Lumea petrolitilor este n faa unei mari schimbri: un gigant american este clasat acum n spatele unui proaspt

mbogit chinez. Exxon Mobile nu mai este cel mai mare productor de petrol listat la burs. Pentru prima oar, distincia i revine unei companii chineze care activeaz pe aceast pia de doar 13 ani, este vorba despre PetroChina. Compania cu sediul n Beijing a fost creat de guvernul chinez pentru a asigura necesarul de petrol pentru economia exploziv a rii, scrie Associated Press. PetroChina a anunat joi c a pompat 2,4 milioane de barili pe zi anul trecut, depind Exxon cu 100.000 de uniti. Compania a crescut rapid n ultimii zece ani prin stoarcerea cmpurilor de iei chinez i achiziia mai multor rezerve petroliere n locuri precum Canada, Irak i Qatar. Producia companiei a crescut cu 3,3% n 2011, n timp ce cea a Exxon a sczut cu 5%. Producia de petrol a Exxon este i n spatele gigantului energetic rusesc Rosneft. Creterea PetroChina subliniaz o diferen fundamental a felului n care marile companii petroliere plnuiesc s alimenteze lumea, de vreme ce noi depozite sunt tot mai greu de gsit i tot mai scumpe de produs. Dar analitii spun c firmele vestice, precum Exxon Mobil, au fost mai conservatoare dect cele chineze, fiind atente la rezultate i la veniturile investitorilor. Cu preul petrolului n cretere cu 19% n 2011, acestea nc fac bani fr s fie nevoite s creasc producia. PetroChina, pe de alt parte, are o misiune diferit. Guvernul chinez are o participaie de 86% n companie i ara utilizeaz aproape fiecare strop pe care l pompeaz PetroChina. Apetitul su pentru benzin i alte produse petroliere se estimeaz c se va dubla ntre 2010 i 2035. Chiar dac PetroChina se poziioneaz n fruntea companiilor petroliere listate, este nc mult n spatele unor productori naionali precum Saudi Aramco, care produce aproape 8 milioane de barili pe zi. Iar Exxon este n continuare cea mai mare companie din energie listat la burs dac se combin producia de petrol cu cea de gaze naturale. PetroChina se plaseaz pe locul trei, dup Exxon i BP, dup producia total de petrol i gaze naturale. PetroChina a crescut prin pomparea a tot ce a fost posibil din rezervele Chinei, care se estimeaz c dein 6,5 mld. de barili.

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Petrom i Exxon confirm: au descoperit n Marea Neagr gaze care ar acoperi pn la de 6 ori consumul Romniei
februarie 22, 2012 blackjack Scrie un comentariu Mergi la comentarii. Dup ce n urm cu dou sptmni anunau prezena unor zcminte de gaze naturale n Marea Neagr, gigantul american ExxonMobil i compania romneasc Petrom confirm: 42-84 miliarde de metri cubi de gaze naturale estimate, care echivaleaz cu trei-ase ori consumul anual al Romniei. Operaiunile de foraj derulate de cele dou companii n Marea Neagr au nceput la sfritul anului 2011 i sunt pe cale s fie finalizate, se arat ntr-un comunicat transmis de OMV Petrom.

Zcmntul a fost descoperit n urma forrii puului Domino-1 de ctre ExxonMobil, prima operaiune la mare adncime n largul rmului romnesc, cu o adncile de peste 3.000 de metri. Domino-1 este amplasat n Blocul Neptun, la 170 de kilometri de rm, n ape cu o adncime de aproximativ 930 de metri. Forajul va fi executat de ctre vasul ultramodern de clas mondial Deepwater Champion, care a sosit recent n apele romneti special pentru acest proiect, dup finalizarea programului de foraj derulat de Exxon n apele turceti.

Oficialii companiilor susin ns c este prea devreme pentru a se preciza dac aceste zcminte sunt sau nu comerciale. ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Romania Limited, afiliat ExxonMobil corporation, i OMV Petrom SA, subsidiar a grupului OMV, confirm o potenial descoperire semnificativ n largul rmului Romniei () Este prea devreme n procesul de evaluare i explorare pentru a determina dac blocul Neptun se va dovedi n final exploatabil comercial sau nu. Totui, dac viitoarele lucrri vor confirma fezabilitatea tehnic i comercial a produciei de gaze naturale la mare adncime n blocul Neptun, viitoarele investiii n fazele de explorare i dezvoltare ar putea ajunge la cteva miliarde de dolari, iar prima extragere ar putea avea loc cel mai devreme spre sfritul deceniului, se spune n comunicat. ExxonMobil i OMV Petrom intenioneaz s continue lucrrile n acest an, rezutatele achiziiei de date seismice urmnd s determine urmtoarele etape, noteaz companiile. n urm cu dou sptmni, o delegaie a Exxon i Petrom a fost primit la Cotroceni de preedintele Traian Bsescu. Acesta le-a spus investitorilor c noile descoperiri sunt importante, n contextul n care acum Romnia este nevoit s suplimenteze importurile de gaze din Rusia, din cauza gerului, la preuri foarte mari. Premier absolut pentru sectorul petrolier romnesc Aceasta este o premier absolut pentru sectorul petrolier romnesc, ntruct, pn acum, forajul pe platoul continental s-a fcut doar la adncimi mici, de cteva zeci de metri, iar acum este vorba de o adncime de apei de aproximativ 1.000 de metri. Sursa:adevarul.ro

