Aurado Energy Inc. is an upstream oil& gas company incorporated in 1994 (originally as a mining company) and listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Aurado Energy acquires production stage oil companies in the Caspian and Middle Eastern regions. Aurado Energy Inc. has been exploring primarily in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Aurado Energy Inc. also holds oil and gas assets in Canada. Aurado Energy Inc. has been operating in Kazakhstan through subsidiary Liman Caspian Oil, which held a 90% interest in the Liman Block, but the right to that license is in dispute with Aral Petroleum, previous owner of the block. Aurado Energy has announced that it is trying to confirm the rightful ownership of the Liman Block license and is pursuing all legal means toward that end.

Targa Resources Partners LP provides midstream natural gas and natural gas liquid (NGL) services in the United States. The company operates through two divisions, Natural Gas Gathering and Processing, and NGL Logistics and Marketing. The Natural Gas Gathering and Processing division engages in gathering, compressing, dehydrating, treating, conditioning, processing, marketing, and transporting natural gas and NGLs. This segment operates in the Permian Basin in West Texas, the Fort Worth Basin in North Texas, and the onshore region of the Louisiana Gulf Coast. As of December 31, 2009, it owned and operated approximately 6,500 miles of natural gas pipelines and approximately 750 miles of NGL pipelines. The NGL Logistics and Marketing division involves in fractionation, storage, terminalling, transportation, distribution, and marketing of NGLs. It operates in the Mont Belvieu and Galena Park near Houston, Texas; and Lake Charles, Louisiana. Targa Resources GP LLC serves as the general partner of the company. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Houston, Texas. Targa Resources Partners LP is a subsidiary of Targa Resources, Inc.

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.

Energy Corporation of America is an exploration and production independent focused on gas exploration in the Appalachian Basin, in Texas, and in New Zealand. One of the largest natural gas operators in the Appalachian Basin, ECA holds stakes in about 5,000 wells. Natural gas is the America-based energy that fuels the financial engine of Energy Corporation of America (ECA). Energy Corporation of America has proved natural gas reserves of nearly 400 billion cu. ft. equivalent. Energy Corporation of America pipeline system includes more than 50 compressor stations. Energy Corporation of America, which formed the Appalachian Gas Royalty Trust in 2005, is led by John Mork.

FairWest Energy, formerly Fairstar Explorations, is currently being steered by the fair winds of oil and gas exploration. FairWest Energy Corporation was exploring for precious metals at the Fenelon Property (38%-owned) located in northwestern Quebec, but the company disposed of those operations in 2005. (The company sold its West African mining assets in 2004.) In 2005 FairWest Energy Corporation bought Western Energy's oil and gas exploration business (located in Alberta and Saskatchewan), becoming a new entity called FairWest Energy. In 2007 and 2008FairWest Energy Corporation reported about 100 drilling locations on 72,640 undeveloped net acres and production of 528 barrels of oil equivalent per day. In 2008 FairWest Energy Corporation acquired private Canadian oil firm ExploreCo Energy Inc

Frontier Refining & Marketing, a subsidiary of Frontier Holdings Inc. (which is a subsidiary of Frontier Oil Corporation), operates all of Frontier Oil's marketing, crude and product supply, planning, human resources, and accounting functions. Frontier Refining & Marketing primarily sells its gasoline and diesel to unbranded jobbers, but it also supplies retail operations of other oil companies. The company itself has no retail marketing locations, but does allow jobbers to use the Frontier logo on their retail outlets. Frontier Refining & Marketing is also a major marketer of asphalt to the Front Range area.

Noble Energy, Inc. was founded in 1932 and is based in Houston, Texas. Noble Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, production, and marketing of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids in the United States and internationally. Noble Energy, Inc. operates and holds interests in properties, including Wattenberg field and Piceance basin located in Colorado; San Juan basin in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado; Niobrara field in the tri-state area (eastern Colorado, extending into Kansas and Nebraska); Bowdoin field in north central Montana; and the Wind River basin in central Wyoming. Noble Energy, Inc. also holds properties in Texas, Panhandle, Oklahoma and Kansas deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Illinois, Indiana, and other areas. Noble Energy also operates in Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon in West Africa, the North Sea, Israel, Ecuador, China, and Suriname.

SeaEnergy PLC (formerly Ramco Energy plc), a Scottish public limited company, and its subsidiaries and associates form an energy group, headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland. Through subsidiaries and affiliates, the holding company explores for oil and gas in the UK North Sea, the Irish Sea, Central Europe (Bulgaria), and Iraq. SeaEnergy PLC has also entered the renewable energy field and is looking for global opportunities for large-scale offshore wind farm development through its 88%-owned SeaEnergy Renewables. Because of SeaEnergy PLC new focus on offshore wind power, SeaEnergy PLC changed its name from Ramco Energy in 2009.

Energy and Canada go together for EnCana (its name is derived from Energy, Canada). A leading natural gas exploration and production company, it has proved reserves of 12.4 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas and holds approximately 15.6 million net acres of land in Canada and the US. Its prolific gas plays include the Bighorn Deep Basin in western Alberta, the Piceance Basin in Colorado, and the Barnett Shale play in Texas. One of the largest natural gas producers in North America, EnCana produces about 3 billion cu. ft. of natural gas per day. In December 2009 EnCana reorganized into two highly focused energy companies -- EnCana and Cenovus Energy.

Niko Resources' wingspan stretches from Calgary to Gujarat. The oil and natural gas exploration and production company operates primarily in five oil and gas fields in Bangladesh and in the Indian state of Gujarat. Niko Resources Ltd. also has oil and gas assets offshore. In addition, Niko Resources Ltd. has holdings in Kurdistan, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Thailand. Niko Resources Ltd. typically begins operations in an area by reworking existing wells, then expands its business with exploration and development operations. In 2008 Niko Resources had proved plus probable net reserves of 4.1 million barrels of oil, 1 trillion cu. ft. of gas, and 2.8 million barrels of natural gas liquids.

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