Enterprise Products Partners L.P. was founded in 1968 and is based in Houston, Texas.Enterprise Products Partners is the leading player in the North American natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGL), and crude oil industries, with a range of processing, transportation, and storage services. Operations include natural gas processing, NGL fractionation, petrochemical services, and crude oil transportation. The hub of the company's business is Houston's Mont Belvieu refinery complex. In a major expansion move, in 2009 the company acquired rival TEPPCO Partners L.P. As a result, Enterprise has 48,000 miles of pipelines, and 200 million of crude of crude oil, refined products and NGL storage capacity. Chairman Dan Duncan holds a 34.5% stake in Enterprise.

The history of the Gibunco Group stretches back over 40 years when it was founded by the Bassadone family. Gibunco has since developed and expanded. It has grown from being a ship repair and ship agency operation in Gibraltar and now spans the globe with a network of offices in leading international centres of commerce and prime locations including London, Singapore, Shanghai, Dubai, Athens, Spain and other European Ports. Throughout this period of growth and diversification, Gibunco maintained its original ethos as a family run enterprise, with an emphasis upon quality of service and a belief in dealing with clients' individual business needs. This commitment to the highest levels of service with a personal touch has served the Group well as it continues to innovate and expand as new opportunities present themselves.

The core business activities of the Shell Group consist of Exploration & Production, Oil Products, Gas & Power, Chemicals and Renewable Energy. In Japan, the Oil Products business is operated by Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K., the Chemicals business by Shell Chemicals Japan Ltd., and Gas & Power business by Shell Gas & Power Japan Ltd. Show and tell? Showa Shell Sekiyu has plenty to talk about. Showa Shell, 40%-owned by Royal Dutch Shell, is one of Japan's leading oil refiners. The company, which was born in 1985 of a merger between Japan's Showa Oil and Royal Dutch Shell's Shell Sekiyu, imports, refines, and distributes petroleum products. The firm's three local refining affiliates, Showa Yokkaichi, Toa Oil, and Seibu Oil, have a collective refining capacity of 515,000 barrels a day. The company owns a network of 4,575 gas stations across Japan. In 2004 Royal Dutch/Shell sold a 10% stake of Showa Shell to Saudi Aramco.

Reaching a new level Ultrapar is one of Brazil’s largest and most solid economic groups. It has operations in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, United States and Venezuela, enjoying an outstanding position in the three sectors in which its business units operate: distribution of fuel through Ipiranga and Ultragaz, production of chemicals through Oxiteno and integrated logistics solutions for special bulk cargo through Ultracargo. In 2007, Ultrapar acquired the fuel distribution operations of the Ipiranga Group in the South and Southeast regions of Brazil, with the main purpose of broadening the scope of its activities in the fuel distribution sector. Ultrapar, which was already the largest distributor of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas, or cooking gas) in Brazil through Ultragaz, became the second largest player in the fuel distribution business, with a market share of approximately 14% through Ipiranga. Ultrapar’s operations are founded on constantly improving its results and achieving excellence on its operations. National and international certifications in the environmental, health and quality areas, as well as intense programs for the development and training of its employees, attest to the company’s commitment to its stakeholders and to society as a whole. Management tools such as Economic Value Added (EVA®) and Balanced Scorecard (BSC®) are used on a day-to-day basis, accelerating the company’s consistent and sustainable growth.

The TOTAL brand has been marketed in the UK since 1955 and was set up as Total Oil Great Britain Ltd (TOGB) originally formed as part of the French Total SA group. It quickly established itself as an innovative petrol retailer increasing its number of service stations at a rapid rate. When it comes to the UK petroleum refining and distribution industry, TOTAL UK does it all. The company is a subsidiary of French oil giant TOTAL S.A.. It provides gasoline to about 850 retail services stations in the UK (about 10% of the British retail market) and operates a petroleum refinery capable of producing more than 220,000 barrels of petroleum products per day. The company also has a lubricant blending plant, a bitumen plant, and has oil storage facilities located all across the UK. Through the AIR TOTAL brand name, TOTAL UK supplies aviation fuels to airports in Heathrow, Gatwick, and Stansted.

