A company page must explain a real role in the energy system, distinguish sourced facts from our classification, and let a reader inspect the evidence.
1. Inclusion gate
A company qualifies when it performs a distinct role in producing, moving, converting, selling, servicing, or interpreting energy and enough current public evidence exists to support a useful profile. The directory is global where the company or market warrants it, with especially deep coverage of North American energy systems.
We do not create indexable pages for thin logos, shell entities, abandoned brands, undifferentiated company records, or a domain observed only in private account data. A company inferred from an email address is a research lead—not publication evidence.
2. Source hierarchy
Primary company evidence
Current company and service pages, technical documentation, project material, regulatory filings, and official disclosures establish what an organization says it does.
Independent operating evidence
Regulatory records, project-owner material, filings, technical presentations, and attributable reporting can corroborate scope and real-world activity. We identify the source and its limits.
BTU Graph analysis
Workflow fit, likely data dependencies, system boundaries, failure modes, and diligence questions are editorial analysis—not vendor-confirmed product guarantees.
Unsupported claims
Anonymous superlatives, scraped feature lists, unverified pricing, vague market-share claims, and fabricated customer relationships do not ship.
3. Claim ledger
Each company stores claims beside a source URL, source type, and access date. Profile copy paraphrases rather than reproduces company language. A visible review date describes when the evidence was checked; it is not refreshed merely because a site rebuild ran.
Operating scope, geography, capabilities, markets, technology, and project claims are included only when current sources support them. BTU Graph's sector and system placement is explicitly editorial. When public evidence is incomplete, we narrow the claim instead of filling the gap with an assumption.
4. Comparisons without rankings
The company directory is alphabetical after a reader applies filters. Featured editorial modules exist to explain the energy system, not to award a winner. A producer, pipeline, service company, utility, and AI firm occupy different roles and should not be scored on one synthetic scale.
No company can buy a position, badge, rating, link, profile, or favorable conclusion. Future sponsorship must be visibly separate from research and cannot change inclusion, classification, or ordering.
5. Private domain intelligence
Oil Price API owns and publishes BTU Graph. Aggregated corporate-domain patterns from Oil Price API may tell the research team which industries or organization types deserve coverage. Those signals remain private and are not a source for public claims.
Allowed internally
- Prioritize categories and public-web research.
- Measure aggregate audience patterns without exposing people.
- Find a public organization site to investigate independently.
Never automatic
- Publishing an email, person, domain list, or customer relationship
- Calling a company a customer, user, or endorser
- Cross-brand outreach or retargeting without an approved lawful basis
- Turning a private signal into public graph evidence
6. Refresh and corrections
High-impression and materially changed profiles are reviewed first. A review checks current naming, ownership, operating status, geography, major capabilities, source reachability, and the accuracy of BTU Graph's classification. Material changes receive a dated content update.
Vendors and readers can request a factual correction by emailing support@oilpriceapi.com. A correction request should identify the exact statement and provide a primary source. We correct factual errors; we do not exchange editorial language or links for payment.
7. Public graph data
The published graph JSON contains only public directory entities and relationships: companies, sectors, capabilities, value-chain stages, products, workflows, and their public classifications. It contains no Oil Price API account data. Consumers should honor review dates and follow evidence links before treating a relationship as current.