CSV markets and distributes finished petroleum products for home and industry, as well as for resale through a network of retailers and associate marketers. CityServiceValcon name represents the combination of two long-standing petroleum marketers, City Service and Valcon Distributing, with roots in Kalispell, Montana dating to the 1930's. The companies joined forces in October of 2003, combining facilities, product lines and personnel to strengthen CityServiceValcon long-term position in a shrinking field of peers. CityServiceValcon corporate office is located in picturesque Kalispell, near Glacier National Park. Through strategically positioned plants and support offices, CityServiceValcon serve customers from the Pacific Northwest to the Rockies and Plains states.

Crudely moving into the private market, Polski Koncern Naftowy ORLEN is the largest refiner and distributor of oil in Poland. The company owns a total of seven refineries (including three in the Czech Republic and one in Lithuania) and has some 2,700 retail sites in the Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, and Poland. PKN ORLEN owns an 85% stake in chemical maker Anwil, has holdings in several other Polish companies, and controls Czech refiner and retailer Unipetrol. Two former state monopolies, Petrochemia Plock (Poland's largest refinery) and Centrala Produktow Naftowych (Poland's #1 petroleum distributor), merged in 1999 to create PKN ORLEN. The Polish government still owns 10% of the company.

Unit Corporation operates as a contract drilling company. The company operates in three segments: Contract Drilling, Oil and Natural Gas, and Mid-Stream. The Contract Drilling segment engages in the land contract drilling of natural gas and oil wells. Unit Corporation has operations in the provinces of Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and North Dakota. The Oil and Natural Gas segment involves in the exploration, development, acquisition, and production of oil and natural gas properties. Unit Corporation producing oil and natural gas properties, undeveloped leaseholds, and related assets are located primarily in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico, as well as in Arkansas, North Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and a small portion in Canada. The Mid-Stream segment engages in buying, selling, gathering, processing, and treating natural gas. Unit Corporation operates 3 natural gas treatment plants, 8 operating processing plants, 33 active gathering systems, and 839 miles of pipeline in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Pennsylvania. Unit Corporation also operates a total fleet of 130 drilling rigs. The company was founded in 1963 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Equitrans, an indirect subsidiary of integrated natural gas behemoth EQT provides natural gas gathering, storage and transmission services through pipelines that connect to delivery points in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. EQT formed Equitrans to forge a new relationship between pipelines and their markets, where customers were not passive recipients of natural gas, but active, discriminating buyers of energy services. Equitrans is expanding it operations in the lucrative Marcellus Shale play in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, to better serve growing natural gas demand in the Northeast.

Great Lakes Gas Transmission transports great amounts of natural gas -- 2.2 billion cu. ft. per day, to be exact. With a pipeline spanning 2,100 miles, the company supplies gas to major urban markets in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and parts of southern Canada. Its customers include a number of regional natural gas transporters, local gas distributors, and energy trading firms including Alliance Energy Services, ANR Pipeline, Michigan Consolidated Gas, Northern States Power, and Sempra Energy Trading. Great Lakes Gas Transmission was founded in 1967 and is controlled by TransCanada Corp.

Cooperation is a refined art and refining a cooperative art for the National Cooperative Refinery Association (NCRA), which provides three farm supply cooperatives (CHS, GROWMARK, and MFA Oil) with fuel through its oil refinery in Kansas. The refinery's production rate is 81,460 barrels per day. Fuel from the refinery is allocated to member/owners on the basis of ownership percentages. In addition to the refinery, NCRA owns Jayhawk Pipeline, minority interests in two other pipeline companies, and an underground oil storage facility. CHS owns 74% of the cooperative, GROWMARK, 19%, and MFA, 7%.

EnerJex was formed in 2006 by the merger of Millennium Plastics Corporation and Midwest Energy. EnerJex Resources, Inc. (EnerJex) oil and natural gas acquisition, exploration and development company. EnerJex’s principal strategy is to focus on the acquisition of oil and natural gas mineral leases that have existing production and cash flow. EnerJex Resources, Inc. works primarily in Eastern Kansas, buying producing properties that it feels are undervalued or that were abandoned by other oil companies when oil prices were below $10 a barrel. EnerJex Resources, Inc., which has proved reserves of 1.2 million barrels of oil equivalent, holds full or partial interest in half a dozen oil, gas, and oil and gas projects across Kansas. EnerJex Resources, Inc. uses enhanced drilling techniques to recover additional oil and gas from already explored fields.

Rock Energy Resources, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Rock Energy Resources, Inc., an independent oil and natural gas company, engages in the exploration, development, and production of natural gas and crude oil properties in the United States. Rock Energy Resources, Inc. natural gas projects include the company's 100% operated working interest in the Wilcox trend in the Garwood field, a leasehold of 1,650 acres in Colorado County, Texas with 3P reserves estimated to be approximately 37.5 billion cubic feet; and a 100% working interest in the Bob West Prospect, a 1,110 acre leasehold in Starr County, Texas with Wilcox discovery potential equal to 250 billion cubic feet. Rock Energy is also producing oil from the Diatomite and Monterey formations in the Orcutt field and from the Northwest Casmalia Diatomite field, both located in Santa Barbara County, California, where there is a known resource base of approximately 2.5 billion barrels of oil in place. As of December 31, 2008, Rock Energy Resources, Inc. had total proved net oil reserves of 9,000 barrels and total proved net natural gas reserves of 555,420 thousands of cubic feet.

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.

Yoho Resources Inc. is a Calgary-based oil and gas exploration company operating within the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, focusing on the Peace River Arch and northeastern British Columbia. The oil and gas exploration company operates in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, focusing on the Peace River Arch (and two other areas in Alberta) and northeastern British Columbia. Yoho Resources has 150,000 net acres of undeveloped land, and a production level of about 2,680 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Yoho Resources Inc. has proved and probable reserves of 4.9 million barrels of oil equivalent. Formerly VoiceIQ, the firm changed its name in 2004 to reflect its new focus -- oil and gas exploration, development, and production. Yoho Resources acquired the partnership units of Canada Southern Petroleum #3 LP in 2006.

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