Addax Petroleum Corporation specializes in exploring and producing oil and gas, focusing on regions in West Africa and the Middle East. Addax Petroleum, which has properties in Nigeria, Gabon, Cameroon, and the Kurdistan region of Iraq, produces about 137,000 barrels of crude oil a day. In 2008 Addax Petroleum reported proved and probable reserves of 536.7 million barrels of oil equivalent and held 4.4 million acres of exploration, development and production properties. That year the company was acquired by China's Sinopec for about $7.5 billion.

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.

Amalie Oil (named after the founders' grandmother) blends and supplies lubricants and other oil products including motor oils, transmission fluids, gear oils, and greases. To control costs, the company also manufactures its own bottles to store its products. Amalie Oil, which markets its products worldwide, has distribution operations in Dallas; Jacksonville, Florida; and Los Angeles. Amalie Oil blends and packages some 200 different products in package sizes ranging from 8-ounce plastic bottles to bulk rail transports.

Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) is universally recognized as one of today's top ten oil energy conglomerates, and a leader in providing safe, clean energy to the global markets. The state-owned conglomerate is one of the world's largest integrated oil concerns, and has subsidiaries active in all aspects of the oil and gas industry, including onshore and offshore exploration and production, and refining, marketing, and retailing. Kuwait Petroleum Corporation also has petrochemical production and marine transportation businesses. In 2008 KPC reported estimated proved oil and gas reserves of 104 billion barrels of oil and 1.8 trillion cu. meters of natural gas. KPC markets 301,000 barrels per day of pertroleun products in Western Europe.

InterGen is an international generator of electricity with interests in 11 power plant projects and an equity share of 5,791 MW of generating capacity in Australia, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, and the UK. InterGen provides fuel procurement and project management, financing, and negotiation services. Its power is sold to utilities, energy marketers, and end-use customers. InterGen was a joint venture of Shell Oil and Bechtel, which sold their company stakes in 2005 to Highstar Capital (a part of AIG) and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan for $1.75 billion. In 2008 GMR Infrastructure acquired Highstar Capital's 50% stake for $1.1 billion.

Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL), formerly known as Madras Refineries Limited (MRL) was formed as a joint venture in 1965 between the Government of India (GOI), AMOCO and National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) having a share holding in the ratio 74%: 13%: 13% respectively. Originally ,CPCL Refinery was set up with an installed capacity of 2.5 Million Tonnes Per Annum (MMTPA) in a record time of 27 months at a cost of Rs. 43 crore without any time or cost over run. In 1985, AMOCO disinvested in favour of GOI and the shareholding percentage of GOI and NIOC stood revised at 84.62% and 15.38% respectively. Later GOI disinvested 16.92% of the paid up capital in favor of Unit Trust of India, Mutual Funds, Insurance Companies and Banks on 19 th May 1992, thereby reducing its holding to 67.7 %. The public issue of CPCL shares at a premium of Rs. 70 (Rs. 90 to FIIs) in 1994 was over subscribed to an extent of 38 times and added a large shareholder base.

NuStar Energy L.P.’s history has been filled with dramatic growth and success, rising from humble beginnings in 2001 to become the rising star of the energy industry today. The partnership made its successful initial public offering (IPO) on April 16, 2001, with one of the best one-day performances of any master limited partnership IPO ever. On its first day, the partnership, then known as Shamrock Logistics L.P. and part of the former Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corp., sold 5.175 million partnership units at $24.50, nearly twice the expected price range for this IPO. The partnership was soon renamed Valero L.P. after Valero Energy Corp. acquired UDS later in 2001. And since that time, the partnership has had outstanding results and demonstrated how a limited partnership can have unlimited potential.

Dune Energy, Inc. (DNE), an independent exploration and development company incorporated in Delaware, has operations focused along the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coasts. Dune’s strategy is to grow organically through low-risk exploitation and development and higher risk exploration of its existing properties and acreage. This will be supplemented with opportunistic acquisition of underdeveloped properties that complement Dune’s existing portfolio. The oil and gas exploration and production independent has leases on 100,000 gross acres across 23 producing oil and natural gas fields along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. In 2008 Dune Energy reported proved reserves of 8.2 million barrels of oil and 83.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas. Dune Energy, Inc. has a more than two-year current drilling inventory for its properties along the Gulf Coast. Swiss bank UBS owns 35% of the company; Russian gas company ITERA's Tierra Holdings BV unit, 33%.

Spectra Energy Corp, through its subsidiaries and equity affiliates, engages in the ownership and operation of a portfolio of complementary natural gas-related energy assets. The company operates in four segments: U.S. Transmission, Distribution, Western Canada Transmission and Processing, and Field Services. The U.S. Transmission segment engages in the transportation and storage of natural gas for customers in various regions of the eastern and southeastern United States and the Maritime Provinces in Canada. As of December 31, 2009, its pipeline systems consisted of approximately 14,300 miles of transmission pipelines; and had 285 billion cubic feet of storage capacity. The Distribution segment provides retail natural gas distribution services in Ontario, Canada, as well as natural gas transportation and storage services to other utilities and energy market participants in Ontario, Canada and the United States. This segment had approximately 37,300 miles of distribution main and service pipelines serving approximately 1.3 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The Western Canada Transmission and Processing segment provides natural gas transportation, and gas gathering and processing services; and helps natural gas producers by removing impurities from the raw gas stream, including water, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and other. The Field Services segment gathers and processes natural gas, as well as fractionates, markets, and trades natural gas liquid. It engages in gathering raw natural gas through gathering systems located in nine natural gas producing regions consisting of the Mid-Continent, Rocky Mountain, east Texas-north Louisiana, Barnett Shale, Gulf Coast, South Texas, Central Texas, Antrim Shale, and Permian Basin. Spectra Energy Corp. is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Spectra Energy Corp. operates independently of Duke Energy Corp. as of January 2, 2007.

Panda Energy has a twenty-five year track record of success in building large-scale, state-of-the-art power generation facilities.Panda Energy International develops, owns, and operates clean, low-cost power plants. The company has built more than 9,000 MW of electric generation capacity in the US. Panda Energy has sold its interests in four gas-fueled power plants in Arkansas, Arizona, and Texas to TECO Energy, and its stakes in projects in China and Nepal. Panda Energy has built the two largest gas-fueled, combined-cycle independent electric generation facilities in the US, totaling 4,500 MW of generating capacity. CEO Bob Carter and his wife, EVP Janice Carter, own a controlling stake in Panda Energy, which they founded in 1982.

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