ConocoPhillips Company
Type Public
Traded as NYSECOP
Industry Oil and Gasoline
Founded August 30, 2002 (merger)[1]
1875 (Conoco)
1917 (Phillips)
Headquarters Energy Corridor
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Area served Worldwide
Key people James J. Mulva
(Chairman and CEO)
Products Oil
Natural Gas
Petroleum
Lubricant
Petrochemical
List of marketing brands
Revenue Increase US$ 198.655 billion (2010)[2]
Operating income Increase US$ 019.750 billion (2010)[2]
Net income Increase US$ 011.358 billion (2010)[2]
Total assets Increase US$ 156.314 billion (2010)[2]
Total equity Increase US$ 068.562 billion (2010)[2]
Employees 29,700 (December 2010)
Website ConocoPhillips.com

ConocoPhillips Company (NYSECOP) is an American multinational energy corporation with its headquarters located in the Energy Corridor district of Houston, Texas in the United States. It is also one of the Fortune 500 companies[3] and 22nd on Forbes Global 2000.[4][5]ConocoPhillips is the fifth largest private sector energy corporation in the world and is one of the six "supermajor" vertically integrated oil companies. It sells fuel under the Conoco, Phillips 66 and Union 76 brands in North America, and Jet in Europe. ConocoPhillips was created through the merger of Conoco Inc. and the Phillips Petroleum Company on August 30, 2002.[6]

Overview

ConocoPhillips employs approximately 29,600 people worldwide in nearly 40 countries. ConocoPhillips is the second-largest refiner in the United States, with crude oil processing capacity of approximately 2.0 MMBD; and the world’s fourth-largest nongovernment-controlled refiner, with crude oil processing capacity of nearly 2.7 MMBD globally.

History

  • Conoco Inc. was an American oil company founded in 1875 as the Continental Oil and Transportation Company. Based in Ogden, Utah, the company was a coal, oil, kerosene, grease and candles distributor in the West. Marland Oil Company (founded by exploration pioneer E. W. Marland) later acquired the assets (subject to liabilities) of Continental Oil Company, for a consideration of 2,317,266 shares of stock. On June 26, 1929, Marland Oil changed its name to Continental Oil Company and moved its headquarters to Ponca City, Oklahoma. The acquisition gave Conoco the red bar-and-triangle logo previously used by Marland. Conoco used the logo between 1930 and 1970, when the current red capsule logo was adopted.
    • Numerous state corporation filings are identified "Continental Oil Company" and "Continental Oil Corp." and "Continental Oil Company of Texas" as recorded with the Texas Secretary of State and Delaware Secretary of State. Merger of San Jacinto Petroleum Corp. and Continental Oil Corporation is recorded in 1964 with Delaware Secretary of State. Actual identity of which "Continental Oil Company" or "Continental Oil Corp." is a part of ConocoPhillips is questionable and Marland Oil/Continental Oil Company may only know for certain.
    • The actual recording of the acquisition or merger between Conoco and Continental Oil Company is undocumented in many states where each entity had/has operations.
  • In 2005, ConocoPhillips began rebranding its (Union) 76 gas stations, which Phillips had acquired from Tosco Corporation before the merger with Conoco. The move prompted a petition campaign by fans hoping to save the historic 76 orange ball signage.[7] On January 20, 2007, a Wall Street Journal article on the petition campaign included a statement from ConocoPhillips that it was changing course and would save several dozen orange and blue 76 balls to give to museums. The company also announced that it would fabricate about 100 new 76 ball signs in the ConocoPhillips color scheme of red and blue, to be placed at select 76 stations.
  • In March 2006, ConocoPhillips bought Wilhelmshavener Raffineriegesellschaft mbH in Germany.
  • In March 2006, ConocoPhillips bought Burlington Resources.
  • On May 10, 2006, Richard Armitage, former deputy-secretary of the U.S. State Department, was elected to the board of directors of the ConocoPhillips oil company.
  • In 2007 the Chevron Corporation purchased all of the Conoco gas stations in Mississippi to the Texaco brand, a process to be completed by the end of the year.
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Chart of the major energy companies dubbed "Big Oil" sorted by latest published revenue
  • March 2011: At late 2009 the company has announced to sales the assets to increase returns for investors. It is included debt reduction and stock buy back. And at this month the program is enlarged up to $10 billion assets sales in the next 2 years.[8]

According to a presentation given at GASTECH 2011, ConocoPhillips aims to implement a floating liquefied natural gas facility by 2016-19, and has completed quantitative risk analysis of a design that will undergo pre-feed study within 2011.[9]

On July 14, 2011, ConocoPhillips announced it would split its exploration/production and refining/marketing operations into two separate companies.[10]

Business units

Tanker Fleets

ConocoPhillips has several subsidiary oil tanker fleets.

Polar Tankers is the US Flagged shipping arm of ConocoPhillips.[11]

The Endeavour Class vessels were built by Avondale Shipyard, Northrop Grumman Ship Systems in Avondale, Louisiana. They are double hull type tankers of 894.7 ft long (272.7 m) and 140,000 DWT

  • Polar Endeavour - 2001
  • Polar Resolution - 2002
  • Polar Discovery - 2003
  • Polar Adventure - 2004
  • Polar Enterprise - 2007

Exploration, Refining & Marketing

In February 2011 Bangladesh granted a string of nine offshore exploration gas blocks in the Bay of Bengal to ConocoPhillips. In February 2008, ConocoPhillips was selected for 8 blocks as a lone bidder.

ConocoPhillips operates 19 refineries around the world.

