Total company profits for the year 2012:
1. ExxonMobil | $44,880,000,000
2. Gazprom | $38,086,200,000
3. Royal Dutch Shell | $26,592,000,000
4. Chevron | $26,179,000,000
5. China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) | $18,195,900,000
6. Petronas | $16,001,000,000
7. BHP Billiton | $15,417,000,000
8. Total | $13,743,200,000
9. Statoil (tie) | $11,600,000,000
9. BP (tie) | $11,600,000,000
10. Petrobras | $11,000,000,000
The top ten companies produced a total of $233,292,000,000 in 2012 profits.
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Just how much money is that?
With its 2012 profits, ExxonMobil could purchase 1,168 Gulfstream G550s.
Gazprom’s 2012 profits were more than Kenya’s GDP of $34b.
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With all the profits gas companies make Maybe they should invest some of that money in state clean up progrms to clean up our ground water