Part of a network of companies that was founded by a samurai centuries ago, Mitsui & Co. battles to make money. Mitsui & Co., a leading Japanese general trading firm, has more than 700 subsidiaries in a wide range of industries. The company has reorganized its business units into eight main classifications: chemicals, electronics and information, energy, foods, iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, textiles, and machinery. Mitsui & Co. is part of Mitsui Group, one of Japan's largest "keiretsu" (companies loosely connected through cross-ownership). The company's largest revenue generators are its trading activities in the energy and chemical sectors.

The Hungarian Oil & Gas Company Plc (MOL Rt.) was founded in 1991, and that alone represents a milestone in the history of the Hungarian petroleum industry. It is not only a company that embraces the entire Hungarian petroleum industry, but one that has grown into one of the largest multinational corporations in Central Europe. The downstream operations of MOL Magyar Olaj-�s G�zipari Rt. (Hungarian Oil and Gas Company, or MOL) have moved it up to become Hungary's biggest company and one of Central Europe's top refiners. MOL's refineries produce 90,400 barrels of oil equivalent per day, and it operates 1,000 gas stations in Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the Ukraine. It plans to have 1,500 gas stations by 2010. Other activities include exploration and production in Hungary, Russia, and other areas of Central and Eastern Europe. In 2007 the company had proved and probable reserves of 434.2 million barrels of oil equivalent.

Making money is a major motive behind Motiva Enterprises, which operates the eastern and southeastern US refining and marketing businesses of Shell Oil and Saudi Aramco. The company operates three refineries with a total capacity of 740,000 barrels a day, and it sells fuel at about 7,700 Shell-branded gas stations. It also has stakes in more than 40 refined product storage terminals (with almost 20 billion barrels of storage capacity) in the East and Gulf Coast regions. Motiva and sister company Shell Oil Products US, which operates in the West and Midwest, together make up the #1 US gasoline retailer. Motiva is a 50-50 joint venture of Shell and Saudi Aramco.

Motor Oil Hellas (MOH) is committed to being a leader in the petroleum refining business thus providing the region that it serves with a reliable and affordable supply of energy. Through its evolution MOH is now considered as one of the major contributors to the domestic economy and a key market player in the region. MOH is listed in the Athens Exchange and is a constituent of the indices : ATHEX COMPOSITE, FTSE/ATHEX 20, FTSE/ATHEX INTERNATIONAL. Furthermore, the Company is a constituent of the MSCI SMALL CAP INDEX. The Refinery with its ancillary plants and offsite facilities forms the largest privately held industrial complex in Greece and is considered as one of the most modern refineries in Europe. Due to its flexibility it can process crude oils of various characteristics and produce a full range of petroleum products, complying with the most stringent International Specifications, serving major petroleum marketing companies in Greece and abroad. Apart from fuels, MOH is the only Lubricants producer and packager in Greece. Base oils and finished lubricants produced, are approved by International Organizations, ACEA, API, the US NAVY & ARMY. The Refinery production operations are located in Agii Theodori, in the province of Corinth, about 70 km outside Athens. The Administration and the General Divisions of Marketing, Finance and Corporate Planning are housed at the company Headquarters in a modern building in Maroussi, a suburb of Athens.

The Company, headquartered in El Dorado, Arkansas, was originally incorporated in Louisiana in 1950 as Murphy Corporation. It was reincorporated in Delaware in 1964, at which time it adopted the name Murphy Oil Corporation. But, the Company's roots go back to a lumber and banking business in South Arkansas and, more directly, to 1907, when the first oil production was established in the Caddo Field in North Louisiana. Thereafter, oil and gas were important phases of the business. Until the mid 1930's however, oil and gas remained subordinate to timber operations and banking. Today, Murphy Oil Corporation is a worldwide oil and gas exploration and production company with refining and marketing operations in the United States and the United Kingdom. The Company's farm, timber and real estate subsidiary was spun-off to shareholders in 1996 and is now known as Deltic Timber Corporation.

