The Deep Space Network has only three 70-meter dishes, and there is a lot of competition for time on them; New Horizons is lucky to get one communications session per day. And while New Horizons is pointing its dish at Earth, it can't point at anything else, including Pluto.
Some oil companies utilize patents as tools to negotiate new deals. Some of the largest and most productive oil companies in Canada are Suncor Energy, Inc. (NYSE: SU), Enbridge, Inc. (NYSE: ENB), Imperial Oil, Ltd. (AMEX: IMO), Canadian Natural Resources, Ltd. (NYSE: CNQ) and TransCanada Corp. (NYSE:TRP). Suncor is the largest company, in terms of total revenue, in Canada.
The dominant company is Petroleos de Venezuela, PDVSA. Venezuela is one of the five founding OPEC countries. The very idea of OPEC itself was proposed by Venezuelan Juan Pablo Perez Alfonso, in response to low oil prices in August 1960.