Top Oil Stocks Profiles
Despite talk about moving away from oil dependence, the fact remains that much of the world cannot function without oil. Whenever oil supply is disrupted, the price surges, which trickles down and impacts the cost of food, shipping, and transportation, just to name a few examples. For this reason and many others, investors may want exposure to oil stocks. Oil stocks can include companies involved in drilling, production, exploration, refining and marketing. Barchart’s Top Oil Stocks list will help investors identify and compare oil stocks to find the best investment opportunities.
Spartan Delta Corp (SDE.TO)
Full ProfileSpartan Delta Corp is an oil and gas exploration and production company. The company is engaged in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas properties in western Canada. The company operates and focuses its activities in west central Alberta, the Deep Basin and in the West Shale Basin Duvernay. It is a differentiated energy company whose ESG-focused culture is centered on generating sustainable free cash flow through oil and gas exploration and development.
Tamarack Valley Energy Ltd (TVE.TO)
Full ProfileTamarack Valley Energy Ltd is engaged in the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas. Its target is the drilling and acquisition of repeatable and predictable long-life resource plays in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Its oil & gas properties include Cardium Oil, Viking Oil, and Penny Barons Oil.
Baytex Energy Corp. (BTE.TO)
Full ProfileBaytex Energy Corp is an oil and gas company. Geographically, the group operates in Canada and the United States. The company derives a majority of revenue from Canada. Its Canada segment includes the exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas in Western Canada.
Parex Resources Inc (PXT.TO)
Full ProfileParex Resources Inc engages in the exploration, development, production, and marketing of oil and natural gas. The company is focused on development in two main basins: Llanos and Magdalena. The majority of the company's properties are focused in Colombia, where it pays a royalty or tax to the government for its operations. The company's operating segments are Columbia, its key revenue-generating segment, and Canada.
Nuvista Energy Ltd (NVA.TO)
Full ProfileNuVista Energy Ltd engages in the exploration, delineation, development, and production of oil and natural gas in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Products sold include natural gas, condensate & oil, butane, propane, and ethane, with condensate composing nearly half of all sales. Condensate finds use in the heavy oil business when applied to heavy oil bitumen. It creates the viscosity needed for pipeline transportation. The Wapiti Montney area delivers the portion of hydrocarbon production for NuVista. To improve service assets and production in this area, the firm operates compressor and dehydration stations.
Paramount Resources Ltd. (POU.TO)
Full ProfileParamount Resources Ltd is a Canadian energy company that explores and develops both conventional and unconventional petroleum and natural gas. The company explores for and develops both conventional and unconventional petroleum and natural gas, including longer-term strategic exploration and pre-development plays, and holds a portfolio of investments in other entities. Its primary focus in the Grande Prairie Region is its Karr and Wapiti Montney properties Region includes the Kaybob North Duvernay development and other natural gas and oil-producing properties. The Central Alberta and Other Region includes the Willesden Green Duvernay development in central Alberta and shale gas properties in the Horn River Basin and Liard Basin in northeast British Columbia.
Secure Waste Infrastructure Corp (SES.TO)
Full ProfileSecure Waste Infrastructure Corp operates in waste management and energy infrastructure business. The company operates in two segments: Waste Management, and Energy Infrastructure. The activities of the company include buying and selling crude oil and natural gas liquid products, capturing location, and other related activities. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Waste Management segment which includes a network of waste processing facilities, produced water pipelines, industrial landfills, and others. Energy Infrastructure includes a network of crude oil gathering pipelines, terminals, and storage facilities.
Precision Drilling Corporation (PD.TO)
Full ProfilePrecision Drilling Corp is a provider of contract drilling, completion, and production services to oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in Canada, the United States, and certain international locations. The company operates through two industry segments: Contract Drilling Services, which generates maximum revenue and includes drilling rigs, procurement and distribution of oilfield supplies, and the manufacture, sale, and repair of drilling equipment; and Completion and Production Services, which includes service rigs, oilfield equipment rental, and camp services. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the United States.
Whitecap Resources Inc (WCP.TO)
Full ProfileWhitecap Resources Inc is engaged in the business of acquiring, developing, and holding interests in petroleum and natural gas properties and assets. The company acquires assets with discovered petroleum initially in place and low current recovery factors. Light oil is the primary byproduct of Whitecap's Canadian assets.
