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4. BP
BP
Financials: Latest Results
Rank: 4 (Previous rank: 4)
CEO: Anthony B. Hayward
Employees: 97,600
Address: 1 St. James Sq.
London  SW1Y 4PD
Country: Britain
Website: www.bp.com
Another tumultuous year for the oil giant: BP was forced to clean up its Whiting, Ind., refinery after it was hit by the EPA with clean-air violations, faced multiple fires on its Alaskan oil fields, and had to deal with the departure of Chief Executive and Director John Browne.

Much of the U.K.-based company’s time was spent handling its U.S. operations, as it modernized Whiting and dealt with the repercussions of the 2005 blast in Texas City. Yet the American operations weren’t all bad news - a $2.4 billion investment in the San Juan basin and deepwater drilling projects in the Gulf could be helpful in the next few years, once BP’s messes are behind it.
Revenues 291,438.0 6.2
Profits 20,845.0 -5.3
Assets 236,076.0
Stockholders' equity 93,690.0
Revenues 7
Assets 9
1 Exxon Mobil 2 372,824.0
2 Royal Dutch Shell 3 355,782.0
3 BP 4 291,438.0
4 Chevron 6 210,783.0
5 Total 8 187,279.5
6 ConocoPhillips 10 178,558.0
7 Sinopec 16 159,259.6
8 China National Petroleum 25 129,798.3
9 ENI 27 120,564.7
10 Valero Energy 49 96,758.0
11 Statoil Hydro 59 89,223.9
12 Petrobras 63 87,735.0
13 SK Holdings 86 70,716.9
14 Lukoil 90 67,205.0
15 Repsol YPF 92 67,006.4
16 Petronas 95 66,218.2
17 Marathon Oil 108 60,044.0
18 Indian Oil 116 57,427.0
19 Nippon Oil 117 57,049.2
20 PTT 135 51,192.5
21 Sunoco 168 42,101.0
22 Rosneft Oil 203 36,184.0
23 Reliance Industries 206 35,914.9
24 Nippon Mining Holdings 215 35,139.5
25 Hess 240 31,924.0
26 Idemitsu Kosan 262 29,843.9
27 GS Holdings 267 29,476.7
28 Bharat Petroleum 287 27,872.8
29 Hindustan Petroleum 290 27,717.9
30 OMV Group 295 27,432.8
31 Cosmo Oil 302 26,568.0
32 Cepsa 313 25,853.2
33 CPC 324 24,808.0
34 Tesoro 388 21,675.0
35 Formosa Petrochemical 395 21,343.8
36 Petro-Canada 430 19,788.8
37 Murphy Oil 456 18,439.1
38 PKN Orlen Group 477 17,567.3
39 Galp Energia 484 17,331.3
From the July 21, 2008 issue
Figures prepared in accordance with International Accounting Standards.
Revenues: excise taxes have been deducted.
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