Brigham Exploration was founded in 1990 and is based in Austin, Texas.Brigham Exploration Company engages in the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas reserves in the Rocky Mountains, Onshore Gulf Coast, Anadarko Basin, and west Texas. Brigham Exploration Company holds property interests in the Powder River Basin located in Wyoming. Brigham Exploration Company also holds property interests in the Onshore Gulf Coast consisting of the Vicksburg trend in Brooks County, Texas; Miocene and Upper Oligocene trends in Southern Louisiana; and the Frio trend in and around Matagorda County, Texas. As of December 31, 2008, Brigham Exploration Company had estimated proved reserves of 137.1 Bcfe. It also operated 7 exploration wells and 64 development wells. Brigham Exploration Company sells its oil and natural gas to intrastate pipeline purchasers, operators of processing plants, and marketing companies.

Zedi Inc. has developed equipment for that. Zedi manufactures products and services to support the operation and management of oil and gas wells. Zedi Inc. primary product is Smart-Alek, a wireless meter designed for the remote monitoring of natural gas production and to increase operator efficiencies. Other brands include PetroNet (production accounting) and Roughneck (operations management). Zedi, founded in 1987, and whose name comes from the Japanese word for "the final frontier," markets primarily to gas producers operating in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Zedi Inc. is also has begun to cater to the US market.

Wellstream Holdings PLC makes flexible pipeline similar in form and function to garden hoses that is used primarily by the energy industry for transporting fluids. For offshore operations, Wellstream makes spoolable pipeline to connect underwater extraction facilities with the surface end of the operation. Wellstream Holdings PLC flexible pipe has been used in seas throughout the world, including the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and offshore Brazil, where its product has reached depths of 2,000 meters. Customers have included BHB Billiton, Norsk Hydro, Exxon Mobil, Petrobras, and Kerr-McGee. Wellstream was founded in 1983 in Panama City, Florida USA.

Quest Resource Corporation's quest is to make money from oil and gas exploration and production. The company acquires, explores, develops, produces, and transports natural gas, primarily coalbed methane. Quest Resource's exploration and drilling efforts are focused in the Cherokee Basin of southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma, and the Appalachian Basin, where it is accumulating leasehold acreage. The company has net proved reserves of 211 billion cu. ft. of net proved reserves (99% of which is coalbed methane) and operates more than 2,000 miles of gas gathering pipeline in Kansas and Oklahoma. In 2008 the company shifted its strategic focus to the Appalachian Basin.

Royal Vopak reigns over a diverse kingdom of oil and chemical products. Royal Vopak N.V. is a major player in the storage and handling of liquid oil products, chemicals, vegetable oils and liquefied gases. Vopak has terminals in the strategic ports worldwide,with specialised facilities: product tanks, jetties, truck loading stations, pipelines and access to road and rail networks. Royal Vopak N.V. operates 74 tank terminals, capable of storing a total of more than 20 million cu. meters of liquid and gaseous chemical and oil products, in 30 countries throughout the world. Vopak's clients include oil companies, oil traders, and chemical manufacturers. Dutch investment firm HAL Holding owns about 48% of the company.

EOG Resources, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is based in Houston, Texas.EOG Resources hogs a resource -- natural gas. The independent oil and gas company is engaged in exploring for natural gas and crude oil and developing, producing, and marketing those resources. In 2008 EOG, an independent offspring of the once powerful Enron, reported estimated proved reserves of 6.8 trillion cu. ft. equivalent, including 7.3 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas reserves and 225 million barrels of crude oil, condensate, and natural gas liquid (NGL) reserves. EOG Resources, Inc. operates in major production basins in Canada, offshore Trinidad, the US, the UK sector of the North Sea, and in China (Sichuan basin).

Willbros Group, Inc. provides engineering, procurement, and construction services to the oil and gas, refinery, petrochemical, and power industries primarily in the United States, Canada, and Oman. Willbros Group, Inc. operates through two segments: Upstream Oil and Gas, and Downstream Oil and Gas. The Upstream Oil and Gas segment provides engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services to design, build, or replace large-diameter cross-country pipelines; fabricate engineered structures, process modules, and facilities; and build oil and gas production facilities, pump stations, flow stations, gas compressor stations, gas processing facilities, gathering lines, and related facilities. The Downstream Oil and Gas segment provides specialty construction, turnaround, repair, and maintenance services to the downstream energy infrastructure market, which primarily consists of oil companies, independent refineries, product terminals, and petrochemical companies; and to EPC firms, independent power producers, government entities, specialty process facilities, and ammonia and fertilizer manufacturing plants and facilities. Willbros Group, Inc. was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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.

NuStar GP Holdings, LLC (NYSE: NSH) owns general partner and limited partner interests in NuStar Energy L.P. (NYSE: NS), one of the nation's largest asphalt refiners and marketers and operators of petroleum product terminals and petroleum liquids pipelines. The general partner manages the business affairs of NuStar Energy L.P., which is a master limited partnership based in San Antonio, with 8,417 miles of pipeline, 82 terminal facilities and four crude oil storage facilities. It has assets strategically located in major U.S. markets and in the Netherlands Antilles, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. NuStar Energy L.P.'s asphalt refineries, refined product terminals, petroleum and specialty liquids storage and terminaling operations, and crude oil storage tank facilities are predominantly located on waterways that are easily accessible by barge or vessel. Altogether, these facilities have over 91 million barrels of storage capacity. NuStar Energy L.P.'s crude oil and refined products pipeline systems largely serve growing markets in the Mid-Continent, Southwest and Texas-Mexico border region of the United States.

Holly Energy Partners is having a jolly good time piping petroleum. The company transports refined petroleum products and crude oil from Holly Corporation's Navajo refinery in New Mexico and Woods Cross refinery in Utah, and Alon USA's Big Spring refinery in Texas, to customers in the southwestern US. It operates 1,330 miles of refined petroleum pipelines (including 340 miles of leased pipelines), 11 distribution terminals, one jet fuel terminal, and two truck-loading facilities used to transport gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. Holly Corporation, the parent of the company's general partner (Holly Logistics), holds a 46% stake in Holly Energy Partners.

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