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Worker at the deepwater project Espirito Santo at Parque das Conchas field, Brazil (photo)

In 2012, we continued to operate in ways that balance economic, environmental and social considerations in a responsible way. We maintained our strong investment in projects that will deliver energy resources for decades to come. We worked to maintain improvements in our safety record. We also continued to work to reduce our impact on the environment, to respond transparently to the views of our neighbours and to generate jobs and business opportunities for local economies.

3%
our share of the world’s gas production

2%
our share of the world’s oil production

3.3
million
our equity production in barrels of oil equivalent a day

50%
share of our production that was natural gas

20.2
million
tonnes equity share of LNG sold

8.4%
our share of the world’s LNG sold

$27
billion
income

$2.2
billion
spent on alternative energy, CCS, and CO2-related R&D
in the last 5 years

$1.3
billion
spent on R&D

$30
billion
net capital investment

7.7
billion
litres of biofuel distributed

$46
billion
cash flow from operating activities

$14
billion
spent in lower-income countries

70+
number of countries in which we operated

87,000
average number of people employed

44
number of vessels in which
we delivered LNG – one of
the world’s largest fleets