London Stock Exchange (UK): oil and gas companies 2018-2019

This statistic displays the number of oil and gas companies trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) from January 2018 to June 2019. It can be seen that the number of oil and gas companies trading on the LSE fluctuated. In January 2018, the number of companies amounted to 143, by April 2018 the number had fallen to 142 oil and gas companies, the lowest during the period. However, in the following months the number of companies increased to 161 as of June 2018, the highest recorded during this time frame. On the following months the number of oil and gas companies trading on the LSE oscillated, amounting to 155 companies as of June 2019. At the beginning of July 2019, FSTE Russel reclassified several industries across global stock exchanges, one of which being oil and gas companies. The Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB) is the categorization and comparison of companies by industry and sector across global exchanges. Oil and gas companies are now classified under the broader industry of energy.