ExxonMobil explained

Exxon Mobil Corporation
Trade Name:ExxonMobil
Former Names:
  • Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) (1882[1] –1973)
  • Exxon Corporation (1973–1999)
Type:Public
Industry:Energy
Parent:Standard Oil (1882–1911)
Hq Location:Spring, Texas, U.S.
Area Served:Worldwide
Key People:Darren Woods (chairman & CEO)
Num Employees:60,900 (2024)
Subsid:
Brands:

Exxon Mobil Corporation [2] [3] [4] is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston.[5] Founded as the largest direct successor of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, the company was formed in 1999, with the merger of Exxon and Mobil. It is vertically integrated across the entire oil and gas industry, as well as within its chemicals division, which produces plastic, synthetic rubber, and other chemical products. As the largest U.S.-based oil and gas company, ExxonMobil is the eighth-largest company by revenue in the U.S. and 13th-largest in the world. It is also the largest investor-owned oil company in the world.[6] [7] [8] Approximately 55.56% of the company's shares are held by institutions, the largest of which, as of 2019, were The Vanguard Group (8.15%), BlackRock (6.61%), and State Street Corporation (4.83%).

The company has been widely criticized and sued, mostly for environmental incidents and its history of climate change denial against the scientific consensus that fossil fuels significantly contribute to global warming.[9] The company is responsible for many oil spills, the largest and most notable of which was the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, considered to be one of the world's worst oil spills in terms of environmental damage.[10] [11] The company has also been accused of human rights violations and exerting excessive influence on American foreign policy and developing countries.[12]

History

See main article: History of ExxonMobil. Originally, Vacuum Oil Company was founded in 1866. Vacuum Oil later was acquired by Standard Oil in 1879, divested from Standard in 1911 with its legally-mandated breakup, and merged by the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony), later known as Mobil, in 1931. After the 1911 breakup, Standard Oil continued to exist through its New Jersey subsidiary (Jersey Standard), and retained its name in much of the eastern United States. Jersey Standard grew by acquiring Humble Oil in the 1930s and became the dominant oil company on the world stage.

The company's lack of ownership over the Standard Oil name across the United States, however, prompted a name change to unify all of its brands under one name, choosing Exxon in 1972 instead of continuing to use the three distinct brands Esso, Enco, and Humble Oil.[13]

In 1998, the two companies agreed to merge and form ExxonMobil, with the deal closing on November 30, 1999. The new company's name containing both of the trade names of its immediate predecessors. However, the structure of the merger provided that Exxon was the surviving company and bought Mobil, rather than a new company being created.[14] [15] [16] Following the merger, Exxon's NYSE ticker symbol was changed from "XON"[17] to "XOM".

Operations

ExxonMobil is the largest non-government-owned company in the international energy industry and produces about 3% of the world's oil and about 2% of the world's energy.[18] ExxonMobil is vertically integrated into a number of global operating divisions. These divisions are grouped into three categories for reference purposes, though the company also has several standalone divisions, such as Coal & Minerals. It also owns hundreds of smaller subsidiaries such as XTO Energy and SeaRiver Maritime. ExxonMobil also has a majority ownership stake in Imperial Oil.[19]

Upstream

The upstream division makes up the majority of ExxonMobil's revenue, accounting for approximately 70% of it.[21] In 2021, ExxonMobil had about 30 billion barrels of oil and oil equivalents, as well as 38.1 billion cubic feet of natural gas.[22] In the United States, ExxonMobil's petroleum exploration and production activities are concentrated in the Permian Basin, Bakken Formation, Woodford Shale, Caney Shale, and the Gulf of Mexico. ExxonMobil also has gas developments in the regions of Marcellus Shale, Utica Shale, Haynesville Shale, Barnett Shale, and Fayetteville Shale. All natural gas activities are conducted by its subsidiary, XTO Energy. As of December 31, 2014, ExxonMobil owned in the United States, of which were offshore, of which were in the Gulf of Mexico. In California, it has a joint venture called Aera Energy LLC with Shell Oil. In Canada, the company holds, including offshore and of the Kearl Oil Sands Project.

