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.

NGAS Resources, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is based in Lexington, Kentucky. NGAS Resources, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration and production of natural gas principally in the southern portion of the Appalachian Basin in the eastern United States. NGAS Resources, Inc. also has interests in the New Albany shale play within the Illinois Basin in western Kentucky, as well as interests in a non-operated coalbed methane project in the Arkoma Basin and non-operated projects in West Virginia and Virginia. In addition, NGAS Resources, Inc. own rights to gold and silver properties covering 381 acres on Unga Island in the Aleutian Chain, southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. Further, NGAS Resources, Inc. owns and operates distribution systems for retail sales of natural gas for two communities in southcentral Kentucky. The company's customers include gas marketing intermediaries, pipelines, transmission companies, and local refineries.

TransGlobe Energy Corporation was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. TransGlobe Energy Corporation engages in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Republic of Yemen. TransGlobe Energy Corporation has interests in two production sharing concessions in Egypt; and five production sharing agreements in Yemen. The company was formerly known as Dusty Mac Mines, Ltd. and changed its name to TransGlobe Energy Corporation in April 1996 as a result of its business focus shift from mineral exploration and extraction to oil and gas business. TransGlobe Energy Corporation has interests in seven international blocks totaling 4.9 million acres, with active programs of exploration and development drilling underway.

Invenergy LLC operates about a dozen wind energy generating facilities in the US, Europe, and Canada. Invenergy LLC builds, develops, and buys energy producing properties and has about 2,000 megawatts of wind energy capacity online. While wind is the focus, Invenergy also uses natural gas to produce 2,200 megawatts of energy from facilities in the US and Canada and has plans to enter the solar energy market as well. Invenergy LLC has offices in the US, Poland, and the UK. CEO and president Michael Polsky founded Invenergy in 2001.

TransMontaigne Partners L.P. is a terminaling and transportation company with operations along the Gulf Coast, in the Midwest, in Brownsville, Texas, along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, and in the Southeastern United States. We provide integrated terminaling, storage, transportation and related services for customers engaged in the distribution and marketing of light refined petroleum products, heavy refined petroleum products, crude oil, chemicals, fertilizers and other liquid products. Light refined products include gasolines, diesel fuels, heating oil and jet fuels. Heavy refined products include residual fuel oils and asphalt. We do not purchase or market products that we handle or transport. TransMontaigne Partners, formed by parent TransMontaigne Inc. in 2005, provides integrated terminaling, storage, and pipeline services for companies engaged in refined petroleum products and crude oil distribution and marketing. Products handled include light refined products (gasolines, heating oils, and jet fuels), heavy refined products (asphalt and residual fuel oils), and crude oil. The company's petroleum products terminaling and transportation operations are located along the Gulf Coast, in Brownsville, Texas, along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and in the Midwest.

Marathon is a supplier of gasoline and distillates to resellers and consumers within our market area in the Midwest, upper Great Plains, Gulf Coast and southeastern regions of the United States. The wholesale distribution of petroleum products to private brand marketers and to large commercial and industrial consumers and sales in the spot market accounted for 69 percent of our refined products sales volumes in 2007. We sold 49 percent of our gasoline volumes and 89 percent of our distillates volumes on a wholesale or spot market basis.

Benit Fuel Sales and Service, Inc., was founded in Brooklyn, NY in 1928. Originally the company was an Ice, Coal, and Heating Oil company. The founder was Louis DeBenedittis.After the death of Louis in the 1950's the company was incorporated by two of the founder's sons; Rudy and Louis DeBenedittis. The pair expanded the area of operations to include Queens, Brooklyn, Nassau and Suffolk Counties.

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.

SK Energy (formerly SK Corp.) is the energy and chemical affiliate of South Korea's SK Group, which also operates trading and telecommunications units. Korea's largest oil refiner (1.1 million barrels of daily refining capacity), SK Energy controls about 35% of Korea's fuel retailing market and operates 4,270 service stations. The firm is involved in oil exploration and production in 15 countries and has proved reserves 500 million barrels of oil equivalent. SK Energy imports coal and liquid petroleum gas (LPG), and claims a 44% share of the Korean LPG market. SK Energy supplies natural gas to Seoul and other cities in Korea. The company also makes lubricants, low-pollutant gasoline, and petrochemicals.

GCA is an international advisory firm focused on the provision of integrated technical and managerial services and independent advice to all sectors of the oil and gas industry. Gaffney, Cline & Associates provides technical, operational, management, and commercial consulting services to the global oil and gas industry. Gaffney, Cline & Associates Ltd. portfolio includes reservoir appraisal, advice about field development, and refining and marketing, as well as integrated technical and management services. Gaffney, Cline & Associates Ltd. also provides independent certifications of oil and gas reserves and expert witness services or arbitration services for projects that involve legal, technical, or contractual disputes. Gaffney, Cline & Associates Ltd. has offices throughout the world, and clients include global oil and gas companies, national oil companies, governments, and private investors. Executives Peter Gaffney and Ben Cline founded the firm in 1962.

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