Amerada Hess is an integrated oil and gas company of almost 11,000 employees engaged in the worldwide exploration for and production of crude oil and natural gas. Amerada Hess ... engages in refining and marketing refined petroleum products, natural gas, and electricity in the United States. The company explores millions of acres both on-shore and offshore and has thousands of wells producing oil and natural gas. Amerada Hess produces crude oil and/or natural gas in the United States, the United Kingdom, Norwegian and Danish sectors of the North Sea, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Colombia. For 2001, the company posted revenues of U.S $13.4 billion. www.hess.com