Oil & Gas Refining, Marketing & Distribution Industry Competitors

India and Reliance Industries rely on each other. The company is India's largest petrochemical firm and among the country's largest companies (along with the likes of Indian Oil and the Tata Group)....

BP is also BO (Big Oil). It is the world's third largest integrated oil concern, behind Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell. The company, which was formed in 1998 from the merger of British Petroleum and Amoco, grew by buying Atlantic Richfield Company....

Having added Texaco's star (and subsequently Unocal's authority) to its stripes, Chevron (formerly ChevronTexaco) can pull rank on its rivals. The second-largest US integrated oil company (behind Exxon Mobil) has proved reserves of 10.8 billion barrels of oil equivalent and a daily production of 2.6 million barrels of oil equivalent, and it also owns interests in chemicals, pipelines, and power production businesses....

Compañía Española de Petróleos (Cepsa) has its foot on the gas, the oil, and petrochemicals, too. Cepsa, the second-largest oil company in Spain (behind Repsol YPF) refines 22.2 million tons of crude oil annually, primarily in three refineries....

Formed by the merger of Conoco and Phillips Petroleum, ConocoPhillips is the #3 integrated oil and gas company in the US, behind Exxon Mobil and Chevron, and condolidated that position by buying Burlington Resources (for a reported $35 billion)....

It's not teeny, it's Eni -- and it's huge. One of Italy's largest companies, Eni operates in the oil and natural gas, petrochemicals, and oil field services industries and has expanded into power generation. Its main subsidiaries and affiliates include EniPower (power generation), Italgas (natural gas transmission), Saipem (oil field services), pipeline operator Snam Rete Gas, and Snamprogetti (contracting, engineering)....

It's not necessarily the oil standard, but Exxon Mobil is the world's largest integrated oil company (ahead of BP and Royal Dutch Shell). Exxon Mobil engages in oil and gas exploration, production, supply, transportation, and marketing worldwide....

Imperial Oil, Canada's largest oil company, holds sway over a vast empire of oil and gas resources. It has proved reserves of 799 million barrels of oil and 635 billion cu. ft. of natural gas. Imperial is one of Canada's top natural gas producers, the #1 refiner and marketer of petroleum products, and a major supplier of petrochemicals....

Following the assimilation of forest products giant Georgia-Pacific (for a reported $21 billion), Koch Industries has become a real paper tiger. Koch (pronounced "coke") is one of the largest private companies in the US. Koch Industries' operations include refining and chemicals, process equipment, and technologies; fibers and polymers; commodity and financial trading; and forest and consumer products. Its Flint Hills Resources subsidiary owns three refineries that process 800,000 barrels of crude oil daily....

Nippon Mining Holdings is involved in mining and energy operations. Subsidiary Japan Energy is engaged in both upstream and downstream oil and gas activities. It has proved reserves of 71 million barrels of oil equivalent. The company imports and refines oil and markets its petroleum products through a network of JOMO service stations throughout Japan....

Red Apple Group sells more than just apples in the Big Apple. Subsidiary United Refining, which processes 70,000 barrels of oil a day, distributes fuel to its 370 Country Fair, Red Apple Food Marts, and/or Kwik Fill branded gas stations/convenience stores in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio....

Filling jets up at more than 1,200 airports in 90 countries worldwide, Air BP is one of the world's largest suppliers of aviation fuels. A segment within the refining and marketing division of BP, the company also supplies lubricants (for both turbine and piston-engined aircraft)....

It may be Greek to you, but no matter. Oil is a universal language, and AVIN OIL AVENEP (AVIN OIL) keeps Greek-owned and foreign-owned cars cars fueled up and motoring along. Founded in 1977, the company sells petroleum products such as asphalt, diesel, and gasoline....

Big West Oil keeps the wagon trains rolling across the big West -- at least the station wagons. The company deals in oil, starting with its 31,000 barrels-a-day refinery in North Salt Lake, Utah, to its fleet of tanker trucks that gather crude oil from the refinery and other purchases and deliver to company stores and wholesale accounts, and finally with its gas station/convenience stores in Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming....

BP Marine likes ships that are a hunkering for a bunkering fuel. The company is one of the leading global suppliers of fuels, lubricants, and technical services to the marine industry. A unit of giant energy group BP, it offers such services as e-commerce, risk management advice and support, and health, safety, and environmental consulting....

It's two-faced, but there's no calumny involved at Calumet Specialty Products Partners. The specialty hydrocarbon producer operates in two business segments -- specialty products and fuel products. The specialty products unit processes crude oil into lubricating oils, solvents, waxes, and other petroleum products....

Companhia Logistica de Combustiveis (CLC) pipes petroleum in Portugal. The company was founded in 1994 as the pipeline and storage subsidiary of Portugal's primary oil and gas group Galp Energia, formerly known as Petrogal. CLC supplies the center of Portugal through the transport, logistics, and shipping of oil derivatives....

CPL Industries heats the hearths of UK residences, including Buckingham Palace. The company's CPL Distribution subsidiary provides solid fuel and bottled gas products to 200,000 residents and businesses in the UK and holds the Royal Warrant to supply coal to the Queen; the unit also sells a line of gardening and leisure products....

Delek Group is a conglomerate that primarily sells refined oil products and lubricants. Operating a network of more than 230 gas stations Delek Petroleum is one of the largest gasoline retailers in Israel. It's Delek US Holdings operates almost 400 MAPCO-branded gas stations in the US (in Tennessee)....

Delek US Holdings takes a holistic approach to the petroleum business with refining, marketing and supply, and retail operations. Its MAPCO Express business operates about 500 convenience store/gas stations under the MAPCO Express, East Coast, and Discount Food Mart banners in the southeastern US....