Prairiesky Royalty Ltd (PSK.TO)
Full ProfilePrairieSky Royalty Ltd is the owner of subsurface mineral rights on a variety of royalty properties in western Canada. The company encourages third parties to develop these properties, while also seeking additional petroleum and natural gas royalty assets. Once PrairieSky has given a third party the right to explore, develop, or produce on its properties, the company collects royalty revenue from the development of petroleum and natural gas. Property arrangements can be contracted as lease issuances, farmouts, drilling commitments, or seismic option agreements.
Athabasca Oil Corp (ATH.TO)
Full ProfileAthabasca Oil Corp is an exploration and production company developing Thermal Oil and Light Oil resources in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin located in Alberta, Canada. It operates through two segments: Athabasca (Thermal Oil), focused on bitumen production from oil sands in the Athabasca region of Northern Alberta, and Duvernay Energy, focused on the production of light and medium crude oil, tight oil, natural gas, shale gas, and natural gas liquids in the Greater Kaybob area near Fox Creek, Alberta. The majority of its revenue is derived from petroleum, natural gas, and midstream sales through the Athabasca segment.
Headwater Exploration Inc (HWX.TO)
Full ProfileHeadwater Exploration Inc is a Canadian resource company engaged in the exploration for and development and production of petroleum and natural gas in Canada. The company has high quality oil production, reserves, and lands in the prolific Clearwater play in the Marten Hills, Greater Peavine and Greater Nipisi areas of Alberta as well as low decline natural gas production and reserves in the McCully Field near Sussex, New Brunswick. Its core operating areas are Clearwater fairway, Alberta and McCully Field, New Brunswick.
Pason Systems Inc. (PSI.TO)
Full ProfilePason Systems Inc is a provider of instrumentation and data management systems for drilling rigs. The electronic drilling recorder is the company's product, and provides a complete system of drilling data acquisition, data networking, drilling management tools, and reports at both the wellsite and customer office. The company reports on four strategic business units: The North American Drilling (Canada and the United States) and International Drilling (Latin America, including Mexico, Offshore, the Eastern Hemisphere, and the Middle East) and completions business units, all of which offer technology services to the oil and gas industry, and the Solar and Energy Storage business unit, which provides technology services to solar and energy storage developers.
Freehold Royalties Ltd. (FRU.TO)
Full ProfileFreehold Royalties Ltd is in acquiring and managing Oil and Gas royalties. It operates in two segments: Canada, which includes exploration and evaluation assets and the petroleum and natural gas interests in Western Canada; and the United States, which includes petroleum and natural gas interests held in the Permian (Midland and Delaware), Eagle Ford, Haynesville, and Bakken basins located in the states of Texas, New Mexico, and North Dakota. The maximum revenue is generated from the Canada Segment.
Cenovus Energy Inc. (CVE.TO)
Full ProfileCenovus Energy Inc is a Canadian integrated energy group. The group's upstream operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta; thermal and conventional crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids (NGLs) projects across Western Canada; crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador; and natural gas and NGLs production offshore China and Indonesia. Its downstream operations include upgrading and refining operations in Canada and the U.S., and commercial fuel operations across Canada. The group's reportable segments are: Oil Sands, Conventional, Offshore, Canadian Refining, U.S Refining, and Corporate and Eliminations. Maximum revenue is generated from its Oil Sands segment. Geographically, the group derives maximum revenue from the U.S., followed by Canada and China.
Arc Resources Ltd. (ARX.TO)
Full ProfileArc Resources is a natural gas and condensate-focused producer in Canada's Western Sedimentary Basin. Its most valuable product by revenue, condensate, is a necessary feedstock for the oil industry. Natural gas is the largest product by volume, and the firm actively markets it through pipeline and liquified natural gas, or LNG, agreements, seeking to limit in-basin pricing. It also operates its own processing assets. In 2024, production was 348 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day.
