Top 250 Global Energy Companies Ranked

World's leading provider of energy, petrochemicals, metals and agricultural information Platts recently announced the “2014 Platts' Top 250 Energy Companies Global Energy Companies Ranking”. PetroChina (PetroChina) and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) once again ranked among the top ten energy companies in the world, and they each increased by one place compared to 2013, ranking seventh and ninth in the world respectively. Fu Chengyu, chairman of Sinopec, was named Platts' Top 250 CEO of Asia. The Platts Top 250 list reflects energy companies' return on assets, income, profits, and investment capital in the previous fiscal year.

Chinese energy companies have taken the top four positions in Platts' top 250 Asian companies. PetroChina continues to sit steadily in Asia’s top spot for global energy companies with its fifth-biggest global and Asia-first profit margins (2013 profit of US$20.7 billion). Sinopec ranks second in the list of Asian companies in terms of its revenue in the world, its profit in the ninth in the world, and its asset size in the world. Ranked third and fourth on the Asian list are China National Offshore Oil Corporation and China Shenhua Energy Co., Ltd. Their global rankings are 12th and 15th respectively.

Although Sinopec ranks second in Platts' top 250 Asian energy companies (after PetroChina), its revenue ($461 billion) ranks first, and it ranks the top 250 for the second consecutive year. Top ten seats.

According to Platts Energy Analysis, the state-owned oil companies in Asia continued to focus on acquiring assets through asset transactions in 2013, which is less politically sensitive than the direct acquisition of companies. It is estimated that Chinese companies have spent 8.5 billion U.S. dollars on unconventional oil and gas projects in the United States since 2010.

Platts Energy pointed out that China's electricity consumption in 2013 increased by 7.5% year-on-year. China's state-owned power companies did not appear on the top 250 list, and seven independent power companies (IPPs) were on the list. Huaneng Power International Co., Ltd. jumped from 96th in the Top 250 list to 53rd this year with its higher profitability in 2013, becoming the second highest independent power company in the Top 250 list. . Huaneng Power is mainly engaged in thermal power generation and its fuel cost has been reduced by more than 12% to 218.6 yuan/MWh.

According to analysis, global coal production reached a record 7.8 billion tons in 2012, of which China accounted for 3.55 billion tons, which is more than three times that of the United States, the world’s second largest producer, and about six times that of India, the third largest producer. . Of the top ten coal companies in the top 250 list, seven are coal producers in China. China Shenhua ranks 15th in the Top 250 rankings and is also the highest ranking non-oil company. Yanzhou Coal Mining Co., Ltd., ranked 199th, achieved a compound annual growth rate of 18.4% for three years, and Inner Mongolia Yitai Coal Co., Ltd., ranked 162th, achieved a compound annual growth rate of 20.3% for three years. These three Chinese coal companies rank among the top 20 fastest-growing companies in Asia.