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Oil giants face backlash as they rake in massive profits - superadmin - 02-13-2022 PARIS – Soaring energy prices have brought massive profits to oil majors – along with fierce criticism from environmentalists and politicians at a time when consumers are left with rising bills. US firm ExxonMobil, France’s TotalEnergies, and UK giants Shell and BP announced in the past week 2021 profits totalling a whopping US$66.7 billion (RM279.4 billion). It marked a huge turnaround from 2020, when they posted losses as the pandemic emerged, prompting lockdowns that brought the world economy to a grinding halt and caused crude prices to collapse. But oil and gas prices rallied big time last year, surging to US$70 per barrel after briefly sinking into negative territory in 2020. - More -