our history
Over the last 125 years ExxonMobil has evolved from a regional marketer of kerosene in the U.S. to the largest publicly traded petroleum and petrochemical enterprise in the world. Today we operate in most of the world's countries and are best known by our familiar brand names: Exxon, Esso and Mobil. We make the products that drive modern transportation, power cities, lubricate industry and provide petrochemical building blocks that lead to thousands of consumer goods.

The colonel's discovery triggers an oil boom that parallels the gold rush of a decade earlier.

1859

Colonel

Edwin Drake and Uncle Billy Smith drill the first successful oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania.

The name Standard is chosen to signify high, uniform quality.

1870

Rockefeller and his associates form

the Standard Oil Company (Ohio), with combined facilities constituting the largest refining capacity of any single firm in the world.
Matthew Ewing and Hiram Bond Everest founded Vacuum Oil Company in 1866 upon patenting a new method of distilling kerosene in a vacuum that produced a high-quality lubricant.

1879

Standard Oil Co. purchases a

three-quarters interest in Vacuum Oil Company for $200,000. As a lubricants pioneer, Vacuum Oil introduces a number of popular products, including the revolutionary Gargoyle 600-W Steam Cylinder Oil.

1882 1885 1903 1906 1911 1915 1919

Standard Oil lubricates Thomas Edison's first central generating system. Also in this year,

Standard Oil Trust forms to include the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Jersey Standard) and the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony). The Standard Oil Trust moves its headquarters to 26 Broadway, New York City. The nine-

story office building becomes a landmark. The same year, Vacuum develops Gargoyle Arctic engine oils for newly designed generators and motors that operate at speeds of up to 1,000 rpm. The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orvillle, use both Jersey Standard fuel and Mobiloil

(Vacuum) lubricants for their historic first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Socony gains a strong foothold in the vast market for kerosene in China by developing small

lamps that burned kerosene efficiently. The lamps become known as Mei-Foo, from the Chinese symbols for Socony, meaning "beautiful confidence." Following a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, Standard Oil breaks up into 34

unrelated companies, including Jersey Standard, Socony and Vacuum Oil. The year also marks the first time Jersey Standard's sales of kerosene are surpassed by gasoline, a product that in the early days had often been discarded as a nuisance. Ralph De Palma, winner of the Indianapolis 500, is the first of many Indy winners to use

Mobil products. His average speed: 89.84 mph. Jersey Standard acquires a 50 percent interest in Humble Oil & Refining Company of

Texas. It was during this year that Humble, led by its pioneering Chief Geologist Wallace Pratt, employed micropaleontology, the study of microscopic fossils contained in cuttings and core samples from drilling, as an aid in finding oil.

1920 1926

Jersey Standard researchers produce rubbing alcohol, or isopropyl alcohol the first

commercial petrochemical. Embodying the phonetic rendition of the initials S and O in Standard Oil, Jersey Standard

brings out a new blend of fuel under the trade name Esso.
This field is the first in the U.S. to be discovered by using the technique of seismic surveying, and the first fairly deep salt dome to be discovered by the use of geophysical instruments.

1927

Humble geophysicists use a

refraction seismograph and discover an oil field in Sugarland, Texas.

1928 1936 1937 1938 1942

50 years.

Amelia Earhart uses Mobiloil to protect Friendship when she makes her historic solo flight

across the Atlantic. The previous year, Charles Lindbergh used Mobiloil in the Spirit of St. Louis on the first solo flight across the Atlantic. First commercial unit in a cat-cracking refinery begins operation at Socony-Vacuums

Paulsboro, New Jersey, refinery. The unit used a process developed by French scientist Eugene P. Houdry with the financial backing of Socony-Vacuum. The process added a clay-like catalyst to the cracking process to boost gasoline yields and octane rating. Jersey Standard researchers produce an artificial rubber, butyl. Today, butyl is used in the

creation of tires, surgical tapes, protective coatings and more. The world's first commercial production of alkylate begins at a Humble plant in Baytown,

Texas. Alkylation made possible the manufacturing of iso-octane, used as a blending agent to produce 100octane aviation gasoline. The worlds first fluid catalytic cracker goes onstream at Louisiana Standards Baton Rouge

refinery. The process, developed by four Jersey Standard researchers known as the four horsemen, improved on the Houdry method for cat cracking and eventually became the industry standard for producing gasoline. Fortune magazine called it the most revolutionary chemical-engineering achievement of the last

1952 1955 1958

Jersey Standard introduces Uniflo motor oil, the first multigrade motor oil recommended for

both summer and winter use. Jersey Standard establishes the Esso Education Foundation, a program that gives financial

aid to private colleges and universities. Pan American Airways flies its first trans-Atlantic Boeing 707 flight from New York to

London. The flight is fueled by Mobil aviation fuel.