Suncor Energy Inc. (SU.TO)
Full ProfileSuncor Energy Inc is an integrated energy company. The company's operations span the full energy value chain, including oil sands mining and in situ operations, upgrading, offshore production, petroleum refining in Canada and the U.S., marketing and trading, and nationwide PetroCanada retail and wholesale networks delivering reliable energy that fuels economic growth and meets the needs of customers across Canada and globally. It also conducts energy trading activities focused principally on the marketing and trading of crude oil, natural gas, byproducts, refined products, & power. The company's operating segments include Oil Sands, Exploration & Production, Refining & Marketing (R&M), & Corporate & eliminations. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from Canada.
Imperial Oil (IMO.TO)
Full ProfileImperial Oil Ltd is an integrated oil company active in all phases of the petroleum industry in Canada, including the exploration for, and production and sale of, crude oil, natural gas, petroleum products, and petrochemicals. It also pursues lower-emission business opportunities, including carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, lower-emission fuels, and lithium. The company's reportable segments are Upstream, Downstream, and Chemical. Maximum revenue for the company is generated from its Downstream segment, which refines crude oil into petroleum products and distributes and market these products. The Upstream segment explores and produces crude oil, its equivalents, and natural gas, and the Chemical segment manufactures and markets hydrocarbon-based chemicals and chemical products.
Advantage Energy Ltd (AAV.TO)
Full ProfileAdvantage Energy Ltd is an energy producer with a position in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Additionally, it provides carbon capture and storage (CCS) solutions to emitters of carbon dioxide through its subsidiary. Its segments include Advantage (natural gas and liquids producer) engaged in the business of natural gas, crude oil and liquids production from its Montney and Charlie Lake resource plays in Alberta and B.C.; and Entropy (carbon capture and storage) provides carbon capture and storage solutions to emitters of carbon dioxide. Entropy captures and sequesters carbon at Advantage's Glacier Gas Plant.
Topaz Energy Corp (TPZ.TO)
Full ProfileTopaz Energy Corp is a royalty and energy infrastructure company focused on generating low-risk income and paying dividends to its shareholders. The company generates revenue from the Royalty Assets, which generate the company's Royalty Production Revenue; and the Infrastructure Assets, which generate the company's Processing Revenue and Other Income. The majority of the company's revenue is earned through royalties.
Vermilion Energy Inc (VET.TO)
Full ProfileVermilion Energy Inc is an international oil and gas-producing company. The company engages in full-cycle exploration and production programs that focus on the acquisition, exploration, and development of liquids-rich natural gas in Canada and conventional natural gas in Europe while optimizing low-decline oil assets. Its operating segments are: Canada, France, Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Australia, and CEE, each representing the oil and gas exploration operations at its assets located in these regions. The company mainly derives revenue from the production and sale of petroleum and natural gas. The majority of its revenue is generated from Canada, where the company's operations are mainly focused on the Deep Basin trend in the West Pembina region of Alberta and on the Mica property.
Tourmaline Oil Corp (TOU.TO)
Full ProfileTourmaline Oil is a Canadian natural gas producer with an integrated midstream gathering and processing operation. Its primary product is natural gas, but also produces natural gas liquids, condensates, and oil. As a result of multiple acquisitions, it has become the largest natural gas producer in Canada.
Birchcliff Energy Ltd. (BIR.TO)
Full ProfileBirchcliff Energy Ltd is an intermediate oil and natural gas company based in Calgary, Alberta, with operations focused on the exploration and development of the Montney Resource Play in Alberta. The company has a 100% working interest in its Pouce Coupe Gas Plant and two oil batteries, as well as various working interests in numerous other gas plants, oil batteries, compressors, facilities and infrastructure. Birchcliff operates the Gordondale Gas Plant owned by Altagas, with 100% of its throughput consisting of Birchcliff's production.
CDN Natural Res (CNQ.TO)
Full ProfileCanadian Natural Resources is the largest producer of oil and the second-largest producer of natural gas in Canada. It is principally involved in extracting heavy oils, natural gas, and bitumen through its drilling and mining operations. Bitumen from mining operations is upgraded into synthetic crude oil. Commodities produced are primarily exported to the US via pipeline. The company also has smaller offshore production operations in the North Sea and Africa.
Peyto Exploration and Dvlpmnt Corp. (PEY.TO)
Full ProfilePeyto Exploration & Development Corp is a Canadian energy company involved in the development and production of oil and natural gas. It conducts exploration, development, and production activities in Canada. Substantial revenue is generated from Natural gas and natural gas liquid sales.