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Rank: 6 (Previous rank: 8)
CEO: Christophe de Margerie
Employees: 96,959
Address: 2 Pl. Jean Millier
Courbevoie, 92400
Country: France
Website: www.total.com

Total performed well in 2008, with profits hitting $15.5 billion. The French oil giant managed the volatile price of oil by using some of its revenue to reduce debt, rather than orchestrating a share buy-back.

The company, based in the outskirts of Paris, also dove into new drilling territory, beating out Chevron and ConocoPhillips for 25% of a natural gas field in Russia and offering up plans to the Chinese government to drill in Inner Mongolia. Up next: developing expertise in nuclear energy.

	$ millions	% change from 2007
Revenues	234,674.1	25.3
Profits	15,500.4	-14.1
Assets	164,450.9	—
Stockholders' equity	68,098.9	—

Profits as % of
Revenues	6.6
Assets	9.4

Industry: Petroleum Refining

Rank	Company	Global 500 rank	Revenues ($ millions)
1	Royal Dutch Shell	1	458,361.0
2	Exxon Mobil	2	442,851.0
3	BP	4	367,053.0


4	Chevron	5	263,159.0
5	Total	6	234,674.1
6	ConocoPhillips	7	230,764.0
7	Sinopec	9	207,814.5
8	China National Petroleum	13	181,122.6
9	ENI	17	159,348.5
10	PDVSA	27	126,364.0
11	Valero Energy	33	118,298.0
12	Petrobras	34	118,257.0
13	Statoil Hydro	36	116,210.9
14	Lukoil	65	86,340.0
15	SK Holdings	72	80,810.4
16	Repsol YPF	76	79,176.6
17	Petronas	80	76,965.4
18	Marathon Oil	86	73,504.0
19	Nippon Oil	101	64,197.5
20	Indian Oil	105	62,993.2
21	PTT	118	59,984.6
22	Sunoco	141	51,652.0
23	Rosneft Oil	158	46,985.0
24	Hess	184	41,094.0
25	Nippon Mining Holdings	203	37,532.6
26	OMV Group	206	37,386.3
27	GS Holdings	213	36,502.8
28	TNK-BP Holding	234	34,668.0
29	Idemitsu Kosan	244	33,521.5
30	Cepsa	246	33,417.4
31	PKN Orlen Group	249	33,043.0
32	Reliance Industries	264	31,792.3
33	Showa Shell Sekiyu	266	31,664.0
34	Bharat Petroleum	289	29,989.0
35	Cosmo Oil	293	29,710.3
36	CPC	306	28,451.9
37	Hindustan Petroleum	311	28,247.3
38	Petroplus Holdings	316	28,047.6
39	Tesoro	317	28,031.0
40	Formosa Petrochemical	323	27,769.3
41	Suncor Energy	325	27,680.5
42	Murphy Oil	326	27,512.5
43	Petro-Canada	340	26,054.5
44	Galp Energia	414	22,230.4
45	S-Oil	441	21,019.9
46	Mol Hungarian Oil & Gas	449	20,644.3
47	Israel Corp.	466	19,802.0
48	Caltex Australia	467	19,769.7
49	Neste Oil	481	19,298.7

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Excise taxes have been deducted.

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