Top 10 Carbon Majors (with caption & annotations)
The image shows the actual volume of CO2 emissions attributable to the top 10 extant investor-owned & state-owned fossil fuel companies with the United Kingdom for scale.
63% of all carbon emissions between 1850 and 2010 are attributable to just 90 producers of fossil fuels and cement. For details see: www.carbonmajors.org
Total emissions between 1850 and 2010:
Chevron: 51,096 Mt CO2e
ExxonMobil: 46,672 Mt CO2e
Saudi Aramco: 46,033 Mt CO2e
BP: 35,837 Mt CO2e
Gazprom: 32,136 Mt CO2e
Shell: 30,751 Mt CO2e
National Iranian Oil Co: 29,084 Mt CO2e
Pemex: 20,025 Mt CO2e
ConoccoPhillips: 16,866 Mt CO2e
Petroleos de Venezuela: 16,157 Mt CO2e
Density of carbon dioxide gas at 15 °C and standard pressure is 1.87 kg/m³
Each cube contains 5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide gas.
The sides of the cubes are 13.9 km long (8.6 miles).