71-674: The Bassum–Herford Railway is a now partially disused railway line from Herford in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia via Bünde to Bassum in Lower Saxony . The middle section between Bünde and Rahden is a single-track branch line, the southern section between Kirchlengern and Herford is also single-track, but has been electrified. Both parts are now operated as the Ravensberger Bahn ( Ravensberg Railway), which continues to Bielefeld . The northern section of
142-543: A "lower carbon future", and claims to be the world leader in carbon capture and storage (CCS). The company additionally plans that its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions will be carbon neutral by 2050. ExxonMobil additionally acquired biofuel company Biojet AS in 2022, and its Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil is moving ahead with plans to produce a renewable diesel biofuel. In July 2023, Exxon agreed to acquire Denbury Resources for $ 4.9 billion to further its low-carbon efforts. In July 2024, ExxonMobil and CF Industries signed
213-656: A CCS agreement that will allow ExxonMobil to transport and permanently store 500,000 tonnes of CO2 per year starting in 2028. Exxon is working on low-carbon energy projects, focusing on basic research in five to ten key areas. This work spends a fraction of the $ 1 billion a year Exxon spends on research worldwide and the $ 8 billion it has spent since 2000 researching, developing and deploying low-carbon technologies Projects include: algae biofuels, biodiesel from agricultural waste, molten carbonate fuel cells , and new ways to manufacture plastic that produce less carbon dioxide. In November 2023 ExxonMobil started drilling for lithium in
284-736: A Spring post office address, and is adjacent to, but not in, the Spring census-designated place . Paul Takahashi of the Houston Chronicle described the headquarters as being in Spring. The headquarters was previously in Irving . The company decided to consolidate its Houston operations into one new campus located in northern Harris County and vacate its offices on 800 Bell St. which it had occupied since 1963. The decision came in 2022. The new operation complex includes twenty office buildings totaling 3,000,000 square feet (280,000 m ),
355-547: A campaign to promote the use of natural gas as a clean energy source and bridge fuel to renewable energy, and of intimidating journalists reporting about the companies' climate actions and of obstructing the committee's investigation, which ExxonMobil, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute denied. In the United States, as of 2024, dozens of states and localities have sued ExxonMobil on
426-546: A century by Exxon and other Standard Oil predecessors, a 2011 oil spill which leaked 1,500 barrels of oil into the Yellowstone River (resulting in about $ 135 million in damages), and a 2012 1,900 barrel (80,000 gallon) spill from the company's Baton Rouge Refinery in the rivers of Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana . ExxonMobil's actives in Louisiana in particular, especially its Baton Rouge Refinery , have given
497-476: A coal shed were built in 1879 and 1880. The single-track line to Detmold was opened on 31 December 1880. The old station building was replaced by a new building in 1902. The Herford–Kirchlengern line , which has always been single track, was opened on 1 was July 1904. Construction of two freight tracks between Hamm and Minden started in 1911 and they were taken in operation in stages between 1912 and 1916. The line has had four tracks ever since. In this context,
568-462: A combination of lower-emission fuels, hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage. Low Carbon Solutions conducts research on clean energy technologies, including algae biofuels , biodiesel made from agricultural waste, carbonate fuel cells , and refining crude oil into plastic by using a membrane and osmosis instead of heat. The company speculated in April 2023 that pending good economic conditions,
639-407: A connecting curve at Sulingen between the lines to Diepholz and Barenburg, providing a bypass of Sulingen. The grounds of the disused Sulinger station with its formerly extensive track systems would be redeveloped. The remaining line was closed on 31 December 1997. A bottleneck in the federal trunk road network (B61) was eliminated at the existing railway overpass at Bassum with the partial removal of
710-488: A former mechanic, Paul Gill, who claimed that his cancer was caused by exposure to benzene in ExxonMobil's petroleum products while working at a Mobil gas station between 1975 and 1980. According to Fortune Global 500 , ExxonMobil was the second largest company, second largest publicly held corporation , and the largest oil company in the United States by 2017 revenue. For the fiscal year 2020, ExxonMobil reported
