ExxonMobil Logo — ExxonMobil Corporation ( NYSE : XOM ) is a petroleum U.S. . It was founded as Standard Oil Company in 1889 , after the dissolution of the trustStandard Oil under the Sherman Act . It is active in over 40 countries around the world and include, among others, exploitation, processing and marketing of petroleum products and natural gas, and the manufacture of chemicals, plastics and fertilizers .
By volume of sales (26,949,000 of U.S. dollars ) was in 1984 the sixth oil company in the world and the fourth United States. Earlier this year made a profit of 1,183 million and employed 53,581 workers. Its head office is in Dallas . In 2009 was ranked by the magazine Fortune as the second largest company in the world monetary flow (the first was Royal Dutch Shell ). More