The Company, headquartered in El Dorado, Arkansas, was originally incorporated in Louisiana in 1950 as Murphy Corporation. It was reincorporated in Delaware in 1964, at which time it adopted the name Murphy Oil Corporation. But, the Company's roots go back to a lumber and banking business in South Arkansas and, more directly, to 1907, when the first oil production was established in the Caddo Field in North Louisiana. Thereafter, oil and gas were important phases of the business. Until the mid 1930's however, oil and gas remained subordinate to timber operations and banking. Today, Murphy Oil Corporation is a worldwide oil and gas exploration and production company with refining and marketing operations in the United States and the United Kingdom. The Company's farm, timber and real estate subsidiary was spun-off to shareholders in 1996 and is now known as Deltic Timber Corporation.

Cooperation is a refined art and refining a cooperative art for the National Cooperative Refinery Association (NCRA), which provides three farm supply cooperatives (CHS, GROWMARK, and MFA Oil) with fuel through its oil refinery in Kansas. The refinery's production rate is 81,460 barrels per day. Fuel from the refinery is allocated to member/owners on the basis of ownership percentages. In addition to the refinery, NCRA owns Jayhawk Pipeline, minority interests in two other pipeline companies, and an underground oil storage facility. CHS owns 74% of the cooperative, GROWMARK, 19%, and MFA, 7%.

The Navajo Refinery has a crude oil capacity of 100,000 BPSD and has the ability to process heavy,sour and light crude oils into high value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel. The Navajo Refinery converts approximately 92% of its raw materials throughput into high value light products. For 2009, gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel (excluding volumes purchased for resale) represented 58%, 32% and 2%, respectively, of the Navajo Refinery's sales volumes. Refined petroleum products spring from Navajo Refining Company's 85,000 barrels-per-day crude oil refinery, located in Artesia, New Mexico. Navajo Refining's main refinery operations are located on a 561 acre site. The integrated refinery has crude distillation, vacuum distillation, fluid catalytic cracking catalytic reforming, isomerization, sulfur recovery, and other units. The company has other supporting infrastructure at the Artesia site, including 2 million barrels of feedstock and product tankage, maintenance shops, office buildings, and warehouses. Navajo Refining is a subsidiary of Holly Corporation.

Neste Oil Corporation is a refining and marketing company concentrating on low-emission, high-quality traffic fuels. The company's strategy is based on growing both its oil refining and premium-quality renewable diesel businesses. Neste Oil's refineries are located in Porvoo and Naantali and have a combined crude oil refining capacity of approx. 260,000 barrels a day. Neste Oil goes for the black gold in Finland. The state-controlled firm focuses on refining, marketing, and shipping oil products, including gasoline, biodiesel fuel, and lubricants. Neste Oil primarily sells its products domestically, but also exports to customers in North America and Europe. It operates about 890 gas stations in Finland, and almost 290 outside the country (in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Northwest Russia). The company also has a biodiesel plant, as well as a diesel production line. The Finnish government owns more than 50% of Neste Oil, which was founded shortly after World War II to ensure a steady oil supply for the country.

In addition to its exploration activities, the Corporation was given powers and operational interests in refining, petrochemicals and products transportation as well as marketing. Between 1978 and 1989, NNPC constructed refineries in Warri, Kaduna and Port Harcourt and took over the 35,000-barrel Shell Refinery established in Port Harcourt in 1965. Whether it's downstream or upstream, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) goes with the flow of oil and gas. NNPC oversees the petroleum industry of one of the top, albeit politically turbulent, oil-producing countries in the world. the NNPC produces oil through dominant positions in partnerships with major world oil companies. The company has four refineries, in Port Harcourt (2), Warri, and Haduna) with a total capacity of 445,000 barrels per day. NNPC also oversees the nation's natural gas industry and has liquefied natural gas operations. It oversees 5,000 kilometers of oil and gas pipeline, 21 storage tanks and nine LPG depots.

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