Formed by the merger of Conoco and Phillips Petroleum, ConocoPhillips is the #2 integrated oil and gas company in the US, behind Exxon Mobil, and consolidated that position by buying Burlington Resources (for a reported $35 billion). The company explores for oil and gas in more than 30 countries and has proved reserves of 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent (excluding its Syncrude oil sands assets). It has a refining capacity of more than 2.6 million barrels per day and sells petroleum at 8,340 retail outlets in the US under the 76, Conoco, and Phillips 66 brands, and at 1,260 gas stations in Europe. Other operations include chemicals, gas gathering, fuels technology, and power generation.

Quicksilver Gas Services LP engages in gathering and processing natural gas and natural gas liquids on the Barnett Shale formation of the Fort Worth Basin located in north Texas. Quicksilver Gas Services LP provides its gathering and processing services to Quicksilver Resources Inc. and natural gas producers under fee-based contracts. As of December 31, 2008, Quicksilver Gas Services LP owned the Cowtown Pipeline, which consists of a pipeline gathering system and gas compression facilities in the southern portion of the Fort Worth Basin; and the Cowtown Plant that comprises two natural gas processing units, as well as the Corvette Plant, which consists of a natural gas processing unit in Hood County, Texas. Quicksilver Gas Services GP LLC serves as the general partner of Quicksilver Gas Services LP. Quicksilver Gas Services LP was founded in 2004 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas. Quicksilver Gas Services LP operates as a subsidiary of Quicksilver Resources Inc.

Copano was founded in 1992 by John R. Eckel, Jr., who served as its Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer until his death in November 2009. Under his leadership, Copano grew from a single 23-mile pipeline to a successful midstream natural gas company with over 6,000 miles of pipe and seven processing plants. John maintained that Copano’s greatest asset was its people, and his commitment to Copano’s employees and producers was a constant that helped shape our company’s culture. We are a midstream natural gas company providing comprehensive services to natural gas producers, including natural gas gathering, intrastate transmission, processing, conditioning and treating. Our operations are located in Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming and Louisiana. We provide midstream services to producers of about 1,700,000 MMBtu per day of natural gas.

Dana Petroleum is an oil and natural gas exploration and production company with operations in the North Sea, as well as Australia, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Mauritania, and Senegal. Dana Petroleum plc has expanded its production activities in the North Sea, where Dana Petroleum plc has 16 producing fields. The company's growth strategy is to balance low-risk production from the UK North Sea with more aggressive high-risk international exploration and production (primarily in Egypt). At the end of 2007 Dana reported proved and probable reserves of 165.8 million barrels of oil equivalent. That year Dana Petroleum plc acquired Devon Energy's oil and gas business in Egypt for $375 million. In 2008 Dana was operating four producing fields in Egypt.

Panhandle Energy keeps a handle on the operations of natural gas pipeline companies for its parent Southern Union. The division is made up of Florida Gas Tranmission, Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line , Sea Robin Pipeline, Southwest Gas Storage, Trunkline Gas, and Trunkline LNG. Panhandle Energy's more than 15,000 mile-long natural gas pipeline network extends from the Gulf of Mexico to the Midwest and Canada. These pipelines have a delivery capacity of 7.4 billion cu. ft. per day and 87 billion cu. ft. of underground storage. Trunkline LNG's import terminal in Louisiana has 9 billion cu. ft. of liquid storage facilities.

Vesco Oil Corporation, an ISO 9001-14001 certified and environmentally conscientious supplier, provides it automotive and industrial customers with a full range of high-quality lubricants and supporting services. Vesco evolved from a business originally founded in 1947 by Eugene Epstein. Vesco Oil Corporation is a wholesale distributor of Valvoline and Exxon Mobil brand lubricants to automotive and industrial customers in Michigan. Vesco Oil Corporation also provides environmental services such as bulk and hazardous waste management. Vesco Oil has warehouse and distribution facilities in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Mancelona, and Zilwaukee. Vesco Oil Corporation has expanded its warehouse and distribution center in Mancelona to better serve its northern Michigan customers. Vesco Oil is managed by president and CEO Donald Epstein, the great-grandson of the company's founder, Eugene Epstein.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) spreads its wings over the United Arab Emirates (UAE), accounting for 94% of its 97.8 billion barrels of proved oil reserves, the fourth-largest national reserves in the world behind Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait. Abu Dhabi National Oil Company also has proved reserves of 6.1 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. Abu Dhabi National Oil Company oversees oil production of more than 2.7 million barrels a day. The ADNOC group includes exploration and production companies, support companies, maritime crude oil transport companies, and a refined-product distribution company that operates more than 200 UAE service stations.

Quest Resource Corporation, an integrated independent energy company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, gathering, production, and transportation of oil and natural gas in the United States. Quest Resource Corporation operates in two segments, Oil and Gas Production, and Natural Gas Pipelines. The Oil and Gas Production segment primarily focuses on the development of coal bed methane in the Cherokee basin. As of December 31, 2008, it had 152.7 billion cubic feet equivalent of estimated net proved reserves; and operated approximately 2,438 gross gas wells and approximately 27 gross oil wells in the Cherokee Basin. This segment also owned 55 gross productive oil wells and the development rights to approximately 1,481 net acres with an estimated net proved reserves of approximately 588,800 billion barrels in Seminole County, Oklahoma; and approximately 500 gross gas wells and the development rights to approximately 68,161 net acres in the Appalachian Basin. The Natural Gas Pipelines segment involves in transporting, gathering, treating, and processing natural gas. It owns and operates a natural gas gathering pipeline network of approximately 2,173 miles in the Cherokee Basin, as well as a 1,120 mile interstate natural gas pipeline, which transports natural gas from northern Oklahoma and western Kansas to the metropolitan Wichita and Kansas City markets. Quest Resource Corporation was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Florida Gas Transmission gasses up the Gulf Coast. The company transports natural gas to cogeneration facilities, electric utilities, independent power producers, municipal generators, and local distribution companies through a 5,000-mile natural gas pipeline extending from south Texas to south Florida. It delivers 2.3 billion cu. ft. of natural gas a day to more than 250 delivery points consisting of more than 50 natural gas-fired electric generation facilities. Florida Gas Transmission is operated by Citrus Corp., which is a joint venture of Southern Union and El Paso Corp.

Vanguard Natural Resources, LLC, through its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, development, and exploitation of natural gas and oil properties. Vanguard Natural Resources properties are located in the southern portion of the Appalachian Basin, primarily in southeast Kentucky and northeast Tennessee; and the Permian Basin, primarily in west Texas and southeastern New Mexico, and in south Texas. As of December 31, 2008, Vanguard Natural Resources owned working interests in 958 net productive wells, and had estimated proved reserves of 108.5 billion cubic feet equivalents of natural gas and crude oil. Vanguard Natural Resources also has a 40% working interest in approximately 109,500 gross undeveloped acres surrounding or adjacent to its wells located in southeast Kentucky and northeast Tennessee. Vanguard Natural Resources was founded in 2006 and is based in Houston, Texas.

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