781-567: A lawsuit in San Francisco County Superior Court against ExxonMobil on behalf of the state of California , alleging that the company carried out a "decades-long campaign of deception" and misled the public on the merits of plastic recycling; in response ExxonMobil said that California has an ineffective recycling system that officials have known about for decades. ExxonMobil has also been accused of human rights violations and abusing its geopolitical influence. In
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#1732801396649852-585: A line on the Karlshafen –Herford–Bünde–Lübbecke– Lemförde route. More concrete plans were published on 5 March 1872 for a line from Bünde to Rahden, branching off the Löhne–Rheine railway , which was opened on 21 November 1855. But planning for a single-track branch line from Bünde to Rahden was finally approved by the Prussian minister for public works in 1892. Five years later, on 22 February 1887, ground
923-522: A loss of US$ 22.4 billion, with an annual revenue of US$ 181.5 billion, a decline of 31.5% over the previous fiscal cycle. The key trends of ExxonMobil are (as at the financial year ending December 31): As per Fortune 500 Global list, ExxonMobil has been ranked #7 company in the World. ExxonMobil's headquarters are located in the Spring, Texas area, a suburb of Houston. The ExxonMobil campus has
994-623: A plan for the reactivation of the line. Passenger services on the Bünde–Rahden section are now operated as part of Deutsche Bahn ’s Münster-Ostwestfalen (MOW) regional network, based in Münster. The route between Rahden and Herford is served by Regionalbahn service RB 71 ( Ravensberger Bahn ) train at hourly intervals on working days with trains crossing in Holzhausen-Heddinghausen at the symmetry minute of 28 minutes past
1065-595: A shuttle between Sulingen and Bünde on 5 and 6 October 1974. On 1 June 1994, the last remaining pair of trains ran on the Bielefeld–Bassum–Bremen route and therefore all passenger traffic ended between Rahden and Bassum. The carriage of freight ended on 3 June 1994, except on the Sulingen–Barenburg section. DB Cargo has continued to operate traffic on the section of the line from Diepholz via Sulingen to Barenburg for ExxonMobil . There are plans to create
1136-514: A single company. On Oct. 1 2024, Nigeria approved the $ 1.28 billion sale of Exxon Mobil's onshore assets to Seplat Energy, more than two years after the deal was first agreed upon in February 2022 ExxonMobil markets products around the world under the brands of Exxon , Mobil, and Esso. Mobil is ExxonMobil's primary retail gasoline brand in California, Florida , New York , New England ,
1207-418: A wellness center, laboratory, and three parking garages. It is designed to house nearly 10,000 employees. The current chairman of the board and CEO of ExxonMobil Corp. is Darren W. Woods. Woods was elected chairman of the board and CEO effective January 1, 2017, after the retirement of former chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson . Before his election as chairman and CEO, Woods was elected president of ExxonMobil and
1278-487: Is a junction station with four platforms and seven platform tracks in the town of Herford in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia . It lies on the quadruple track , electrified Hamm–Minden railway , a section of the original route of the historic Cologne-Minden Railway Company . In Herford Station, the line to Altenbeken branches off to the south and the Ravensberg Railway branches off towards
1349-502: Is a petrochemical company that was created by merging Exxon's and Mobil's chemical industries in 1999. Its principal products include basic olefins and aromatics , ethylene glycol , polyethylene , and polypropylene along with speciality lines such as elastomers , plasticizers , solvents , process fluids, oxo alcohols and adhesive resins . The company also produces synthetic lubricant base stocks as well as lubricant additives, propylene packaging films and catalysts . ExxonMobil
1420-467: Is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Spring, Texas , a suburb of Houston . Founded as the largest direct successor of John D. Rockefeller 's Standard Oil , the modern company was formed in 1999 following the merger of Exxon and Mobil . It is vertically integrated across the entire oil and gas industry, and within it is also a chemicals division which produces plastic, synthetic rubber, and other chemical products. As
