Recently, the latest ranking of the 20 15 world chemical industry 10 billion dollar club by American Chemical Weekly was released:

China Petrochemical replaced BASF for the first time with its chemical sales revenue of 68.898 billion US dollars!

Second place-BASF, 6777.8 USD +0 billion USD. BASF topped the list for eight consecutive years.

Basf group

It has more than 60 wholly-owned subsidiaries or joint ventures in 4 1 countries in Europe, Asia and North and South America. Headquartered in ludwigshafen on the Rhine, the company is the largest chemical product base in the world.

Third place-Dow Chemical, US$ 5,865,438+67 million.

Dow Jones index

It operates 188 production base in 35 countries, with more than 5,000 products. Dow provides a wide range of products and services to customers in 160 countries and regions around the world, and implements the principle of sustainable development in chemistry and innovation to provide better products for various consumer markets, including pure water, food, medicines, coatings, packaging, personal care products, buildings, homes and automobiles.

Fourth place-ExxonMobil, like last year, is still the fourth place.

Exxonmobil Corp.

The world's largest non-governmental oil and gas producer, headquartered in Irvine, Texas, USA. Its production facilities and sales products are all over the world, and it is engaged in oil and gas exploration business on six continents, which is in a leading position in the world. Its history can be traced back to the Standard Oil Company founded by john rockefeller in 1882. The company has obtained AAA credit rating for more than 85 consecutive years, and it is one of the few companies in the world to keep this record.

It is understood that the ranking in 20 15 is based on the sales revenue of the chemical business of the short-listed enterprises in 20 14.

Sinopec ranks steadily.

Ranked second in recent two years, and also ranked in the top five in 20 1 1 and 20 12. The rise of Sinopec's ranking reflects the rise of chemical producers in Asia and the Middle East.

In the new century, chemical producers in Asia and the Middle East have gradually grown into the world's leading chemical enterprises, competing with their counterparts in North America and Europe. In addition to Sinopec, the top ten Asian and Middle Eastern chemical companies in this year's list include SABIC, Formosa Plastics and Mitsubishi Chemical.

Most chemical companies in Asia and the Middle East also rose in this year's list. For example, the ranking of IPIC Company in UAE rose from 19 last year to 14 this year, PTT Chemical Company in Thailand rose from 23rd to 17, SCG Chemical Company in Thailand rose from 7 1 to 49th, and Indorama Company in Indonesia rose from 69th to 50th.

Sales revenue growth slowed down.

From the list, the sales revenue of most chemical companies in 20 14 is still growing, but the growth rate is much lower than in previous years. The median sales revenue in 20 14 years increased by 1.0% year-on-year, which was far lower than 6.0% in 20 13 years and 4.5% in 20 12 years.

The average sales revenue of 109 listed chemical enterprises this year is 123 billion USD. The profits of chemical companies performed well, with the median operating profit increasing by 3% year-on-year. The average operating profit of 109 companies was 124 billion USD.

Among the top 10 chemical enterprises this year, most of them are economically developed, including three in the United States-Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil and DuPont; There are also three companies headquartered in Europe-BASF, leander's Basel Industrial Company and Ineos.

The average sales revenue of the top ten chemical companies in Europe and the Middle East in 20 14 years reached $31300 million, while the average sales revenue of the top ten chemical companies in Asia was $25.7 billion and that of the United States was $25.4 billion.

20 14 is a difficult year for chemical giants.

In 20 14, the sales revenue of BASF, Dow Chemical, leander Basel and Ineos increased, while the sales revenue of ExxonMobil and DuPont decreased, but the profitability remained stable. North American producers continue to benefit from the cheap raw materials brought by the shale gas revolution, and the sharp drop in oil prices in the second half of 20 14 has also brought a turning point to European chemical producers who rely on naphtha as raw materials.

The impact of falling oil prices on the chemical industry is not entirely beneficial. In fact, petrochemical producers have felt the pressure of price reduction, especially the decline in demand for oilfield chemicals has seriously hurt the relevant special chemical companies, and the decline in oil prices has directly weakened the raw material advantages of North America.

Chemical industry has become a fire in the middle winter.

In the cold winter of the market, the chemical business became the most eye-catching sector of China Petrochemical Company in the first half of the year, just like the "fire in winter", which directly realized the super turnaround of 10 1 100 million yuan.

In the first half of last year, Sinopec's chemical business lost 4 billion yuan, and the annual income of this sector was only 2.2 billion yuan. In the first half of this year, the revenue of the chemical sector reached 10 1 billion yuan, an increase of 14 1 billion yuan year-on-year.

In the face of the cold winter of the market, Sinopec's exploration business income in the first half of last year was nearly 30 billion yuan. However, due to the sharp drop in crude oil prices this year, Sinopec's exploration sector achieved an operating loss of 654.38+08 billion yuan in the first half of the year, a year-on-year decrease of 306.5438+00 billion yuan.

Despite the decline in revenue, the refining and chemical sector contributed the most net profit. In the first half of 20 15, the operating income of refining and chemical sector of China Petrochemical Company was 485.7 billion yuan, down 25.5% year-on-year; Operating income reached 654.38+05.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 57%.

"When the oil price is low, it will stimulate the demand for refined oil, and Sinopec's sales and gross profit in refining will increase." Insiders pointed out.