In Argentina, ExxonMobil holds and in Germany. In the Netherlands ExxonMobil owns, in Norway it owns offshore, and the United Kingdom offshore. In Africa, upstream operations are concentrated in Angola, where it owns offshore, Chad where it owns, Equatorial Guinea, where it owns offshore, and Nigeria, where it owns offshore. In addition, ExxonMobil plans to start exploration activities off the coast of Liberia and the Ivory Coast.[23] [24] ExxonMobile previously had exploration activities in Madagascar, but ended these operations due to unsatisfactory results.[25]

In Asia, it holds in Azerbaijan, in Indonesia, of which are offshore, in Iraq, in Kazakhstan, in Malaysia, in Qatar, in Yemen, in Thailand, and in the United Arab Emirates.

ExxonMobil exited the West Qurna 1 oilfield in January 2024, officially ending all energy sector operations in Iraq. The share is now owned by PetroChina and Pertamina.[26] [27]

In March 2024, ExxonMobil discovered oil at the Stabroek block off the coast of Guyana using a drillship. By the end of 2027, it plans to have 6 FPSOs at the block.[28] Oil was discovered off the coast of Angola in May 2024 in a well drilled from February to April in the Kizomba B development area.[29]

Russia operations

Until the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, ExxonMobil held in the Sakhalin-I project through its subsidiary Exxon Neftegas. Together with Rosneft, it has developed in Russia, including the East-Prinovozemelsky field. After Russia's 2022 invasion began, though, ExxonMobil announced it was fully pulling out of both Russia and Sakhalin-I, and launched a lawsuit against Russia's federal government on August 30.[30]

Australia operations

In Australia, ExxonMobil held, including offshore. It also operates the Longford Gas Conditioning Plant, and participates in the development of Gorgon LNG project.

Papua New Guinea operations

In Papua New Guinea, it holds, including the PNG Gas project.[31]

Product Solutions

ExxonMobil formed its Product Solutions division in 2022, combining its previously separate Downstream and Chemical divisions into a single company.[32]

On October 1, 2024, Nigeria approved the $1.28 billion sale of Exxon Mobil's onshore assets to Seplat Energy, more than two years after the deal was first agreed upon in February 2022[33]

Downstream and retail

ExxonMobil markets products around the world under the brands of Exxon, Mobil, and Esso. Mobil is ExxonMobil's primary retail gasoline brand in California, Florida, New York, New England, the Great Lakes, and the Midwest. Exxon is the primary brand in the rest of the United States, with the highest concentration of retail outlets located in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas (shared with Mobil), and in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states. ExxonMobil has stations in 46 states, just behind Shell USA and ahead of Phillips 66, lacking a presence only in Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, and Kansas.[34]

Outside of the United States, Esso and Mobil are primarily used, with Esso operating in 14 countries and Mobil operating in 29 countries and regions.[35]

In Japan, ExxonMobil had a 22% stake in TonenGeneral Sekiyu K.K., a refining company that merged into Eneos in 2017.[36] [37]

ExxonMobil's primary retail brands worldwide are Exxon, Esso, Mobil, with the former being used exclusively in the United States and the latter two being used in most other countries where ExxonMobil operates. Esso is the only one of its brands not used widely in the United States. Since 2008, Mobil is the only brand for the company lubricants. Since 2018, ExxonMobil has operated a loyalty program, ExxonMobil Rewards+, where customers earn rewards points when filling up at its stations in the United States and later the United Kingdom.[38] [39] [40]

Chemicals

ExxonMobil Chemical is a petrochemical company that was created by merging Exxon's and Mobil's chemical industries in 1999. Its principal products include basic olefins and aromatics, ethylene glycol, polyethylene, and polypropylene along with speciality lines such as elastomers, plasticizers, solvents, process fluids, oxo alcohols and adhesive resins. The company also produces synthetic lubricant base stocks as well as lubricant additives, propylene packaging films and catalysts. ExxonMobil is the world's largest producer of butyl rubber.[41] Infineum, a joint venture with Shell plc, is manufacturing and marketing crankcase lubricant additives, fuel additives, and specialty lubricant additives, as well as automatic transmission fluids, gear oils, and industrial oils.[42]

Sponsorships

See main article: Mobil 1. Mobil 1, a brand of synthetic motor oil, is a major sponsor of multiple racing teams and the official motor oil of NASCAR since 2003.[43] ExxonMobil is currently in partnerships with Oracle Red Bull Racing in Formula One and Kalitta Motorsports.[44] [45] [46]

