Ensign Energy Services is an oil field service company in command of several service fleets. Formerly named Ensign Resource Service Group, Ensign Energy Services Inc. is one of Canada's top land-based drilling and well-service contractors and a leading drilling contractor in the US Rocky Mountain region. Ensign Energy Services Inc. operates in California and in several foreign oil patches. Ensign has a fleet of more than 300 drilling rigs, including 130 well-servicing rigs and coiled-tubing units. Ensign expanded into oil sands coring and coalbed methane markets by acquiring the drilling assets of Layne Christensen Canada in 2004 and Midnight Sun Drilling in 2005. In 2008 Ensign Energy Services Inc. had about 50 rigs in operation outside of North America.

PetroQuest was founded in 1985 as a Gulf Coast oil and gas company. From 1985 to 2002 PetroQuest grew its reserves to 69 Bcfe located principally onshore in Louisiana and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. In 2003, PetroQuest implemented an asset diversification strategy to balance its Gulf Coast and Gulf of Mexico operations with longer lived, lower risk onshore properties. Using the cash flow generated from its Gulf Coast Basin assets, PetroQuest has expanded its asset portfolio to include properties in the Woodford and Fayetteville Shale plays in the Arkoma Basin and it has acquired a significant position in the East Texas Basin where it is pursuing both oil and gas potential.The strategy has yielded results as PetroQuest has more than doubled reserves since 2002 to 157 Bcfe while production has increased an average of more than 18% per year to 31 Bcfe in 2007. PetroQuest Energy, Inc. is now focused on expanding its onshore operations with approximately 75% of its $230 million 2008 capital expenditure budget allocated to East Texas and the Arkoma Basin.

Fabricom is a major provider of installation and maintenance services with a focus on serving the offshore and onshore oil and gas industry. Fabricom designs, builds, and maintains such installations as offshore drilling rigs and platforms and onshore oil and gas terminals, as well as processing plants, gas processing stations, and pipelines. Fabricom provides engineering input and specialized advice in the designing of construction projects, as well as on-site installation, commissioning, and maintenance. Fabricom has operating units in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and the UK. Fabricom is a major division of giant industrial services group GDF SUEZ.

NOVATEK is a major player in the Russian natural gas market . OAO NOVATEK is the country's largest independent gas producer and second largest producer of natural gas (behind state-owned Gazprom). Established in 1994, NOVATEK explores for and processes natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons, boasting 4.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent reserves. OAO NOVATEK sells natural gas directly throughout the country. NOVATEK focuses its production on the prolific Yamal-Nenets region, the world's largest natural gas area. Power generation plants, metallurgical plants, and wholesale gas suppliers are among the company's main customers.

Saras, a leading European oil refining company based in Italy, produces an average of more than 300,000 barrels of oil per day at its Sardoch refinery based off the coast of Sardinia. While oil refining represents more than half of its business, Saras also owns other energy-related companies, including a wind farm in Sardinia, a biodiesel plant in Spain, and an industrial engineering research business. The company distributes its finished products -- including gasoline, diesel, kerosene, aviation fuel -- primarily through two subsidiaries: Arcola Petrolifera, which owns several storage facilities in Italy and Spain; and Saras Energia, a chain of owned and leased retail gas stations in Spain.

Neste Oil Corporation is a refining and marketing company concentrating on low-emission, high-quality traffic fuels. The company's strategy is based on growing both its oil refining and premium-quality renewable diesel businesses. Neste Oil's refineries are located in Porvoo and Naantali and have a combined crude oil refining capacity of approx. 260,000 barrels a day. Neste Oil goes for the black gold in Finland. The state-controlled firm focuses on refining, marketing, and shipping oil products, including gasoline, biodiesel fuel, and lubricants. Neste Oil primarily sells its products domestically, but also exports to customers in North America and Europe. It operates about 890 gas stations in Finland, and almost 290 outside the country (in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Northwest Russia). The company also has a biodiesel plant, as well as a diesel production line. The Finnish government owns more than 50% of Neste Oil, which was founded shortly after World War II to ensure a steady oil supply for the country.

ShawCor has the pipeline industry sealed up. The company provides products and services for the pipeline and pipe services, and petrochemical and industrial segments of the oil and gas industry and other industrial markets worldwide. ShawCor Ltd. pipeline segment makes specialty coating systems and joint-protection products, and provides weld inspections services, and pipeline inspection and repair. Products made by the petrochemical and industrial segment include wiring, cables, and heat-shrink tubing. ShawCor operates through Bredero Shaw, Canusa-CPS, DSG-Canusa, Guardian, ShawFlex, and Shaw Pipeline Services, and has offices in more than 20 countries.

Mexco Energy Corporation was founded in 1972 and is based in Midland, Texas.Mexco Energy Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration, development, and production of natural gas, crude oil, and condensate and natural gas liquids in the United States. Mexco Energy Corporation primarily has activities in West Texas. As of March 31, 2009, it had interests in 2,342 gross oil and gas wells, and owned leasehold interests in approximately 278,706 gross acres. Mexco Energy Corporation had proved reserves of approximately 9.477 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 207,000 barrels of oil and natural gas liquids. Mexco Energy Corporation was formerly known as Miller Oil Company and changed its name to Mexco Energy Corporation in April 1980.

Dune Energy, Inc. (DNE), an independent exploration and development company incorporated in Delaware, has operations focused along the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coasts. Dune’s strategy is to grow organically through low-risk exploitation and development and higher risk exploration of its existing properties and acreage. This will be supplemented with opportunistic acquisition of underdeveloped properties that complement Dune’s existing portfolio. The oil and gas exploration and production independent has leases on 100,000 gross acres across 23 producing oil and natural gas fields along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. In 2008 Dune Energy reported proved reserves of 8.2 million barrels of oil and 83.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas. Dune Energy, Inc. has a more than two-year current drilling inventory for its properties along the Gulf Coast. Swiss bank UBS owns 35% of the company; Russian gas company ITERA's Tierra Holdings BV unit, 33%.

Martin Resource Management of Kilgore is a leading independent provider of transportation, terminalling, marketing and logistics management services for hydrocarbon products and by-products, chemical and other bulk liquids.That's quite a statement when you consider its founder, R.S. Martin, Jr., started with a single truck and the simple desire to make a living for his family. Born in Camden Arkansas, Martin graduated from Texarkana Arkansas High School in 1941 and attended the University of Arkansas until volunteering for the Marine Corps in 1943. As a marine, he served in the 4th Marine division in four World War II invasions: Marshall Island, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. Returning to the University of Arkansas in 1946, he married Margaret Gerig of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, before graduating in 1948 with a business degree with a specialty in marketing. After two years with Continental Oil Company, he bought out his mother and brother in the ice company in Kilgore, Texas, with borrowed money.

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