Equinor ASA
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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 sectionsContents
- 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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