Shell Oil Company ranked first in the total net profit of 500 large companies in the world for three consecutive years, mainly because the company has a lot of international business. Which of the following, if true, would best support the above statement:. ['Oil companies with a size comparable to Shell but with less international business have lower profits than Shell.', 'In the history of the world ’s 500 major companies, the net profit champions are all oil companies.', "In the past three years, the world's 500 largest companies have been striving for internationalization.", 'Prices of petroleum and refined oil have been stable for the past three years.']