The past year hasn’t been kind to oil and gas companies, as sliding oil prices have eaten sharply into bottom lines and caused layoffs and bankruptcies across the industry.
However, the titans of energy are still standing tall, even as their businesses are pressured. ExxonMobil XOM -0.51% remains the world’s largest oil company and No. 9 on Forbes’ Global 2000 list of the world’s biggest and most powerful public companies, as measured by a composite score of revenues, profits, assets and market value.
