Transocean Ltd. provides offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells worldwide. Transocean Ltd. offers deepwater and harsh environment drilling, oil and gas drilling management, and drilling engineering and project management services, as well as explores, develops, and produces oil and gas resources. As of December 31, 2008, Transocean Ltd. owned and operated 136 mobile offshore drilling units comprising 39 high-specification floaters, 28 midwater floaters, 10 high-specification jackups, 55 standard jackups, and 4 other rigs, as well as 10 ultra-deepwater floaters under construction or contracted for construction. Transocean Ltd. provide rigs for all types of petroleum companies in offshore drilling markets that include the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and eastern Canada, Brazil, the U.K. and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea, West Africa, Asia, including Australia, the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, India and the Mediterranean. Transocean Ltd. was founded in 1953 and is based in Vernier, Switzerland.

Halliburton Company provides various products and services to the energy industry for the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas worldwide. Halliburton Company operates in two segments, Completion and Production, and Drilling and Evaluation. The Completion and Production segment provides production enhancement services, completion tools and services, and cementing services. Its production enhancement services include stimulation, pipeline process, sand control, and well intervention services; completion tools and services comprise subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment, surface safety systems, packers and specialty completion equipment, intelligent completion systems, expandable liner hanger systems, sand control systems, well servicing tools, and reservoir performance services; and cementing services consist of bonding the well and well casing, while isolating fluid zones and maximizing wellbore stability, and casing equipment. The Drilling and Evaluation segment provides field and reservoir modeling, drilling, evaluation, and well construction solutions that enable customers to model, measure, and optimize their well placement and reservoir evaluation activities. Halliburton Company serves national, integrated, and independent oil and gas companies. Halliburton Company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

A Canadian resource-based junior corporation exploring internationally for oil, gas and minerals. Softrock Minerals Ltd. common shares are traded on the TSX Venture Exchange with the trading Symbol "SFT". Softrock Minerals Ltd. oil and gas producing interests are in Alberta. The junior oil and gas exploration and development company has additional interests in gold and other mineral prospecting. About 75% of Softrock Minerals Ltd. expenditures are dedicated to drilling close-in oil and gas plays. The rest is used for higher-risk projects, including activities related to gold, silver, and copper prospects. Softrock Minerals Ltd. has active projects in Alberta, and Saskatchewan. Softrock has participated in exploratory drilling in the Manitou Lake Area of western Saskatchewan, in the Cretaceous Sparky heavy oil sand.

Petroleum Marketers, Inc. (PMI), incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia on March 27, 1950, is an employee-owned family of companies whose first goal has always been customer service. Headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, we offer complete lines of branded and unbranded gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, home heating oil, bulk lubricants and motor oils. In addition, we operate branded convenience stores throughout Virginia and West Virginia. Our philosophy, our employees and our superb distribution system have enabled us to become one of the largest petroleum marketers in the Mid-Atlantic region. No fancy name for this company. It is what it says it is. Petroleum Marketers is a full service petroleum company with operations throughout Virginia and in southern Maryland, southern West Virginia, and Tennessee. The company runs a chain of convenience stores/gas stations under the banner Stop In Food Stores. Some locations have fast food eateries (run by its PM Foods division), including Burger King, Subway, and Taco Bell, located within or next door. Petroleum Marketers (which was founded in 1921) is also a supplier of gasoline, diesel fuel, motor oil, and antifreeze.

NGAS Resources, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is based in Lexington, Kentucky. NGAS Resources, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration and production of natural gas principally in the southern portion of the Appalachian Basin in the eastern United States. NGAS Resources, Inc. also has interests in the New Albany shale play within the Illinois Basin in western Kentucky, as well as interests in a non-operated coalbed methane project in the Arkoma Basin and non-operated projects in West Virginia and Virginia. In addition, NGAS Resources, Inc. own rights to gold and silver properties covering 381 acres on Unga Island in the Aleutian Chain, southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. Further, NGAS Resources, Inc. owns and operates distribution systems for retail sales of natural gas for two communities in southcentral Kentucky. The company's customers include gas marketing intermediaries, pipelines, transmission companies, and local refineries.

The company engages in oil and natural gas exploration and production activities, mainly in the Gulf Coast, Michigan, and the mid-continent, Permian Basin, and Rocky Mountain regions. In 2008 Whiting Petroleum Corporation reported proved reserves of 180 million barrels of oil and 354.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas. That year Whiting Petroleum operated 3,337 net productive wells. Whiting Petroleum Corporation sells oil and gas production to end users, marketers, and other purchasers that have access to nearby pipeline facilities. Where there is no practical access to pipelines, oil is trucked to storage facilities. Whiting Petroleum Corporation had interests in 9,616 gross productive wells. Whiting Petroleum Corporation was founded in 1983 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. is a publicly traded master limited partnership (“MLP”) engaged in the transportation, storage, terminalling and marketing of crude oil, refined products and liquefied petroleum gas and other natural gas related petroleum products (together "LPG"). The Partnership is also engaged in the development and operation of natural gas storage facilities. We own and operate a diversified portfolio of strategically located assets that play a vital role in the movement of U.S. and Canadian energy supplies. On average we handle over 3 million barrels per day of crude oil, refined products and LPG through our extensive network of assets located in key North American producing basins and transportation gateways.

Petron Corporation's patrons are Filipinos. The company is the Philippines' largest oil refining and marketing company. Its refinery has a capacity of 180,000 barrels per day and produces almost 40% of the country's oil requirements. Petron distributes its products (including lubes, grease, asphalt, and specialty products) through a network of 32 bulk plants and terminal to more than 1,400 service stations. The Philippine government and Saudi Aramco each owned 40% of the company until both groups sold their stakes to private investment firm Ashmore Group in 2008. In 2009 local business power player San Miguel acquired a controlling stake in Petron.

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.

Carroll Independent Fuel is a family-owned, full-service fuel company that has been in business since 1907, and Carroll Independent Fuel Co. have a proud heritage of exceeding our customers' expectations. Carroll Independent Fuel Co. distributes heating oil, propane, kerosene, gasoline, diesel, and lubricants to residential and commercial customers in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Carroll Independent Fuel has long-standing fuel supplier arrangements with industry majors CITGO Petroleum, BP, and Exxon Mobil. Carroll Independent Fuel Co., which serves a network of 230 fuel dealers, also sells and services HVAC equipment, electric heat pumps, swimming pool heaters, and water heaters.

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