Sinopec Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Company (hereinafter is abbreviated as ZRCC) is one of the flagship enterprises affiliated to Sinopec. With Zhejiang Refinery as its predecessor that dates back to 1975, the Company was restructured into Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Co., Ltd. and became listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1994. Responding to the integrated strategic plan of Sinopec, Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Co., Ltd. revoked its listing position in March, 2006 and in September of the same year, incorporated the Sinopec Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Company. Over the past thirty four years, following a philosophy of “Grow in Harmony, Share the Future”, taking the good opportunity of developing costal refineries and making full use of the favorable geographic location of Ningbo, Zhejiang province and the developed market in East China area, ZRCC has been maintaining a sound growth momentum through constant pioneering, progressing, reforming and innovating, making it grow into the largest refinery in China out of a small refinery of 2.5 million tpa.

Samson is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma and maintains division offices in Houston, Denver, and Midland. Samson Investment is an independent oil and gas entity with exploration, development, and production activities in Canada and the US (19 states), as well as in Australia. Key producing regions include East Texas, Texas Gulf Coast, Anadarko, Permian, San Juan, Green River, and the Williston Basin. Samson Investment operates more than 4,000 wells and has stakes in more than 11,000 wells. Samson Investment Company strategy is to make acquisitions that complement its existing areas of operations and establish its presence in new core regions. In 2007 Samson Investment Company acquired PYR Energy, which has assets in the Gulf Coast, Texas, and Rocky Mountain regions.

Zedi Inc. has developed equipment for that. Zedi manufactures products and services to support the operation and management of oil and gas wells. Zedi Inc. primary product is Smart-Alek, a wireless meter designed for the remote monitoring of natural gas production and to increase operator efficiencies. Other brands include PetroNet (production accounting) and Roughneck (operations management). Zedi, founded in 1987, and whose name comes from the Japanese word for "the final frontier," markets primarily to gas producers operating in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Zedi Inc. is also has begun to cater to the US market.

Metalore Resources explores for and develops and produces natural gas, oil, and precious metal resources in southeastern Canada. Metalore's oil and gas exploration and production properties are located in southern Ontario. The company's mineral properties are found in northwestern Ontario. These precious metal properties include gold and silver assets at Walter and Leduc townships. Metalore controls about 40,000 acres of petroleum, natural gas, and mineral leases in Charlotteville, Walsingham, and Houghton townships in Norfolk County, Ontario. CEO George Chilian controls the company, which in 2006 shifted its strategy to focus on gold mining to take advantage of high gold prices.

Global Energy Development is the international exploration and production arm of US-based HKN. HKN owns 34% of Global Energy Development, which focuses on Latin America. Global Energy Development is active in Colombia, Panama, and Peru, where it has received six contracts and rights to explore for or produce oil and gas. Global Energy Development holds a more than 5 million acre portfolio in Latin America and has proved and probable reserves of 15.2 million barrels of oil equivalent. Global Energy Development core operations are in Colombia, where it has been involved workover and drilling development activities in several fields. Global Energy Development is also active in northeastern Peru and in the Garachine field in Panama.

Zapata Energy Corporation is a Calgary-based junior oil and gas exploration and production company. Zapata Energy Corporation has oil and gas production and processing facilities as well as undeveloped petroleum and natural gas rights in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. Financially sound and conservatively managed, Zapata Energy Corporation acquires and develops promising energy assets offering reasonable risks and the potential for strong, stable cash flow and competitive rates of return. Zapata Energy Corporation has about 251,400 net acres in Alberta and 5,200 net acres in British Columbia. Zapata Energy has a large inventory of oil projects and its looking to team up with other oil firms and investors in order to exploit them.

Cogentrix Energy serves up a power treat for customers, albeit a small one, through its electric generating facilities.Cogentrix Energy develops, owns, and operates a handful of independent power plants, located primarily in the US. Cogentrix Energy once had a net operational generating capacity of about 4,900 MW from its stakes in 27 coal- and gas-fired facilities, but sold most of these after New York-based investment firm Goldman Sachs Group acquired the company in 2007. The investment firm has Cogentrix Energy looking for new energy opportunities beyond the US power plant industry.

Birchcliff Energy Ltd. is an intermediate oil and gas exploration, development and production company based in Calgary, Alberta , and has estimated proved and probable reserves of 46.5 million barrels of oil equivalent. Birchcliff Energy Ltd. produces about 10,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Formed in early 2004, Birchcliff Energy acquired Scout Capital in a reverse merger and became publicly traded. The proceeds of its public offering were used to fund the purchase of a natural gas processing plant and gas-producing properties in the Peace River Arch area. Birchcliff's strategy is to expand its natural gas and light oil focused asset base in the Peace River Arch area of Alberta. Birchcliff has up to $3 billion of development drilling on its resource plays. The first resource play is a very large, extensive Montney/Doig natural gas resource play with some 607 or more potential natural gas horizontal well locations, in the Pouce Coupe and Pouce Coupe south areas of North West Alberta. The second resource play is the exploitation, development and water flooding of the Worsley light oil pool located near Worsley, Alberta.

Compressor Systems (CSI) manufactures, sells, and services compression equipment used by international oil and gas customers for well head compression, gas gathering and storage, liquid recovery, gas transmission, and pressure maintenance. Compressor Systems sells equipment primarily in the Great Plains, Intermountain West, and Southwest, and has sales and service offices in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. Compressor Systems, Inc. is owned by founder Johnny Warren's Warren Equipment Company.

Exterran Partners, L.P. provides natural gas compression services in the United States and internationally. Exterran Partners, L.P. offers contract operations services, which include designing, sourcing, owning, installing, operating, servicing, repairing, and maintaining equipment for oil and gas production, processing, and transportation applications. Exterran Partners, L.P. serves companies operating in the oil and natural gas industry, including natural gas producers, processors, gatherers, transporters, and storage providers. Exterran General Partner, L.P. operates as the general partner of Exterran Partners, L.P. Exterran Partners, L.P. was formerly known as Universal Compression Partners, L.P. and changed its name to Exterran Partners, L.P. in August 2007. Exterran Partners, L.P. is based in Houston, Texas.

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