Perenco

Perenco
Company typePrivate
IndustryPetroleum industry
Founded1975
FounderHubert Perrodo
HeadquartersParis, London
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Benoît de la Fouchardiere, CEO
François Perrodo, Chairman
ProductsOil and gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining
Production output
  • 500,000 (2024)
Revenue7,000,000,000 euro (2021) 
Number of employees
6,000
SubsidiariesDixstone
Websiteperenco.com

Perenco is an independent French-British oil and gas company with a headquarters in Paris and London. It conducts exploration and production activities in 16 countries around the globe (the North Sea, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Belize, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Vietnam, Trinidad and Tobago). Perenco is involved in operations both onshore and offshore with production equal to approximately 450,000-barrel (72,000 m3) of oil equivalent per day.

Perenco is owned by the French Perrodo family, whose fortune was estimated at around €8 billion in 2022.