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Aker BP
Aker BP ASA is a Norwegian oil and gas company on the Norwegian continental shelf, headquartered at Fornebu near Oslo and one of Europe's largest independent listed oil companies.
Asiatic Petroleum
Asiatic Petroleum was a petroleum marketing joint venture formed in London in 1903 by Shell, Royal Dutch, and the Rothschilds, renamed The Shell Petroleum Company Ltd in 1946.
BlueNord
BlueNord ASA, formerly Norwegian Energy Company (Noreco), is an Oslo Stock Exchange-listed oil and gas company producing in the Danish North Sea, where it is the second-largest producer.
Burmah Oil
Burmah Oil was a British oil company founded in Glasgow in 1886 to develop Burma's oilfields, dominating the Burmese industry until 1962 and acquiring Castrol in 1966.
Dansk Undergrunds Consortium
Dansk Undergrunds Consortium (DUC) is a joint venture producing most of Denmark's oil and natural gas from the Danish North Sea, formed in 1962 around A.P. Møller's sole concession.
DNO ASA
DNO ASA is a Norwegian oil and gas company founded in 1971, Norway's oldest oil company, with its flagship Tawke license in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
Elf Aquitaine
Elf Aquitaine was a French oil and gas company formed in 1976 from state-owned predecessors, privatized in 1994, and taken over by TotalFina in 2000, later part of TotalEnergies.
Enquest
EnQuest PLC is a British independent oil and gas company focused on mature, late-life assets in the UK North Sea and South East Asia, listed in London.
Iraq Petroleum Company
The Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), founded as the Turkish Petroleum Company in 1912, held Iraq's oil concession from 1928 and was nationalized by Iraq in 1972.
Ithaca Energy
Ithaca Energy is a UK-based independent oil and gas exploration and production company, founded in 2004, focused on the UK North Sea and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Koninklijke Nederlandsche Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Petroleumbronnen
Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (KNMEP) was a Dutch oil company founded in The Hague in 1890 to exploit petroleum concessions in the Dutch East Indies.
Maurel & Prom
Maurel & Prom is a French oil and gas exploration and production company, founded in 1831 as a shipping business and now majority-owned by Indonesia's Pertamina.
Mexican Eagle Oil
Mexican Eagle Oil (Compañía Mexicana de Petróleo El Águila) was an oil company founded by Weetman Pearson that dominated Mexican petroleum until Shell bought control in 1919.
MOL Group
MOL Group is a Hungarian integrated oil and gas company headquartered in Budapest. Founded in 1991, it employs about 25,000 people in over 30 countries.
OMV
OMV is an Austrian integrated energy, fuels, and chemicals company headquartered in Vienna. Founded in 1956, it is Austria's largest listed industrial company, with 1,708 filling stations in eight European countries.
OMV Petrom
OMV Petrom is a Romanian integrated energy company and the largest in Southeastern Europe, majority-owned by Austria's OMV and listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.
Pandion Energy
Pandion Energy is a Norwegian independent oil and gas company established in November 2016 through a management buyout of Tullow Oil Norge, backed by Kerogen Capital and headquartered in Oslo.
Perenco
Perenco is a family-owned, independent oil and gas company founded in 1992 by Hubert Perrodo, operating mature and marginal fields in 14 countries rather than pursuing greenfield exploration.
Petrofina
Petrofina (Compagnie Financière Belge des Pétroles) was a Belgian integrated oil company founded in Brussels in 1920 and acquired by France's Total in 1999 for $12.9 billion.
RussNeft
RussNeft (РуссНефть) is a Russian vertically integrated oil company founded in Moscow in September 2002 by Mikhail Gutseriev, ranked among Russia's top 10 oil and gas companies by production.
Surgutneftegaz
Surgutneftegaz (ПАО «Сургутнефтегаз») is a Russian oil and gas company headquartered in Surgut, led by Vladimir Bogdanov since 1984 and producing 53.7 million tonnes of oil in 2024.
Sval Energi
Sval Energi was a privately owned Norwegian oil and gas exploration and production company based in Stavanger, backed by HitecVision from 2019 and acquired by DNO ASA in 2025.
Tullow Oil
Tullow Oil is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in London, founded in Ireland in 1986 and focused on the Jubilee and TEN fields offshore Ghana.
Vår Energi
Vår Energi is a Norwegian independent oil and gas company on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, created in 2018 and listed on Oslo Børs in 2022, majority-owned by Italy's Eni.
Wintershall Aktiengesellschaft
Wintershall Aktiengesellschaft was a German oil and gas exploration and production company founded in 1894 and owned by BASF from 1969, merging with DEA in 2019 to form Wintershall Dea.
Wintershall Dea
Wintershall Dea is a German oil and gas company formed in 2019 from the merger of Wintershall Holding and DEA Deutsche Erdoel, owned by BASF and LetterOne.