Thomas Petroleum is owned and managed by president L. Ray Thomas.Petroleum and heating oil wholesaler and retailer Thomas Petroleum operates in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Thomas Petroleum serves more than 145 wholesale customers, nearly 50 convenience store clients, and owns of nine convenience stores. Thomas Petroleum sells major petroleum brands, including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Marathon, and Sunoco. Thomas Petroleum is the only supplier of ethanol 85 to public fueling centers in North Carolina.

Schlumberger Limited and its subsidiaries supply technology, integrated project management, and information solutions to the oil and gas industry worldwide. Schlumberger Limited operates in two segments, Oilfield Services and WesternGeco. The Oilfield Services segment provides a range of exploration and production services required during the life of an oil and gas reservoir. Schlumberger Limited offers Wireline technologies comprising open-hole and cased-hole services; directional-drilling, measurement-while-drilling, and logging-while-drilling services; exploration and production pressure and flow-rate measurement services at the surface and downhole; services used during oil and gas well drilling and completion; and services used to maintain optimal production throughout the life of a well. Schlumberger Limited also provides well completion services and equipment; artificial lift; data and consulting services; and information solutions, including consulting, software, information management, and IT infrastructure services that support oil and gas industry operational processes. The WesternGeco segment provides reservoir imaging, monitoring, and development services, as well as operates data processing centers, and multiclient seismic library. Schlumberger Limited services range from 3D and time-lapse (4D) seismic surveys to multi-component surveys for delineating prospects and reservoir management. Schlumberger Limited has a joint venture agreement with National Oilwell Varco, Incorporated to provide high speed drill string telemetry systems. Schlumberger Limited was founded in 1927 and is based in Houston, Texas.

FX Energy, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. FX Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an independent gas and oil exploration and production company with principal operations in Poland. FX Energy, Inc. also explores for and produces oil from fields in Montana and Nevada, the United States; and holds an oilfield services company in northern Montana that performs contract drilling and well servicing operations. FX Energy, Inc. has projects involving the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas prospects in partnership with the Polish Oil and Gas Company with a primary focus on the Rotliegend sandstones of the Permian Basin in Poland. FX Energy owns gas and oil exploration rights in 9 project areas encompassing approximately 5.4 million gross acres in Poland. As of December 31, 2008, its total proved estimated gas and oil reserves were 45.9 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent.

J-W Operating Company designs, manufactures, and distributes oilfield equipment and provides oilfield services used to expedite the production of oil and natural gas wells. Through subsidiaries Cohort Energy, Excell Services, J-W Gathering, J-W Measurement, J-W Power, and J-W Wireline, J-W Operating Company provides gas gathering and processing, gas compression and measurement, oil and gas exploration, and drilling and production services across the US. J-W Operating Company is an Energy Development and Energy Services company that specializes in natural gas compression, gathering, exploration and production, well servicing and gas measurement. J-W Operating Company various businesses operate in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, California, Montana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Dakota. J-W Operating is owned by the family of CEO Howard G. Westerman, Jr.

Total Energy Services Inc. ("Total") is a growth oriented energy services company based in Calgary, Alberta. Total Energy Services has two core businesses, both focused on the energy industry. Total Energy Services Inc. Drilling Services unit provides contract drilling and surface equipment rental and transportation to the oil and gas industry in western and northern Canada. Total Energy Services' Chinook Drilling subsidiary offers contract drilling throughout the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Total Energy Services Inc. second core business, Production Services, manufactures, sells, rents, and services new and used natural gas compression equipment. Its Bidell Equipment unit supplies natural gas compressors. In 2009 Total Energy Services Inc. reorganized from a trust to a corporation to give it greater financial flexibility.