1491-564: Is currently in partnerships with Oracle Red Bull Racing in Formula One and Kalitta Motorsports. ExxonMobil operates 21 refineries worldwide, and the company claims 80% of its refining capacity is integrated with chemical or lube basestocks. ExxonMobil's largest refinery overall is its Beaumont Refinery and its second largest in the United States is its Baytown Refinery , located in Baytown, Texas . Its second largest refinery overall
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#17328013966491562-520: Is its Jurong Island facility in Singapore . ExxonMobil's global average refining capacity was 4.6 million barrels per day, with the United States producing a plurality of the company's refining capacity at about 1.77 million barrels per day. ExxonMobil's corporate website claims it refines almost 5 million barrels per day. ExxonMobil was one of few U.S. refiners to expand capacity by a significant margin following an industry downturn suffered during
1633-473: Is served by two Intercity services: Herford is the second biggest node for regional services after Bielefeld in Ostwestfalen-Lippe and is served by several Regional-Express and Regionalbahn services. The station is also served by 12 local and regional bus routes. ExxonMobil ExxonMobil Corporation ( / ˌ ɛ k s ɒ n ˈ m oʊ b əl / EK -son- MOH -bəl )
1704-434: Is the largest producer of butyl rubber. Infineum, a joint venture with Shell plc, is manufacturing and marketing crankcase lubricant additives, fuel additives , and specialty lubricant additives, as well as automatic transmission fluids , gear oils , and industrial oils. Mobil 1 , a brand of synthetic motor oil, is a major sponsor of multiple racing teams and as the official motor oil of NASCAR since 2003. ExxonMobil
1775-547: The COVID-19 pandemic. The company completed a 250,000 barrels per day expansion at its Beaumont , Texas, refinery in early 2023. Officially formed with ExxonMobil's 2022 corporate restructuring, and currently led by former General Motors president Dan Ammann , Low Carbon Solutions is the company's alternative energy division. The division says it will lower emissions in hard-to-decarbonize sectors such as heavy industry, commercial transportation, and power generation using
1846-1151: The Kearl Oil Sands Project . In Argentina, ExxonMobil holds 0.9 million acres (3,600 km ) and 4.9 million acres (20,000 km ) in Germany. In the Netherlands ExxonMobil owns 1.5 million acres (6,100 km ), in Norway it owns 0.4 million acres (1,600 km ) offshore, and the United Kingdom 0.6 million acres (2,400 km ) offshore. In Africa, upstream operations are concentrated in Angola, where it owns 0.4 million acres (1,600 km ) offshore, Chad where it owns 46,000 acres (19,000 ha), Equatorial Guinea, where it owns 0.1 million acres (400 km ) offshore, and Nigeria, where it owns 0.8 million acres (3,200 km ) offshore. In addition, ExxonMobil plans to start exploration activities off
1917-606: The Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund OWL (transport association of Ostwestfalen-Lippe) and the NRW-tariff (fares) of North Rhine-Westphalia. The short central section between Sulingen and Barenburg is now used for freight transport by DB Schenker Rail for traffic running between Diepholz and the facilities of the ExxonMobil company at Barenburg. In Lübbecke a siding branches off to the BESTA company near
1988-522: The single-use plastic waste in the world in 2019 (which were part of a larger group of 100 petrochemical companies that manufactured 90 percent of the waste), while in April 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a subpoena to ExxonMobil for information related to the company's role in overstating the effectiveness of plastic recycling in reducing plastic pollution as part of an industry campaign to promote plastic usage. On September 23, 2024, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed
2059-473: The 1930s and became the dominant oil company on the world stage. The company's lack of ownership over the Standard Oil name across the United States, however, prompted a name change to unify all of its brands under one name, choosing to name itself Exxon in 1972 over continuing to use three distinct brands of Esso , Enco , and Humble. In 1998, the two companies agreed to merge and form ExxonMobil, with
2130-749: The Arctic Circle. As of 2020, ExxonMobil has been responsible for more than 3,000 oil spills and leakages which resulted in a loss of more than one barrel of oil, with the most in a single year being 484 spills in 2011. Additionally, since 1965, ExxonMobil has released more than 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide pollution . In 2023, Science journal published a paper reporting that the global warming projections and models created by ExxonMobil's own scientists between 1977 and 2003 had "accurately" projected and "skillfully" modeled global warming due to fossil fuel burning, and had reasonably estimated how much CO 2 would lead to dangerous warming. The authors of
