Big 6 Oil Companies Complete a Trillion-Dollar Decade

Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Times are good for the six largest oil companies, with profits easily surpassing the figures from before the 2008 financial meltdown. In 2011 ExxonMobil led the way with profits of $41.1 billion. Shell was in second place at $28.6 billion, followed by Chevron at $26.8 billion and BP at $23.9 billion. Total was back at $15.9 billion and ConocoPhillips trailed at $12.4 billion. All six showed stronger profits than in 2007.
 
Overall it’s been literally a trillion-dollar decade for the oil and gas giants. From 2002 to 2011, ExxonMobil gained $310.6 billion, Shell $203.9 billion, Chevron $151.8 billion and BP $146.9 billion despite its loss year because of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
 
Although oil industry advocates, such as Jack Gerard, the CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, have recently whined about “discrimination” against the oil industry, Taxpayers for Common Sense has called attention to at least a dozen different subsidies that favor the industry. Brian Siu, a policy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council, told Roll Call that one subsidy, allowing companies to deduct intangible drilling costs, has been available to the industry since 1916.
-David Wallechinsky
 
To Learn More:
Financial Performance of the Major Oil Companies, 2007-2011 (by Robert Pirog, Congressional Research Service) (pdf)
Petroleum Industry Claims Cutting Its Tax Breaks is “Discriminatory” (by Noel Brinkerhoff and David Wallechinsky, AllGov)
U.S. Use of Gasoline is Down, Yet Pump Prices are Up as Speculators Move In (by Noel Brinkerhoff and David Wallechinsky, AllGov)

Senate Retains $2 Billion in Annual Tax Breaks for Big 5 Oil Companies (by Noel Brinkerhoff and David Wallechinsky, AllGov) 

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Greg Grimshaw 12 years ago
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term 10-15 years. please contact me if there are opportunities that open up. i am prepared to go to work immediately. thank you for your valuable time. greg grimshaw employment application greg grimshaw 238 hidden springs lane orofino idaho 83544 december 5th 2011 hm-208-476-4724 / cell-208-717-7409 gregsblackgold@yahoo.com _____________________________________________________________ employment history the past year i have been building homes off and on and doing all aspects of the projects from the concrete foundation to the roof. from 1993 to 2011 i have owned and operated granite and corian countertop shops. i have hired employees, run these companies, landed accounts like home depot, lowes… i ran this company for 11 years in alaska and 16 years in idaho. i have been in diverse aspects of construction since 1981 to 1993. i have built many homes, worked on many commercial projects, and done a great deal of remodeling work. i built my own home in 1996, and did all the phases of 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