Top Oil Companies To Watch In Right Now

For all of you who may be afraid of natural gas prices, here is some encouraging news: WPX Energy (NYSE: WPX  ) intends to bring two more drilling rigs to its primary gas holdings in the Piceance Basin. This 40% jump in activity could be another sign that natural gas producers are ready to reverse course after a rough 2012.

If you haven't heard of WPX, that's okay; however, it is one of the more intriguing energy plays in the U.S. Even though natural gas makes up over 80% of the company's reserves, it also has bigger oil holdings in the Bakken formation than some of the faster growing, yet smaller, oil producers. Fool.com contributor Tyler Crowe thinks WPX could be potentially primed for big gains in the space. In this video, Tyler and fellow Fool Aimee Duffy take a deeper look at WPX and discuss what this could mean for natural gas producers in general.�

Top Oil Companies To Watch In Right Now: Excela Limited(EXA.AX)

Fox Invest Limited is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm manages equity portfolios for its clients. It invests in public equity and alternative investment markets of Australia. The firm invests in growth oriented value stocks of large-cap and small-cap companies. For alternative instruments, it invests in options and funds. The firm employs fundamental analysis to make its equity investments. It benchmarks its investments in equity and funds against the ASX 300 Index. Fox Invest is based in Brisbane, Queensland.

Top Oil Companies To Watch In Right Now: Keynote Systems Inc.(KEYN)

Keynote Systems, Inc. provides Internet and mobile cloud monitoring and testing solutions worldwide. The company?s Internet cloud products and services comprise Transaction Perspective for visibility into the performance and availability of Web transactions; Application Perspective, a Web application monitoring service; Cloud Application Perspective that provides software-based performance monitoring; Private Agents for the performance of mission critical extranet and intranet applications; Streaming Perspective to measure, compare, and assure the performance of audio and video streams; and Performance Scoreboard, a custom dashboard to monitor Web performance. Its Internet cloud products and services also include Enterprise Adapters to integrate performance measurement data into enterprise systems management platforms; Keynote Internet Testing Environment, a desktop tool for real-time testing, diagnosing, and troubleshooting Web performance issues; LoadPro, a Web load tes ting service; Test Perspective, a self-service load testing service; Red Alert to test devices connected to the Internet; and consulting services, such as performance insights, Web site performance assessment, automated reporting, and custom competitive research. In addition, the company?s mobile cloud products and services primarily consist of System Integrated Test Environment System to test and measure the quality and reliability of mobile networks and applications, and content delivery for mobile operators; GlobalRoamer to certify and validate roaming agreements; Mobile Device Perspective to enhance the quality of mobile content, applications, and services; Mobile Web Perspective to monitor and troubleshoot the quality and performance for mobile Web sites; and Mobile Internet Testing Environment, a desktop tool. Further, it offers professional services, mobile competitive monitoring and analysis, and mobile insights. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Top 10 Penny Stocks To Invest In 2014: Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp (PRE.TO)

Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. engages in the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas in Colombia, Peru, and Guatemala. The company holds interests in the Rubiales/Piriri and Quifa oil fields in the Llanos Basin, Colombia; and the La Creciente natural gas field in northern Colombia. It also has interests in the exploration properties, including 38 blocks in Colombia, 2 blocks in Guatemala, and 3 blocks in Peru. In addition, the company operates oil pipelines in Colombia. As of December 31, 2011, its proved plus probable reserves consisted of 407 million barrels of oil equivalent. The company was formerly known as Petro Rubiales Energy Corp. and changed its name to Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. in January 2008. Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.