Petroleum Companies, Oil Company

Oil companies, among the largest employers in the world, cater to the global energy demand. Their areas of functioning can be grouped into the following:

• Production: This involves the extraction of crude oil from reserves, followed by its refinement in processing plants.
• Distribution: The daily distribution quota is delivered to various sectors (e.g. automobiles, agriculture, residential). This is followed by the commercialization of oil products.

Moreover, administrating their employees who have to work in extreme temperatures in extended shifts is an important part of the operations of an oil company.

Major Oil Companies of the World

The leading oil companies of the world are:

• The Exxon Mobil Corporation: This American oil and gas corporation is the progeny of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company, formed by the merger of Exxon and Mobil on November 30, 1999. The world’s biggest publicly traded company has its headquarters in Irving, Texas. Its reserves at the end of 2007 were around 72 billion barrels of oil-equivalents (BBOE), which are expected to last for the next 14 years.
• Royal Dutch Shell plc: It was formed in 1907 when Royal Dutch Petroleum Company merged with Shell Transport and Trading Company Ltd, UK. The initial establishment included 60 % Dutch and 40% British shares.
• BP plc: Having its headquarters in London, this company was discovered by William Knox D’Arcy in May 1908 in the Middle East. It was called the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) before it became the British Petroleum in 1954. In 1998, it became BP Amoco after merging with Amoco of Indiana. In 2000, it was renamed BP and adopted the tagline “Beyond Petroleum.”
• Chevron/Texaco Corporation: It was formed after the split of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company in 1911 and named SoCal. It was one of the Seven Sisters that dominated the world oil industry in the early 20th century.
• Conoco Phillips Corporation: Based in Houston, Texas, it was formed by the merger of Conoco Inc and Phillips Petroleum Company on August 30, 2002. Its fuel stations are named Phillips 66, Conoco and 76. It is the second-largest refiner in the US and the fifth-largest in the world, with a processing capacity of 2,208,000 and 2,901,000 bbl/day.

The Seven Sisters (the major oil companies of the west that divided world oil among themselves after WW-II) now control a minor proportion of world reserves. State monopolies and emerging partially-privatized oil companies hold the major share.

List of Oil Companies

Listed below are the various petroleum companies of the world:

