CEO: Rex Tillerson Reported pay*: $33m Big capex milestone: Kara Sea, Russian Arctic After months of drilling around the clock through the short Arctic summer, Exxon Mobil and their Russian partners Rosneft struck oil last year.
CEO: John Watson Reported pay*: $26m Big capex milestone: Jack/St Malo, US Gulf of Mexico The Jack/St Malo project has taken Chevron to one of the deepest and most remote parts of the Gulf of Mexico.
He told the Lowy Institute the milestone was proof the west's diplomatic pressure and sanctions against Russia – which is backing separatist rebels in the east – were bearing fruit.
But this is exactly what happened this week and it marks a significant, historic milestone on Ireland's journey away from being a mono-Catholic state into a 21st European republic.
The Yankees outfielder looked exactly like himself against the Blue Jays, using that patented swing to drive an RA Dickey pitch into left field and become just the third player in history to reach the 4,000-hit 4,000-hit, Ty Cobb and Pete Rose being the others.
Could our need to capture every milestone stop us from living in the moment and ever feeling content?
The Guardian has passed yet another digital traffic milestone, with over 120 million monthly unique browsers accessing theguardian.com in January 2015, according to the latest digital ABC figures released today.
"This is the first major milestone for the project and marks a very clear intent to create a new landmark for London," said the trust's chair, Lord Davies.
In the UK that milestone has only just been reached.
CEO: Bob Dudley Reported pay*: $15m Big capital expenditure (capex) milestone: Sunrise, Canada In late 2014, four years after facing intense shareholder resistance over its move into Canada's vast and environmentally controversial tar sands, operations began at BP's $2.5bn Sunrise project.
CEO: Christophe de Margerie (until October 2014) Reported pay*: $6m Big capex milestone: Kashagan, Kazakhstan Production at Kashagan – one of the world's most expensive and complex oil projects – is on hold.
