How profitable are these oil companies?
Hard to say acurately without doing some research.
But I can say that they are profitable enough to reward their top officers with some very sizable bonuses. We all have seen those numbers.
Now, I don't begrudge anyone from getting what they can, when they can. Whether it be Drew Bledsoe getting $14 million to play football or ExxonMobil Corporation retiring Chief Executive Officer Lee Raymond getting a retirement package worth nearly $400 million...but at some point it does become a little obscene.