West Energy is an oil and natural gas exploration and production company with operations in western Canada. West Energy Ltd. has a large portfolio of drilling prospects in one of western Canada's most prolific light-oil plays, the Nisku area in Alberta. West Energy Ltd. produces more than 6,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, and in 2007 it reported that it had proved plus probable reserves of more than 7.3 million barrels of oil equivalent. In the latter half of the decade, West Energy acquired stakes in the Beaverhill Lake light oil play and the Warburg area of Alberta as well as the Montney gas play in British Columbia. At December 31, 2007, West’s land position of Pembina Nisku rights along the trend includes 81,056 gross (46,010 net) acres consisting of 12,000 gross (5,717 net) acres of developed land and 69,056 gross (40,293 net) acres of undeveloped land.

Dril-Quip, Inc. designs, manufactures, fabricates, inspects, assembles, tests, and markets engineered offshore drilling and production equipment for use in deepwater, harsh environment, and severe service applications worldwide. Dril-Quip, Inc. principal products include subsea and surface wellheads, subsea and surface production trees, subsea control systems and manifolds, mudline hanger systems, specialty connectors and associated pipe, drilling and production riser systems, liner hangers, and wellhead connectors and diverters. Dril-Quip, Inc. products are used to explore for oil and gas on offshore drilling rigs, such as floating rigs and jack-ups. Dril-Quip, Inc. products are also used for drilling and production of oil and gas wells on offshore platforms; TLPs, which are floating production platforms connected to the ocean floor via vertical mooring tethers; Spars, a floating cylindrical structure; and floating production, storage, and offloading monohull moored vessels. In addition, Dril-Quip, Inc. provides services, including technical advisory services, rework and reconditioning services, and rental of running tools for use in the installation and retrieval of its products. Dril-Quip, Inc. serves integrated, independent, and foreign national oil and gas companies, as well as offshore drilling contractors, and engineering and construction companies. Dril-Quip, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is based in Houston, Texas.

ENMAX Corporation gets the energy, distributes it, and makes sure its customers stay powered up. The company's nonregulated ENMAX Energy subsidiary supplies retail electricity to 614,000 residential and commercial customers in Alberta in Calgary, Red Deer, and Lethbridge. The unit also trades wholesale energy and provides natural gas and telecommunications services. Subsidiary ENMAX Power operates the company's regulated transmission and distribution system and provides infrastructure services. The City of Calgary controls ENMAX, which was founded in 1889, only five years after Calgary was formed.

Peyto Energy Trust (formerly PEYTO Exploration & Development) invests in long-life gas projects in Alberta's Central Deep Basin. Through subsidiary Peyto Exploration, it focuses on the Sundance and Smoky/Kakwa areas and has proved reserves of 124.3 million barrels of oil equivalent. It also operates gas plants and more than 200 miles of gas gathering pipeline. The company pursues a strategy of developing long-lived reserves requiring low operating costs in order to secure a high return on capital.

A proud tradition was born on May 1, 1916, when Harry Sinclair formed Sinclair Oil from the assets of eleven small petroleum companies. Sinclair quickly grew to become the seventh largest oil company in the United States. The original Sinclair Oil Company began marketing the apatosaurus (brontosaurus) in 1930 and now after more than 70 years, "Dino" still remains one of the most recognizable corporate logos in the world. Way out west, where fossils are found, brontosaur signs appear all 'round. They belong to Sinclair Oil's more than 2,600 service stations and convenience stores in 21 western and midwestern US states. The company also operates three oil refineries, pipelines, exploration operations, and a trucking fleet, all in the western US. It owns a 71,500-barrels-per-day refinery in Rawlins, Wyoming, a 20,000-barrels-per-day unit in Casper, Wyoming, and a 75,000-barrels-per-day refinery in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A diversified company, Sinclair also owns the Grand America Hotel, the Little America hotel chain, and two ski resorts (Sun Valley in Idaho and Snowbasin in Utah). The company is owned and led by R. Earl Holding.

Western Petroleum was founded in 1952.Western Petroleum transports fuels, lubes, and industrial oils to mines, farms, ski resorts, construction and trucking firms, drilling rigs, and other commercial accounts in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Wyoming. Western Petroleum also provides on-site and contract fleet fueling from 10 terminals mostly in Colorado and Utah. Western Petroleum distributes products from Chevron, Sinclair, Conoco, and Exxon Mobil including kerosene, filters, methanol, solvents, and anti-freeze. Western Petroleum imports its products from across the US and Canada, ensuring a steady supply even as petroleum prices bounce around.

The hunt for petroleum drives the Hunt family, which traces its oil interests back to legendary wildcatter H.L. Hunt. Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. controls Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. and Petro-Hunt International, L.L.C. (together known as the Petro-Hunt Group, one of the world's largest privately held independent energy concerns). Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. focuses on oil and gas exploration and production in the US. Petro-Hunt's other activities include gas processing, pipeline transportation and refining. Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. also controls Placid Refining Company, which operates a state-of-the-art 50,000 barrels-of-oil-per-day refinery in Louisiana. The Petro-Hunt Group, through the years, has also created separate stand alone companies in various sectors of the energy industry, some that have become the foundation for and/or substantial portions of other publicly traded companies.

JKX Oil & Gas plc is a FTSE 250 exploration and production company. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, JKX Oil and Gas plc principal interests are located in Ukraine and Russia, with additional interests in Georgia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia. In Ukraine, JKX's most developed oil patch, JKX Oil and Gas plc holds 100% of Ukrainian subsidiary Poltava Petroleum Company (PPC). In Georgia JKX is developing a prospect in the Georgia Black Sea with US independent Anadarko Petroleum. JKX Oil and Gas plc also has onshore exploration interests in eastern Bulgaria. JKX Oil and Gas has proved and possible reserves of 89 million barrels of oil equivalent.

Enterra Energy Trust was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada with an additional office is in Carney, Oklahoma. Enterra Energy Trust, an open-end unincorporated investment trust, through its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration for and production of oil and gas in Canada and the United States. Enterra Energy Trust holds interests in various properties, including Clair, Provost-Alliance-Wainwright, Princess, and Ricinus in Alberta; Desan in British Columbia; and Liebenthal in Saskatchewan. Enterra Energy Trust also owns interests in properties located in Grant, Lincoln, and Logan counties in Oklahoma. As of December 31, 2008, Enterra Energy Trust had proved and probable reserves of 26,699 mboe.

Our strategy seeks to reinforce our position as a leader in the oil and gas industry in order to provide a competitive shareholder return while helping to meet global energy demand in a responsible way. Royal Dutch Shell (formerly Royal Dutch/Shell Group) sits on an oil and gas throne that is only slightly lower than that of #1 oil company Exxon Mobil. The company has worldwide proved reserves of 10.9 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Most of the oil giant's crude is produced in Nigeria, Oman, the UK, and the US. Royal Dutch Shell is also investing heavily in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project, which extracts bitumen from oil sands in Alberta and converts it to synthetic crude oil. It operates 45,000 gas stations, the world's largest retail fuel network. The company also produces refined products and chemicals, transports natural gas, trades gas and electricity, and develops renewable energy sources.

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