• Assam Oil Company Ltd. (ACL), India
• Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), United Arab Emirates
• Alon USA, United States
• Amerada Hess Corporation, United States
• Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, United States
• Apache Corporation, United States
• Arbusto Energy, United States
• Atlantic Petroleum, Faroe Islands
• BG Group, United Kingdom
• Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, India
• BHP Billiton, Australia
• Buzachi Petroleum Operating, Kazakhstan
• BP, United Kingdom
• Cairn Energy, India
• Canadian Natural Resources, Canada
• Chevron Corporation, United States
• Chief Oil and Gas, United States
• Citgo, Venezuela
• CNOOC Ltd., China
• ConocoPhillips, United States
• Cosmo Oil Company, Japan
• Crown Central Petroleum, United States
• Cupet, Cuba
• Devon Energy, United States
• Ecopetrol, Colombia
• Enbridge, Canada
• EnCana, Canada
• ENSCO International, United States
• Eni, Italy
• Essar oil ltd., India
• Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activites Petroliere (ETAP), Tunisia
• ExxonMobil, United States
• First Texas Energy Corporation, United States
• Galp Energia, Portugal
• GeoPardazesh – Petroleum Exploration Services Co. Ltd., Iran
• Petronet LNG Limited, India
• Gujarat Gas Co. Ltd., India
• Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation, India
• Gulf Oil, Luxembourg
• Grupa LOTOS, Poland
• Hargeisa Minerals & Resources Company Ltd, Somaliland
• Hellenic Petroleum, Greece
• Hess Corporation, United States
• Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd, India
• Husky Energy, Canada
• IB Daiwa, Japan
• Imperial Oil, Canada
• INA – Industrija Nafte, Croatia
• Indian Oil Corporation, India
• Inpex, Japan
• Irving Oil, Canada
• Japan Energy, Japan
• Kaz-Munay Gaz, Kazakhstan
• Karazhanbas Munay, Kazakhstan
• Kerr-McGee, United States
• Koch Industries, United States
• Kuwait German Petroleum Company, Canada
• Kuwait Gulf Oil Company, Kuwait
• Kuwait National Petroleum Company Kuwait
• Kuwait Oil Company, Kuwait
• Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, Kuwait
• LUKoil, Russia
• Marathon Oil Corporation, United States
• Maurel & Prom, France
• Maxol Group, Republic of Ireland
• MedcoEnergi, Indonesia
• Mol Group, Hungary
• Naftna Industrija Srbije, Serbia
• Naftogas of Ukraine, Ukraine
• National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), Iran
• National Oil Corporation, Libya
• Neste Oil, Finland
• Nexen, Canada
• Nippon Oil, Japan
• NNPC, Nigeria
• Oil Planet International Corp, United States
• Northern Resources, Canada
• Oil and Gas Development Company Limited, Pakistan
• Occidental Petroleum, United States
• Oil India Limited, India
• Oman Oil Company (OOC), Oman
• OMV, Austria
• ONGC, India
• PKN Orlen S.A., Poland
• PSO, Pakistan
• Petróleos de Venezuela, Venezuela
• Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico
• Petroleum Development Oman, (PDO)
• Perenco, France, United Kingdom
• Petro-Canada, Canada
• Petrobras, Brazil
• PetroChina, China
• PetroKazakhstan, Kazakhstan
• Petrom, Romania
• Petron Corporation, Philippines
• PETRONAS, Malaysia
• PETROTRIN, Trinidad and Tobago
• PetroVietnam, Vietnam
• Pertamina, Indonesia
• Polish Oil and Gas Company, Poland
• Plains Exploration & Production Company (PXP), United States
• PTT Public Company Limited, Thailand
• Qatar Petroleum, Qatar
• Reliance Industries Limited, India
• Repsol YPF, Spain
• Rompetrol Group N.V., Romania
• Royal Dutch Shell, Netherlands, United Kingdom
• Sagiz Petroleum, Kazakhstan
• San-Ai Oil, Japan
• Santos Limited, Australia
• Sasol, South Africa
• Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia (the largest in the world)
• Shell Canada, Canada (subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell)
• Shell Oil Company, United States (subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell)
• Sinclair Oil, United States
• Sinopec, China
• Snpc, Congo-Brazzaville
• Sonangol, Angola
• Sonatrach, Algeria
• SPC, Singapore
• StatoilHydro, Norway
• State Oil Company of Azerbaijan, SOCAR Azerbaijan
• Somerset Refinery, United States
• State Oil Company of Suriname, Suriname
• Sunoco, United States
• Suncor Energy, Canada
• Surgutneftegaz, Russia
• Syncrude, Canada
• Talisman Energy, Canada
• Todd Energy, New Zealand
• Total, France
• Tullow Oil, United Kingdom
• United Refining Company, United States
• Vaalco Energy Inc., United States
• Wintershall, Germany
• Woodside Petroleum, Australia
• XTO Energy, United States
• YPF, Argentina
• YPFB, Bolivia

This list includes:

US Petroleum Companies
Canada Petroleum Companies
Australia Petroleum Companies
United Kingodm Petroleum Companies
China Petroleum Companies
India Petroleum Companies
Thailand Petroleum Companies
Indonesia Petroleum Companies
Saudi Arabia Petroleum Companies
UAE Petroleum Companies
Kuwait Petroleum Companies
Algeria Petroleum Companies
Egypt Petroleum Companies
Libiya Petroleum Companies
Iran Petroleum Companies
Brazil Petroleum Companies
Venezuala Petroleum Companies
Mexico Petroleum Companies
Netherlands Petroleum Companies
Malaysia Petroleum Companies
Philippines Petroleum Companies
Trinidad and Tobago Petroleum Companies
Russia Petroleum Companies
Germany Petroleum Companies
Argentina Petroleum Companies
Bolivia Petroleum Companies
Kazakhstan Petroleum Companies
Suriname Petroleum Companies
Azerbaijan Petroleum Companies
American Petroleum Companies
Europe Petroleum Companies
Middle East Petroleum Companies
Africa Petroleum Companies

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