Refineries

ExxonMobil operates 21 refineries worldwide, and claims that 80% of its refining capacity is integrated with chemical or lube basestocks. ExxonMobil's largest refinery overall is its Beaumont Refinery and its second largest in the United States is its Baytown Refinery, located in Baytown, Texas. After ExxonMobile committed thousands of violations of federal law at its Baytown facilities between 2005 and 2013, ExxonMobile was ordered to pay $19.95 million (later reduced to $14.25 million), a decision affirmed in 2024 by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.[47]

Its second largest refinery overall is its Jurong Island facility in Singapore. ExxonMobil's global average refining capacity was 4.6 million barrels per day, with the United States producing a plurality of the company's refining capacity at about 1.77 million barrels per day. ExxonMobil's corporate website claims it refines almost 5 million barrels per day.[48] [49]

ExxonMobil was one of few U.S. refiners to expand capacity by a significant margin following an industry downturn suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic.[50] The company completed a 250,000 barrels per day expansion at its Beaumont, Texas, refinery in early 2023.[51]

Low Carbon Solutions

Officially formed with ExxonMobil's 2022 corporate restructuring, and currently led by former General Motors president Dan Ammann, Low Carbon Solutions is the company's alternative energy division. Low Carbon Solutions conducts research on clean energy technologies, including algae biofuels, biodiesel made from agricultural waste, carbonate fuel cells, and refining crude oil into plastic by using a membrane and osmosis instead of heat.[52] [53] Exxon's work on low-carbon energy projects is a fraction of the $1 billion a year Exxon spends on general research and the $8 billion it has spent since 2000.[54]

, the company was in the process of designing its inaugural large-scale plant dedicated to producing low-carbon hydrogen, situated within its refining and petrochemical complex in Baytown, Texas. This project is set to become the world's largest low-carbon hydrogen project.[55] [56]

Carbon capture and storage

ExxonMobil publicly announced it would be investing $15 billion in what it deemed a "lower carbon future", and claims to be the world leader in carbon capture and storage (CCS). The company additionally plans that its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions will be carbon neutral by 2050. ExxonMobil additionally acquired biofuel company Biojet AS in 2022, and its Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil is moving ahead with plans to produce a renewable diesel biofuel.[57] [58] In July 2023, Exxon agreed to acquire Denbury Resources for $4.9 billion to further its low-carbon efforts.[59] In July 2024, ExxonMobil and CF Industries signed a CCS agreement that will allow ExxonMobil to transport and permanently store 500,000 tonnes of CO2 per year starting in 2028.[60]

Lithium mining

In November 2023 ExxonMobil started drilling for lithium in the US State of Arkansas. In June 2024, a preliminary agreement to supply lithium to SK for the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries that will power electric vehicles was signed.[61]

Acquisitions

In a nearly $60 billion all-stock deal announced in October 2023 and completed in May 2024 following U.S. antitrust review, ExxonMobil acquired Pioneer Natural Resources, more than doubling its holdings in the Permian Basin. The acquisition created one of the largest unconventional oil and gas development positions in the region.[62] [63]

Controversies

See main article: Criticism of ExxonMobil.

Climate change denial

ExxonMobil's environmental record has faced much criticism for its stance[64] and impact on global warming.[65] In 2018, the Political Economy Research Institute ranks ExxonMobil tenth among American corporations emitting airborne pollutants,[66] thirteenth by emitting greenhouse gases.[67] A 2017 report places ExxonMobil as the fifth largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions from 1988 to 2015.[68] [69], ExxonMobil had committed less than 1% of their profits towards researching alternative energy,[70] which, according to the advocacy organization Ceres, is less than other leading oil companies.[71] According to the 2021 Arctic Environmental Responsibility Index (AERI), ExxonMobil is ranked as the sixth most environmentally responsible company among 120 oil, gas, and mining companies involved in resource extraction north of the Arctic Circle.[72] As of 2020, ExxonMobil has been responsible for more than 3,000 oil spills and leakages which resulted in a loss of more than one barrel of oil, with the most in a single year being 484 spills in 2011.[73] Additionally, since 1965, ExxonMobil has released more than 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide pollution.[74]

