2010 World Top 10 Company #3 - Exxon Mobil

Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) or Exxon-Mobil, is an American multinational oil and gas corporation. It is a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil company, and was formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil. Its headquarters are in Irving, Texas. Its affiliated with Imperial Oil which operates in Canada.

ExxonMobil is one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world, having been ranked either #1 or #2 for the past 5 years. However they are currently 6th according to Forbes Global 2000. Exxon Mobil's reserves were 72 billion oil-equivalent barrels at the end of 2007 and, at then (2007) rates of production, are expected to last over 14 years.With 37 oil refineries in 21 countries constituting a combined daily refining capacity of 6.3 million barrels, Exxon Mobil is the largest refiner in the world, a title that was also associated with Standard Oil since its incorporation in 1870.

ExxonMobil is the largest of the six oil supermajors with daily production of 3.921 million BOE (barrels of oil equivalent). In 2008, this was approximately 3% of world production, which is less than several of the largest state-owned petroleum companies.When ranked by oil and gas reserves it is 14th in the world with less than 1% of the total.

Exxon-Mobil is structured and managed by business activity, on a global basis, rather than by country.    New Exxon-Mobil structure, following merger, organises into 11 separate global businesses:

• five upstream: exploration, development, production, gas marketing, upstream research
• four downstream: refining & supply, fuels marketing, lubricants & petroleum specialities, technology
• chemicals
• coal & minerals

Relative size of these areas in Exxon-Mobil globally according to Exxon-Mobil Financial & Operating Review (average capital employed, 2000):

Upstream  44.6%
Downstream 31.7%
Chemicals 15.8%
Other + corporate 7.9%

2010 World Top 10 Company #2 - Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell plc (LSE: RDSA, LSE: RDSB), commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office at the Shell Centre in London, United Kingdom. It is the largest energy company and the second-largest company in the world measured by revenues and is one of the six oil and gas "supermajors". It is vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading. It also has major renewable energy activities, including in biofuels, hydrogen, solar and wind power.

Shell has its own shipping company to transport the raw oil around the world

It has operations in over 90 countries, produces around 3.1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day and has 44,000 service stations worldwide.Shell Oil Company, its subsidiary in the United States, is one of its largest businesses.

A refinery and storage based in Kowloon, Hong Kong

Its primary listing is on the London Stock Exchange and it is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It has secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New York Stock Exchange.


Shell has five core businesses: exploration and production (the "upstream"), gas and power, refining and marketing (the "downstream"), chemicals, and trading and shipping. Shell has operations in over 140 countries.

An oil tank just shift out the petrol from the refinery to the customer

Shell by numbers (figures for 2010)

Shell by numbers+ 90 countries where we operate
~93,000 number of employees
48% of our production is natural gas
16.8 million tonnes of LNG sold (2010)
3.3 million barrels of gas and oil we produce every day
43,000 Shell service stations worldwide
145 billion litres of fuel sold (2010)
>30 refineries and chemical plants we run

Upstream explores for and extracts crude oil and natural gas.
Downstream refines, supplies, trades and ships crude worldwide, manufactures and markets a range of products, and produces petrochemicals for industrial customers.
Projects & Technology manages delivery of Shell’s major projects and drives the research and innovation to create technology solutions.

While the whole world suffered from the inflation, the petroleum industry earn very much from the rising price of the petrol

2010
• Revenue: $368.1 billion
• Income: $20.5 billion
• Capital investment: $30.6 billion
• Investment in research and development: $1 billion 

Shell is the main sponsor for Ferrari F1 Team

It also sponsor the Ducati Team in Motor GP

2010 World Top 10 Company #1 - Walmart

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT), branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company was the world's largest public corporation in 2010 by revenue.The organization has approximately 2.1 million workers.

The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. Wal-Mart, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, is the largest majority private employer Walmart is also the largest grocery retailer in the United States. In 2009, it generated 51% of its US$258 billion sales in the U.S. from grocery business. It also owns and operates the Sam's Club retail warehouses in North America.

Walmart has 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names. The company operates under its own name in the United States, including the 50 states. It also operates under its own name in Puerto Rico. It operates in Mexico as Walmex, in the United Kingdom as Asda, in Japan as Seiyu, and in India as Best Price. It has wholly owned operations in Argentina, Brazil, and Canada. Walmart's investments outside North America have had mixed results: its operations in the United Kingdom, South America and China are highly successful, while it was forced to pull out of Germany and South Korea when ventures there were unsuccessful.

The trademark

The Walmart map

Almost everything you can get in Walmart including IPhone

It's possible to subsist almost entirely on items found in Walmart (you can even buy tents if you don't have a home), but there's one product found in a quarter of all American households that most Walmarts don't stock: guns. Until now. Walmart is returning the gun counter to a big chunk of its stores. Why does the same store that sells baby clothes and books like Organic Gardening for the 21st Century think its customers will want rifles, shotguns, and ammunition? Because Americans love guns. And Walmart thinks they can sell them to us.

The customer is so thrilled

New venture in China