2nd Annual 'Top 250 Energy Companies' Survey Published by Platts Energy Business & Technology Magazine.Business Editors/Energy Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2003 Platts Platts is a provider of energy information around the world that has been in business in various forms for more than a century and is now a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies. Energy Business & Technology magazine (EB&T), has published its 2nd Annual "Top 250 Energy Companies" issue ranking the world's top performing energy companies. Platts is the energy information, marketing services, research and consulting business of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MHP MHP Multimedia Home Platform (consumer electronics) MHP Milliyetci Hareket Partisi (Turkish: National People's Party) MHP Mobile Home Park (district) MHP Maximum Human Performance ). The survey, part of EB&T's ongoing "Ratings and Ranking Series," measures each company's financial performance by examining its assets, revenues, profits, earnings per share and return on invested capital. All companies ranked have assets greater than $2 billion, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Compustat database compiled and maintained by Standard & Poor's, also a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies. The data used are for the full year 2001, due to the global nature of the survey and since all countries do not share a common financial reporting standard. Integrated oil and gas companies dominate the upper echelons of the list. The top ten are: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. ExxonMobil Corp. 11. E.On AG ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Royal Dutch/Shell Group 12. ENEL SpA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. TotalFinaElf SA 13. Statoil ASA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. ENI SpA 14. LUKoil Oil Co. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Elf Aquitaine SA 15. Edison International ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Gazprom Rao 16. Duke Energy Corp. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Petrobras 17. Marathon Oil Corp. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. BP plc 18. RWE AG ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. ChevronTexaco Corp. 19. China Petroleum & Chemicals ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. Petrochina Co. Ltd. 20. PG&E Corp. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Compared to last year's ratings, there were a few surprises," said Theo Mullen, executive editor of the magazine. "For one, the industry now has a new leader, ExxonMobil. The survey also found that the major oil and gas companies are selling assets to large independents in an effort to pay down their debt." In addition to the overall top 250 listing, the survey also highlights leaders in various categories including, diversified diversified (di·verˑ·s utilities, electric utilities, gas utilities, integrated oil and gas companies and exploration and production companies. Companies were grouped according to their Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS GICS Government Information and Communication Service (UK) GICS German Internet Chess Server GICS Global Industry Classification Standards GICS Grant Information and Control System ) code. 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