Question: Which is an American global independent energy company, Hess Corporation or Michael Kors?
Context: The Newark Energy Center is a 655-megawatt gas fired power plant in Newark, New Jersey.  Approved in 2011, with construction beginning in 2012 it began commercial operations in May 2015.  It is situated on a 23 acre brownfield east of Doremus Avenue next to a Hess oil terminal on the Passaic River.  It was originally built as a joint venture between Hess Corporation and Energy Investors Fund, and it was taken over the latter in 2014. Triton Energy Limited (NYSE: OIL ) (formerly known as Triton Energy Corporation prior to March 25, 1996) was one of the largest independent oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the United States.  Triton was founded in Dallas, Texas by E.R. Wiley in 1962, and had total proved reserves of almost 300 million barrels of oil equivalent when Amerada Hess Corporation purchased it in 2001 for $3.2 billion.  At the time, Triton had operations in North and South America, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The Phillips 66 Company () is an American multinational energy company headquartered in Westchase, Houston, Texas.  It debuted as an independent energy company when ConocoPhillips executed a spin-off of its downstream and midstream assets.  Taking its name from the 1927 "Phillips 66" trademark of ConocoPhillips predecessor Phillips Petroleum Company, Phillips 66 began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on May 1, 2012, under the ticker PSX.  The company is engaged in producing natural gas liquids (NGL) and petrochemicals.  The company has approximately 14,000 employees worldwide and is active in more than 65 countries.  Phillips 66 is ranked No. 30 on the Fortune 500 list and No. 74 on the Fortune Global 500 list as of 2016 . Port Reading Refinery, also known as Hess Refinery, was an oil refinery located in Perth Amboy and Port Reading, New Jersey.  It was constructed by Hess Oil under Leon Hess in 1958.  It is a simple refinery which further processes other refinery's product which begins with heavy sour crude.  It is owned by the Hess Corporation, refiners of Hess brand gasoline.  The refinery itself has outlets that connect with Arthur Kill, enabling oil barges to make passage into the refinery's commons.  The refinery had a neon red "HESS" sign on its cracking unit which was removed in December, 2013 after the property was sold.  The refinery will closed in 2013. Michael Kors Holdings Limited is an American luxury fashion company that was established in 1981 by designer Michael Kors.  The company is known for apparel, footwear, watches, handbags and other accessories.  As of 2015, Michael Kors Holdings has more than 550 stores and over 1500 in-store boutiques in various countries. Rex Energy Corporation is an independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, production, exploration and development of oil and gas, with properties concentrated in the Appalachian, Illinois, and Permian regions.  The Company pursues a balanced growth strategy of exploiting its sizeable inventory of lower risk developmental drilling locations, pursuing its higher potential exploration drilling prospects and actively seeking to acquire complementary oil and natural gas properties. Hess Oil and Chemical Corporation was a company begun in the 1930s by Leon Hess of New Jersey to distribute heating oil.  It expanded over the years to include refining and marketing of heating oil and other petroleum products through terminals and gasoline stations.  In 1968, Hess Oil and Chemical Corporation merged with Amerada Petroleum Corporation into Amerada Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES).  Since 2006, the merged company has been called Hess Corporation.  Before the merger, Hess Oil and Chemical developed the Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corporation (HOVIC) Refinery on St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands, at the time the largest oil refinery in the world.  After 1998 the refinery built by HOVIC operated under the name HOVENSA.  It is a joint venture with PDVSA and is 50% owned by Hess Corporation.  HOVENSA announced plans to close later on in the year on January 18, 2012. Petrohawk Energy Corporation was an independent energy company headquartered in Houston, Texas.  Founded in 2003, Petrohawk grew rapidly through mergers and acquisitions. Hess Corporation (formerly Amerada Hess Corporation) is an American global independent energy company engaged in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas.  Hess, headquartered in New York City, placed #394 in the 2016 list of Fortune 500 corporations.  In 2014, Hess completed a multi-year transformation to an exploration and production company by exiting all downstream operations, generating approximately $13 billion from assets sales beginning in 2013.  Hess sold its gas station network to Marathon Petroleum (which operates under the retail brand Speedway); sold its wholesale and retail oil, natural gas and electricity marketing business to Direct Energy; closed its refineries in Port Reading NJ and St. Croix USVI (Hovensa JV with PDVSA); sold its bulk storage and terminalling business mostly to Buckeye Partners; and sold its 50% interests in two New Jersey power plants to their respective JV partners (Bayonne Energy Center: ArcLight Capital and Newark Energy Center: Ares EIF).  Hess also sold its 50% interest in its JV commodities trading arm HETCO (Hess Energy Trading Company) to Oaktree Capital.  HETCO is now known as Hartree Partners. Vandebron is a green energy company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands that delivers green electricity and regular gas to individual and business customers.  The company does not produce any energy itself, but instead sells energy generated by independent energy producers.  The electricity is generated from wind, solar and biomass, and most of the producers are located on farms or are larger wind parks.
Answer: Hess Corporation