Platts Global Top 250: The World's Top Performing Energy Companies

Platts Global Top 250: The World's Top Performing Energy Companies

September 14, 2007

(Integrated Oil Companies Top Annual List Due To High Oil
Prices; Asian Company Representation and Performance Steady
to Rising)

 
    SINGAPORE, Sept. 13 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Major oil
and gas companies have consolidated their position as the
world's most effective energy businesses, dominating the
rankings in the annual Platts Top 250 Global Energy
Companies, announced Thursday night.

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    In an environment of continued high oil prices and
climbing global demand, Exxon Mobil, BP and Royal Dutch
Shell kept hold of the leadership spots, the definitive
Platts rankings showed. Indeed, the only non-oil and gas
companies to break into the top twenty positions were
French super-utilities EDF Energy and Suez, placing 14th
and 20th, respectively.

    The Platts Top 250 scores the world's top performing
energy companies on a combination of assets, revenues,
profits and return on invested capital. 

    Platts announced this year's rankings at a gala dinner
in Singapore to celebrate Asian winners in the Top 250, and
Asia's growing prominence in the list. The dinner was
attended by almost 200 energy executives from around the
world. Singapore Minister of State for Trade and Industry
Mr. Lee Yi Shyan presented the evening's keynote address on
the challenges facing Asian energy companies.

    Best performing Asian energy business was Petrochina,
which placed sixth worldwide, and ahead of many
long-established western energy companies. Petrochina's oil
output puts it on the same footing, in terms of scale, as
medium-sized OPEC producers; and, measured on profits
alone, it is the fourth most successful energy company in
the world. Second, third, fourth and fifth in Asia were
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp (Sinopec), India's Oil
& Natural Gas Corporation, Thailand's PTT, and CNOOC
from Hong Kong.

    The best performers in Europe, Africa and the Middle
East were BP, Shell, Total, Norway's Statoil and Italy's
ENI, in that order. In the Americas, Exxon Mobil, Chevron,
Brazil's Petrobras, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy topped
the table. 

    "Platts is proud to be bringing the energy and
investment communities its highly respected Top 250 Energy
Company rankings for the sixth year in a row," said
Victoria Chu Pao, Platts president. "Under the current
volatile and competitive market environment, this year's
rankings are more important than ever in highlighting the
truly world class performers in the energy industry. We
congratulate all those businesses that have made our Top
250 list." 

    For the first time in the rankings' history, Platts
also scorecarded a Fastest-Growing Companies roster, an
elite list of companies setting the pace in revenue growth
terms. In particular, Asia's standouts in growth were China
Resources Power Holdings with a 3-year compounded growth
rate (CGR) of 131 percent, PT BUMI Resources of Indonesia
at 65 percent growth, and Inpex Holdings of Japan with 52
percent growth. 

    The strongest performing utilities in the world were
all from Europe. In addition to EDF and Suez, Germany's
E.ON, Gaz de France, Italy's Enel, Belgium's Electrabel and
the UK's BG Group all crowded into the top 30 of the Top
250. 

    All ranked companies have assets greater than (US) $2
billion and must be publicly listed companies. The
underlying data come from the Compustat database, which is
compiled and maintained by Standard & Poor's (like
Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies). 


    Asia Top 10 Fastest Growing Companies                  
                                        
                                                           
            Platts
    Rank                                  State or         
  3 yr CGR   Rank   
    2007  Company Name                     Country 
Industry  Revenues   2007   
                                                   
      1   China Resources Power Holdings  Hong Kong     
IPP    130.911   249 
      2   PT BUMI Resources TBK           Indonesia    
C&CF     65.354   245 
      3   Inpex Holdings Inc.                 Japan     
E&P     51.748   109 
      4   Caltex Australia Ltd.           Australia     
R&M     39.672   139 
      5   PTT Exploration & Production     Thailand    
 E&P     36.464   136 
      6   Datang Power                        China     
IPP     35.646   201 
      7   China Petroleum & Chemical Corp.    China    
 IOG     35.029    15 
      8   PTT PCL                          Thailand     
IOG     34.946    27 
      9   China Yangtze Power Co.             China     
IPP     32.323   212 
     10   Irpc PCL                         Thailand     
R&M     31.507   231 



    #1 in Asia by Industry    
                                           
                    Platts Rank                            
       State or
    Industry           2007     Company Name               
       Country   
    IOG                  6      Petrochina Co. Ltd.        
       China     
    E&P                 23      Oil & Natural Gas
Corp. Ltd.       India     
    R&M                 39      Reliance Industries
Ltd.           India     
    C&CF                58      China Shenhua Energy
Co. Ltd.      China     
    EU                  62      Tokyo Electric Power Co.
Inc.      Japan     
    IPP                103      NTPC Ltd.                  
       India     
    GU                 105      Tokyo Gas Co. Ltd.         
       Japan     
    DU                 186      AGL Energy                 
       Australia

    For the complete Platts Top 250 Global Energy Companies
list, visit: http://www.platts.com/top250/ . There you will
find the list, including details of the four factors that
make up the Top 250 score with rankings by region and
sector--as defined by Standard & Poor's Global Industry
Classification Standard (GICS) -- and a company snapshot.
Ranking recognition is also by growth rate by sector and
region. Note: CCF = coal and combustible fuels, S&T =
storage & transfer, R&M = refining & marketing,
IPP = independent power producers, IOG = integrated oil
& gas, GU = gas utilities, E&P = exploration &
production, EU = electric utilities, DU = diversified
utilities, CGR = compounded growth rate.

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