1959
your tank.

An advertising copywriter in Chicago comes up with the advertising slogan Put a tiger in

This breakthrough technology, coupled with the use of massive parallel computers in seismic imaging, has helped our geologists sharply reduce finding costs since the 1980s while increasing new field resource additions.

1963

Humble invents 3-D seismic technology, a revolution that completely changes the way the industry searches for oil and gas resources.

1966 1972 1974 1975

Sea.

Mobil celebrates 100 years since the founding of the Vacuum Oil Company in 1866 and

changes its name to Mobil Oil Corporation. The company launches a wide-reaching identity program to emphasize the Mobil trade name. Jersey Standard officially changes its name to Exxon Corporation. The name change is

approved by Jersey Standard shareholders in a special shareholders meeting. Mobil introduces a synthetic automotive engine lubricant Mobil 1. Today, Mobil 1 is the

worlds leading synthetic motor oil. Mobil participates in completion of Beryl A, the world's first concrete production platform.

The 50-story-high structure was the prototype for other concrete deepwater facilities operating in the North

Discovered in the late 1960s, Mobil patented the ZSM-5 zeolite catalyst in 1972.

1976

Mobil invents a

process for converting methanol into high-octane gasoline through the use of the companys versatile ZSM5 catalyst.

1980
and products.

Exxon opens its own facility for environmental health research at East Millstone, New

Jersey. Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. conducts research to further assure the safety of Exxon operations

1982 1986

Exxon celebrates 100 years since the formation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882. In its first

hundred years, the company evolved from a domestic refiner and distributor of kerosene to a large multinational corporation, involved at every level of oil and gas exploration, production, refining and marketing, and petrochemicals manufacturing. Exxon Research and Engineering invents a powerful new imaging technique called 3-D

microtomography to study the internal structure of opaque objects without damaging them.
Learn more about the Exxon Valdez.

1989

On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez runs

aground in Prince William Sound in Alaska. The Valdez oil spill was a tragic accident that ExxonMobil deeply regrets. The company took immediate responsibility for the spill, cleaned it up and voluntarily compensated those who claimed direct damages.

1989 1995 1997 1999 2001 2002 2005 2005 2007

Exxon introduces Exxpol, a single-site metallocene catalyst used to produce consistent,

controllable molecular structures that make plastic and rubber products tougher and impact-resistant, with less haze and with excellent organoleptics (low off-taste and odor).
Since its establishment, ExxonMobil has provided $1 million annually in support of the Save The Tiger Fund.

Exxon establishes the Save The Tiger Fund in partnership with the National Fish and

Wildlife Foundation. The Save The Tiger Fund is dedicated to supporting the conservation of Asias remaining wild tigers. Mobil introduces Speedpass, an electronic system which automatically activates the pump

and charges purchases to a credit card. Speedpass is similar to the electronic toll technology successfully used on subway, bus and highway systems around the world. On November 30, 1999, Exxon and Mobil join to form Exxon Mobil Corporation. "This

merger will enhance our ability to be an effective global competitor in a volatile world economy and in an industry that is more and more competitive," said Lee Raymond and Lou Noto, chairmen and chief executive officers of Exxon and Mobil, respectively. ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company (EMRE) develops the SCANfining process,

which uses a new proprietary catalyst to selectively remove more than 95 percent of the sulfur from gasoline while minimizing octane loss.
Study areas include solar energy, hydrogen, biofuels and advanced transportation. Learn more about GCEP

ExxonMobil, joined by other sponsors, initiates the Global Climate and Energy Project

(GCEP) at Stanford University a pioneering research effort to identify technologies that can meet energy demand with dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions. ExxonMobil partners with professional golfer Phil Mickelson and his wife, Amy, to launch the

Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy. The academy is designed to provide third- through fifth-grade teachers with the knowledge and skills necessary to motivate kids to pursue careers in science and math. ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum, with other joint-venture partners, expand development of

the giant North Field offshore Qatar, the largest nonassociated gas field in the world. Exxon Neftegas Limited (a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation) completes the drilling of

the Z-11 well, the longest measured depth extended-reach drilling (ERD) well in the world.