PETRONAS, short for Petroliam Nasional Bhd, is Malaysia's national petroleum corporation. It was established on August 17, 1974.
Since its incorporation, PETRONAS has grown to be an integrated international oil and gas company with business interests in 35 countries. The PETRONAS Group comprised 93 wholly-owned subsidiaries, 19 partly-owned outfits and 55 associated companies.
A Fortune 500 corporation, PETRONAS is engaged in a wide spectrum of petroleum activities, including upstream exploration and production of oil and gas to downstream oil refining; marketing and distribution of petroleum products; trading; gas processing and liquefaction; gas transmission pipeline network operations; marketing of liquefied natural gas; petrochemical manufacturing and marketing; shipping; automotive engineering; and property investment.
For more information on PETRONAS, log on to www.petronas.com.my