E.ON UK (formerly Powergen) hasn't been a UK energy provider for eons, but long enough to become one of the top power suppliers and producers in the nation. A subsidiary of German utility E.ON, the company is vertically integrated with operations in electricity generation, trading, supply, and distribution. E.ON UK supplies electricity and natural gas to 8 million nonregulated retail customers. Its Central Networks unit operates a distribution network serving 4.9 million power customers. E.ON UK has regulated power utility assets, operates conventional and renewable energy-based power plants, and trades wholesale electricity, gas, and other commodities.

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.

RKA Petroleum is a regional wholesale distributor of petroleum products to commercial and retail fueling locations in the US. Led by the RKA Petroleum Terminal in Romulus, Michigan, RKA Petroleum Companies, LLC has storage capacity of more than 13 million gallons of product, including an additional storage capacity of more than 60,000 gallons for alternative fuels.

Energy Transfer Partners, L.P., through its subsidiaries, engages in the natural gas midstream, and intrastate transportation and storage businesses in the United States. The company’s midstream operations focus on the gathering, compression, treating, blending, processing, and marketing of natural gas in the Austin Chalk trend of southeast Texas, the Permian Basin of west Texas and New Mexico, the Barnett Shale in north Texas, the Bossier Sands in east Texas, and the Uinta and Piceance Basins in Utah and Colorado. Its intrastate transportation and storage operations focus on transporting natural gas from various natural gas producing areas through connections with other pipeline systems, as well as through its Oasis pipeline and natural gas pipeline and storage assets. The company’s interstate transportation operations transports natural gas to the California border; and delivers natural gas from the east end of its system to Texas intrastate and Midwest markets. In addition, it sells propane and propane-related products and services to residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers. As of December 31, 2009, the company owned and operated approximately 14,800 miles of in service natural gas gathering and intrastate transportation pipelines, 3 natural gas processing plants, 11 natural gas treating facilities, 11 natural gas conditioning facilities, and 3 natural gas storage facilities located in Texas. Energy Transfer Partners GP, L.P. serves as a general partner of the company. Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. was founded in 2002 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Hunting Energy Services owns and develops proprietary patented products including premium connections, burst discs, make up processes, coating of threads and mud-motors. Hunting PLC activities also include well construction and completion services, exploration and production, and the brokering of oil tankers. Hunting PLC Hunting Energy Services unit supplies tubes and offers threading and other services to drillers. Subsidiary Hunting Exploration and Production explores for oil and gas in the southern US and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, while Gibson Shipbrokers is a major shipbroker and charter consultancy. Hunting Energy France provides petrochemical equipment in France. Founded in 1874 by Charles Hunting, Hunting PLC is still led by the Hunting family.

Castrol India Limited is greased up and slip sliding its way through the subcontinent. The company's products include oil and other lubricants used by the automotive, industrial, and marine sectors. Its automotive sector includes petroleum products (under the Castrol and BP brands) used in off-road vehicles, motorcycles (both two-and four-stoke engines), and diesel engines. Castrol India claims a 22% share of the Indian lubricants market (up from 6% in 1991). The company has five manufacturing plants and a network of 270 distributors, which in turn serve more than 70,000 retail outlets. Castrol India is a 71%-owned subsidiary of Castrol Limited, which is part of UK-based oil giant BP.

rek Resources, Inc. is an independent energy company that is engaged in the exploration, development, exploitation and acquisition of on-shore oil and natural gas properties in conventional producing areas of the United States. Trek Resources, Inc. originally incorporated our company in the State of Utah in 1983 under the name of Quasar-Tech, Inc. Trek Resources is on has it exploring for and producing oil and natural gas primarily in Texas and Oklahoma, but also in New Mexico. Trek Resources, Inc. business strategy is to refurbish and improve the production potential of existing oil and gas producing properties and to develop non-producing and undeveloped reserves on other properties that it owns. Formerly a publicly traded company, Trek Resources was taken private in a reverse stock split in May 2005; chairman and CEO Michael Montgomery owns a controlling stake in the company.

ShawCor has the pipeline industry sealed up. The company provides products and services for the pipeline and pipe services, and petrochemical and industrial segments of the oil and gas industry and other industrial markets worldwide. ShawCor Ltd. pipeline segment makes specialty coating systems and joint-protection products, and provides weld inspections services, and pipeline inspection and repair. Products made by the petrochemical and industrial segment include wiring, cables, and heat-shrink tubing. ShawCor operates through Bredero Shaw, Canusa-CPS, DSG-Canusa, Guardian, ShawFlex, and Shaw Pipeline Services, and has offices in more than 20 countries.

Syntroleum Corporation has come a long way since its founding in 1984 by Kenneth L. Agee. The company’s synthetic fuel technologies make it a recognized force in the renewable fuels, biomass-to-liquids (BTL), gas-to-liquids (GTL), and coal-to-liquids (CTL) industries, and is one of the most vocal about introducing the possibilities of these technologies to the world. Syntroleum’s recent announcement regarding its renewable synthetic fuels venture with Tyson Foods is the latest example of its leadership in the industry. Together with Tyson, Syntroleum will construct the world’s first renewable synthetic fuels plant utilizing its Bio-synfining™ technology and Tyson sourced agricultural feedstock. With an investment of over $150 million and the creation of over 300 jobs, the initial 75 million gallon per year plant will not only have a positive impact on the local economy where the plant is located, but will contribute much needed incremental clean and environmentally friendly fuel to our nation’s transportation fuel supply.

PetroBakken Energy is developing its holdings in the Bakken oil shale play in southeast Saskatchewan. Formerly an oil and gas explorer and producer in Alberta and Saskatchewan, in 2009 PetroBakken Energy Ltd. (as TriStar Oil and gas) combined with the Canadian business unit of Petrobank Energy and Resources to form PetroBakken Energy, solely focused on the Bakken Shale play. PetroBakken Energy has estimated proved plus probable reserves of 127 million barrels of oil equivalent, and produces about 37,000 barrels per day. Petrobank Energy controls about two-thirds of the company. In 2010 PetroBakken Energy agreed to buy Canadian junior oil and gas firms Berens Energy for $319 million and Result Energy for $480 million.

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