In 2023, Science journal published a paper reporting that the global warming projections and models created by ExxonMobil's own scientists between 1977 and 2003 had "accurately" projected and "skillfully" modeled global warming due to fossil fuel burning, and had reasonably estimated how much would lead to dangerous warming. The authors of the paper concluded: "Yet, whereas academic and government scientists worked to communicate what they knew to the public, ExxonMobil worked to deny it."[75] [76]

Between the 1980s and 2014, ExxonMobil was a notable denier of climate change, though the company officially changed its position in 2014 to acknowledge the existence of climate change. ExxonMobil's prolonged response incited the creation of the Exxon Knew movement, which aims to hold the company accountable for various climate-related incidents. ExxonMobil has used its own website to attack Exxon Knew.[77] [78] [79]

In December 2022, U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney and U.S. House Oversight Environment Subcommittee Chair Ro Khanna sent a memorandum to all House Oversight and Reform Committee members summarizing additional findings from the committee's investigation into the fossil fuel industry disinformation campaign to obscure the role of fossil fuels in causing global warming. Upon reviewing internal company documents, they accused ExxonMobil along with BP, Chevron, and Shell of greenwashing their Paris Agreement carbon neutrality pledges while continuing long-term investment in fossil fuel production and sales, for engaging in a campaign to promote the use of natural gas as a clean energy source and bridge fuel to renewable energy, and of intimidating journalists reporting about the companies' climate actions and of obstructing the committee's investigation, which ExxonMobil, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute denied.[80] [81] [82]

In the United States, as of 2024, dozens of states and localities have sued ExxonMobil on the base of its climate change denial.

Oil spills and plastic pollution

ExxonMobil's operations have been subject to numerous oil spills both before and after the 1999 merger. The most widely publicized oil spill was the 1989 Valdez oil spill, where an Exxon tanker discharged approximately 11 million U.S. gallons (42,000 m3) of oil into Prince William Sound,[83] oiling 1300miles of the remote Alaskan coastline. The spill remains the second largest in American history, only trailing BP's Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.[84]

ExxonMobil was also responsible for various other oil spills across the world. Some of Exxon's largest and most notable oil spills in the United States include long-lasting oil leaks totaling into an estimated 30 million gallon spill into New York City's Newtown Creek over the course of a century by Exxon and other Standard Oil predecessors,[85] a 2011 oil spill which leaked 1,500 barrels of oil into the Yellowstone River (resulting in about $135 million in damages),[86] and a 2012 1,900 barrel (80,000 gallon) spill from the company's Baton Rouge Refinery in the rivers of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.[87] ExxonMobil's actives in Louisiana in particular, especially its Baton Rouge Refinery, have given the area the nickname of Cancer Alley. The company's activities, along with other operations and refineries in the area, have been the source of increased cancer infections, lower air quality, and as seen by some, potential environmental racism committed by the company.[88] [89]

In May 2021, ExxonMobil topped the Plastic Waste Makers Index report published by the Minderoo Foundation of 20 petrochemical companies that manufactured 55 percent of the single-use plastic waste in the world in 2019 (which were part of a larger group of 100 petrochemical companies that manufactured 90 percent of the waste),[90] [91] while in April 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a subpoena to ExxonMobil for information related to the company's role in overstating the effectiveness of plastic recycling in reducing plastic pollution as part of an industry campaign to promote plastic usage.[92] [93] [94] On September 23, 2024, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit in San Francisco County Superior Court against ExxonMobil on behalf of the state of California, alleging that the company carried out a "decades-long campaign of deception" and misled the public on the merits of plastic recycling; in response ExxonMobil said that California has an ineffective recycling system that officials have known about for decades.[95]

Geopolitical influence and human rights violations

See also: Conflict in the Niger Delta. ExxonMobil has also been accused of human rights violations and abusing its geopolitical influence. In the book Private Empire by Steve Coll, ExxonMobil is described as extremely powerful "corporate state within the American state" in dealing with the countries in which it drills, going to the point as describing such countries' governments as "constrained".[96] The company's corporate ancestors are also blamed for the outbreak of the 1954 Jebel Akhdar War, which was sparked by the Iraq Petroleum Company's activities.[97] [98]

Indonesia

See main article: Accusations of ExxonMobil human rights violations in Aceh.

