The new and current Petronas logo, which resembles to the previous logo, introduced in 2013
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Government-owned corporation | |
Industry | Oil and gas |
Founded | 17 August 1974 |
Headquarters | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
Area served
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Malaysia |
Key people
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Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin (President) Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan (CEO) |
Products | Petroleum, natural gas, petrochemicals |
Services | Shipping services |
Revenue | US$100.744 billion (2014) |
US$21.91 billion (2012) | |
Total assets | US$161.472 billion (2014) |
Total equity | US$89.29 billion (2012) |
Owner | Malaysian Government |
Number of employees
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51,000 (2016) |
Website | www |
PETRONAS, short for Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Malaysian National Oil Company Inc.), is a Malaysian oil and gas company that was founded on 17 August 1974. Wholly owned by the Government of Malaysia, the corporation is vested with the entire oil and gas resources in Malaysia and is entrusted with the responsibility of developing and adding value to these resources. Petronas is ranked among Fortune Global 500's largest corporations in the world. Fortune ranks Petronas as the 75th largest company in the world in 2013. Fortune also ranks Petronas as the 12th most profitable company in the world and the most profitable in Asia.
Since its incorporation, Petronas has grown to be an integrated international oil and gas company with business interests in 35 countries. As of the end of March 2005, the Petronas Group comprised 103 wholly owned subsidiaries, 19 partly owned outfits and 57 associated companies. Together, these companies make the Petronas Group, which is involved in various oil and gas based activities. The Financial Times has identified PETRONAS as one of the "new seven sisters": the most influential and mainly state-owned national oil and gas companies from countries outside the OECD.
The group is engaged in a wide spectrum of petroleum activities, including upstream exploration and production of oil and gas to downstream oil refining; marketing and distribution of petroleum products; trading; gas processing and liquefaction; gas transmission pipeline network operations; marketing of liquefied natural gas; petrochemical manufacturing and marketing; shipping; automotive engineering; and property investment.