Formed by the merger of Conoco and Phillips Petroleum, ConocoPhillips is the #2 integrated oil and gas company in the US, behind Exxon Mobil, and consolidated that position by buying Burlington Resources (for a reported $35 billion). The company explores for oil and gas in more than 30 countries and has proved reserves of 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent (excluding its Syncrude oil sands assets). It has a refining capacity of more than 2.6 million barrels per day and sells petroleum at 8,340 retail outlets in the US under the 76, Conoco, and Phillips 66 brands, and at 1,260 gas stations in Europe. Other operations include chemicals, gas gathering, fuels technology, and power generation.

Gary-Williams Energy Corporation (GWEC) is a small, independent oil and gas company, headquartered in Denver, with operations primarily in the Mid-Continent region of the United States. With approximately 300 employees, the company's subsidiaries include Wynnewood Refining Company (Oklahoma), Gary-Williams Production Company and Gary-Williams Real Estate Company. Refining and wholesale marketing are now the company's primary businesses. The company maintains a small marketing office in Oklahoma City. Today, the company's major asset is a 70,000 BPD crude oil refinery in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, purchased from Kerr-McGee in mid-1995, and operated as Wynnewood Refining Company (WRC). The refinery produces gasoline, diesel fuel, military jet fuel, solvents and asphalt.

CDM Resource Management LLC provides contract natural gas compression services to natural gas and oil production companies in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. CDM Resource Management operates more than 900 compression units, providing outsourced natural gas compression necessary for the efficient tranport and storage of natural gas. CDM services include needs assessment, design, and installation of appropriate compression systems for each client as well as providing ongoing operation, service, and repair of the systems. Regency Energy bought CDM in 2008. CDM Resource Management LLC provide custom designed, cost efficient natural gas compressor packages.

Fort Chicago Energy Partners is a little north of where you might expect to find it. The Canadian company operates natural gas and ethane pipelines in Canada and from Canada to the US. Fort Chicago owns about half of the 3,000-km Alliance Pipeline, a mainline natural gas pipeline linking British Columbia to the Chicago area. It also holds part of the Aux Sable Plant, a natural gas liquids (NGLs) extraction, fractionation, and delivery complex near the Alliance terminus in Chicago. The company owns all of Alberta Ethane Gathering System, a pipeline that extracts and transports ethane. Fort Chicago, Enbridge Inc., and Enbridge Income Fund jointly control Alliance Pipeline and Aux Sable.

Miller Petroleum, Inc. was founded in 1967 and is based in Huntsville, Tennessee. Miller Petroleum, which operates as Miller Energy Resources, has been exploring and producing in the southern Appalachian region since 1967. Miller Petroleum, Inc. operates oil and gas wells, organizes joint drilling ventures with partners, and rebuilds and sells oil field equipment (including compressors, oil field trailers, and drilling rigs). Active in drilling and production in eastern Tennessee, in 2008 Miller had total proved reserves of 1.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 74,413 barrels of crude oil. Miller Petroleum, Inc. is developing more than 43,490 acres of oil and gas leases. Diversifying, in 2009 it acquired Alaskan oil explorer Cook Inlet Energy.

Panhandle Energy keeps a handle on the operations of natural gas pipeline companies for its parent Southern Union. The division is made up of Florida Gas Tranmission, Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line , Sea Robin Pipeline, Southwest Gas Storage, Trunkline Gas, and Trunkline LNG. Panhandle Energy's more than 15,000 mile-long natural gas pipeline network extends from the Gulf of Mexico to the Midwest and Canada. These pipelines have a delivery capacity of 7.4 billion cu. ft. per day and 87 billion cu. ft. of underground storage. Trunkline LNG's import terminal in Louisiana has 9 billion cu. ft. of liquid storage facilities.

NuVista Energy is the new view of Bonavista Petroleum, which reorganized in 2003 to form an income trust company (Bonavista Energy Trust) and an oil and natural gas exploration company. NuVista focuses on oil and natural gas exploration, development, and production in east-central Alberta and west-central Saskatchewan. Operating in the Oyen, Provost, and Pembina areas, NuVista Energy Ltd. has proved plus probable reserves of 82.2 million barrels of oil equivalent. The group's strategy is to concentrate on its core natural gas-prone areas, drilling medium-risk prospects, and to invest 10% of its capital on higher-risk properties. In 2009 NuVista Energy Ltd. acquired assets in British Columbia and Northwest Alberta for $174 million.

Itochu Enex is totally immersed in Japan's oil and gas markets. Itochu Enex Co., Ltd. operates two divisions which house more than 20 subsidiaries. The home life segment supplies liquefied petroleum gas (LP gas) to more than 1 million homes and businesses throughout Japan. Itochu Enex Co., Ltd. second division, formed from its previous car life and industrial materials divisions, operates full service gas stations and sells gasoline, kerosene, and oil to service stations. Additionally, Itochu Enex Co., Ltd. caters to the manufacturing, trucking, and shipping industries, selling them oil, LP gas, and coal, as well as secondary energy like electricity and heat, and industrial materials such as asphalt and cement. Itochu Enex Co., Ltd. was established in 1961.

Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. engages in the acquisition, management, exploration, and development of oil and natural gas properties. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. holds properties and other oil and gas interests primarily in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas, the United States. As of September 30, 2009, Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. had working and/or royalty interests in 4,861 producing oil and natural gas wells, as well as in 40 wells that were in the process of drilling or completion. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. customers include pipeline and marketing companies. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. was formerly known as Panhandle Royalty Company and changed its name to Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. in March 2007. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. was founded in 1926 and is based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Mullen Group has mulled over its future and has decided it is about oil field services and trucking. Mullen Group Ltd. oil field services unit moves overweight and oversized equipment, such as drilling rigs, for the oil and gas industry in Western Canada. Mullen Group Ltd. also transports heavy oil and offers drilling, production, and pipeline services. Mullen's trucking unit provides truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation in Canada, Mexico, and the US. (Mullen has acquired more than 20 companies since 2002, including its nearly $1 billion purchase of Producers Oilfield Services). Mullen Group Ltd. reorganized from an income trust into a traditional corporation in 2009 to allow for greater financial flexibility.

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