Hardy Oil and Gas is a hearty endorser of the booming oil and gas industry. The international oil and gas exploration and production company primarily focuses on India, with strategic positioning in the oil and gas basins on the east coast of India and off of the Saurashtra west coast, near the Bombay High field. Hardy Oil and Gas plc has also acquired development assets in the proven oil province of the Niger Delta of Nigeria. Hardy Oil and Gas (then known as Jehan Energy Ltd.) was founded by Sastry Karra (CEO) and Yogeshwar Sharma (COO) in 1997. Hardy Oil and Gas plc was renamed Hardy Oil and Gas in 2001 and became a public company in 2005.

PetroLiance LLC distributes fuels, lubricants, and petroleum products to customers in the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, and Ohio. PetroLiance was founded to anticipate and respond to the fundamental changes that are occurring in the industry, by implementing an innovative new approach to petroleum product distribution and marketing. The ultimate outcome of this endeavor will be improved operations, a higher level of service and responsiveness and, above all, greater profitability for our customers. PetroLiance LLC lubricant products include automotive and aviation lubricants, industrial greases, and metal processing fluids. Boncosky Oil, an authorized distributor of Exxon Mobil brand products in the Chicago area, merged with three other regional ExxonMobil distributors: Commercial Ullman Lubricants Company of Ohio; Lubricant Technologies, active in North and South Carolina, and Georgia; and Young Oil Company of Florida, to form the much stronger national player, PetroLiance.

Texalta Petroleum Ltd. is an oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, acquisition and development of prospective oil & gas properties, primarily in Saskatchewan, and an 82% interest in Exploration Permits EP 103 and EP 104 in the Northern Territory of Australia. Texalta Petroleum also has an interest in exploration permits in the Northern Territory of Australia, but it is focusing on its Canadian activities.In Canada, Texalta's main focus at this time is in the Wordsworth and West Queensdale project areas in southeast Saskatchewan. A new horizontal well in the Wordsworth area was completed on June 9, 2006 resulted in a new pool discovery where Texalta as Operator holds a 47.5% working interest. At the present time exploration activities are being directed at the Mississippian Alida, and deeper Palaeozoic plays of Southeastern Saskatchewan as well as Leduc Reef and Mesozoic plays in Central Alberta. Texalta Petroleum Ltd. also has a working interest in a project in the Wordsworth area of Saskatchewan and also works as that project's operator.

Empresas Copec's investments are concentrated in two large areas of specialization: energy and natural resources. In the energy field, Empresas Copec is prominent in the distribution of liquid fuels, liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas, and also electric power generation, sectors that are strongly linked with the growth and development of Chile. In natural resources, Empresas Copec is active in the forestry, commercial fishing and mining industries, fields in which the country enjoys clear-cut comparative advantages. The position achieved by Empresas Copec is the result of an efficient cost structure, continual commercial efforts and a conservative financial profile. Long-term vision combined with the hard work and drive of its people have enabled Empresas Copec to lead markets and grow soundly while keeping up its firm commitment with Chile.

Cudd Pumping Services, a division of Cudd Energy Services (a subsidiary of RPC), provides well control and stimulation services and equipment to customers in the oil and gas industry. Other services include coiled tubing, snubbing, wireline, nitrogen, and marine services. Cudd Pumping Services designs specific treatments for treating wells using pretreatment fluid testing to maximize compatibility, stability, and cost effectiveness. Cudd Pumping Services provides acidizing and fracturing products and other pumping and oilfield equipment. Cudd Pumping Services has offices in Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

LOOP (Louisiana Offshore Oil Port) was organized in 1972 as a Delaware corporation and converted to a limited liability company in 1996. Marathon Pipe Line LLC, Murphy Oil Corporation, and Shell Oil Company are LOOP's owners.The port facility is located in the Gulf of Mexico, eighteen miles south of Grand Isle, Louisiana, in 110 feet of water. LOOP is the only port in the U.S. capable of offloading deep draft tankers known as Ultra Large Crude Carriers (ULCC) and Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC). Along with offloading crude from VLCC’s, LOOP also offloads smaller tankers. The port consists of three single-point mooring buoys used for the offloading of crude tankers and a marine terminal consisting of a two-level pumping platform and a three-level control platform. The onshore oil storage facility, twenty-five miles inland (the “Clovelly facility”), is connected to the port complex by a 48-inch diameter pipeline. It provides interim storage for crude oil before it is delivered via connecting pipelines to refineries on the Gulf Coast and in the Midwest.

Energetix keeps the lights shining and the stoves burning for its customers in the Empire State. The company is a nonregulated retail energy supplier, providing natural gas, electricity, and related products and services to customers in central and upstate New York State. The company became a subsidiary of Iberdrola USA (formerly Energy East) when its parent company, RGS Energy, was acquired by Energy East in 2002. In order to focus on its distribution businesses, Energetix sold its Griffith Oil subsidiary, which marketed propane, heating oil, and other liquid fuels, to private investors. Energetix and sister company NYSEG Solutions serve 182,000 electricity customers and 55,000 natural gas customers.

Concho Resources explores and develops properties, located primarily in the Permian Basin region of eastern New Mexico and West Texas, for the production of oil and gas. Concho Resources Inc. also owns properties in North Dakota and Arkansas. More than half of the company's 550 billion cu. ft. in proved reserves is made up of crude oil, while the rest consists of natural gas. Concho Resources gets two-thirds of its sales from crude oil. Two customers, energy marketers Navajo Refining Company (60% of 2007 sales) and DCP Midstream (23%), account for a great majority of Concho's sales. Concho Resources Inc. has more than 85 producing wells in operation.

Calfrac Well Services is well equipped to offer a number of services, products, and equipment to companies in the oil and gas industry. The company's oil field services include cementing (to seal well casing), coiled tubing, acidizing, fracturing (breaking up formations, to allow better oil flow), and well stimulation services. Fracturing services accounts for the bulk of its revenue. Calfrac Well Services Ltd. serves more than 200 customers primarily in western Canada and the Rocky Mountain region of the US. Calfrac Well Services Ltd. also operates in Argentina, Mexico, and Russia. In 2008 Calfrac Well Services Ltd. was operating 26 fracturing systems, 18 coiled tubing units, and 18 cementing units. Since 1999, Calfrac has grown from a four person company to a leading oilfield service provider with over 840 employees in Western Canada and the United States and with over 549 employees in international operations. This growth was largely organic with some strategic acquisitions.

Cogentrix Energy serves up a power treat for customers, albeit a small one, through its electric generating facilities.Cogentrix Energy develops, owns, and operates a handful of independent power plants, located primarily in the US. Cogentrix Energy once had a net operational generating capacity of about 4,900 MW from its stakes in 27 coal- and gas-fired facilities, but sold most of these after New York-based investment firm Goldman Sachs Group acquired the company in 2007. The investment firm has Cogentrix Energy looking for new energy opportunities beyond the US power plant industry.

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