2201-718: The Great Lakes , and the Midwest . Exxon is the primary brand in the rest of the United States, with the highest concentration of retail outlets located in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas (shared with Mobil), and in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states. ExxonMobil has stations in 46 states, just behind Shell USA and ahead of Phillips 66 , lacking a presence only in Alaska , Hawaii , Iowa , and Kansas . Outside of
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2272-671: The Longford Gas Conditioning Plant, and participates in the development of Gorgon LNG project. In Papua New Guinea, it holds 1.1 million acres (4,500 km ), including the PNG Gas project. After Russia's 2022 invasion began, though, ExxonMobil announced it was fully pulling out of both Russia and Sakhalin-I, and launched a lawsuit against Russia's federal government on August 30. ExxonMobil formed its Product Solutions division in 2022, combining its previously separate Downstream and Chemical divisions into
2343-477: The Mittelland canal. This siding is used regularly. Part of this traffic consists of trains carrying wire rolls to the BESTA site. Between Rahden and Ströhen there is now a Draisine operation for tourists. Ströhen includes a well-developed tourist railway, which also operates Draisines on a former narrow-gauge railway used for peat extraction on Neustädter Moor. Herford station Herford station
2414-659: The US State of Arkansas . In June 2024, a preliminary agreement to supply lithium to SK for the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries that will power electric vehicles was signed. ExxonMobil's environmental record has faced much criticism for its stance and impact on global warming. In 2018, the Political Economy Research Institute ranks ExxonMobil tenth among American corporations emitting airborne pollutants , thirteenth by emitting greenhouse gases . A 2017 report places ExxonMobil as
2485-692: The United Arab Emirates. ExxonMobil exited the West Qurna 1 oilfield in January 2024, officially ending all energy sector operations in Iraq. The share is now owned by PetroChina and Pertamina . In March 2024, ExxonMobil discovered oil at the Stabroek block off the coast of Guyana using a drillship. By the end of 2027, it plans to have 6 FPSOs at the block. Oil was discovered off
2556-472: The United States, Esso and Mobil are primarily used, with Esso operating in 14 countries and Mobil operating in 29 countries and regions. In Japan, ExxonMobil had a 22% stake in TonenGeneral Sekiyu K.K., a refining company that merged into Eneos in 2017. ExxonMobil's primary retail brands worldwide are Exxon, Esso , Mobil , with the former being used exclusively in the United States and
2627-639: The United States, ExxonMobil's petroleum exploration and production activities are concentrated in the Permian Basin , Bakken Formation , Woodford Shale , Caney Shale , and the Gulf of Mexico . In addition, ExxonMobil has several gas developments in the regions of Marcellus Shale , Utica Shale , Haynesville Shale , Barnett Shale , and Fayetteville Shale . All natural gas activities are conducted by its subsidiary, XTO Energy. As of December 31, 2014, ExxonMobil owned 14.6 million acres (59,000 km ) in
2698-467: The United States, of which 1.7 million acres (6,900 km ) were offshore, 1.5 million acres (6,100 km ) of which were in the Gulf of Mexico. In California, it has a joint venture called Aera Energy LLC with Shell Oil . In Canada, the company holds 5.4 million acres (22,000 km ), including 1 million acres (4,000 km ) offshore and 0.7 million acres (2,800 km ) of
2769-662: The Wittlage District Railway ( Wittlager Kreisbahn ) from Holzhausen-Heddinghausen to Bohmte with a connection to the Münster–Osnabrück–Bremen main line , was opened on 9 August 1900, and the Nienburg–Rahden railway was opened on 15 January 1910. Subsequently the engine shed in Rahden was extended and the locomotive depot became a locomotive workshop. The Second World War also left its mark. On
2840-597: The area the nickname of Cancer Alley . The company's activities, along with other operations and refineries in the area, have been the source of increased cancer infections, lower air quality, and as seen by some, potential environmental racism committed by the company. In May 2021, ExxonMobil topped the Plastic Waste Makers Index report published by the Minderoo Foundation of 20 petrochemical companies that manufactured 55 percent of
2911-593: The army recruiting office, the tax office, the Technisches Rathaus (a section of the municipal administration dealing with planning and planning approvals), the GoParc discothèque and the Radewig and MARTa-Viertel parking garages are also nearby. The railway line is elevated so that intersecting streets of the town can run under it. The station is orientated in a largely north-south direction. Herford