OMNI Energy Services Corp. provides integrated oilfield services to oil and gas companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico, the Rocky Mountain region, and the south central United States. OMNI Energy Services Corp. Seismic Services segment provides onshore seismic drilling, operational support, permitting, and survey services in the marsh, swamps, shallow water, and contiguous dry areas primarily in Louisiana and Texas. OMNI Energy Services Corp. Environmental Services segment offers dock-side and offshore hazardous and non-hazardous oilfield waste management and environmental cleaning services, including drilling rig, tank, and vessel cleaning; safe vessel entry; naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) decontamination; platform abandonment; pipeline flushing; gas dehydration; and hydro blasting. This segment also provides NORM surveys, cleaning and waste disposal, tank degassing and demolition, rig pit cleaning, oilfield waste disposal, hydro blasting, dockside and offshore cleaning, and offshore sandblasting and painting services. OMNI Energy Services Corp. Equipment Leasing segment offers rental oilfield equipment, such as water, mud, and disposal pumps; mud, fuel, and frac tanks; air compressors; wireline units; generators; high pressure washers; light towers; tubing and handling tools; and pressure washers, steam cleaners, and oilfield cooling fans, as well as provides land based environmental cleaning services. OMNI Energy Services Corp. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Carencro, Louisiana.

Sun Coast Resources, Inc. is a wholesale fuel and lubricant’s marketer headquartered in Houston, Texas, founded by its President and Chief Executive Officer, Kathy Lehne, in 1985. What started as a very modest company, with only a handful of customers and a few dedicated employees, Sun Coast has grown to become one of the largest petroleum products and related services distributors in the nation, with revenues in 2007 exceeding $1 billion.Sun Coast operates a fleet of over 250 delivery vehicles and provides fuel and lubricants to thousands of customers in an 18 state marketing area. Sun Coast has in excess of 500 employees, and is well positioned to continue its winning ways, bolstered by a state of the art back office system, dispatch efficiencies, accounting and credit controls, management ingenuity and commitment to superior customer focus and service, 24/7/365. With over 40 sales representatives and 350 professional drivers, Sun Coast has attained a competitive advantage in the marketplace by providing on time, every time delivery.

Talisman Energy Inc. was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.Talisman Energy Inc. also explores in North Africa and in Latin America and the Caribbean region. In the North Sea the company operates more than 40 oilfields and has a large exploration holding in offshore Norway. Talisman Energy Inc. also has a vast acreage of natural gas reserves in Southeast Asia. In 2008 Talisman reported proved reserves of 1.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent and a production rate of 432,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

Richland Partners (doing business as Leffler Energy) puts its energy into supplying home heating oil products to areas of Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and Delaware. Richland Partners, LLC also installs and services heat pumps, central air conditioning, and hot water heaters. Meenan Oil, a subsidiary of Star Gas, purchased both SICO and Leffler and merged them to form Leffler Energy in 2003. With its roots in serving farming communities, Leffler Energy still provides a broad range of fueling and energy services (from customer service centers and storage facilities) to rural businesses throughout central and eastern Pennsylvania.

Tesco Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and service delivery of technology based solutions for the upstream energy industry worldwide. Tesco Corporation operates in three segments: Top Drive Drilling Systems, Tubular Services, and CASING DRILLING. The Top Drive Drilling Systems segment manufactures, sells, and supports top drives that are used in drilling operations to rotate the drill string. Tesco Corporation product line includes a range of portable and permanently installed top drive products with lifting capacities of 150 through 750 tons, both hydraulically and electrically powered. Tesco Corporation also provides hydraulically powered top drive systems for rent. The Tubular Services segment offers a range of tubular handling and installation services, including the TESCO Casing Drive System plus a range of downhole tool rentals and accessories. The CASING DRILLING segment provides downhole and surface equipment on a rental basis to allow a well to be drilled with conventional oilwell casing, eliminating the use of drill pipe. Tesco Corporation was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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