The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of Human Resource policies on employee retention in the petroleum industry by focusing on the case of Hass Petroleum Limited. The policies selected for the study were training, promotions and rewards policies only. The research was conducted from the entire population of employees working in Hass petroleum (census). The total workforce comprised of 60 employees but only 55 of them responded to the study. This constituted about 92% of the target population which is allowed in census research (Desa, 2001). Data was collected using...