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2982-424: The base of its climate change denial. ExxonMobil's operations have been subject to numerous oil spills both before and after the 1999 merger. The most widely publicized oil spill was the 1989 Valdez oil spill , where an Exxon tanker discharged approximately 11 million U.S. gallons (42,000 m3) of oil into Prince William Sound , oiling 1,300 miles (2,100 km) of the remote Alaskan coastline. The spill remains
3053-572: The book Private Empire by Steve Coll , ExxonMobil is described as extremely powerful "corporate state within the American state" in dealing with the countries in which it drills, going to the point as describing such countries' governments as "constrained". The company's corporate ancestors are also blamed for the outbreak of the 1954 Jebel Akhdar War , which was sparked by the Iraq Petroleum Company 's activities. Beginning in
3124-625: The case dismissed nine times, dragging the lawsuit out for over 20 years. In July 2022, a US District Court denied ExxonMobil's motions to dismiss the case, clearing the way for the lawsuit to go to trial, although no trial date was set. In 2023, ExxonMobile settled the case a week before trial. During a 2022 surge in profits among ExxonMobil and other large oil companies, partly due to the war in Ukraine , U.S. President Joe Biden criticized ExxonMobil. In June 2022, amid record oil prices, he said that "Exxon made more money than God this year". When
3195-846: The coast of Angola in May 2024 in a well drilled from February to April in the Kizomba B development area. Until the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , ExxonMobil held 85,000 acres (34,000 ha) in the Sakhalin-I project through its subsidiary Exxon Neftegas . Together with Rosneft , it has developed 63.6 million acres (257,000 km ) in Russia, including the East-Prinovozemelsky field . In Australia, ExxonMobil held 1.7 million acres (6,900 km ), including 1.6 million acres (6,500 km ) offshore. It also operates
3266-1180: The coast of Liberia and the Ivory Coast. In the past, ExxonMobil had exploration activities in Madagascar, however these operations were ended due to unsatisfactory results. In Asia, it holds 9,000 acres (3,600 ha) in Azerbaijan, 1.7 million acres (6,900 km ) in Indonesia, of which 1.3 million acres (5,300 km ) are offshore, 0.7 million acres (2,800 km ) in Iraq, 0.3 million acres (1,200 km ) in Kazakhstan, 0.2 million acres (810 km ) in Malaysia, 65,000 acres (26,000 ha) in Qatar, 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) in Yemen, 21,000 acres (8,500 ha) in Thailand, and 81,000 acres (33,000 ha) in
3337-416: The committee's investigation into the fossil fuel industry disinformation campaign to obscure the role of fossil fuels in causing global warming. Upon reviewing internal company documents, they accused ExxonMobil along with BP , Chevron , and Shell of greenwashing their Paris Agreement carbon neutrality pledges while continuing long-term investment in fossil fuel production and sales, for engaging in
3408-454: The company accountable for various climate-related incidents. ExxonMobil has used its own website to attack Exxon Knew , claiming that it is a coordinated effort to defame the company. In December 2022, U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney and U.S. House Oversight Environment Subcommittee Chair Ro Khanna sent a memorandum to all House Oversight and Reform Committee members summarizing additional findings from
3479-544: The company also has several standalone divisions, such as Coal & Minerals. It also owns hundreds of smaller subsidiaries such as XTO Energy and SeaRiver Maritime . ExxonMobil also has a majority ownership stake in Imperial Oil . The upstream division makes up the majority of ExxonMobil's revenue, accounting for approximately 70% of it. In 2021, ExxonMobil had about 30 billion barrels of oil and oil equivalents, as well as 38.1 billion cubic feet of natural gas . In
3550-408: The deal closing on November 30, 1999. The two companies cited lower oil prices and a better ability to compete with other state-owned oil companies outside of the United States like Pemex and Aramco . With the deal, the two companies practically merged, with the new company's name containing both of the trade names of its immediate predecessors. However, the structure of the merger provided that Exxon
3621-478: The electrification of the line to Altenbeken on 27 May 1975 and the connection to Kirchlengern on 20 September 1976. The wooden roofs on the platforms were replaced with steel roofs and a new freight handling facility was built in 1975/76. In 1987, the station building was heritage-listed. Since 1988, Intercity trains have also stopped in Herford. General freight operations were abandoned in 1997. The station
