TransMontaigne gathers, transports, stores, and markets refined petroleum products, chemicals, and crude oil. TransMontaigne Inc. operates primarily in the Mississippi River corridor and along the Colonial and Plantation pipelines, which run from the Gulf Coast to the eastern US, and through the TEPPCO, Explorer, and other pipeline systems. Through subsidiaries, the firm operates a supply, distribution, and marketing network, and provides supply management, terminal, pipeline, tug, and barge businesses. TransMontaigne Inc. controls the general partner of terminalling and storage spinoff TransMontaigne Partners. TransMontaigne is owned by Morgan Stanley Capital.

Mustang Fuel is independent, an independent oil and gas exploration, production, transportation and marketing company, that is. Mustang Fuel Corporation owns more than 200 properties and stakes in more than 700 other properties and controls more than 50,000 net acres of undeveloped leasehold. Mustang Fuel also owns about 4,000 miles of natural gas gathering and transporting pipeline, operates one of the largest gas processing facilities in Oklahoma and has a fleet of trucks that transports petroleum products. Mustang Fuel Corporation also markets gas. Subsidiaries include Mustang Gas Products, LLC and Mustang Fuel Marketing Company. Mustang Fuel is led by E. Carey Joullian IV, the son of the company's founder.

Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. (TSX: PFE) is a company headquartered in Long Beach, California and is engaged in the acquisition, exploitation, and development of oil and gas properties, primarily in the United States. Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. was formerly named Shamrock Resources. The company specialized in redeveloping mature oil and gas fields by using advanced production technology. Pacific Energy Resources had proved reserves of 50.4 million barrels of oil equivalent. In 2009 the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and subsequently sold all of its assets to creditors.

Gale Force Petroleum prefers oil fractures to computer fractals. Founded in 1996 as Rolland Virtual Business Systems, Gale Force Petroleum Inc. shifted its focus to oil and gas in 2006 and renamed itself Rolland Energy. In 2008 the company changed names to Gale Force Petroleum. That year Gale Force Petroleum Inc. acquired Kentucky Shale Gas Property, consisting of 22,000 acres of oil and gas leases, nine gas wells, and five miles of gathering lines, including compressors. Gale Force Petroleum Inc. also holds stakes in a number of producing wells in Manitoba. Facing a tough market the company filed for bankruptcy protection in early 2009. That April its restructuring proposal won court approval, but a failed property acquisition forced to it to postpone the plan in July.

Always at the top of its game, Apex Oil sells, stores, and distributes petroleum products. Its range of refined products includes asphalt, biodiesel, kerosene, fuel oil, diesel fuel, heavy oil, gasoline, and bunker fuels. The company's terminals are primarily located on the East Coast and Gulf Coast, in California, and in the Midwest. Internationally, Apex Oil has operations in the Bahamas, Monaco, and the Netherlands. The company's subsidiaries include Apex Towing, a tug boat and barge business; Petroleum Fuel and Terminal, a storage and truck rack operation; and Enjet (oil and carbon black marketing). Apex Oil is controlled by CEO Tony Novelly.

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.

Progress Energy Resources Corp., or "Progress", was formed in January 2009 through the business combination of Progress Energy Trust and ProEx Energy Ltd. Progress's strategy focuses on growing reserves, production and cash flow while paying a dividend to shareholders. Progress Energy Resources Corp. two primary operating regions are the Deep Basin of Northern Alberta and the Foothills of Northern British Columbia. These regions are considered among the most desirable resource play regions in North America. New technologies are continually being applied and refined to economically recover the large natural gas resource-in-place. Progress Energy Resources Corp. also has operations in south-central Alberta and minor land holdings in Saskatchewan. Progress Energy Resources Corp. asset base includes 1.2 million net acres of undeveloped land. In 2008 Progress Energy Resources reported proved and probable reserves of I trillion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent.

Emerald Energy is the oil and gas exploration and production company focuses on Colombia, where it has proved and probable reserves of 13.8 million barrels of oil equivalent. Emerald Energy was awarded a contract to drill its first well in the Campo Rico oil field in 2004, and Emerald Energy Plc has since expanded its operations in Colombia. Emerald Energy also has a 50% stake in an oilfield in Syria; Gulfsands Petroleum Syria holds the remaining 50% interest. In 2009 Chinese giant Sinochem, trying to gain further access to the South American and Middle Eastern markets, moved to buy Emerald Energy for about $875 million.

Kinder Morgan owns or operates approximately 37,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals in North America. Our companies include Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP), Kinder Morgan Management, LLC (NYSE: KMR) and Kinder Morgan, Inc., a private company which owns the general partner of KMP. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) keeps energy on the move throughout the US. The company holds stakes in or more than 28,000 miles of natural gas and petroleum product pipelines and owns 170 bulk terminals and rail transloading facilities that handle more than 87 million tons of coal, petroleum coke, and bulk products annually. KMP transports refined petroleum products (gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel) through 8,300 miles of pipelines and stores the products in 60 terminals in the US. Through its CO2 subsidiary, KMP transports carbon dioxide. Knight owns 13.9% of KMP, and through its Kinder Morgan Management unit, acts as general partner.

RAM Energy Resources, Inc. operates primarily in the Permian Basin, the Barnett Shale, the onshore Gulf Coast region, and in the Mid-Continent. RAM Energy, which was formed in 1987 and has grown through acquisitions, has proved reserves of about 90 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 40 million barrels of oil equivalent. In 2007, it acquired Ascent Energy for about $285 million, greatly increasing its reserves in the process. The Jefferies Group, which has owned Ascent through subsidiary Jefferies & Company, now owns a quarter stake in RAM as a result of the deal. RAM Energy Resources, Inc. oil and natural gas assets are characterized by a combination of developing and mature reserves and properties. RAM Energy Resources, Inc. have mature oil and mature natural gas reserves located primarily in Jack, Wise, Wichita and Wilbarger Counties, Texas, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, and in several parishes in Louisiana.

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