Cseh Valentin szerk.: „70 éve alakult a MAORT” – tanulmányok egy bányavállalat történetéből (2009)
Philip J. Mulhall: Standard Oil in Europe
100 TCF, it is a joint venture between Shell and Esso, as Standard )ersey had become. 1964: Esso participated in construction of the TAL pipeline connecting the port of Trieste in Italy with central Europe. 1965: Esso and Shell entered into a Joint Operating Agreement for the UK North Sea for the first UK licensing round. And in Norway, Esso received three offshore licences on which the first North Sea discovery made was the Balder field in 1967. Mobil was independently busv in the North Sea too, discovering the multi billion bbl Statfjord field in Norway in 1972 and completing the world's first concrete production platform, Beryl Alpha, in the UK in 1975. 1976: the expansion of Antwerp Refinery saw the construction of the world's largest atmospheric pipestill. 1995: Mobil in Germany set a world record with combined horizontal drilling and multi fractures at a depth of 5,000m. Today ExxonMobil is the second largest net producer of hydrocarbons in Europe. The company has upstream interests in Norway, the UK, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Ireland. Extensive North Sea oil and gas operations and significant onshore natural gas production are among the company's key assets. ExxonMobil operates some 90 producing fields in Europe. They also have interests in around 200 fields operated by other companies as part of joint operations. ExxonMobil's operations in Europe accounted for about 27% of the company's 2007 net oil and gas production and about 23% of its Upstream earnings. Exploration activities continue in Europe today: ExxonMobil collected seismic data in Ireland, Greenland and Germany in 2008 and drilled expensive wells in the UK, Norway and Germany. In the Downstream in Europe we have interests in 10 major refineries - in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy The Netherlands, Norway and the UK. There are around 7,000 Esso branded service stations that serve some three million customers in Europe every single day. Our sales of petroleum products, including petrol, diesel, naphthas, heating oils, paraffin, aviation fuels, heavy fuels and lubricants were some 1.8 million barrels per day in 2007. Our petrochemical products provide key building blocks for a vast array of everyday products, from bicycle helmets to credit cards, from seat belts to medical supplies, from CDs to lightweight plastic films for retail packaging. We have 13 manufacturing sites - in Belgium, Germany, France, Italy The Netherlands and the UK. We are one of Europe's leading manufacturers of olefins and polvolefins, used in pac kaging and a wide variety of applications ranging from nappies to car parts. Our sales of prime petrochemical products were some 7.4 million tonnes in the Europe, Middle East, Africa region in 2007. Today ExxonMobil is in a superior position. If you look at our performance last year, our 125th anniversary year, it was, by many measures, the strongest in the company's history. ExxonMobil delivered a record 40.6 billion dollars in net income, with each of its businesses, Upstream, Downstream and Chemicals achieving record earnings performance. ExxonMobil is a leader in just about every operational category. The company's resource base consists of - 72 billion oil-equivalent barrels, Gas production 9.3 billion cubic feet /day, Liquids production - 2.6 million barrels /day, Refining throughput - 5.6 million barrels /day, Petroleum product sales - 7 million barrels / day, Chemical product sales - 27.5 million tonnes. ExxonMobil is now back exploring for oil and gas in Hungary. On 14 April 2008 ExxonMobil and MOL announced an agreement to start a joint exploration program in blocks 106 and 107 in the Mako Trough of Hungary. The exploration programme is the latest phase under an
