Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. engages in the acquisition, management, exploration, and development of oil and natural gas properties. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. holds properties and other oil and gas interests primarily in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas, the United States. As of September 30, 2009, Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. had working and/or royalty interests in 4,861 producing oil and natural gas wells, as well as in 40 wells that were in the process of drilling or completion. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. customers include pipeline and marketing companies. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. was formerly known as Panhandle Royalty Company and changed its name to Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. in March 2007. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. was founded in 1926 and is based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Pavilion Energy Resources, Inc. (PVRE) is an emerging, energy development company focused on developing large-scale, wind power projects in the US and abroad. In 2007, Pavilion Energy Resources, Inc. acquired Energetics, a Texas-based oil and gas development company that holds an oil lease in Louisiana. In conjunction with the deal, executives from Energetics took over at Global Business Services, which then changed its name to Energetics Holdings. The next year, Pavilion Energy Resources, Inc. again changed its name and the two groups rescinded the 2007 agreement to sell the company. Pavilion Energy Resources also holds oil and gas assets in Tennessee and Kentucky.

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.

Getty Petroleum Marketing distributes gasoline and heating fuels. Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc., a subsidiary of Russian oil giant LUKOIL, has more than 2,000 gas stations (some of which maintain convenience stores, auto repair centers, or car washes) in 13 northeastern and mid-Atlantic US states. Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. sells more than 2 billion gallons of gasoline a year. the company sells heating oil through its KOSCO subsidiary. Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. also has six petroleum terminals and 170 delivery vehicles. Getty Petroleum Marketing is converting its stations to the LUKOIL brand as LUKOIL tries to build the brand awareness and customer loyalty that the Getty brand has long enjoyed in the US.

Winstar Resources Ltd. is a publicly traded oil and gas company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, focused primarily on Tunisia. Winstar Resources, Ltd. is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with international headquarters in Breda, The Netherlands and offices in Geneva, Switzerland; Tunis, Tunisia; Szolnok, Hungary and Bucharest, Romania. In 2005 Winstar Resources, Ltd. acquired Athanor, which produces in Tunisia, and El Paso Hungary Oil and Gas Concession L.L.C. Founded in 1996 as Virginia Energy Corporation, Winstar Resources, Ltd. subsequently changed its name to Winstar Resources. Winstar will focus primarily on high impact Tunisian wells which have the potential to substantially increase cash flow and production. Future activity will be funded, in great part, internally, by cash flow and divestment of non-core assets, and externally, through joint venture partnerships.

Panhandle Energy keeps a handle on the operations of natural gas pipeline companies for its parent Southern Union. The division is made up of Florida Gas Tranmission, Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line , Sea Robin Pipeline, Southwest Gas Storage, Trunkline Gas, and Trunkline LNG. Panhandle Energy's more than 15,000 mile-long natural gas pipeline network extends from the Gulf of Mexico to the Midwest and Canada. These pipelines have a delivery capacity of 7.4 billion cu. ft. per day and 87 billion cu. ft. of underground storage. Trunkline LNG's import terminal in Louisiana has 9 billion cu. ft. of liquid storage facilities.

Woodside is an independent Australian oil and gas company playing a key role in supplying energy to our region. Woodside Petroleum Ltd. are one of the world’s leading producers of liquefied natural gas, helping meet the demands for cleaner energy from Japan, China, Korea and other countries in the Asia Pacific region. Woodside was formed in 1954, focused initially on oil exploration off Australia’s south coast. Major natural gas discoveries off the Western Australian coast in the 1970s changed the company’s direction, and today Woodside is one of the world’s preeminent producers of LNG. Woodside Petroleum Ltd. operate the $27 billion North West Shelf project, which in 2009 celebrated 25 years of natural gas production and 20 years of LNG production.

Trading natural gas for retail cash, Gendis holds 2.5 million units of Fort Chicago Energy Partners, a limited partnership with interests in North American natural gas pipelines and plants. It also has interests in real estate. Gendis has said "sayonara" to its SAAN Stores subsidiary. Through that retail division, the firm had operated more than 200 department and houseware stores (under the SAAN and Red Apple Clearance Centre brand names) throughout Canada. Gendis sold SAAN Stores to a group of retail business investors in 2004. The company was founded in 1939.

Magellan Petroleum Corporation was founded in 1957 and is based in Portland, Maine. Magellan Petroleum Corporation and its subsidiaries engage in the exploration for, and development, production, and sale of oil and gas reserves in Australia, North America, and the United Kingdom. Its assets include the Mereenie, Palm Valley, and Dingo fields in Australia; the East Poplar and Northwest Poplar fields in Montana; and a series of licenses (Markwells Wood / Havant) in the onshore southern United Kingdom. The company has proved reserves of 13.5 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 722,000 barrels of oil. MPAL's main customer is the Northern Territory's Power and Water Corporation.

Texalta Petroleum Ltd. is an oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, acquisition and development of prospective oil & gas properties, primarily in Saskatchewan, and an 82% interest in Exploration Permits EP 103 and EP 104 in the Northern Territory of Australia. Texalta Petroleum also has an interest in exploration permits in the Northern Territory of Australia, but it is focusing on its Canadian activities.In Canada, Texalta's main focus at this time is in the Wordsworth and West Queensdale project areas in southeast Saskatchewan. A new horizontal well in the Wordsworth area was completed on June 9, 2006 resulted in a new pool discovery where Texalta as Operator holds a 47.5% working interest. At the present time exploration activities are being directed at the Mississippian Alida, and deeper Palaeozoic plays of Southeastern Saskatchewan as well as Leduc Reef and Mesozoic plays in Central Alberta. Texalta Petroleum Ltd. also has a working interest in a project in the Wordsworth area of Saskatchewan and also works as that project's operator.

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