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limited liabilities by China National Petroleum Corp. under the
Company Law and the Special Regulations on the Overseas
Offering and Listing of Shares by Joint Stock Limited Companies
in 1999. The company has an average daily crude production of
4.4 million barrels per day.
6) BP
BP is one of the world's leading international oil and gas
companies with an average daily crude production of 4.1 million
barrels per day. The company provides customers with fuel for
transportation, energy for heat and light, lubricants to keep engines
moving, and the petrochemicals products used to make everyday
items as diverse as paints, clothes and packaging. Their upstream
segment is responsible for activities in oil and natural gas
exploration, field development and production. Their downstream
segment is the product and service-led arm of BP, focused on
fuels, lubricants and petrochemicals.
7) Royal Dutch Shell
Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical
companies with an average daily crude production of 3.9 million
barrels per day. Their upstream segment is focused on exploring
for new oil and gas reserves and developing major projects where
their technology and know-how adds value to the resource holders.
Their downstream emphasis remains on sustained cash generation
from existing assets and selective investments in growth markets.
The company has spent $2.2 billion on developing alternative
energies, carbon capture and storage, and CO2-related R&D over
the past five years.
8) Pemex
Mexico's state oil company Pemex is engaged in the
exploration, production, transportation, refining, storage and sale
of hydrocarbons and derivatives. The company produces an
average daily crude production of 3.6 million barrels per day. Its
products include petrochemicals, natural gas, liquid gas, sulphur,
gasoline, kerosene, and diesel. Pemex operates 344 production
fields; 6,382 production wells; 225 off-shore platforms; six
refineries; eight petrochemical complexes; 7,896km of gas

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