Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil () is the largest publicly traded, integrated oil and gas company in the world, formed on November 30, 1999 by the merger of Exxon and Mobil. It is the sixth-largest company in the world as ranked by the Forbes Global 2000 and the largest company in the U.S. as ranked by the Fortune 500. It is the largest of the six oil "supermajors," which also include BP (formerly British Petroleum), Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Total. It has the highest market value of any publicly traded company in the world, and in 2005 was the most profitable. Its operating profit in 2005 was $.08 per gallon of sales for a total of $36.13 billion (an all-time record for any publicly traded company), slightly less than the gross domestic product of Azerbaijan, while its revenues were slightly less than the GDP of Belgium. ExxonMobil is a component of the .
The company is bifurcated into a "Downstream" division (marketing, refining, and retail operations) headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia (a Washington DC suburb), and an "Upstream" division (oil exploration, extraction, shipping, and wholesale operations) headquartered in Houston, Texas. Although most internal operations are divided along these lines, the company also has several smaller divisions such as Chemicals, Coal & Minerals, and Lubricants.
The upstream division dominates the company's cashflow, accounting for approximately 70% of revenue. The company employs over 100,000 people worldwide with approximately 4,000 employees in its Fairfax downstream headquarters and 27,000 people in its Houston upstream headquarters.
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