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#17328013966493692-712: The embankment in the autumn of 2009. In Ströhen a hall has been built over the track. In the Sulingen area several level crossings were eliminated, in some cases during the construction of relief roads. The level crossing on the B61 in Neuenkirchen has also been removed. The other sections are now mostly overgrown with scrub. Nevertheless, the Verein Aktionsbündnis Eisenbahnstrecke Bassum-Bünde , founded in 2010, has submitted
3763-517: The fifth largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions from 1988 to 2015. As of 2005 , ExxonMobil had committed less than 1% of their profits towards researching alternative energy, which, according to the advocacy organization Ceres , is less than other leading oil companies. According to the 2021 Arctic Environmental Responsibility Index (AERI), ExxonMobil is ranked as the sixth most environmentally responsible company among 120 oil, gas, and mining companies involved in resource extraction north of
3834-530: The hour; on Sundays services run every two hours. The trains continue to Bielefeld Hbf and from there operate as the RB 67 ( Der Warendorfer ) to Münster Hbf so that a change of trains is only necessary when rollingstock are replaced. The service is operated by Eurobahn with Bombardier Talent diesel railcars at speeds of up to 120 km/h. The whole line can be used with the Sechser-Tarif (“the six” fares) of
3905-535: The largest U.S.-based oil and gas company, ExxonMobil is the seventh-largest by revenue in the U.S. and 13th-largest in the world . It is the largest investor-owned oil company in the world. Approximately 55.56% of the company's shares are held by institutions, the largest of which as of 2019 were The Vanguard Group (8.15%), BlackRock (6.61%), and State Street Corporation (4.83%). The company has been widely criticized and sued, mostly for environmental incidents and its history of climate change denial against
3976-585: The late 1980s, ExxonMobil (through predecessor Mobil) hired military units of the Indonesian National Army to provide security for their gas extraction and liquefaction project in Aceh , Indonesia, and these military units were accused of committing human rights violations, including sexual assault, battery and unlawful detention. ExxonMobil eventually pulled out from Indonesia completely in 2001, while denying any wrongdoing. Exxon attempted to have
4047-435: The latter two being used in most other countries where ExxonMobil operates. Esso is the only one of its brands not used widely in the United States. Since 2008, Mobil is the only brand for the company lubricants. Since 2018, ExxonMobil has operated a loyalty program , ExxonMobil Rewards+, where customers earn rewards points when filling up at its stations in the United States and later the United Kingdom. ExxonMobil Chemical
4118-548: The line from Rahden to Bassum is closed except for a short section between Barenburg and Sulingen, which is used only for freight traffic. The first plans were published for a branch line from the Hamm–Minden railway of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company from Minden via Lübbecke to Osnabrück in about 1845. These found no support in conservative circles. In 1867, a new project was presented for
4189-598: The line was extended to the south with the construction of a single-track connection between Kirchlengern and Herford on the Hamm–Minden railway, using the tracks of the Löhne–Rheine line from Bünde to Kirchlengern. This section of the line, unlike the northern section, was electrified in the 1970s to allow electrically-hauled traffic to transfer between the two main lines. The electrification was completed on 20 September 1976. Further branch lines were built. The first section of
4260-465: The low-carbon solutions business could eclipse the value of its oil and gas operations. As of 2023 , the company was in the process of designing its inaugural large-scale plant dedicated to producing low-carbon hydrogen, situated within its refining and petrochemical complex in Baytown, Texas . This project is set to become the world's largest low-carbon hydrogen project. ExxonMobil publicly announced it would be investing $ 15 billion in what it deemed
4331-424: The night of 1/2 April 1945, the bridge was over the Mittelland Canal between Gestringen and Luebbecke was blown up. But through traffic was able to run on 1 March 1946. From January 1950 express trains from Bremerhaven-Lehe to Frankfurt via Bremen , Herford , Paderborn , Korbach and Marburg used this route. This service was also called an Heckeneilzug (“hedgerow express”). The last steam train ran as
