S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 This week, the United States\u2019 Forbes magazine issued a list of 25 biggest oil companies in the world. The top-ranking company is Saudi Arabia\u2019s government-owned Saudi Aramco. According to the publication, the company is the largest \u201cby far\u201d and posts more than US$ 1 billion in revenues each day.<\/p>\n
The ranking takes into account combined daily production of oil and gas, expressed in barrels of oil equivalent. Aramco\u2019s output is 12.5 million barrels. For the sake of comparison, the second company in the ranking, Russia\u2019s Gazprom, extracts 9.7 million per day. The different between the two is roughly equivalent to the total production in Brazil. <\/p>\n
Other Arab companies in the list are the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, at 10th, with 3.2 million barrels per day; the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (11th at 2.9 million barrels), Algeria\u2019s Sonatrach (12th at 2.7 million barrels), the Iraqi Ministry of Oil (16th at 2.3 million barrels) and Qatar Petroleum (17th at 2.3 million barrels).<\/p>\n
Brazil\u2019s Petrobras ranks 14th at 2.6 million barrels per day. The publication notes that the company is working to develop ultra-deep oil fields in the pre-salt layer of the Brazilian coast. <\/p>\n
The ranking also includes the National Iranian Oil Company (3rd), the United States\u2019 ExxonMobil (4th), Chevron (9th) and ConocoPhillips (21st), China\u2019s PetroChina (5th) and Sinopec (23rd), Britain\u2019s BP (6th), the Anglo-Dutch Royal Dutch Shell (7th), Mexico\u2019s Pemex (8th), France\u2019s Total (13th), Russia\u2019s Rosneft (15th) and Lukoil (18th), Italy\u2019s Eni (19th), Norway\u2019s Statoil (20th), Venezuela\u2019s PDVSA (22nd), the Nigerian National Petroleum (24th), and Malaysia\u2019s Petronas (25th).<\/p>\n
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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