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Also known as StatoilHydro, Statoil ASA, Statoil, Den Norske Stats Oljeselskap A/S, Equinor

Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil and StatoilHydro) is a Norwegian multinational energy company headquartered in Stavanger, Norway. It is primarily a petroleum company operating in 36 countries with additional investments in renewable energy and lithium mining. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Equinor was ranked as the 169th-largest public company in the world. In 2023, the company was ranked 52nd in the same list. the company has 21,126 employees.

Key facts

Company.name
Equinor ASA
Company.logo
Equinor.svg
Company.logo_size
200px
Company.former_name
Statoil (until )
Company.type
Public
Company.key_people
Jon Erik Reinhardsen (chair)Anders Opedal (CEO)
Company.industry
Petroleum industry
Company.num_employees
25,155 (2024)
Company.location
Stavanger, Norway

via Wikipedia infobox

Research organization · ROR

Type
Company, Funder
Founded
1972
Location
Stavanger, Norway
Also known as
Statoil, StatoilHydro
Status
Active

GRID grid.422595.d · ISNI 0000 0004 0467 7043

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Encyclopedic overview

35 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Old Statoil
  • Hydro
  • Merger
  • Investments and developments after 2009
  • Rebranding to Equinor
  • Operations
  • Oil and gas exploration and production
  • Pipeline operations
  • Solar
  • Wind energy
  • Petrol stations
  • Finances
  • Human rights
  • Involvement with Norwegian government
  • Interactions with the Norwegian government
  • State-owned corporate structural changes and impacts
  • Energy transition
  • Controversies
  • Mongstad scandal
  • Corrib gas project
  • Iran corruption lawsuit
  • North Sea oil projects
  • Charges of unethical practices in Athabasca
  • Arctic
  • Great Australian Bight
  • Losses in the United States
  • Censorship of the Science Museum
  • Corporate structure
  • Board of directors
  • Lobbying
  • Environmental record
  • Sponsorship
  • References
  • External links

Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil and StatoilHydro) is a Norwegian multinational energy company headquartered in Stavanger, Norway. It is primarily a petroleum company operating in 36 countries with additional investments in renewable energy and lithium mining. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Equinor was ranked as the 169th-largest public company in the world. In 2023, the company was ranked 52nd in the same list. the company has 21,126 employees.

The current company was formed by the 2007 merger of Statoil with the oil and gas division of Norsk Hydro. As of 2017, the Government of Norway is the largest shareholder with 67% of the shares, while the rest is public stock. The ownership interest is managed by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. The company is headquartered and led from Stavanger, while most of their international operations are currently led from Fornebu, outside Oslo.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Equinor ASA” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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