The Russia and China jostling stock charts, but the King resists. The stock market year ended Friday on a list where ExxonMobil, already first world value, creates the event by recording its highest annual stock market increases twenty-six years. His action has progressed more than 36, finally 76,63 $ and the group led by Rex Tillerson is now 447 billion dollars.
The year has been conducive to the Texas Colossus: between 2005 and 2006, annual average, the price of crude has singed by 17 in the US oil market, from $ 56,65 to $ 66. But this does not explain everything, because, despite this context, its rival Shell skated ( 1) and the market value of BP even decreased by 8. Exxon made the difference with exceptional operational performance. From January to September, he has managed to increase production by 6 (and even 9 at constant perimeter), either 244.000 barrels per day. Either the strong growth in its annual production since 1999. Oil and gas combined, the Irving-based group now reached the record volume of 4.24 million barrels produced daily. The consensus of analysts by Bloomberg provides that it should identify a net result 2006 of $ 38.5 billion, or 6.5 in one year, while its profit of 2005 was already the highest ever achieved by a company American. Its turnover, it should just 450 billions of dollars. Only 16 countries in the world have a GDP greater than the amount of sales of the supermajor...

Total ranked 19th
If the path of Exxon proved brilliant, 2006 will remain also marked by the thrust of the values in the emerging countries. It is true that it values oil and gas, their ascent must therefore significantly to overheating in the sector. Russian Gazprom, world's leading producer of gas, thus marked the spirits in to raising during the year in third place of the world stock charts in Microsoft, prior to finish fifth, with all the same, an increase of 55 of its capitalization $ 272 billion, at the elbows together with Citigroup ($274 billion). This Russian firedamp stroke was expected since the end of December 2005, the Kremlin had lifted the restrictions to the detention of Gazprom by foreign investors.
Less expected was the rise of PetroChina, the first Chinese tanker, which ranks sixth behind Gazprom, with a market value of 254 billion ( 73 in one year). China is the second global oil consumer behind the United States, with an application of oil and gas in strong growth ( 10.7 over the nine months of 2006). Subsidiary listed public Group China National Petroleum Corporation, PetroChina is the most profitable company in Asia and lost no time since its IPO in 1999 in Hong Kong and New York: December 4, 2006, it down Shell of second in the world of stock related to oil, at the end of a year for several large operations, including the signature with the Iran of a giant 25-year gas supply contract. It is now almost 30 billion more than Shell and the gap would widen if it reaches the ambitious objectives it has set for itself. Beijing would like to bring to here in 2010 the share of natural gas of 3 to 10 of the total national energy consumption.
PetroChina is not the only one to surf on the explosion of its domestic energy market: its Sinopec rival is still located at the 54th world, but its capitalization jumped 87 in one year. Quickly but surely, the Chinese values rise in power, while the first French value, the Total tanker, ranked 19th in the world this list 2006, with a growth of 4.4 of its capitalization to $ 175 billion.