Hiland Partners is looking for the higher ground of increased profits. Hiland Partners, LP was formed through the combination of Hiland Partners LLC and Continental Gas, a former subsidiary of Continental Resources. Hiland provides natural gas gathering and processing services to customers in the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions of the US through 14 gas gathering systems with 2,024 miles of pipeline, five natural gas processing plants, seven natural gas treating facilities, and three NGL fractionation plants. Hiland Partners, LP also provides air compression and water injection services for oil and gas recovery operations in North Dakota. Chairman Harold Hamm owns 61% of the company, but has made a bid for total ownership.

ONEOK Partners gasses up and ships its products through interstate natural gas pipelines in 10 states. Its pipelines include Midwestern Gas Transmission, Guardian Pipeline, Viking Gas Transmission, and OkTex Pipeline. It operates 14,300 miles of gas-gathering pipeline and 5,630 miles of transportation pipeline, as well as gas processing plants and storage facilities. It also owns one of the US's top natural gas liquids (NGL) systems, and operates a parking garage and leases office space in Tulsa. ONEOK holds a 46% stake in ONEOK Partners and 100% of its general partner.

Sippin Energy Products distributes heating fuel to customers in southwestern Connecticut. Sippin Energy Products heating oil services for customers include the removal of old oil tanks, and their replacement with new ones. Sippin Energy Products also sells and installs air conditioning systems and hot water heaters. In addition to its fleet of oil delivery trucks, Sippin Energy Products operates a 800,000 gallon storage tank. Sippin Energy Products is owned by the Sippin family which founded their fuel business in 1919.

Qatar Petroleum (QP) is the government-owned oil and gas conglomerate of the small Mideast country. Qatar Petroleum has upstream (exploration, drilling, production) and downstream (refining) operations for crude oil, natural gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG), and other refined products. Its Dukhan oil field can produce up to 335,000 barrels per day. QP has onshore crude oil reserves of 1,842 million barrels and onshore gas reserves of some 8 trillion cubic feet. Its two offshore production stations produced almost 90 million barrels of oil in 2008. Through partnerships with such companies as ExxonMobil, Occidental, and TOTAL, QP supplies oil and gas to North America, Asia and Europe.

Yangarra Resources Ltd. wants to yank some oil and natural gas from reserves in Western Canada. The exploration and production company (formed from the 2005 merger of TriOil and the former Yangarra Resources Inc.) has three core operating areas in the province of Alberta: Ferrier, Medicine Hat, and Jaslan. Yangarra Resources Ltd. also has noncore operations in Saskatchewan and other areas of Alberta. Yangarra Resources Ltd. has an inventory of more than 50 locations that are prospects for drilling. Yangarra Resources has proved and probable reserves of 2.9 million barrels of oil equivalent. In 2009 it filed for Canada's version of bankruptcy protection and then bought Athabaska Energy, which also produced natural gas in Alberta.

Parker Drilling parks its oil rigs off the beaten path. Parker Drilling Company helicopter-transportable rigs allow the drilling contractor to work in otherwise inaccessible desert, mountain, and remote jungle locations. Parker Drilling Company barge rigs allow the company to drill in transition zones (such as bays and marshes). Parker Drilling owns 28 land rigs and 17 US-based barge drilling and workover rigs. Parker Drilling Company drills worldwide (in nine countries in 2008) and has worked in 54 countries since its founding. Subsidiary Quail Tools provides rental tools for oil and gas drilling and workover activities, with operations in the Gulf Coast, the Rocky Mountains, and West Texas regions. Parker Drilling also has a drilling rig construction unit.

China Huaneng Group (CHNG) is one of China's five largest power conglomerates. China Huaneng Group oversees the national government's interests in 10 subsidiaries, including a 51% stake in Huaneng Power International. Through subsidiaries it develops and operates more than 85 thermal and hydro power plants. In addition to its power-generation business, China Huaneng Group plans to enter other sectors, including finance, transportation, information technology, and renewable energy. In 2008 CHNG acquired Singapore-based Tuas Power from Temasek Holdings for $4.2 billion.

EGPI Firecreek Inc., is focused on oil and gas production with an emphasis on acquiring existing oil fields with proven reserves and upside potential. EGPI Firecreek, Inc. specializes in the rehabilitation of potentially high throughput oilfields, resource properties and inventories. EGPI Firecreek has refocused on US oil and gas activities. EGPI Firecreek, Inc. produces and sells oil and natural gas from wells in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, and Knox County, Texas. EGPI Firecreek, Inc. had a strategic alliance with Sahara Group, an oil and gas concern with expertise in Eastern Europe, North Africa, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine, but wound this down in 2008. In 2009 in a diversification move, EGPI Firecreek subsidiary Asian Ventures Corp. acquired M3 Lighting as EGPI Firecreek, Inc. expanded into light and traffic fixture manufacturing.

Toreador Resources was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Paris, France. Toreador Resources Corporation operates as an independent international energy company. Toreador Resources Corporation engages in the acquisition, development, exploration, and production of crude oil. Toreador Resources Corporation holds interests in developed and undeveloped oil properties in France. Toreador Resources primarily focuses on the Paris Basin Oil Shale. Toreador Resources Corporation was formerly known as Toreador Royalty Corporation and changed its name to Toreador Resources Corporation.

Statoil ASA was founded in 1972 and is based in Stavanger, Norway. Statoil ASA engages in the exploration, production, transportation, refining, and marketing of petroleum and petroleum-derived products. Statoil ASA involves in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas in Norway and internationally, as well as extraction of natural gas liquids. Statoil ASA also transports and markets natural gas and natural gas products; and operates 2,000 full-service Statoil-branded service stations in Scandinavia, as well as approximately 100 fully-automated sales outlets under the 1-2-3 name. In addition, Statoil engages in petroleum refining operations; marketing crude oil and refined petroleum products; and provision of technical services for approximately 7,000 kilometers of pipeline from the Norwegian continental shelf to Europe. Statoil ASA was formerly known as StatoilHydro ASA and changed its name to Statoil ASA in November 2009.

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