Aera Energy LLC (Aera), a California limited liability company, is one of California’s largest oil and gas producers, accounting for approximately 30% of the state’s production. With headquarters in Bakersfield, most of Aera’s production is centered in the San Joaquin Valley. Aera Energy LLC also has oilfield operations in the L.A. Basin and in Ventura and Monterey Counties. Aera produces approximately 160,000 barrels of oil and 50 million cubic feet of natural gas each day and has proved oil and gas reserves equivalent to approximately 800 million barrels of oil. Aera Energy LLC, which began operating as Aera Energy LLC on June 1, 1997, consists of the California onshore and offshore exploration and production (E&P) assets previously operated by CalResources LLC (a former Shell Oil Company affiliate), Mobil Exploration & Producing U.S. Inc. (now an Exxon Mobil Corporation affiliate), and ARCO. Today Aera is jointly owned by Shell and ExxonMobil and is operated as a stand-alone company through its own board of managers (directors). The California-based refining, retail petroleum marketing and pipeline operations of Shell and ExxonMobil are not included in Aera.

SK Energy (formerly SK Corp.) is the energy and chemical affiliate of South Korea's SK Group, which also operates trading and telecommunications units. Korea's largest oil refiner (1.1 million barrels of daily refining capacity), SK Energy controls about 35% of Korea's fuel retailing market and operates 4,270 service stations. The firm is involved in oil exploration and production in 15 countries and has proved reserves 500 million barrels of oil equivalent. SK Energy imports coal and liquid petroleum gas (LPG), and claims a 44% share of the Korean LPG market. SK Energy supplies natural gas to Seoul and other cities in Korea. The company also makes lubricants, low-pollutant gasoline, and petrochemicals.

NuTech Energy Alliance provides petrophysical, geological, geophysical, field study, and well site services to customers worldwide. By using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology and related interpretive software, NuTech offers clients detailed geographical data that can be used to analyze potential oil fields. By 2009 the company had evaluated more than 30,000 wells and more than 450 oil and gas companies around the world. NuTech offers five offices in the US and seven offices in other countries. NuTech is a privately-owned company founded in 1998 by ex-Schlumberger and Numar (now Halliburton) executives who pioneered Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) R&D.

Nabors Industries Ltd. was founded in 1968 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda. Nabors Industries Ltd. operates as a land drilling contractor worldwide. Nabors Industries Ltd. conducts oil, gas, and geothermal land drilling operations in the United States, Alaska, Canada, South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, the Middle East, the Far East, the Russian Federation, and Africa. Nabors Industries Ltd. also operates as a land well-servicing and workover contractor in the United States and Canada. In addition, Nabors Industries provides offshore platform workover and drilling rigs that offer well-servicing, workover, and drilling services. Further, Nabors Industries Ltd. offers a range of ancillary well-site services, including engineering, construction, maintenance, well logging, directional drilling, rig instrumentation, data collection, and other support services; and logistics services for onshore drilling in Canada using helicopters and fixed-winged aircraft. Additionally, Nabors Industries Ltd. manufactures and leases or sells top drives for a range of drilling applications, directional drilling systems, rig instrumentation and data collection equipment, pipeline handling equipment, and rig reporting software.

Imperial Oil Limited engages in the exploration, production, and sale of crude oil and natural gas in Canada. The company operates through three segments: Upstream, Downstream, and Chemical. The Upstream segment engages in the exploration and production of conventional crude oil, natural gas, synthetic oil, and bitumen primarily in the Western Provinces, the Canada Lands, and the Atlantic Offshore. Its primary conventional oil producing asset includes the Norman Wells oil field in the Northwest Territories. The Downstream segment engages in the transportation and refining of crude oil, as well as blending, distribution, and marketing of refined products. It owns and operates crude oil, and natural gas liquids and products pipelines in Alberta, Manitoba, and Ontario. The Chemical segment engages in the manufacture and marketing of various petrochemicals, including ethylene, benzene, aromatic and aliphatic solvents, plasticizer intermediates, and polyethylene resin. As of December 31, 2009, Imperial Oil Limited had 1,204 million oil-equivalent barrels of proved undeveloped reserves; maintained a nation-wide distribution system, including 24 primary terminals, to handle bulk and packaged petroleum products moving from refineries to market by pipeline, tanker, rail, and road transport; and sold petroleum products through 1,850 Esso retail service stations, of which about 540 were company owned or leased. The company was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. Imperial Oil Limited is a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation.

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