Hardy Oil and Gas is a hearty endorser of the booming oil and gas industry. The international oil and gas exploration and production company primarily focuses on India, with strategic positioning in the oil and gas basins on the east coast of India and off of the Saurashtra west coast, near the Bombay High field. Hardy Oil and Gas plc has also acquired development assets in the proven oil province of the Niger Delta of Nigeria. Hardy Oil and Gas (then known as Jehan Energy Ltd.) was founded by Sastry Karra (CEO) and Yogeshwar Sharma (COO) in 1997. Hardy Oil and Gas plc was renamed Hardy Oil and Gas in 2001 and became a public company in 2005.

Big Oil in Japan means Nippon Oil (formerly Nippon Mitsubishi Oil), the country's largest oil importer and distributor. Nippon Oil operates seven refineries with a total capacity of more than 1.2 million barrels per day. It has exploration activities in Canada, the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, South America, Australia, and Southeast Asia. Nippon Oil, which has a 25% share of the Japanese gasoline market, operates 10,400 service stations across Japan. It also generates and sells electricity and has extensive petrochemical operations. The company has a broad cooperation pact with Cosmo Oil.

The SoCo Group is that it does more than simply distribute commercial and industrial petroleum products and lubricants to customers in Southern California. SoCo Group also operates cardlock, fleet fueling, and a network retail brand gasoline stations and dealers stations that sell gasoline under the Chevron, Shell, SoCo and Valero brands, and others. The SoCo Group operates a fleet of more than 40 bulk delivery trucks that carry a range of fuels, including jet fuels and marine diesel. The SoCo Group can also monitor the level of products in customers' fuels and lubricant tanks via the Internet.

Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP (NYSE: BWP) is a master limited partnership engaged through its subsidiaries in the interstate transportation and storage of natural gas. In addition to conventional onshore and offshore Gulf Coast supply sources, Boardwalk's pipelines access long-lived unconventional natural gas supply sources. Our pipelines have the flexibility to deliver to many diversified markets, including 11 interconnecting interstate pipelines that serve the Northeast and Midwest; several interconnecting interstate pipelines that serve Florida and the Southeast; and directly to local distribution companies, power plants and industrial end users within the Boardwalk footprint. Boardwalk has three subsidiaries: * Gulf South Pipeline is a “web-like” system that gathers gas from basins between Texas and Alabama and delivers it to on-system markets within its footprint and to off-system markets in the Northeast and Southeast through interconnections with third-party pipelines. * Texas Gas Transmission is a traditional “long-haul” pipeline that moves gas from Gulf Coast supply areas to more distant on-system markets in the Midwest and to off-system markets in the Northeast via interconnections with third-party pipelines. * We have also formed a third subsidiary, Gulf Crossing Pipeline Company LLC, to operate the new Gulf Crossing interstate pipeline which began operating in the first quarter of 2009. Gulf Crossing originates near Sherman, Texas and proceeds to the Perryville, Louisiana area.

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.

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.

InterOil Corporation is developing an Integrated Oil and Gas Company in Papua New Guinea. The Company has positioned itself to own assets through the entire value chain - from the well-head to retail. InterOil has also positioned itself through a joint venture holding company to develop a LNG project in Papua New Guinea. The joint venture company is targeting 2015 for the delivery of 'first gas'. Getting into oil is a slippery business, but one embraced by InterOil Corporation, which is focused on developing an integrated energy business in Papua New Guinea and the surrounding region. In addition to operating a 36,000 barrel-per-day refinery and retail assets, InterOil has begun an extensive exploration program on its 4.6 million net acre property in Papua New Guinea, northwest of Port Moresby. Most of the refined products from InterOil's refinery are secured by contracts with Royal Dutch Shell and InterOil's subsidiary, InterOil Products Limited. InterOil secures crude oil supply for its refinery though a contract with BP Singapore.

CityView Corporation has as a global eye for acquiring and developing oil and gas and minerals assets. CityView Corporation Limited has been involved in two oil and gas production-sharing contracts (PSCs) with Indonesia's state-controlled Pertamina. The Madura and Simenggaris blocks were selected as the company's focus for its PSCs. CityView had a combined 25% interest in the Madura (674,100 acres) and Simenggaris (675,582 acres) blocks. However, following disappointing results, in 2006 CityView Corporation Limited shifted its focus to Angola and on the search for copper, gold, and other minerals. CityView Corporation Limited also has operations in Cameroon and Dubai. In 2008 CityView teamed up with ENDITRADE to develop logistic services for the Angolan mining industry.

Integrated oil giant Rosneft conducts oil and gas exploration and production activities in Siberia, the Far East, the North Caucasus, Timan-Pechora, the Volga-Urals region, the Black, Caspian, and Azov Seas, and in Kamchatka. OAO Rosneft Oil Company also has exploration projects in Algeria, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. OAO Rosneft Oil Company has proved, probable and possible reserves of 49 billion barrels of oil equivalent. OAO Rosneft Oil Company has seven refineries with an aggregate capacity of 56.7 million tonnes. Rosneft also operates shipping and pipeline companies, as well as a national network of 1,700 gasoline stations. The Russian government owns 75% of Rosneft.

Falcon Oil & Gas has spread its wings and focused its energy on searching for oil and gas. Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd. operates in Romania (through JVX Exploration) where Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd. has the right to explore and drill wells on property that covers 575,260 acres and is adjacent to Hungary's two largest oil fields. Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd. licenses are in south-central Hungary near the town of Szolnok. Falcon operates in Hungary (through TXM Oil and Gas Exploration) where it is focusing on an underground geologic formation called the Mako Trough. Falcon Oil & Gas also holds interests in four non-producing properties in Alberta, Canada.

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