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#17328013966494402-410: The north to Bünde and Rahden with a connection to the Löhne–Rheine railway . It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 2 station . The station is located in Radewiger Feldmark, about 300 metres from the Herford inner city (Radewig). Just a little further, is the MARTa Herford art and design museum opened in 2005. On the way there is the Herford music school. The district administration,
4473-455: The oil giant reported its second quarter earnings in 2022, CNN reported that Exxon made US$ 2,245.62 per second in profit across the 92-day long second quarter. In May 2024, a Pennsylvania jury found ExxonMobil liable for negligently failing to warn about the health risks of benzene , which is classified by the US Environmental Protection Agency as a known carcinogen , and ordered the company to pay $ 725.5 million in compensatory damages to
4544-444: The paper concluded: "Yet, whereas academic and government scientists worked to communicate what they knew to the public, ExxonMobil worked to deny it." Between the 1980s and 2014, ExxonMobil was a notable denier of climate change, though the company officially changed its position in 2014 to acknowledge the existence of climate change. ExxonMobil's prolonged response incited the creation of the Exxon Knew movement, which aims to hold
4615-587: The scientific consensus that fossil fuels significantly contribute to global warming . The company is responsible for many oil spills, the largest and most notable of which was the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and itself considered to be one of the world's worst oil spills in terms of environmental damage. The company has been the target of accusations of human rights violations, excessive influence on American foreign policy , and its impact on developing countries. ExxonMobil traces its roots to Vacuum Oil Company , founded in 1866. Vacuum Oil later
4686-406: The second largest in American history, only trailing BP's Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico . ExxonMobil was also responsible for various other oil spills across the world. Some of Exxon's largest and most notable oil spills in the United States include long-lasting oil leaks totaling into an estimated 30 million gallon spill into New York City's Newtown Creek over the course of
4757-413: The then ground-level line was placed on an embankment and the level crossings were replaced by bridges. During the Second World War there was only minor damage that could be repaired relatively quickly. The demolition of the locomotive depot began in 1954. The main line was electrified in the mid-1960s. The first electrically-hauled train ran through the station on 29 September 1968. This was followed by
4828-438: Was acquired by Standard Oil in 1879, divested from Standard in 1911 with its breakup , and merged by the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony), later known as Mobil , in 1931. After the 1911 breakup, Standard Oil continued to exist through its New Jersey subsidiary, sometimes shortened to Jersey Standard, and retained the Standard Oil name in much of the eastern United States. Jersey Standard grew by acquiring Humble Oil in
4899-445: Was broken and, on 30 September 1899, the first services were operated on the railway by two special trains, which could be used free of charge. The Prussian state railways began regular operations the next day. By 29 September 1900, the line had been extended to the north-east to Sulingen and from 1 August 1901 there were continuous services from Bünde via Rahden and Sulingen to Bassum on the Bremen–Münster main line . On 1 July 1904
4970-403: Was connected by a single-track line built by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company on 15 October 1847. The first provisional station building was built out of brick in 1851. A second track was opened to Bad Oeynhausen in 1853 and to Bielefeld in 1854. The station facilities were rebuilt and the entrance building was extended between 1873 and 1875. A roundhouse with a turntable , water tower and
5041-495: Was the surviving company and bought Mobil, rather than a new company being created. Following the merger, Exxon's NYSE ticker symbol was changed from "XON" to "XOM". ExxonMobil is the largest non-government-owned company in the energy industry and produces about 3% of the world's oil and about 2% of the world's energy. ExxonMobil is vertically integrated into a number of global operating divisions. These divisions are grouped into three categories for reference purposes, though
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