By Joe Carroll
Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s biggest oil company, said third-quarter profit jumped 58 percent, exceeding analyst estimates, as record crude prices made up for the largest drop in output in at least a decade.
Net income rose to $14.8 billion, or $2.86 a share, from $9.41 billion, or $1.70, [...]

BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) — China National Offshore Oil Company Limited (CNOOC Ltd.) announced Tuesday that its net oil and gas output in the third quarter of 2008 rose by 15.2 percent over the same period last year.
The state-owned offshore oil producer said that its unaudited total revenue was 30.9 billion [...]

By Laura Price
Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) — Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, said its monthly oil production rose to a record 1.89 million barrels a day in September.
Petrobras, as the company is known, said late yesterday in an e-mailed statement that total daily domestic output in September increased 7.26 percent from a year [...]