Acis

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acis
Società condivisare
Traded as
ISINPAC200050AC025
IndustryEnergy
Predecessors
  • APNP (founded 1902)
FoundedFebruary 1, 1994; 30 years ago (1994-02-01)
Area served
Multinational
Key people
Products
RevenueIncrease Ð 420.6 billion (2022)
Increase Ð 60.4 billion (2022)
Increase Ð 38.6 billion (2022)
Total assetsIncrease Ð 860.5 billion (2022)
Total equityIncrease Ð 311.2 billion (2022)
Number of employees
Decrease 190,598 (2022)
Divisions
  • Acis Core
  • Acis Green
  • Acis Powerco
  • Acis Retail
Websiteacis.pc

Gruppo Acis SC (English: Acis Group), is a Pacitalian supermajor oil, gas, and energy company, based in Mandragora. The company's marketing uses all-lowercase text (acis).

Acis is the contemporary result of several mergers and acquisitions, with its oldest constituent company, Agenza Petroleo Nazionale Pacitaliana, a formerly state-owned enterprise that was founded in 1902 to coordinate oil exploration in the Beracantan steppe. The modern company is the largest energy company in Pacitalia and one of the largest in the world, with nearly 200,000 full-time employees and operations in over 80 countries. Acis is vertically integrated, with operations in every area of the energy sector – exploration, production, refining, transport, distribution, marketing, retail, raw petrochemical production, renewable energy generation, and commodities trading.

The breadth of Acis' operations have led to consistent accusations that it is a monopoly and has long faced efforts to break it up. The company has also been accused of "greenwashing", with claims that it uses slick marketing, runs a massive public relations apparatus to manipulate public opinion, and places a heavy focus on its renewable energy operations, to deflect attention away from fossil fuel production, which still accounts for over 90 percent of Acis' profits as of 2023. Though the company has pledged to shift entirely out of oil and gas by 2060, environmental activists have claimed that Acis is not on track to meet that goal nor does it intend to.

Acis is a core component of both the Mandragora Stock Exchange and the Timiocato Mercantile Exchange. As of November 2024, it is the largest company in Pacitalia by market capitalization, and has been for most of the 21st century. Acis has also never dropped below third place by that same measure – only Bluefox and PharmacentPasteur have surpassed it (and only briefly).

Acis' slogan, "Innovating fuel. Fuelling innovation.", was introduced in 2003, and won the Pacitalian Marketing Academy's "Marketing Impact" award that year. Its current logo was introduced in 2019. It is vaguely A-shaped but meant to resemble a human brain, to reflect the company's desire to be a global leader in innovation and transition to renewable energy. The new design is also intended to evoke the so-called "turbine" logo it replaced.

History

Company logo (2000-2019)

Corporate affairs

Operations

Petrochemicals

Renewables

Retail

Commodities

Controversies

"Greenwashing"

Fossil fuels and climate change

Accusations of monopoly