Petroplus Holdings (formerly Petroplus International) handles plus-sized amounts of petroleum. The company, which was founded in 1993 by Marcel van Poecke and Willem Willemstein, specializes in oil refining, storage, and marketing. Petroplus owns refineries in France, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. These refineries have a total capacity of 816,000 barrels per day. RIVR, an investment vehicle jointly owned by US private equity firms Carlyle Group and Riverstone Holdings, spent about $300 million in 2005 to acquire Petroplus and take it private. It went public again in 2006. Our goal is to be the leading independent refiner and supplier of unbranded petroleum products in Europe and to be an industry leader in returning value to our shareholders.

Dixie Gas & Oil, a distributor of propane, heating oil, industrial lubricants, and other petroleum products to customers in Virginia and West Virginia. Dixie Gas & Oil Corporation also operates gas stations and convenience stores and provides fleeting fueling services. In addition to propane and petroleum, Dixie Gas & Oil supplies CITGO- and Castrol-branded commercial and food grade lubricants; Dixie Gas & Oil Corporation also supplies some retailers with BP and Pure petroleum products. Dixie Gas & Oil Corporation was founded as Dixie Bottled Gas Company in 1946. Dixie Gas & Oil's five gas stations/convenience stores offer BP fuels, Subway sandwiches and salads, as well as convenience food items.

China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is the largest offshore oil and gas producer in China. Besides production, which is handled through subsidiary CNOOC Limited, CNOOC has more than two dozen other subsidiaries involved in oil and gas refining and marketing, chemicals (China BlueChemical), technical and engineering services (such as China Oilfield Services), and financial services (such as a life insurance joint venture with AEGON). About half of the government-owned company's revenue comes from oil production; in 2008, China National Offshore Oil Corporation produced 194 million barrels of oil equivalent, while its refineries processed 3.35 million tons of crude. CNOOC's marketing arm owns almost 200 gas stations and eight oil depots.

Wintershall is a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF, which is based in Ludwigshafen, and specializes in energy. Wintershall is active in various regions of the world in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas. In Europe the BASF subsidiary trades and sells natural gas. Wintershall Holding AG also markets storage capacities for oil and gas, transportation capacities for gas as well as optic fiber capacities. Wintershall has been active in the exploration and production of oil and gas for more than 75 years, and with its headquarters in Kassel, Wintershall Holding AG is now Germany’s largest producer of crude oil and natural gas. In its exploration and production activities, Wintershall deliberately focuses on selected core regions where the company possesses a wealth of regional and technological expertise. These regions include Europe, North Africa, South America as well as Russia and the Caspian Sea region. In addition, these operations are complemented by the Wintershall Holding AG growing exploration activities in the Arabian Gulf.

Mooncor Oil & Gas Corp. is a junior oil and gas exploration and production company with unconventional shale gas, light oil, and heavy oil projects in Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Southwestern Ontario. Mooncor Oil and Gas was acquired by oil and gas exploration firm Mooncor Resources in 2007 via a reverse takeover. Until 2004, Mooncor Oil and Gas Corp.was parent to VPG Video Publishing Group, which offered a range of video production services. Mooncor focuses on unconventional gas projects, most particularly in the Colorado shales in western Canada. In addition to its shale gas projects in Alberta it also explores for conventional oil and heavy oil in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

PETRONAS was incorporated on 17 August 1974 as the national oil company of Malaysia, vested with the entire ownership and control of the petroleum resources in the country. It has since grown from merely being the manager and regulator of Malaysia’s upstream sector into a fully integrated oil and gas corporation, ranked among the FORTUNE Global 500® largest corporations in the world. Headquartered in the world's tallest buildings (PETRONAS Twin Towers), state-owned Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) towers above other Malaysian companies in revenues. As a holding company for Malaysia's oil and natural gas concerns, PETRONAS' subsidiaries engage in exploration and production and refining and sales ventures in more than 30 countries, primarily in Asia and Africa. The company has estimated proved reserves of more than 27 billion barrels of oil equivalent (the bulk of which is natural gas). It is a major producer of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). PETRONAS markets petroleum products through more than 900 domestic gas stations; it also sells aviation fuels, kerosene, and lubricants.

NuVista Energy is the new view of Bonavista Petroleum, which reorganized in 2003 to form an income trust company (Bonavista Energy Trust) and an oil and natural gas exploration company. NuVista focuses on oil and natural gas exploration, development, and production in east-central Alberta and west-central Saskatchewan. Operating in the Oyen, Provost, and Pembina areas, NuVista Energy Ltd. has proved plus probable reserves of 82.2 million barrels of oil equivalent. The group's strategy is to concentrate on its core natural gas-prone areas, drilling medium-risk prospects, and to invest 10% of its capital on higher-risk properties. In 2009 NuVista Energy Ltd. acquired assets in British Columbia and Northwest Alberta for $174 million.

Russia's Sakhalin Island is Big Oil nirvana. The area's estimated reserves top 500 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 150 million tons of oil. Sakhalin Energy is a consortium of Royal Dutch Shell, Russia's Gazprom, and Japan's Mitsui and Mitsubishi formed to exploit those resources. Its facilities include offshore platforms, an oil pipeline terminal and a natural gas liquefaction plant, which the company hopes will give it an edge in serving the growing demand in Asia. Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. was formed in 1994 to develop the Piltun-Astokhskoye oil field and the Lunskoye gas field in the Sea of Okhotsk offshore Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East. Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. began producing and exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2009. The first delivery was to Japan in March of that year.

Delta Petroleum Corporation engages in the exploration, acquisition, development, production, and sale of natural gas and crude oil in the United States.Delta Petroleum Corporation owns producing and non-producing oil and natural gas interests, undeveloped leasehold interests, and related assets in 17 states, as well as interests in a producing Federal unit offshore California and undeveloped offshore Federal leases near Santa Barbara, California.Delta Petroleum Corporation also engages in contract drilling operations, as well as marketing trucking services in the Casper, Wyoming area. As of December 31, 2008, it had approximately 827.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 9.5 Mmbbls of crude oil.Delta Petroleum Corporation was founded in 1984 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Jayhawk Pipeline is not the process for producing University of Kansas mascots. What it is is a subsidiary of National Cooperative Refinery Association that transports more than 110,000 barrels per day of crude oil via both intrastate and interstate pipelines in Kansas. It operates 1,200 miles of gathering and trunk lines throughout Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. It also manages the business of Kaw Pipe Line Company. National Cooperative Refinery Association provides three farm supply cooperatives (Cenex Harvest States, GROWMARK, and MFA Oil) with fuel through its oil refinery in Kansas.

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