This can get Kinder complicated: Kinder Morgan Management (KMM) was created in 2001 by pipeline operator Knight (formerly Kinder Morgan, Inc., or KMI), to become general partner of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP). KMM oversees KMP's business segments: pipelines that transport refined petroleum products (including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and natural gas liquids); natural gas pipelines; pipelines that transport carbon dioxide for oil field use; bulk terminals that handle coal, petroleum coke, and other products; and liquids terminals that handle refined petroleum products and chemicals. Knight controls KMM and, indirectly, KMP.

TransMontaigne Partners L.P. is a terminaling and transportation company with operations along the Gulf Coast, in the Midwest, in Brownsville, Texas, along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, and in the Southeastern United States. We provide integrated terminaling, storage, transportation and related services for customers engaged in the distribution and marketing of light refined petroleum products, heavy refined petroleum products, crude oil, chemicals, fertilizers and other liquid products. Light refined products include gasolines, diesel fuels, heating oil and jet fuels. Heavy refined products include residual fuel oils and asphalt. We do not purchase or market products that we handle or transport. TransMontaigne Partners, formed by parent TransMontaigne Inc. in 2005, provides integrated terminaling, storage, and pipeline services for companies engaged in refined petroleum products and crude oil distribution and marketing. Products handled include light refined products (gasolines, heating oils, and jet fuels), heavy refined products (asphalt and residual fuel oils), and crude oil. The company's petroleum products terminaling and transportation operations are located along the Gulf Coast, in Brownsville, Texas, along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and in the Midwest.

From the tanker to the main, Enagás keeps gas moving. Enagás is engaged in the construction and operation of Spain's natural gas distribution pipeline infrastructure and the transportation and storage of natural gas to distributors and transporters in the region. It operates more than 4,750 miles of high-pressure gas pipeline, and a network of regulation and measurement stations, compression stations, regasification plants, and storage facilities. About 37% of the company's natural gas comes from sources in Algeria; 24% from Nigeria. Enagás, founded in 1972, has restructured its debt and reorganized its management structure in an effort to modernize its business.

Dana Petroleum is an oil and natural gas exploration and production company with operations in the North Sea, as well as Australia, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Mauritania, and Senegal. Dana Petroleum plc has expanded its production activities in the North Sea, where Dana Petroleum plc has 16 producing fields. The company's growth strategy is to balance low-risk production from the UK North Sea with more aggressive high-risk international exploration and production (primarily in Egypt). At the end of 2007 Dana reported proved and probable reserves of 165.8 million barrels of oil equivalent. That year Dana Petroleum plc acquired Devon Energy's oil and gas business in Egypt for $375 million. In 2008 Dana was operating four producing fields in Egypt.

Penn West Energy Trust was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. Penn West Energy Trust (formerly Penn West Petroleum) has been pumping gas and oil from Western Canada in hopes of keeping black ink flowing from its auditor's pen. The independent exploration and production company has holdings of 3.2 million net acres of undeveloped land in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia. In 2007 Penn West Energy Trust reported net proved and probable reserves of 644.2 million barrels of oil equivalent. Shareholders converted Penn West Energy Trust into a trust in 2005, making it one of Canada's largest oil and gas income trusts. It combined general partners Penn West, Northern Reef, Trocana, and Penn West Exploration.

Guardian Exploration Inc. is a junior oil and gas exploration company operating primarily in Montana's Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Guardian Exploration Inc. has relinquished its rights to the western block of the reservation, which contained 150,000 tribal mineral acres. But Guardian Exploration Inc. retains exploration rights on the east side of the reservation for 100,000 tribal mineral acres. The firm has not commercially produced in the area, and plans to seek new opportunities in Western Canada. In 2009 Guardian Exploration Inc. agreed to merge with fellow explorer Luxor Oil & Gas, but the deal fell through.

Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation engages in the development, exploitation, and exploration of oil and gas properties in North America. Its principal areas of operation comprise the Appalachian Basin; the onshore Gulf Coast, including south and east Texas and north Louisiana; the Rocky Mountains; and the Anadarko Basin. Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation also operates in the deep gas basin of Western Canada. In addition, it transports, stores, gathers, and produces natural gas for resale. As of December 31, 2008, Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation had total proved reserves of 1,942 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalents.

Key Energy Services, Inc. was founded in 1977 and is based in Houston, Texas. Key Energy Services, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an onshore, rig-based well servicing contractor worldwide. Key Energy Services, Inc. operates through three segments: Well Servicing, Pressure Pumping Services, and Fishing and Rental Services. The Well Servicing segment offers a range of well services, including rig-based services, oilfield transportation services, cased-hole electric wireline services, contract drilling services, and other ancillary oilfield services for the completion, stimulation, maintenance, and workover of oil and natural gas producing wells. The Pressure Pumping Services segment provides well stimulation services, such as fracturing, nitrogen services, and acidizing; and cementing services to the oil and natural gas producers. The Fishing and Rental Services segment offers fishing and rental services to independent oil and natural gas production companies, as well as provides services offshore.

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.

Shell is a leading oil and gas producer in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, a recognized pioneer in oil and gas exploration and production technology and one of America’s leading oil and natural gas producers, gasoline and natural gas marketers and petrochemical manufacturers. We operate in 50 states and employ more than 22,000 people delivering energy in technically innovative ways. Shell Pipeline Company keeps the oil moving and the pipes pumped. The company, a subsidiary of Shell Oil's Shell Oil Products US unit, is one of the largest petroleum products pipeline transportation companies in the US. Shell Pipeline has partial ownership of 10,000 miles of pipeline and annually moves more than 2 billion gallons of oil and petroleum products across 21 states. Shell Pipeline transports more than 50 different kinds of crude oil, more than 20 different grades of gasoline, including diesel fuel, jet fuel, chemicals, ethylene, and NGLs. The company manages more than 1,200 miles of offshore pipelines, 600 miles of onshore pipelines, and more than 10 terminals throughout the Gulf of Mexico.

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