Hiland Partners, LP is a midstream energy partnership engaged in purchasing, gathering, compressing, dehydrating, treating, processing and marketing of natural gas and the fractionating, or separating, and marketing of natural gas liquids, or NGLs. Hiland Partners also provides air compression and water injection services to Continental Resources, Inc. ("CLR"), a publicly traded exploration and production company, for use in its oil and gas secondary recovery operations. Hiland Partners' operations are primarily located in the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States. In the Partnership's midstream segment, Hiland Holdings GP, LP connects the wells of natural gas and crude oil producers in its operating areas to its gathering systems, treats natural gas to remove impurities, processes natural gas for the removal of NGLs, fractionates NGLs into NGL products and provides an aggregate supply of natural gas and NGL products to a variety of transmission pipelines and markets.

Gary-Williams Energy Corporation (GWEC) is a small, independent oil and gas company, headquartered in Denver, with operations primarily in the Mid-Continent region of the United States. With approximately 300 employees, the company's subsidiaries include Wynnewood Refining Company (Oklahoma), Gary-Williams Production Company and Gary-Williams Real Estate Company. Refining and wholesale marketing are now the company's primary businesses. The company maintains a small marketing office in Oklahoma City. Today, the company's major asset is a 70,000 BPD crude oil refinery in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, purchased from Kerr-McGee in mid-1995, and operated as Wynnewood Refining Company (WRC). The refinery produces gasoline, diesel fuel, military jet fuel, solvents and asphalt.

Plains Exploration and Production Company was founded in 2002 and is based in Houston, Texas. Plains Exploration & Production Company engages in the acquisition, development, exploration, and production of oil and gas properties primarily in the United States. Plains Exploration and Production Company owns interests in various oil and gas properties located in the Onshore and Offshore California; the Gulf of Mexico; the Gulf Coast Region, including the Haynesville Shale and South and East Texas; the Mid-Continent Region; and the Rocky Mountains, as well as an interest in an exploration prospect offshore Vietnam. As of December 31, 2008, Plains Exploration and Production Company had proved reserves of approximately 292.1 million barrels of oil equivalent.

Saras, a leading European oil refining company based in Italy, produces an average of more than 300,000 barrels of oil per day at its Sardoch refinery based off the coast of Sardinia. While oil refining represents more than half of its business, Saras also owns other energy-related companies, including a wind farm in Sardinia, a biodiesel plant in Spain, and an industrial engineering research business. The company distributes its finished products -- including gasoline, diesel, kerosene, aviation fuel -- primarily through two subsidiaries: Arcola Petrolifera, which owns several storage facilities in Italy and Spain; and Saras Energia, a chain of owned and leased retail gas stations in Spain.

Formed by the merger of Conoco and Phillips Petroleum, ConocoPhillips is the #2 integrated oil and gas company in the US, behind Exxon Mobil, and consolidated that position by buying Burlington Resources (for a reported $35 billion). The company explores for oil and gas in more than 30 countries and has proved reserves of 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent (excluding its Syncrude oil sands assets). It has a refining capacity of more than 2.6 million barrels per day and sells petroleum at 8,340 retail outlets in the US under the 76, Conoco, and Phillips 66 brands, and at 1,260 gas stations in Europe. Other operations include chemicals, gas gathering, fuels technology, and power generation.

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. operates as an offshore oil and gas drilling contractor worldwide. Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. provides offshore drilling services in the deep water, harsh environment, conventional semisubmersibles, and jack-up markets to independent oil and gas companies and government-owned oil companies. As of December 31, 2008, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. operated a fleet of 45 offshore rigs comprising 30 semisubmersibles, 14 jack-ups, and 1 drillship. Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Loews Corporation. The compnay also provides project management and other drilling-related services. Loews Corp. owns 50.4% of the company.

Rowan Companies, Inc. was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Rowan Companies, Inc. provides a range of onshore and offshore contract drilling services in the United States and internationally. As of December 31, 2009, Rowan Companies, Inc. provided contract drilling services through a fleet of 23 self-elevating mobile offshore drilling platforms and 29 deep-well land drilling rigs. Rowan Companies, Inc. performs contract drilling primarily in the Middle East, Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, and in the North Sea. Rowan Companies, Inc. also designs and manufactures drilling equipment in a range of sizes, including mud pumps, top drives, draw-works, rotary tables, and electrical components, such as variable-speed motors and drives for the offshore and onshore oil and gas drilling industry. In addition, Rowan Companies, Inc. manufactures heavy equipment, including large-wheeled front-end loaders, diesel-electric powered log stackers, and steel plate products.

Merrimac Energy Group was founded in 1988 by Mary Hazelrigg, Merrimac Energy Group brings expert solutions to your greatest fuel supply and management challenges.Merrimac Energy Group also provides environmental services. Its products include aviation fuels, diesel, food grade oil, generator fuel, gasoline, industrial oil, marine fuels, bulk propane, and transportation lubricants. The largest independent woman-owned energy company in California, Merrimac Energy serves construction companies, governmental agencies, industrial and commercial clients, and utilities.

American Natural Energy Corporation are engaged in the acquisition, development, exploitation and production of oil and natural gas. Prior to December 31, 2001, American Natural Energy Corporation activities, conducted entirely through our predecessor, Gothic, were not significant and involved very limited oil and natural gas exploration in the southern United States. Since December 31, 2001, we have engaged in several transactions which we believe will enhance our oil and natural gas development, exploitation and production activities and our ability to finance further activities. ANEC works in tandem with partner Exxon Mobil to develop this Louisiana project. In 2007 the company sold 75% of ANEC's development rights in this project to Dune Energy.

We are a growth-oriented limited partnership focused on the midstream segment of the oil and gas industry in the Gulf Coast region of the United States, primarily Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. We have a diverse portfolio of customers, operations and assets, including refinery-related plants, pipelines, storage tanks and terminals, and trucks and truck terminals. We provide services to refinery owners; oil, natural gas and CO2, producers; industrial and commercial enterprises that use CO2 and other industrial gases; and individuals and companies that use our dry-goods trucking services. Substantially all of our revenues are derived from providing services to integrated oil companies, large independent oil and gas or refinery companies, and large industrial and commercial enterprises.

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