The oil price crash battered the 2016 earnings of energy firms, but the usual suspects are still there in the rankings of the biggest oil and gas companies this year. And the largest oil companies started turning in much higher profits for the first quarter of 2017, thanks to the relative increase in oil prices this year compared to Q1 last year. ExxonMobil is still king on the Forbes list of the 25 largest oil and gas companies in 2017, part of the 2017 Global 2000 ranking of The World’s Biggest Public Companies. The ranking is a composite score of equally weighted measures of revenue, profits, assets, and market value. Forbes has estimated that the 25 biggest oil and gas companies on the Global 2000 list generated a combined US$2.2 trillion in sales during the 12-month measurement period, down compared to US$2.6 trillion in sales for the previous year. […]