China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation
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Business Wire | 25 days 7 hours 19 minutes ago
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MarketWire | 24 days 3 hours 30 minutes ago
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UPDATE 1-Qatar buys stakes in Shell Chemicals jv in Singapore
Forbes | 12 days 13 hours 54 minutes ago
By Felicia Loo and Judy Hua SINGAPORE, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Qatar Petroleum International (QPI) and Shell Eastern Petroleum Pte Ltd have sealed agreements in which QPI takes stakes in two Shell Chemicals joint ventures in Singapore, its first overseas downstream acquisition, the companies said on Wednesday.
Qatar buys stakes in Shell Chemicals jv in Singapore
Forbes | 12 days 15 hours 10 minutes ago
SINGAPORE, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Qatar Petroleum International (QPI) and Shell Eastern Petroleum Pte Ltd have sealed agreements in which QPI takes stakes in two Shell Chemicals joint ventures in Singapore, its first overseas downstream acquisition, the companies said on Wednesday.
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ExxonMobil Estimates 3Q Earnings at $4.7B
Rigzone.com | 25 days 1 hour 51 minutes ago
ExxonMobil's Chairman, Rex W. Tillerson, commented, "Despite ongoing global economic weakness and reduced demand for products, we continued our robust investment program and delivered strong results.
RIGZONE - ExxonMobil Estimates 3Q Earnings at $4.7B
International Water Power and Dam Construction | 25 days 1 hour 34 minutes ago
ExxonMobil's Chairman, Rex W. Tillerson, commented, "Despite ongoing global economic weakness and reduced demand for products, we continued our robust investment program and delivered strong results.
Burying CO2: Fix or folly?
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 43 days 11 hours 8 minutes ago
In 2008, Edmonton Journal columnist Graham Thomson was awarded a fellowship from the Canadian Journalism Foundation that gave him a year of academic and journalistic freedom to study any courses that caught his interest at the University of Toronto.
Company Overview
| Company: | China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry: | Oil & Gas Refining, Marketing & Distribution |
| Website: | http://www.sinopec.com.cn |
China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec Corp.) is the largest refiner and petrochemical producer in China. Its parent, state-owned China Petrochemical (Sinopec Group), reorganized in 2000 and pooled the best of its assets as Sinopec Corp. Sinopec Corp.'s businesses include oil and gas exploration and production; crude oil processing; oil products trading, transportation, distribution, and marketing; and petrochemicals manufacturing. It has proved reserves of 4 billion barrels of oil and more than 7 trillion cu. ft. of gas, and owns more than 29,000 gas stations. The government of China controls about 75% of the company through the Sinopec Group.
Key Numbers
| Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 211,861.5 (2008) |
|---|---|
| One-year % Growth in Sales | 28.6 (2008) |
| Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 3,822.6 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Net Income | -50.5 (2008) |
| Number of Employees | 358,304 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Number of Employees | 7.2 (2008) |
| Fiscal Year-End | December |