“The Four Horsemen – British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell, ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil – are the top four retailers of gas in the US and own every major pipeline in the world and the vast majority of oil tankers… During the 1970s Big Oil invested S2.4 billion in uranium exploration. Today they control over half the world’s uranium reserves, key to fueling nuclear power plants… Exxon Mobil is the leading coal producer in the US and has the second largest coal reserves.”
– Dean Henderson in his book Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf

“Big Oil, the big oil companies: Exxon-Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP/Shell, are the biggest companies operating in the United States. The profits are unparalleled, with the defense industry, pharmaceuticals, banks, you name it, no comparison.”
– Antonia Juhasz

“In 1975 Anthony Sampson penned “The Seven Sisters”…, bestowing a collective name on the shadowy oil cartel, which throughout its history has sought to eliminate competitors and control the world’s oil resource. After a tidal wave of mergers at the turn of the millennium, Sampson’s Seven Sisters were Four Horsemen: Exxon Mobil, Chevron Texaco, BP Amoco and Royal Dutch/Shell.”
– Dean Henderson in Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf

“The oil market is now cornered by five major companies – Exxon-Mobil, Chevron-Texaco, British Petroleum-Amoco-Arco, Royal Dutch Shell and Conoco-Phillips.”
– Ravi Batra, 2007

“Through a combination of joint ventures, tightly-held technological secrets, vertical and horizontal integration, manipulation of production sites, cheap labor, interlocking bank directorates and outright collusion; the Four Horsemen [of oil] … are now even more firmly in control of an increasingly oil-dependent world economy than they were 100 years ago. And the same old money families are still riding high in the saddle.”
– Dean Henderson in Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf

“The operating strategy of the Five Bullies [Exxon-Mobil, Chevron-Texaco, British Petroleum-Amoco-Arco, Royal Dutch Shell and Conoco-Phillips] is to force independent refiners out of business, tighten gasoline supplies, and then jack up the price. Finally, when the profit skyrockets, take ads in newspapers to claim that the profit is reasonable.”
– Ravi Batra, 2007

“The Four Horsemen of oil – British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell, ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil – have interlocking directorates with the international mega-banks. Exxon Mobil shares board members with JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and Prudential. Chevron Texaco has interlocks with Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase. BP Amoco shares directors with JP Morgan Chase. RoyalDutch /Shell has ties with Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, N. M. Rothschild & Sons and Bank of England.
– Dean Henderson in Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf

“In 1941, Standard Oil of New Jersey, later renamed Exxon, was the largest oil company in the world. It controlled 84% of the US petroleum market. Its bank was Chase Bank, and its main owners were the Rockefeller group.”
– F. William Engdahl

“The Dutch and British monarchs who control Royal Dutch merged their company with the Oppenheimer and Samuel’s Shell Oil and Nobel and Rothschild’s Far East Trading. Royal Dutch/Shell was born. Queen Juliana of the Dutch House of Orange and Lord Victor Rothschild are the two largest shareholders of Royal Dutch/Shell…
By 1920 Exxon, BP and Royal Dutch/Shell dominated the world’s booming oil business, with the Rockefeller and Rothschild families and the British and Dutch royals owning most of stock in the Horsemen. Two other Rockefeller babies Mobil and Chevron, weren’t far behind the Big Three.”
– Dean Henderson in Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf