Interview with Murdo MacIver, an executive at Caltex Petroleum Corporation, discussing his experiences with the company. He comments on his educational background and early employment, his employment with Standard Oil Company of California, his transfer to Caltex in 1938, the expansion before World War II, Caltex during World War II, Bapco's refinery expansion, financing postwar refinery expansion, foreign exchange problems, banking syndicates, accounting methods, tanker construction, training of local nationals, T-2 tankers, the relationship between Caltex and subsidiaries, and Third World financial problems.

Interview with Harrell Edmund Chiles, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of the Western Company. He discusses his family, formation of the Western Company, oil exploration, history of the oil industry in Texas, his political views, and his "I'm Mad" campaign.

Interview with William Taylor, an executive at Caltex Petroleum Corporation from New York, about his experiences working for the company in the Philippines and Thailand, the joint venture refinery in Thailand, expansion of the company, and the move of headquarters from New York to Dallas.