More diversified and hedged energy companies like ExxonMobil are better able to withstand such a problem.
How long can Valero and its larger rivals ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips surf this wave?
In the meantime the big oil stocks like ExxonMobil, Chevron, Occidental got a little boost today.
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In a 2010 letter to the EPA, ExxonMobil Chemicals Vice President Elissa P.
ExxonMobil is the largest publicly-traded corporation in the world by market cap and revenue.
One early customer for time-sharing is Mobil Travel Guide, the restaurant-and-hotel rater partly owned by ExxonMobil.
In June, ExxonMobil revealed that it had discovered two fields there with 700 million barrels.
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ExxonMobil forked over 40% of revenue last year in taxes, dividends and stock repurchases.
"You kinda have to go where the oil is, " deadpans Lee Raymond, ExxonMobil's chairman.
ExxonMobil does not care if the margin increases because they have the full amount anyway.
Petersburg, which will be staffed by Rosneft and ExxonMobil employees, Russian news agency Ria Novosti reported.
Its main competitors are ExxonMobil, British Petroleum, Anadarko and Chevron.
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Doubters and disbelievers are simply stooges of big oil, particularly ExxonMobil , he harrumphed.
ExxonMobil also inherited an image problem in Equatorial Guinea, where Mobil obtained concessions in the mid-1990s.
Outside the hushed, carpeted offices of Harry Longwell, executive vice president of ExxonMobil Corp.
The company began rolling up pipeline assets from the likes of ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell.
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ExxonMobil's problem may stem from Williams' aggressive efforts to get at the Tengiz oil.
It trades at seven times this year's expected earnings, roughly a third the ratio for ExxonMobil.
Timex and ExxonMobil team up on watches that can pay for gas and Big Macs.
Other lunches have included CEOs from Honeywell, Wal-Mart, ExxonMobil and Microsoft, to name a few.
Over the last year, Petrobras shares are down over 22 percent while ExxonMobil is up 3.14 percent.
In the first quarter downstream (refining and marketing) profits climbed 39% at ExxonMobil and 19% at ConocoPhillips.
ConocoPhillips primarily competes with ExxonMobil, BP and Anadarko in the oil and NGL markets.
ExxonMobil is also working in the Permian Basin again, in part by virtue of the XTO deal.
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ExxonMobil (nyse: XOM - news - people ) is under intense pressure to recant.
American companies, such as ExxonMobil would be effectively rendered uncompetitive against foreign owned oil and gas companies.
Cnooc is currently in the hunt for oilfields off the coast of Ghana, vying with ExxonMobil and BP.
The stocks in Corbett's portfolios are a long way from multinationals like ExxonMobil and glamour stocks like Apple.
We project flat crude oil and NGL production by ExxonMobil in 2011, as compared to 2010 levels.
Strong margins drove ExxonMobil's second-quarter earnings ahead of The Street's expectations, lifting the oil firm's languishing stock price.
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