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 Big Oil  (Petroleum industry)   | |
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 "Big Oil' sorted by 2005 revenue | |
| Interest of | Charlotte Dennett |
Big Oil is used to describe the world's largest publicly owned oil companies.
“I hate to say that big oil is bigger than the United States Government; but its favored treatment at the hands of our government certainly leads to that conclusion.”
Robert K. Killian (8 June 1973) [citation needed]
"Competition in the Energy Industry": Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Antittrust and Monopoly of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 93rd Congress, First Session
| How Big Oil conquered the world, a video by James Corbett |
Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| BP | Multinational oil company implicated in the 1953 Iran Coup. |
| Chevron | |
| ConocoPhillips | American multinational oil and gas corporation |
| Eni | Italian multinational oil and gas founded by Enrico Mattei. |
| ExxonMobil | |
| Gazprom | Russian oil and gas giant corporation |
| Red Line Agreement | Created an oil cartel of immense influence. Except for Gulbenkian, the partners were the supermajor oil companies of today. |
| Saudi Aramco | |
| Seven Sisters | Big Oil oligopoly |
| Shell | Biggest Dutch company. Caused trillions in damage due to fracking in Groningen. Convicted worldwide for crimes against locals. Employs hitmen and deep state operatives in African countries. Mislead shareholders for up to $1bn. |
| Total | A big oil company. |
| YUKOS |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mario Borghezio | “Gaddafi was a great leader, a true revolutionary who should not be confused with the new Libyan leadership swept into power by NATO's bayonets and by oil multinationals” | Mario Borghezio | 2011 |
| Bill Gammell | “Either Gammel was an extremely visionary businessman, or he had great connections, or both. One way or the other, along with Enron and Cheney's Haliburton, Gammel's Cairn was soon making a fortune off oil in India, a country not noted for its prospects in that regard.” | Russ Baker Bill Gammell |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:The dirty secret Europe is hiding at the COP27 climate summit | Article | 16 November 2022 | Jonathan Cook | Grand declarations at COP27 on tackling the climate emergency are sabotaged by the Energy Charter Treaty from the 1990s that sees European nations held to ransom by the energy companies |
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