Although it carries the ancient Sanskrit name for India (Bharat), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is a modern refining and distribution company. It vies with Hindustan Petroleum for the #2 slot behind Indian Oil. The company processes petroleum and petroleum products; its refinery in Mumbai processes 260,000 barrels of crude per day. It also controls refineries in Kochi and Numaligarh. BPCL sells engine oils and gasolines, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and kerosene. It has more than 6,550 gas stations, more than 1,000 kerosene dealers, and a national network of LPG distributors. The Indian government owns 55% of the firm, although it plans to sell this stake as part of industrywide deregulation.

Gulf Oil bridges the gap between petroleum producers and retail sales outlets. The petroleum wholesaler distributes gasoline and diesel fuel to more than 2,400 Gulf-brand stations in 11 northeastern states. Gulf Oil, which owns 12 (and operates a network of more than 60) storage terminals, also distributes motor oils, lubricants, and heating oil to commercial, industrial, and utility customers. Gulf Oil Limited Partnership has alliances with terminal operators in areas in the Northeast where it does not have a proprietary terminal. Gulf Oil boasts one of the oldest and most recognizable brands in the oil business. Regional convenience store chain and gas retailer Cumberland Farms controls the company.

Fabricom is a major provider of installation and maintenance services with a focus on serving the offshore and onshore oil and gas industry. Fabricom designs, builds, and maintains such installations as offshore drilling rigs and platforms and onshore oil and gas terminals, as well as processing plants, gas processing stations, and pipelines. Fabricom provides engineering input and specialized advice in the designing of construction projects, as well as on-site installation, commissioning, and maintenance. Fabricom has operating units in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and the UK. Fabricom is a major division of giant industrial services group GDF SUEZ.

Holly Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a petroleum refiner in the United States. The company process sour crude oils into light petroleum products, including gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, fuel oils, specialty lubricant products, gas oil/intermediates, carbon black oil, and liquid petroleum gas (LPG) and other products at its three refineries located in Artesia and Lovington, New Mexico; Woods Cross, Utah; and Tulsa, Oklahoma. It also manufactures and markets specialty and modified asphalt products from various terminals in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. In addition, the company owns interests in a 12-inch refined products pipeline project from Salt Lake City, Utah to Las Vegas, Nevada, together with terminal facilities in the Cedar City, Utah, and North Las Vegas areas. Further, it holds 34% interests in Holly Energy Partners, L.P., which owns and operates approximately 2,500 miles of petroleum product and crude oil pipelines located principally in west Texas and New Mexico; ten refined product terminals; a jet fuel terminal; four refinery loading rack facilities; a refined products tank farm facility; and on-site crude oil tanks at its refineries, an on-site refined product tankage at Tulsa refinery, and a 25% interest in a 95-mile crude oil pipeline joint venture. Holly Corporation markets its gasoline to other refiners, convenience store chains, independent marketers, and retailers; diesel fuel to other refiners, truck stop chains, wholesalers and railroads; jet fuel to military and commercial airlines; specialty lubricant products to commercial and specialty markets; asphalt to governmental entities or contractors; and LPG’s to LPG wholesalers and LPG retailers, as well as carbon black oil for further processing or blended into fuel oil. The company offers its products primarily in the Southwestern, Rocky Mountain, and Mid-Continent regions of the United States. Holly Corporation was founded in 1947 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Petrobras America is engaged in oil exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico. Petrobras America Inc. also refines and markets oil and oil products and procures materials and equipment for its parent, PETROLEO BRASILEIRO (PETROBRAS). Petrobras America Inc. owns 50% of the Pasadena Refinery in Texas and has stakes in the Cascade, Chinook, and Cottonwood oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico. Petrobras America is also engaged in the purchase and sale of petroleum products, including crude oil, fuel oil, gasoline, special products, naphtha, and liquid petroleum gas. Petrobras America Inc. procures oil services equipment and related supplies, primarily to support its operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Petrobras America Inc. Petrobras, a large integrated oil company is producing over 2. 2 million bbl/day worldwide and will be investing US$ 85 Billion over the next 5 years to increase this production to 3.5 million bbl/day. (PAI) was incorporated in 1987 in the United States. PAI corporate office is located in Houston, Texas.

Basic Earth Science Systems, Inc. was founded in 1969 and is based in Denver, Colorado.Basic Earth Science Systems, Inc. engages in the exploration, acquisition, development, operation, production, and sale of crude oil and natural gas in the United States. Basic Earth Science Systems, Inc. focuses its activities in the North Dakota and Montana portions of the Williston basin, the Denver-Julesburg basin of Colorado, the southern portions of Texas, and the onshore portions of the Gulf Coast. As of March 31, 2009, Basic Earth Science Systems, Inc. owned working interest in 94 producing oil wells and 36 producing gas wells in the states of North Dakota, Montana, Colorado, Texas, and Wyoming. Basic Earth Science Systems, Inc. estimated proved developed and undeveloped oil and gas reserves were 794,000 barrels of oil equivalent.

Yangarra Resources Ltd. wants to yank some oil and natural gas from reserves in Western Canada. The exploration and production company (formed from the 2005 merger of TriOil and the former Yangarra Resources Inc.) has three core operating areas in the province of Alberta: Ferrier, Medicine Hat, and Jaslan. Yangarra Resources Ltd. also has noncore operations in Saskatchewan and other areas of Alberta. Yangarra Resources Ltd. has an inventory of more than 50 locations that are prospects for drilling. Yangarra Resources has proved and probable reserves of 2.9 million barrels of oil equivalent. In 2009 it filed for Canada's version of bankruptcy protection and then bought Athabaska Energy, which also produced natural gas in Alberta.

Bayside Fuel Oil Depot, which provides heating oil to customers in New York through its own four Brooklyn terminals, and from two other locations, the 149th Street terminal in the Bronx and the Western Nassau terminal in Nassau County. Bayside Fuel Oil Depot Corporation was founded in 1937 as a retail distributor of heating oil, by Sergio Allegretti, In 1965 Bayside Fuel became a wholesale oil terminal operator. Bayside Fuel Oil Depot Corporation sold its retail business in 2001. Vincent Allegretti, the grandson of the company's founder, runs the business.

The company was founded in 1920 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. engages in the contract drilling of oil and gas wells in the United States and internationally. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. provides drilling rigs, equipment, personnel, and camps on a contract basis to explore for and develop oil and gas from onshore areas and from fixed platforms, tension-leg platforms, and spars in offshore areas. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. conducts domestic land drilling primarily in Oklahoma, California, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Utah, Arkansas, New Mexico, and North Dakota; and offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, offshore of California, Trinidad, and Equatorial Guinea. As of September 30, 2009, the company had 201 land drilling rigs in the United States; 9 offshore platform rigs; and international land rigs, including 1 in Venezuela, 6 in Colombia, 4 in Ecuador, 9 in Argentina, 1 in Tunisia, and 6 rigs in Mexico. In addition, Helmerich & Payne engages in the ownership, development, and operation of commercial real estate properties, as well as the research and development of rotary steerable technology.

Hilcorp Energy, an oil and natural gas producer founded in 1989 by Jeffrey Hildebrand, is one of the nation's largest privately held energy companies. Hilcorp Energy Company employs the latest technology to extract oil and gas from mature fields that have been abandoned by other operators. Hilcorp Energy Company pumps about 25 million barrels of oil and natural gas equivalent annually and has proved reserves of 120 million barrels. A former Exxon Mobil geologist, Hildebrand started the company with former partner Thomas Hook.

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