Premier Power Limited owns and operates Ballylumford Power Station, which is situated on the north western tip of Islandmagee in Co. Antrim, separated from the west, from the sea port of Larne Lough.Premier Power sets the stage for power generation in Northern Ireland and Eire. The independent power producer, an operating subsidiary of BG Group, manages the largest generation facility in Northern Ireland. Its Ballylumford Power Station is a fossil-fueled plant with 1,300 MW of capacity. One of the largest power stations on the island of Ireland, Premier Power Limited provides over 50% of Northern Ireland's total generating capacity, and approximately 17% of the all-Ireland capacity. Premier Power Limited sells most of its energy to distribution utility Northern Ireland Electricity.

Northern Natural Gas (NNG) keeps the pipes gassed up. The company operates 15,140 miles of pipeline stretching from the Permian Basin in Texas to the Great Lakes in the Midwest. It also provides transportation and storage services (five natural gas storage facilities) to some 75 utilities and a variety of other customers in the Upper Midwest. NNG has a 5.3 billion cu. ft. per day market area peak capacity. Dynegy took over NNG in 2002 from the pipeline unit's former parent, bankrupt energy giant Enron. The deal was part of Dynegy's proposed acquisition of Enron, which was called off. To strengthen its own balance sheet, Dynegy sold NNG to MidAmerican Energy Holdings later that year.

It's not refined Greek thought, but refined Greek oil that makes Hellenic Petroleum the leading oil refining company in Greece and neighboring Macedonia. Greece's largest company, Hellenic Petroleum operates four refineries: at Aspropyrgos, Elefsina, and Thessaloniki in Greece and Skopje in Macedonia. It also operates about 1,525 gas stations in Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia. It has 1,200 gas stations in Greece (23% of the retail market). Its other businesses include petrochemical production, oil and gas exploration, and infrastructure development. Hellenic Petroleum is owned by Paneuropean Oil and Industrial Holdings S.A. (35.89%) and the Greek government (35.5%).

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.

FairWest Energy, formerly Fairstar Explorations, is currently being steered by the fair winds of oil and gas exploration. FairWest Energy Corporation was exploring for precious metals at the Fenelon Property (38%-owned) located in northwestern Quebec, but the company disposed of those operations in 2005. (The company sold its West African mining assets in 2004.) In 2005 FairWest Energy Corporation bought Western Energy's oil and gas exploration business (located in Alberta and Saskatchewan), becoming a new entity called FairWest Energy. In 2007 and 2008FairWest Energy Corporation reported about 100 drilling locations on 72,640 undeveloped net acres and production of 528 barrels of oil equivalent per day. In 2008 FairWest Energy Corporation acquired private Canadian oil firm ExploreCo Energy Inc

The Lykins family first took a liking to petroleum and petroleum products marketing when Guy Lykins founded the enterprise in 1948. The Lykins Companies serves as a marketer for large oil companies such as BP, Exxon Mobil, Marathon Oil, and Royal Dutch Shell, and supplies more than 130 independent dealers. Products hauled by its trucking unit include gasoline, heating oil, diesel, biodiesel, and kerosene. Lykins Companies, Inc. has operations in 14 states. Lykins Companies, Inc. also serves more that 25,000 homes with heating oil. Most its customers are located in southwestern Ohio, northern Kentucky, and eastern Indiana. Lykins D&L Leasing unit provides daily, weekly, and monthly leases on cars, trucks, and vans.

Although it may sound odd, but it's the pipe dreams of oil and gas exploration and production businesses that keep this company going. British Pipeline Agency manages onshore pipelines and oil and gas storage systems that transport refined petroleum products and natural gas to customers in the UK. IT also provides oil and gas support services including engineering, technical consulting, and oil and gas transport operations. The company, founded in 1969, is a joint venture between BP and Royal Dutch Shell. It has partial ownership of the Buncefield oil storage site, which experienced a massive fire in 2005.

Oil and chemicals group OMV is Austria's largest industrial company. It explores for natural gas and crude oil, refines crude oil, and imports, transports, and stores gas. A leading oil and gas company in Central and Eastern Europe, OMV has proved reserves of 1.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent. OMV has a 20% retail market share in Central and Eastern Europe. The bulk of OMV's sales comes from refining and marketing. It produces about 320,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day and sells 13 billion cubic feet of gas annually. OMV's largest shareholders are Austrian state holding company �IAG (32%) and the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) of Abu Dhabi (18%).

Great Lakes Gas Transmission transports great amounts of natural gas -- 2.2 billion cu. ft. per day, to be exact. With a pipeline spanning 2,100 miles, the company supplies gas to major urban markets in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and parts of southern Canada. Its customers include a number of regional natural gas transporters, local gas distributors, and energy trading firms including Alliance Energy Services, ANR Pipeline, Michigan Consolidated Gas, Northern States Power, and Sempra Energy Trading. Great Lakes Gas Transmission was founded in 1967 and is controlled by TransCanada Corp.

The Williams Companies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in finding, producing, gathering, processing, and transporting natural gas primarily in the United States. The company operates in four segments: Exploration and Production, Gas Pipeline, Midstream Gas and Liquids, and Gas Marketing Services. The Exploration and Production segment produces, develops, and manages natural gas reserves primarily located in the Rocky Mountain and Mid-Continent regions of the United States. It also owns interests in the oil and gas properties located in Argentina, Canada, Venezuela, and Colombia. As of December 31, 2009, the company had 42 gross wells in the process of being drilled. The Gas Pipeline segment owns and operates a 10,100-mile natural gas pipeline system extending from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and the offshore Gulf of Mexico through Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to the New York City metropolitan area. This segment also owns and operates a 3,900 miles of natural gas pipeline system extending from the San Juan basin in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado through Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington to a point on the Canadian border near Sumas, Washington. The Midstream Gas and Liquids segment engages in gathering, treating, and processing natural gas; fractionating, storing, and transporting natural gas liquids (NGLs); and oil transportation. It produces NGLs, ethylene, and propylene, which are used primarily for the manufacture of plastics, home heating, and refinery feedstock. The Gas Marketing Services segment manages various natural gas-related contracts, such as transportation, storage, and related hedges, and provides services to third-parties, such as producers and natural gas processors. The company was founded in 1908 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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