and natural gas, sales and exports of crude oil and refined products.
Bapco owns a 250,000 barrel-a-day refinery, storage facilities for more than 14 million barrels, a marketing terminal, and a marine terminal for its petroleum products. |
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British Petroleum, is a British energy company with headquarters in London, one of the four vertically integrated private sector oil, natural gas, and petrol "Super Majors" in the world, along with Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, and Total.
In the 2005 Fortune Global 500 list of companies, BP was ranked 2nd in the world for turnover with sales at $285bn, less than $3bn dollars short of the number one spot held by Wal-Mart, thus making BP the largest oil company in the world by turnover. |
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| Chevron is one of the world's largest global energy companies. Chevron was originally known as Standard Oil of California, or Socal, and was formed amid the antitrust breakup of Standard Oil in 1911. It was one of the "Seven Sisters" that dominated the world oil industry during the early 20th century. |
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| The website of the Chinese state-owned company that tried to buy the US' Unocal Corporation in June 2005, for $18.5bn. On July 20, 2005 Unocal announced that it has accepted an increased buyout offer from ChevronTexaco for $17.1bn. On August 2, however, CNOOC announced that it had withdrawn its bid for Unocal, citing political tension inside the United States. |
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The China National Petroleum Corporation is China's state-owned oil and gas company. CNPC holds proved reserves of 3.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent and has 30 international exploration and production projects.
In October 2004, CNPC began construction of a pipeline from Middle East to Xinjiang. In August 2005 it was announced that CNPC agreed to buy PetroKazakhstan for US$4.18 billion. This would be the largest overseas acquisition by a Chinese company. It acquired PetroKazakhstan for $4.18bn on 26 October 2005. |
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| ConocoPhillips is another international oil company and has its headquarters in Houston, USA. It was founded by the merger of Conoco Inc. and the Phillips Petroleum Company on August 30, 2002. |
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Elf Aquitaine is a former French oil company merged with TotalFina to form TotalFinaElf. The new company changed its name to Total in 2003. Elf has been maintained as a major brand of Total.
Total won contracts with Saddam Hussein's regime to develop the Majnoon and Nahr Umar oil fields in southern Iraq, consisting of 25% of Iraq's oil reserves. |
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| Eni (founded in 1953) is an Italian multinational oil company. Its refining capacity of 933,000 barrels per day, makes it Europe's third largest refiner. Its crude oil production comes primarily from Libya, Egypt, Nigeria, the Congo and Angola |
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ExxonMobil has the highest market value of any publicly traded company in the world, and in 2005 was the most profitable. Its operating profit in 2005 was $36.13 billion (an all-time record for any publicly traded company).
See also: www.exxposeexxon.com |
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Gulf Oil was a major global oil company from the 1900s to the 1980s. The eighth largest manufacturing company in the USA in 1941 and the ninth largest manufacturing company in the USA in 1979, Gulf Oil was considered a member of the so-called "Seven Sisters" oil giants.
The Gulf Oil Corporation ceased to exist in 1984 when it merged with Chevron. |
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| Hess Corporation is a substantial energy company, engaged in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas, as well as in refining and in marketing refined petroleum products, natural gas, and electricity. |
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| Indian Oil Corporation Limited is India's largest commercial enterprise and the only Indian company to be among the world's top 200 corporations according to Fortune magazine. |
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| The Kuwait Oil Company is one of the largest oil companies in the world. |
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Russia's second largest oil company, LUKOIL is the largest producer of oil in Russia. LUKOIL is the second largest public company (next to ExxonMobil) in terms of proven oil and gas reserves.
In 2004, Lukoil purchased over 750 Mobil gas stations in the US and began converting them to the Lukoil brand. |
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| Marathon Oil Corporation is based in Texas, USA and is a worldwide oil and natural gas exploration and production company. |
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| The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) , sometimes known as the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, is Nigeria's state oil company. The NNPC is by law a joint venture between the Nigerian federal government and a number of foreign multinational corporations, which include Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, Agip, Total and Chevron |
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| The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), is Iran's state-owned oil and gas company. It was established in 1948. As of 2005 it also owns 50% of the offshore gas field of Rhum in the North Sea. Which is Britain's largest untapped gas field. |
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| Occidental Petroleum Corporation is an international petroleum exploration and development company based in the USA. |
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| OMV is Austria's largest oil-producing, refining and gas station operating company. It is also the largest oil and gas group in Central Europe, being active in 13 Central European countries. The UAE owns a substantial stake of OMV |
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| Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) is the Venezuelan state-owned oil company. Venezuela is a major petroleum exporter. Venezuela has the largest hydrocarbon reserves in the Western Hemisphere, representing approximately half the region's reserves, which positions the country as fifth in the world in proven reserves. With the Orinoco Belt reserves, the country possesses the largest accumulation of liquid fuel on the planet. |
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| Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) is Mexico's state-owned, nationalized petroleum company. |
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| Petronas, short for Petroliam Nasional Berhad, is Malaysia's state owned oil and gas company. It is vested with the entire oil and gas resources in Malaysia and is entrusted with the responsibility of developing and adding value to these resources. |
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| Petrobras, short for Petróleo Brasileiro, is a government-owned Brazilian oil company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. |
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| Qatar Petroleum, is Qatar's state-owned oil company. |
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| Royal Dutch Shell's Shell's revenues of $306.73bn in 2005 made it the third-largest corporation in the world by turnover in 2005 and its profits of $25bn made it the world's second most profitable business in terms of gross profits |
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| Sinopec, the China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, is one of the major petroleum companies in China. |
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Sonangol Group, known as 'Sonangol', is the Angolan state-run oil company, and has overall management of Angola's petroleum and natural gas reserves.
Angola is estimated to have over 5 billion barrels of offshore and coastal petroleum reserves, and new discoveries are outpacing consumption by a 5 to 1 ratio. |
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Statoil is Norway's partially state-owned oil company. It is not only the largest company in Norway but also the largest in the Nordic countries. While Statoil is listed on both the Oslo Stock Exchange and the NYSE, the Norwegian state still holds majority ownership.
Statoil is one of the largest net sellers of crude oil in the world, and a major supplier of natural gas to the European continent. |
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| Total is a French oil company, and one of the top four oil companies in the world (along with Royal Dutch Shell, BP, and ExxonMobil). |
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Yukos was one of the world's largest non-state oil companies, producing 20% of Russian oil—about 2% of world production. Its assets were acquired in controversial circumstances from the Russian Government during the privatization process of the early 1990s.
However, the Russian government have regained control of the company and sent its former boss, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, to a prison camp in Siberia. |
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