Beginning in the late 1980s, ExxonMobil (through predecessor Mobil) hired military units of the Indonesian National Army to provide security for their gas extraction and liquefaction project in Aceh, Indonesia, and these military units were accused of committing human rights violations, including sexual assault, battery and unlawful detention. ExxonMobil eventually pulled out from Indonesia completely in 2001, while denying any wrongdoing.[99] Exxon attempted to have the case dismissed nine times, dragging the lawsuit out for over 20 years. In July 2022, a US District Court denied ExxonMobil's motions to dismiss the case, clearing the way for the lawsuit to go to trial, although no trial date was set. In 2023, ExxonMobil settled the case a week before trial.[100]

Other controversies

War profiteering allegations

During a 2022 surge in profits among ExxonMobil and other large oil companies, partly due to the war in Ukraine,[101] [102] U.S. President Joe Biden criticized ExxonMobil. In June 2022, amid record oil prices, he said that "Exxon made more money than God this year".[103] When the oil giant reported its second quarter earnings in 2022, CNN reported that Exxon made US$2,245.62 per second in profit across the 92-day long second quarter.[104]

Exposure to benzene

In May 2024, a Pennsylvania jury found ExxonMobil liable for negligently failing to warn about the health risks of benzene, which is classified by the US Environmental Protection Agency as a known carcinogen, and ordered the company to pay $725.5 million in compensatory damages to a former mechanic, Paul Gill, who claimed that his cancer was caused by exposure to benzene in ExxonMobil's petroleum products while working at a Mobil gas station between 1975 and 1980.[105] [106]

Corporate affairs

Business trends

According to Fortune Global 500, ExxonMobil was the second largest company, second largest publicly held corporation, and the largest oil company in the United States by 2017 revenue.[107] For the fiscal year 2020, ExxonMobil reported a loss of US$22.4 billion, with an annual revenue of US$181.5 billion, a decline of 31.5% over the previous fiscal cycle.

The key trends of ExxonMobil are (as at the financial year ending December 31):[108]

As per Fortune 500 Global list, ExxonMobil has been ranked #7 company in the World.[109]

YearRevenue
(US$ bn)		Net income/
loss
(US$ bn)		Total assets
(US$ bn)		Price per share
(US$)
Employees
2008[110] 47745.222882.6879,900
200931019.223370.9580,700
2010[111] 38330.430264.9983,600
2011[112] 48641,033179.7182,100
2012[113] 48044.833386.5376,900
2013[114] 43832.534690.5075,000
2014[115] 41132.534997.2775,300
2015[116] 24916.133682.8273,500
20162087.833086.2271,100
2017[117] 24419.734881.8669,600
2018[118] 29020.834679.9671,000
2019[119] 26414.336273.7374,900
2020[120] 181βˆ’22.433244.5272,000
2021[121] 28523.033857.9663,000
202241355.7369110.3062,300
202334436.037661,500

Headquarters and offices

ExxonMobil's headquarters are located in the Spring, Texas area, a suburb of Houston. The ExxonMobil campus has a Spring post office address, and is adjacent to, but not in, the Spring census-designated place.[122] Paul Takahashi of the Houston Chronicle described the headquarters as being in Spring.[123]

The headquarters was previously in Irving.[124] The company decided to consolidate its Houston operations into one new campus located in northern Harris County and vacate its offices on 800 Bell St. which it had occupied since 1963.[125] The decision came in 2022.[123] The new operation complex includes twenty office buildings totaling 3000000square feet, a wellness center, laboratory, and three parking garages.[126] It is designed to house nearly 10,000 employees.

Board of directors

The current chairman of the board and CEO of ExxonMobil Corp. is Darren W. Woods. Woods was elected chairman of the board and CEO effective January 1, 2017, after the retirement of former chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson. Before his election as chairman and CEO, Woods was elected president of ExxonMobil and a member of the board of directors in 2016.[127]

, the current ExxonMobil board members are:[128]

Hooley is presently the lead independent director, having succeeded former Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier upon his retirement in May 2022.[129]

Key executives

ExxonMobil's key executives are:[130]

See also

Bibliography

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

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