1.   Oil firms Petron Corp. and Caltex Phils.

2.   Among the industrial commodities, oil firmed on speculative buying in New York while the base metals were little changed after going into free-fall last week.

3.   The original contract was signed by state-run oil company Petroleum Authority of Thailand and Malaysian oil firm Petronas.

4.   Kommersant said LUKoil was the first vertically integrated Russian oil firm to have its reserves assessed according to strict US standards.