Nexen, formerly Canadian Occidental Petroleum (CanadianOxy), is a globe-trotting oil and gas and chemicals company. Nexen Inc. has exploration and production activities primarily in the UK North Sea (which account for 41% of Nexen's total annual production), the US Gulf of Mexico, western Canada (including unconventional natural gas resource plays such as coalbed methane and shale gas, and the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta), Yemen, offshore West Africa and Colombia. Nexen Inc. has proved reserves of 664 million barrels of oil equivalent. Nexen is also involved in power marketing in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

Covanta Energy is an internationally recognized owner and operator of Energy-from-Waste and power generation projects.The major operating arm of Covanta Holding, the power producer has interests in 60 power plants located in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Its plants use a variety of fuels, including municipal solid waste, wood waste (biomass), landfill gas, water (hydroelectric), natural gas, coal, and heavy fuel. Covanta Energy has 30 waste to energy plants worldwide. These specialized plants can convert 16 million tons of waste into more than 8 million MW hours of electricity annually and create 10 billion pounds of steam that are sold to a variety of industries.

Woodside is an independent Australian oil and gas company playing a key role in supplying energy to our region. Woodside Petroleum Ltd. are one of the world’s leading producers of liquefied natural gas, helping meet the demands for cleaner energy from Japan, China, Korea and other countries in the Asia Pacific region. Woodside was formed in 1954, focused initially on oil exploration off Australia’s south coast. Major natural gas discoveries off the Western Australian coast in the 1970s changed the company’s direction, and today Woodside is one of the world’s preeminent producers of LNG. Woodside Petroleum Ltd. operate the $27 billion North West Shelf project, which in 2009 celebrated 25 years of natural gas production and 20 years of LNG production.

New Concept Energy, Inc. was incorporated in 1991 and is based in Dallas, Texas. New Concept Energy (formerly CabelTel International) is looking to put a new face on some really old resources. New Concept Energy, Inc., which operates a residential community for senior citizens in Oregon, is looking to diversify into the shale-sourced natural gas business. New Concept Energy's retirement home offers programs ranging from meal preparation and housekeeping to transportation and recreational activities. New Concept Energy, Inc. formerly owned an outlet shopping mall, but sold that in 2007. It also rescinded its acquisition of cable operator CabelTEL AD that year.

The Hiller Group, Inc. primarily supplies wholesale Chevron and Texaco branded aviation fuel and support services to more than 350 fixed-base operations (FBOs, or refueling sites) for the airline industry. Planes get their filler from The Hiller Group. The Hiller Group also operates through three other companies -- HG Equipment, Hiller Carbon, and Hiller Trading. HG Equipment finances and leases aircraft refuelers to FBOs. Hiller Carbon brokers carbon products to foundries and steel mills, shipping by rail domestically or marine vessel internationally. Hiller Trading imports and exports a variety of raw materials such as chemical, energy, industrial, and recycled products.

Smith International, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides products and services that are used in the drilling, completion, and production phases of oil and natural gas exploration and development activities worldwide. Smith International, Inc. operates in three segments: M-I SWACO, Smith Oilfield, and Distribution. The M-I SWACO segment supplies drilling fluid systems and oilfield production chemicals; offers various waste management equipment and services; and provides completion fluids and related tools. The Smith Oilfield segment offers products and services used in oil and natural gas development activities. Smith International, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets drill bits and borehole enlargement tools; supplies drilling tools and services that include directional drilling systems, measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling services, tubulars, completion services, and downhole solutions; and provides completion and production related operations, which include coiled tubing and cased-hole wireline services, packers, and liner hangers. Smith International, Inc. offers its products and services to independent oil companies, national oil companies, and independent drilling contractors through its direct sales force, as well as through independent sales agents, distributors, or joint ventures. Smith International, Inc. was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Wild Well Control provides emergency well control, firefighting, and engineering services to oil and gas companies worldwide. Wild Well Control, Inc. services include well control training, relief well design, emergency response planning, and data management. Wild Well Control, Inc. offers a portfolio of equipment including firefighting pumps and wagons, deluge systems, and field response units, as well as equipment and maintenance. Wild Well Control has contained oil well fires at land and offshore rigs in Europe, the Middle East, North and South America, and Southeast Asia. Wild Well Control, Inc. is a subsidiary of Superior Energy Services, which bought Wild Well Control in 2001.

Nabors Industries Ltd. was founded in 1968 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda. Nabors Industries Ltd. operates as a land drilling contractor worldwide. Nabors Industries Ltd. conducts oil, gas, and geothermal land drilling operations in the United States, Alaska, Canada, South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, the Middle East, the Far East, the Russian Federation, and Africa. Nabors Industries Ltd. also operates as a land well-servicing and workover contractor in the United States and Canada. In addition, Nabors Industries provides offshore platform workover and drilling rigs that offer well-servicing, workover, and drilling services. Further, Nabors Industries Ltd. offers a range of ancillary well-site services, including engineering, construction, maintenance, well logging, directional drilling, rig instrumentation, data collection, and other support services; and logistics services for onshore drilling in Canada using helicopters and fixed-winged aircraft. Additionally, Nabors Industries Ltd. manufactures and leases or sells top drives for a range of drilling applications, directional drilling systems, rig instrumentation and data collection equipment, pipeline handling equipment, and rig reporting software.

Addax Petroleum Corporation specializes in exploring and producing oil and gas, focusing on regions in West Africa and the Middle East. Addax Petroleum, which has properties in Nigeria, Gabon, Cameroon, and the Kurdistan region of Iraq, produces about 137,000 barrels of crude oil a day. In 2008 Addax Petroleum reported proved and probable reserves of 536.7 million barrels of oil equivalent and held 4.4 million acres of exploration, development and production properties. That year the company was acquired by China's Sinopec for about $7.5 billion.

Advantage Oil & Gas Ltd. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. Advantage Oil and Gas Ltd. is an intermediate oil and natural gas corporation with properties located in Western Canada. The Corporation's common shares trade on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges under the symbol AAV with its head office in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In 2008 the company reported about 547,912 net acres of undeveloped land, and proved and probable reserves of 174.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. It focuses on developing the Montney natural gas resource play located at Glacier, Alberta. The company was formerly known as Advantage Energy Income Fund and changed its name to Advantage Oil & Gas Ltd.

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