Oil & Gas Exploration & Production Industry Competitors

State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) spreads its wings over the United Arab Emirates (UAE), accounting for 94% of its 97.8 billion barrels of proved oil reserves, the fourth-largest national reserves in the world behind Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait....

Abington Ventures has working interests in two oil and gas producing wells in Saskatchewan. Prior to 2006 it had owned exploration and development rights on precious metals properties in the US. It had used the revenue it made from the oil and gas wells to pay for its exploration activities....

Aera Energy covers a large area of California. The state's leading oil and gas producer, Aera Energy's properties extend from the Los Angeles Basin in the south to Coalinga in the north. It has daily production of 175,000 barrels of oil and 59 million cu. ft....

Allied Resources has allied with Allstate Energy to get the most out of its Appalachian energy resources. The company is an oil and natural gas exploration and production enterprise with operations in West Virginia (in Calhoun and Ritchie counties). Allied Resources produces oil and natural gas from 145 wells, which are maintained and operated by Allstate Energy....

American Natural Energy Corp. is not selling organic food and dietary supplements to boost metabolism, it is tapping into that other American natural energy source -- hydrocarbons. Doing business as ANEC, the company is an oil and natural gas exploration and production company which focuses its operations on a property in St....

Deep in the heart of the North American continent lie untapped natural gas deposits, and American Oil & Gas is searching for them. The exploration and production company is focusing its efforts on North Dakota and Wyoming, a region with one of the largest undeveloped natural gas fields in the US....

Amerisur Resources, formerly Chaco Resources, has dumped gold in favor of oil and gas. The company is primarily looking at promising exploration areas in northern Paraguay and western Colombia. With demand for oil booming Amerisur Resources sees undeveloped areas of South America as having the best potential for liquid fuels and natural gas production....

Aminex is an international oil and natural gas exploration and production company with operations in the US, Africa, and North Korea. In the US it operates along the Texas Gulf Coast area. The company owns Tanzoil NL, the largest holder of exploration acreage in Tanzania....

Anadarko Algeria Company, LLC has its head office in the Uxbridge section of London and not the West African country in its name. The company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, has production facilities and other operating units located in the Algerian Sahara Desert....

Apache North Sea manages exploration and production activities in the Forties field for its parent Apache Corporation. Apache completed the acquisition of the Forties field (the oldest oil patch in the North Sea and one of its most productive fields) from BP p.l.c in 2003....

Aspen Exploration's aspiration is to explore for and produce oil and gas in northern California. The company operates 56 gas wells and also holds non-operating interests in a further 20. Between 2001 and 2006 the oil and gas independent successfully completed 39 gas wells out of 46 attempts, including a number of wildcat wells....

Atlas America's production map can be found on the page titled Appalachia. The independent energy company is engaged in the development, production, and transportation of natural gas (and some oil) primarily in the Appalachian Basin. The company, which drills through partnerships, has proved reserves of 180.9 billion cu....

The drilling of oil and gas wells has an aura of profitability for independent Aurora Oil & Gas (formerly Cadence Resources), which has exploration and production projects primarily in Indiana, Kentucky, and Michigan. The company focuses on developing unconventional gas reservoirs such as black shales, coal seams, and tight sands, including the black shales of Michigan and Indiana....

There is less royalty in this Commonwealth connection than there used to be. Australian-Canadian Oil Royalties explores for and produces oil and natural gas from properties located in Australia. Originally formed as a trust, the company did not operate or control any of its properties until 2005, when Australian-Canadian Oil Royalties decided to become an oil and gas explorer as well....

Avalon Oil & Gas is looking for that legendary prize -- making consistent profits in the oil business. The company focuses on acquiring mature oil and gas wells in Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas and in 2007 had proved reserves of 28,772 barrels of oil equivalent....

Avenue Group, once solely located in the world of cyberspace, is now traveling along the narrower pathway of the US oil and gas industry. Chairman and CEO Levi Mochkin formed the company in 1999 to invest in Internet, e-commerce, and related IT ventures, but the company is now focusing on the oil and gas sector though the formation of its Avenue Energy subsidiary, which explores for oil and gas in the Appalachian Basin through its Avenue Appalachia unit....

Reflecting the shift in its exploration focus from Appalachia to the Gulf Coast, in 2005 Blue Ridge Energy renamed itself Bayou City Exploration. An affiliate of the Blue Ridge Group, the company is engaged in oil and gas exploration primarily in Texas and Louisiana....

The sky's the limit for Big Sky Energy (formerly China Energy Ventures Corp.). The company has turned from Internet ventures in China toward oil and gas exploration and production, primarily in Kazakhstan. Its primary operating subsidiary, Big Sky Energy Kazakhstan, owns KoZhaN, which has three petroleum licenses in the Atyrau region of Kazakhstan....

Bill Barrett Corp. (named after a veteran oil industry wildcatter) is hoping for a Rocky Mountain high as it digs down deep for oil and gas. The company focuses its exploration and development activities in the Green River, Wind River, Uinta, Powder River, Denver-Julesburg, Big Horn, and Paradox Basins and the Montana and Utah Overthrusts....

Birchcliff Energy (formerly investment shell Scout Capital) is an oil and gas exploration firm that operates in Alberta. Formed in early 2004, the firm acquired Scout Capital in a reverse merger and became publicly traded. The proceeds of its public offering were used to fund the purchase of a natural gas processing plant and gas-producing properties in the Peace River Arch area....