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WesternGeco, a business unit of Schlumberger, is the world's leading geophysical services company, providing comprehensive worldwide reservoir imaging, monitoring, and development services, with the most extensive geophysical survey crews and data processing centers in the industry, as well as the world's largest multiclient data library. Services range from 3D and 4D (time-lapse) seismic surveys to multicomponent and electromagnetic surveys, supplying our clients with accurate measurements of subsurface geology. WesternGeco operations include land and marine seismic products and services, as well as multiclient services (including extensive libraries of survey data and database analysis). Formed in 2000, WesternGeco married the seismic survey and analysis operations of two oil field service titans: Schlumberger's Geco-Prakla unit and Baker Hughes' Western Geophysical unit. In 2006 Schlumberger acquired Baker Hughes' 30% stake in the company for $2.4 billion.

The company engages in oil and natural gas exploration and production activities, mainly in the Gulf Coast, Michigan, and the mid-continent, Permian Basin, and Rocky Mountain regions. In 2008 Whiting Petroleum Corporation reported proved reserves of 180 million barrels of oil and 354.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas. That year Whiting Petroleum operated 3,337 net productive wells. Whiting Petroleum Corporation sells oil and gas production to end users, marketers, and other purchasers that have access to nearby pipeline facilities. Where there is no practical access to pipelines, oil is trucked to storage facilities. Whiting Petroleum Corporation had interests in 9,616 gross productive wells. Whiting Petroleum Corporation was founded in 1983 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Winstar Resources Ltd. is a publicly traded oil and gas company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, focused primarily on Tunisia. Winstar Resources, Ltd. is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with international headquarters in Breda, The Netherlands and offices in Geneva, Switzerland; Tunis, Tunisia; Szolnok, Hungary and Bucharest, Romania. In 2005 Winstar Resources, Ltd. acquired Athanor, which produces in Tunisia, and El Paso Hungary Oil and Gas Concession L.L.C. Founded in 1996 as Virginia Energy Corporation, Winstar Resources, Ltd. subsequently changed its name to Winstar Resources. Winstar will focus primarily on high impact Tunisian wells which have the potential to substantially increase cash flow and production. Future activity will be funded, in great part, internally, by cash flow and divestment of non-core assets, and externally, through joint venture partnerships.

Wintershall is a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF, which is based in Ludwigshafen, and specializes in energy. Wintershall is active in various regions of the world in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas. In Europe the BASF subsidiary trades and sells natural gas. Wintershall Holding AG also markets storage capacities for oil and gas, transportation capacities for gas as well as optic fiber capacities. Wintershall has been active in the exploration and production of oil and gas for more than 75 years, and with its headquarters in Kassel, Wintershall Holding AG is now Germany’s largest producer of crude oil and natural gas. In its exploration and production activities, Wintershall deliberately focuses on selected core regions where the company possesses a wealth of regional and technological expertise. These regions include Europe, North Africa, South America as well as Russia and the Caspian Sea region. In addition, these operations are complemented by the Wintershall Holding AG growing exploration activities in the Arabian Gulf.

Woburn Energy (formerly Black Rock Oil & Gas) is an oil and gas explorer which focuses its efforts on exploring in areas where commercial discoveries can be rapidly developed. Woburn Energy Plc is currently active in Colombia, and the UK North Sea. Woburn Energy had exploration acreage in Australia and Ireland but has exited those areas in order to focus on its core Colombia and UK assets. In 2008 Woburn Energy Plc tested for heavy oil at its Acacia Este exploration prospect in Colombia. Following re-completion, the well produced 40 barrels of oil a day in a long-term production test. In the UK Woburn Energy has a 15% stake in a block in the undeveloped but hydrocarbon-rich Monterey gas field in the Southern North Sea. Woburn Energy Plc’s strategy is to acquire low risk opportunities with a high chance of early success leading to production. This entails a current focus on projects in politically stable, financially attractive countries in Europe and South America. The management aim is to acquire, explore and appraise high potential in these core regions, to strive for near-term production and build Woburn Energy Plc on a solid financial basis.

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