In the United States, the company operates Conoco, Phillips 66 and (Union) 76 stations. The 76 brand, long familiar in the western and southern U.S., was created by Union Oil Company of California (later Unocal) in 1932.

In Europe, ConocoPhillips operates Jet filling stations in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom. It sold its Jet stations in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to its Russian affiliate, Lukoil. It uses the COOP identity in Switzerland, and in 2010 sold its Norwegian chain (and 40 Swedish stations) to the Finnish company St1.

The company formerly marketed under the ProJET brand name in Malaysia and Turkpetrol in Turkey.

* Denotes joint ventures. Crude capacity reflects that proportion.

Environmental record

On April 11, 2007, ConocoPhillips became the first U.S. oil company to join the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, an alliance of big business and environmental groups. The partnership in January 2007 had advised President George W. Bush that mandatory emissions caps would be needed to reduce the flow of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. In 2007 ConocoPhillips announced it would spend $150 million that year on the research and development of new energy sources and technologies — a 50 percent increase in spending from 2006.[12]

According to the Political Economy Research Institute, ConocoPhillips ranked 13th among U.S. corporate producers of air pollutions.[13]

In 2003, ConocoPhillips was named as a defendant in a lawsuit brought by Green Alternative, an environmental group based in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The suit claimed that a number of foreign oil companies colluded with the Georgian government to induce authorities to approve a $3 billion pipeline without properly evaluating the environmental impact.[14]

In June 2011, ConocoPhilips was responsible for an oilspil from the Penglai 19-3 oil field in the Bohai Bay. [15]

Headquarters

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ConocoPhillips headquarters in the Energy Corridor area of Houston

The headquarters of ConocoPhillips are located in the Energy Corridor district of Houston, Texas.[16] By 2002 the groups organizing the measure had selected Houston as the site of the headquarters. Governor of Oklahoma Frank Keating said that the move to Houston was "regrettable." The Journal Record stated that Archie Dunham, the CEO of Conoco Inc., "apparently highlighted the lack of direct international air travel from Oklahoma as a key drawback for the merged firm."[17] The ConocoPhillips headquarters, originally the headquarters of Conoco Inc., was formerly known as the Conoco Center.[18][19]

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Aerial view of the ConocoPhillips headquarters

Products

ConocoPhilips is the fourth largest finished lubricants supplier in the United States. ConocoPhillips offers consumers four premier brands, including 76 Lubricants, Conoco, Phillips 66 and Kendall Motor Oil. [2]

See also

Country Name Location Nelson Complexity Factor Crude Processing Capacity (KBD)
United States Wood River Refinery Roxana, IL 9.8 306
United States Alliance Refinery Belle Chasse, LA 12.0 247
United States Sweeny Refinery Old Ocean, TX 13.2 247
United States Bayway Refinery Linden, NJ 8.5 238
United States Lake Charles Refinery Westlake, LA 10.2 239
22x20px Humber Refinery North Lincolnshire 11.6 265
United States Ponca City Refinery Ponca City, OK 9.8 187
United States Trainer Refinery Trainer, PA 8.0 185
United States Borger Refinery* Borger, TX 12.3 146
United States Los Angeles Refinery Carson/Wilmington, CA 14.1 139
United States San Francisco Refinery Rodeo, CA 13.6 120
United States Ferndale Refinery Ferndale, WA 7.4 105
22x20px Whitegate Refinery Cork 3.8 71
United States Billings Refinery Billings, MT 14.3 118
22x20px Melaka Refinery Melaka 9.8 58
22x20px MIRO Refinery* Karlsruhe 7.9 56
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References

  1. ConocoPhillps. "Company History". http://www.conocophillips.com/about/who_we_are/history/index.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-06.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "2010 Form 10-K, ConocoPhilips Company". United States Securities and Exchange Commission. 2011-02-23. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163165/000095012311016957/h76276e10vk.htm.
  3. "Fortune 500 2009: Fortune 1000 Companies 1-100". CNN. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2009/full_list/.
  4. "The World's Biggest Public Companies". Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/global2000/. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
  5. "ConocoPhillips". Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/companies/conocophillips/. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
  6. Conoco and Phillips - Legal Disclaimer In connection with the proposed Conoco/Phillips merger, Conoco, Phillips and Corvette Porsche Corp. (which will be renamed ConocoPhillips in connection with the proposed merger) will file a joint proxy statement/prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  7. Save the 76 Ball website
  8. http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/keyDevelopments?symbol=COP.N Retrieved at March 28, 2011
  9. http://www.kgu.or.kr/download.php?tb=bbs_017&fn=SESSION_10_(TECHNIAL)___Paul_Davies_ConocoPhillips.pdf&rn=SESSION_10_(TECHNIAL)___Paul_Davies_ConocoPhillips.pdf
  10. http://www.conocophillips.com/EN/newsroom/news_releases/2011news/Pages/07-14-2011.aspx
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  12. John Porretto (April 11, 2007). "ConocoPhillips joins climate group". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. http://www.seattlepi.com/business/1310AP_ConocoPhillips_Climate.html.
  13. Political Economy Research Institute
  14. Houston Business Journal
  15. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-china-oil-long-term-impact.html
  16. "Contact Us." ConocoPhillips. Retrieved on October 1, 2009.
  17. "Governor says ConocoPhillips headquarters decision appears to be final." Journal Record. January 23, 2002. Retrieved on February 3, 2010.
  18. "Write Conoco!." Conoco Inc. February 19, 1997. Retrieved on January 16, 2010.
  19. "Conoco World Headquarters Address." Conoco Inc. November 1, 1996. Retrieved on January 17, 2010.

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