Santos is an Australian oil and gas exploration and production company with high quality assets and projects throughout Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Santos Ltd supplies over 20% of eastern Australia’s domestic gas and produced 54.4 million barrels of oil equivalent in 2008. Santos has the largest Australian exploration portfolio by area of any company – 192,000 square kilometres. Santos is developing a multibillion-dollar project to build an LNG facility at Gladstone, Queensland – the world’s first project to convert coal seam gas to LNG on a large scale. Santos Ltd is already a producer of LNG through the Darwin LNG project, which has been exporting to Japan since 2006. Santos has interests in all major oil basins in Australia, including those offshore. Santos Ltd also operates in other countries, including Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Papua New Guinea, and Vietnam. At 31 December 2009, Santos had a total market capitalisation of approximately $12 billion, making it one of Australia’s Top 30 companies.

Cal Dive International, Inc., a marine contracting company, provides manned diving, pipelay and pipe burial, platform installation, and platform salvage services to the offshore oil and natural gas industry. Cal Dive International, Inc. offers marine contracting services in support of the offshore oil and natural gas infrastructure throughout the production lifecycle, including services on production platforms, risers, subsea production systems, and pipelines. Cal Dive International, Inc. primarily operates in the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf, the northeastern United States, Latin America, southeast Asia, China, Australia, the Middle East, India, and the Mediterranean. Cal Dive International provides its services to oil and natural gas producers, pipeline transmission companies, and offshore engineering and construction firms. As of December 31, 2009, Cal Dive International, Inc. owned and operated a fleet of 31 vessels, including 21 surface and saturation diving support vessels, 6 pipelay/pipebury barges, 1 pipebury barge, 1 combination derrick/pipelay barge, and 2 derrick barges. Cal Dive International, Inc. was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Matador Resources Company is a Dallas-based, privately held, independent energy company engaged in oil and natural gas exploration, development, production and acquisition activities in the Southwestern United States. Matador Resources Company primary focus is on natural gas operations in East Texas and North Louisiana, and the Permian and Delaware Basins of West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico, with approximately 340,000 gross acres under lease for oil and gas exploration and development. Matador intends to grow primarily through the drill bit and through an increased use of science and technology in its drilling and operational activities. Matador Resources was established in July 2003 and has attracted approximately $235 million in equity capital from several hundred individual and institutional investors, many of whom were shareholders in its predecessor, Matador Petroleum Corporation.

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.

BOURBON is focusing its development on offshore oil and gas marine services and it is investing massively in innovative and high performance vessels to help its clients reduce their costs for the future, with the highest safety standards. BOURBON has cast off its sugar and retail and food distribution businesses to become a pure play in marine services. Bourbon's maritime activities include: Bourbon Offshore, which provides offshore oil and gas marine services; and its Bourbon Bulk cargo division, Setaf-Saget, which ships commodities such as coal, grain, and timber worldwide. BOURBON operates a fleet of some 266 crew boats and supply vessels that set sail from the West Coast of Africa and the North Sea, among other ports.

Barnwell Industries, Inc. was founded in 1956 and is based in Honolulu, Hawaii.Barnwell Industries explores for and produces oil and natural gas primarily in Alberta. It has proved reserves of 1.4 million barrels of oil and 24 billion cu. ft. of gas. Subsidiary Water Resources International drills water and geothermal wells and installs and repairs water pump systems in Hawaii. Barnwell Industries, Inc. also owns a 78% interest in Kaupulehu Developments, which owns leasehold rights to more than 1,000 acres in Hawaii. In 2007 Barnwell Industries established a real estate development segment to acquire house lots and build single-family homes.

Arawak Energy reserves its energy for former Soviet Union countries. An oil and gas exploration and production company, Arawak's assets include six properties in the Pre-Caspian Basin in western Kazakhstan, as well as four properties in the Komi Republic in Russia. Arawak Energy Ltd. also has exploration operations on properties in Azerbaijan. In 2008 the company's total proved and probable reserves were 61.8 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe); that same year, its total production topped 4 million boe, most of which was produced by its operations in Kazakhstan. Formerly a publicly-owned company, Arawak was acquired by a subsidiary of Vitol Group in 2009.

Nicklos Drilling Company provides land and offshore contract drilling services in the Texas Gulf Coast, Southeast Texas, and Southwest Louisiana. Nicklos Drilling has four differently configured rigs capable of drilling in a depth range from 6,500 feet depth maximum to 17,000 feet maximum. Nicklos Drilling Company is owned and managed by Texas oil industry veterans Jim Nicklos (whose previous oil contracting business had gone bankrupt in the mid-1980s) and Jack Blanton (a one-time VP of family-owned Scurlock Oil). Nicklos Drilling Company by providing valuable oil field services that Nicklos Drilling makes its money.

Castle Oil, the largest independent heating oil distribution outfit in the New York metropolitan area. The company predominantly delivers heating oil to around 10,000 commercial, industrial, and real estate development customers through a fleet of more than 100 vehicles; it also provides homeowner delivery. Castle Oil owns three deep-water storage terminals in the area. It also markets natural gas as an alternative heating fuel to some 3,000 clients. The company was founded by Mauro Romita Sr., and is now owned and run by his descendants.

Seitel, Inc. is a leading provider of seismic data and related geophysical expertise to the petroleum industry. The data, which is used to locate oil and gas, primarily covers the Gulf of Mexico, the US Gulf Coast, and western Canada. Seitel, Inc. contracts with third-party seismic crews to gather data but handles the processing itself through its Olympic Seismic, Seitel Data, Seitel Matrix, Seitel Solutions business units. The bulk of Seitel's total revenues comes from the acquisition and licensing of seismic data. The balance is primarily generated by its Seitel Solutions subsidiary, which gives customers access to the company's seismic database. Main focus of Seitel, Inc. is at Onshore, offshore, and transition zone of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, onshore East Texas, and Canada.

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