PetroLiance LLC distributes fuels, lubricants, and petroleum products to customers in the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, and Ohio. PetroLiance was founded to anticipate and respond to the fundamental changes that are occurring in the industry, by implementing an innovative new approach to petroleum product distribution and marketing. The ultimate outcome of this endeavor will be improved operations, a higher level of service and responsiveness and, above all, greater profitability for our customers. PetroLiance LLC lubricant products include automotive and aviation lubricants, industrial greases, and metal processing fluids. Boncosky Oil, an authorized distributor of Exxon Mobil brand products in the Chicago area, merged with three other regional ExxonMobil distributors: Commercial Ullman Lubricants Company of Ohio; Lubricant Technologies, active in North and South Carolina, and Georgia; and Young Oil Company of Florida, to form the much stronger national player, PetroLiance.

Phoenix Technology Income Fund (formerly Phoenix Technology Services) looks to bring new life, in terms of profits, over and over again. It provides contracting services for oil and gas well drilling, specializing in directional and horizontal drilling. It also provides equipment, supervision, and technology services to oil and gas enterprises worldwide and has drilled more than 6,000 wells. In addition to drilling services, it sells its own drilling guidance systems. The income fund operates in Canada through Phoenix Technology Services and in the US through Nevis Energy Services. Phoenix Technology has operated since 1985 and was reorganized as a trust in 2004.

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.

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. was founded in 1920 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. engages in the contract drilling of oil and gas wells in the United States and internationally. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. provides drilling rigs, equipment, personnel, and camps on a contract basis to explore for and develop oil and gas from onshore areas and from fixed platforms, tension-leg platforms, and spars in offshore areas. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. conducts domestic land drilling primarily in Oklahoma, California, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Utah, Arkansas, New Mexico, and North Dakota; and offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, offshore of California, Trinidad, and Equatorial Guinea. As of September 30, 2009, Helmerich & Payne, Inc. had 201 land drilling rigs in the United States; 9 offshore platform rigs; and international land rigs, including 1 in Venezuela, 6 in Colombia, 4 in Ecuador, 9 in Argentina, 1 in Tunisia, and 6 rigs in Mexico. In addition, Helmerich & Payne engages in the ownership, development, and operation of commercial real estate properties, as well as the research and development of rotary steerable technology.

Center Oil's core business is peddling petroleum. The company is one of the largest private wholesale distributors of gasoline and other petroleum products to customers primarily in the eastern region of the US. Center Oil owns a dozen storage terminals capable of storing 2.8 million barrels of petroleum products. It also has access to 36 terminals in 10 states, as well as access to the Magellan, Texas Eastern, Kinder Morgan Chicago, and Kaneb pipeline systems. Its products are also distributed through a fleet of ships, barges, and trucks.

Bridgeline Holdings, L.P. owns and operates natural gas intrastate pipeline and storage facilities located along Southern Louisiana and serves the Mississippi River industrial, utility, power generation and LDC marketplace between Baton Rouge and New Orleans Louisiana. With more than 1,000 miles of pipeline, over 10 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of salt dome storage capacity and 37,500 horsepower of compression, Bridgeline provides a diversified natural gas supply portfolio and transportation and storage services to the South Louisiana marketplace. The partnership provides high- and intermediate-pressure operating capabilities to provide full-service access to the interstate pipeline grid in South Louisiana and at the Henry Hub. Within near proximity of several sited LNG re-gasification terminals, Bridgeline is well positioned to play a key role in this rapidly developing marketplace.

Ringing in the new era of utility competition, Electrabel remains the #1 power company in Belgium. Operating nuclear, fossil-fueled, and hydroelectric power plants, it has a generating capacity of 31,200 MW. The diversified utility supplies electricity to 5.2 million customers, natural gas to more than 2.1 million customers. Electrabel, which produces about 90% of Belgium's electricity, also provides energy, heat, and steam to domestic industrial customers, trades power and gas, and manages electricity and natural gas infrastructures. The company is a subsidiary of giant utility group GDF SUEZ.

Urals Energy Public Company Limited, a Cyprus-based holding company admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), is an independent oil company with its operating assets located in Russia. Urals Energy’s main exploration and production operations are in Timan Pechora and on Sakhalin Island. An oil and gas exploration and production company, Urals Energy manages core assets that comprise two onshore properties located in East Siberia, a notoriously frigid region located east of the Urals Mountains. Urals Energy PLC properties (Dulisminskoye and Srednebotuobinskoye), along with other non-core assets (such as properties in the Russian Republic of Udmurtia) together produce an average of 7,800 bopd (barrels of oil per day) and have proved/probable reserves of 1,202 million barrels of oil equivalent. Founded in 2003, Urals Energy has been a publically-traded company since 2005.

Colonial Pipeline Co. is an interstate common carrier of petroleum products. Each day, it delivers an average of 100 million gallons of gasolines, kerosenes, home heating oils, diesel fuels and national defense fuels to shipper terminals in 12 states and the District of Columbia. The 5,519-mile Colonial system transports these fuels primarily from refineries in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to 267 marketing terminals serving the communities across the South and Eastern United States.

JAPEX is at the apex of Japan's oil and gas industry. Japan Petroleum Exploration (JAPEX) explores for and produces oil and gas in Japan and around the world and has proved reserves of 272 million barrels of oil equivalent. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. exploration and production division sells crude oil, natural gas, and liquefied natural gas (LNG). Another division contracts for drilling projects and geological and geophysical surveys. Other operations include the sale of petroleum products such as LPG and fuel oil. Expanding its portfolio, in 2009 JAPEX acquired the oil product sales unit of a Mitsubishi Materials subsidiary. The Japanese government controls 34% of JAPEX.

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