The company's purpose is to explore, produce and trade goods worldwide, either directly or indirectly through subsidiaries, with a focus on energy resources, hydrocarbons, metals and other chemical elements. This includes the development, exploration, exploitation, production, processing, refining, treatment, re-injection, marketing, transportation, distribution, export, purchase, sale and commercialization, as well as brokerage services, project consulting, market research, industry analysis, feasibility studies and strategic analysis. In addition, the company may also provide administrative and organizational services to its direct and indirect shareholders, subsidiaries and their branches. The company may acquire, hold, manage, utilize and transfer real estate and intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other industrial and commercial companies, and establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. The company may participate in group financing, in particular by granting loans to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and affiliated companies or other group companies, or by providing guarantees or other securities of any kind for their liabilities to third parties, even if these loans or securities are in the exclusive interest of its direct or indirect subsidiaries and affiliated companies or other group companies, or are granted free of charge. Furthermore, the company may conduct any business that appears to be suitable to promote the purpose of the company or is connected therewith.