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.

Twin Butte is an oil and gas exploration, development, and production company that has assets on more than 150,000 net acres in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Its half-a-dozen properties, located in Alberta and British Columbia, have proved net reserves of 23,212 MMcf (million cubic feet) of natural gas and 1,528 Mbbl (thousand barrels) of light and medium oil (in fiscal year 2008); it produces more than 2,700 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Twin Butte traces its roots back to 1997. Twin Butte Energy Ltd. intends to focus future growth in the Deep Basin areas of Ansell and Jayar, and the conventional heavy oil area of Frog Lake. Both of these areas provide repeatable plays on our current lands with lower risk wells at Frog Lake and strong, long life growth potential in the Deep Basin.

Trinidad Drilling provides modern, reliable, expertly designed oil and gas drilling equipment operated by well-trained personnel. Trinidad Drilling Ltd. drilling fleet is one of the most adaptable, technologically advanced and competitive in the industry. Trinidad Drilling Ltd. provides contract drilling and workover services to a range of oil and gas companies. Trinidad Drilling operates a combined fleet of more than 160 drilling, well servicing, and preset/coring and barge rigs that have the capacity to drill to depths between 1,000 and 6,500 meters. Trinidad Drilling Ltd. has pursued a strategy of growing its operations through the acquisition of a number of smaller drilling companies and the construction of new drilling rigs. Trinidad Drilling Ltd. has operations in Canada, Mexico, and the US.

The hunt for petroleum drives the Hunt family, which traces its oil interests back to legendary wildcatter H.L. Hunt. Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. controls Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. and Petro-Hunt International, L.L.C. (together known as the Petro-Hunt Group, one of the world's largest privately held independent energy concerns). Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. focuses on oil and gas exploration and production in the US. Petro-Hunt's other activities include gas processing, pipeline transportation and refining. Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. also controls Placid Refining Company, which operates a state-of-the-art 50,000 barrels-of-oil-per-day refinery in Louisiana. The Petro-Hunt Group, through the years, has also created separate stand alone companies in various sectors of the energy industry, some that have become the foundation for and/or substantial portions of other publicly traded companies.

Stallion Oilfield Services Ltd. operates in oil patches across the US, offers wellsite support services and construction, logistics and other services. Stallion Oilfield Services Ltd. provides wellsite support services and production & logistics services to the oilfield with over 1,700 employees in 65 locations. As the largest provider of quality auxiliary rentals and services for oil and gas operations in the domestic United States, Stallion Oilfield Services Ltd. have been providing reliable housing, water and sewer systems, waste management, satellite systems, solids control, wellsite construction and oilfield heavy hauling to the oil patch for many years. Stallion is committed to providing the reliable services essential to this fast-paced industry. The wellsite support segment (its main revenue generator) provides living quarters for the workforce, equipment rental, satellite communications services, and solids control and waste handling coordination services. Overextended following a round of acquisitions, in late 2009, facing heavy debts, Stallion Oilfield Services Ltd. sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, from which it emerged in early 2010.

Spectra Energy Partners LP is a growth-oriented, Delaware master limited partnership formed by Spectra Energy Corp, headquartered in Houston, Texas, to own and operate natural gas transportation and storage assets. Spectra Energy, which is comprised of the former natural gas businesses of Duke Energy Corporation, became a stand-alone publicly traded company in January 2007. Spectra Energy, a Fortune 500 company, is one of the largest operators of natural gas pipelines and storage facilities in North America.

SOCO International plc is the independent oil and gas exploration and production concern. SOCO International plc operates in a number of high-risk oil patches in Europe, Asia, and North Africa, including Thailand, Vietnam, and Yemen. SOCO International plc has sold its interests in Mongolia to Daqing for $93 million and is pursuing other exploration opportunities in West Africa, primarily in the Republic of Congo and neighboring Congo. In 2006 SOCO International had proved and probable reserves of 62.7 million barrels of oil equivalent. That year it produced an average of 6,766 barrels of oil per day.

Helmerich & Payne International Drilling was established in 1958, when Helmerich & Payne began drilling for oil and natural gas in Venezuela. Helmerich & Payne International Drilling raises the platform for Latin American crude. The contract oil and gas driller (a subsidiary of Helmerich & Payne) operates 11 drilling rigs in Venezuela. Ecuador is a second core area, with eight rigs in operation there. Helmerich & Payne International Drilling also drills in Argentina (three rigs), Colombia (two rigs), Tunisia (one rig), Bolivia (one rig), and Chile (one rig). In 2007 Helmerich & Payne International Drilling continued operations under a management contract for a customer's rig located offshore Equatorial Guinea, and completed a drilling consulting services contract in Russia.

Koch companies strive for world-class performance and cost-effective operations. And Koch companies have earned recognition for superior performance in environmental protection, health and safety. Maintaining strong financial health has always been a priority for Koch companies, which cultivate a disciplined style of managing their businesses and investments. As a private company, our approach has been to reinvest 90 percent of our earnings. This willingness to forgo larger dividends in the short term has allowed us to complete more than $32 billion in acquisitions and investments since 2003. Since 1960, the value of the Standard & Poor's 500 grew about 70-fold, assuming the reinvestment of dividends. During that same period, the value of Koch Industries grew more than 2,200-fold, using the same assumptions. The growth of Koch companies has been achieved both through acquisitions and through expansion and broadening of existing businesses. Koch companies also exit or decrease their investments in businesses based on a continuous evaluation process that compares their internal value to their market value.

Wilson International, Inc., a subsidiary of US-based Smith International, distributes fittings, mill supplies, pipes, pumps, valves, and maintenance products through more than 250 locations in Canada, Europe, and the US. Wilson represents more than 500 manufacturers and distributes more than 90,000 items. Wilson International, Inc. primary market is energy exploration and production companies; other markets include chemicals, paper, food processing, and construction. Wilson also distributes communication devices, fire and safety equipment, janitorial supplies, and medical and emergency materials. Wilson is recognized as a leading supply chain solutions company providing value-added services including integrated supply chain management and eBusiness solutions.

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