Bentley Releases Inaugural Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners Ranking

Bentley Systems Inc., a provider of comprehensive software solutions for infrastructure, announced the release of its inaugural Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners rankings. This global compendium of the top public and private sector infrastructure owners is based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments (measured by reported net tangible fixed assets). Data sources for the rankings included published financial statements and third-party research. The rankings, which Bentley will update annually, make it easy to compare investment levels across types of infrastructure, regions of the world and public and private organizations. The full list is available for download at www.bentley.com/500. Readers are authorized and encouraged to use it for any purpose with attribution.

Bentley Systems compiled the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners rankings to help global constituents appreciate and explore the magnitude of investment in infrastructure and the potential to continually increase the return on that investment. The infrastructure value represented is over $13 trillion, which is close to the annual U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) and equal to the combined annual GDPs of China, Japan and Germany. Bentley already serves more than 75% of the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners, and 92 of the top 100 owners, and has increased this focus through its AssetWise initiative for asset lifecycle information management.

“We anticipate a diverse, global audience for our new Top Owners ranking since all of us are infrastructure constituents and depend on infrastructure owners–and their stewardship of their infrastructure investments–to help sustain our society, environment and economies,” said Bentley CEO Greg Bentley. “However, the many of us who participate in creating value for these owners as part of their supply chains will find the Bentley Infrastructure 500 rankings of particular interest and value in helping to gain insight and glean new opportunities. Equally important, the rankings and measurements provide a frame of reference to help all of us appreciate just how massive investments in infrastructure are, and the degree to which enabling better returns on these investments is leveraged.”

An analysis of the Bentley Infrastructure 500 substantiates the global nature of top-level investment in infrastructure, with 46 countries represented in the rankings. The top five countries, in terms of the infrastructure value of the Top Owners headquartered in each, are:

1. United States: 166 Top Owners, $4,241.1 billion 2. Japan: 58 Top Owners, $1,349.2 billion 3. China: 29 Top Owners, $869.6 billion 4. France: 22 Top Owners, $747.2 billion 5. United Kingdom: 23 Top Owners, $617.8 billion

Further analysis of the Top Owners shows the extensive involvement of the private sector in infrastructure investments, with 359 of the Bentley Infrastructure 500 being private-sector organizations. The total value of their infrastructure is more than $9 trillion.

The top 10 owners in the Bentley Infrastructure 500 and the value of their respective infrastructure are:

1. United States Government, $282.7 billion 2. Electricite de France SA–EDF, $186.4 billion 3. Gazprom (Russia), $161.8 billion 4. PetroChina Co. Ltd., $155.9 billion 5. Exxon Mobil Corp., $139.1 billion 6. Petrobras (Brazil), $132.2 billion 7. Royal Dutch Shell Plc, $129.1 billion 8. United States Department of the Army, $122.1 billion 9. Enel Spa (Italy), $113.9 billion 10. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Japan), $107.8 billion

Readers of the ranking also will learn that the largest:

• Commercial facilities owner is #13, Wal-Mart Stores, at $102.3 billion; • State government infrastructure owner is #14, California, at $102.2 billion; • Rail owner is #15, Ferrovie Dello Stato, at $101.6 billion; • Manufacturing owner is #31, Toyota Motor, at $71.9 billion; • Mineral resources owner is #36, Vale, at $66.1 billion; • Infrastructure owner in India is #81, Reliance Industries, at $38.1 billion; • Private infrastructure investor is #89, Ferrovial, at $35.9 billion; • Bank owner is #128, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, at $25.3 billion; and • Private water infrastructure owner is #322, Kemble Water Holdings, at $14.3 billion.

Other notable Top Owners are:

• #88, Government of Hong Kong, $36.2 billion; • #183, University of California, $21.2 billion; • #232, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, $18.3 billion; • #258, Walt Disney Co., $17.5 billion; • #404, Hospital Corp. of America, $11.5 billion; and • #468, City of Helsinki, $10.2 billion.

Source: Bentley Systems Inc.