GE's Oil & Gas business, headquartered in Florence, Italy, is a leader in the development and delivery of advanced product and service offerings for the global oil and gas industry. GE Oil & Gas provides compression technologies, transportation, processing, refining, and storage, drilling and production services, and power generation turnkey services to companies worldwide. GE Oil & Gas has an installed base of 11,000 compressors, 18,000 centrifugal pumps, 5,000 turbines, and 2,000 turboexpanders. GE Oil & Gas acquired leading oilfield services company VetcoGray in 2007. Other major brands include Conmec (turbomachinery), Nuovo Pignone (compressors and pumps), Odessa (turbine overhaul), and PII (pipeline inspection).

Fortress Energy Inc. is an Alberta-incorporated company whose primary focus is exploration, development and production of natural gas reserves in Western Canada. Fortress Energy Inc. exited its drug discovery business in 2004, and began acquiring oil and gas companies. In 2005 Fortress Energy (as SignalEnergy) acquired Predator Exploration, as well as Privateco, whose main asset resided in the Chigwell region of Central Alberta. Predator had natural gas properties in northeastern British Columbia and in West-Central and Central Alberta. In 2009 Fortress Energy reported it had 160,464 gross acres and net proved reserves of 30.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent.

Tristream Energy, which provides natural gas producers with a range of gathering, transportation, fractionation, processing, marketing, treating, and related services. Tristream Energy, LLC. develops, acquires and operates infrastructure downstream of producer facilities in major US producing basins (in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and the Rockies). Tristream Energy, LLC. was formed by Ken Purgason, Tony Catalano, and Mike Urban (all formerly of Sago Energy) in 2005. Sago Energy had been owned and operated by president Purgason and Catalano. Tristream Energy, LLC. sold its major operating subsidiaries (Sago Jameson, LEDCO, Louisiana State Gas, and LEDCO Gas Gathering) in 2004.

From the tanker to the main, Enagás keeps gas moving. Enagás is engaged in the construction and operation of Spain's natural gas distribution pipeline infrastructure and the transportation and storage of natural gas to distributors and transporters in the region. It operates more than 4,750 miles of high-pressure gas pipeline, and a network of regulation and measurement stations, compression stations, regasification plants, and storage facilities. About 37% of the company's natural gas comes from sources in Algeria; 24% from Nigeria. Enagás, founded in 1972, has restructured its debt and reorganized its management structure in an effort to modernize its business.

Boots & Coots, Inc. provides a suite of integrated pressure control and related services to onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration and development companies primarily in North America, Asia, South America, north and west Africa, and the Middle East. Boots & Coots International Well Control, Inc. operates in three segments: Pressure Control, Well Intervention, and Equipment Services. The Pressure Control segment offers prevention and risk management services, including training, risk analysis, contingency planning, well plan reviews, audit programs, inspection services, and engineering services, as well as the prevention and control of blowouts and the mitigation of risks related to installations to reduce the number and severity of critical well events. This segment also involves in the rental and sale of firefighting equipment; provision of snubbing services, pre-event engineering services, specialized drilling engineering, and training services. Boots & Coots International Well Control, Inc. was formerly known as Boots & Coots International Well Control, Inc. and changed its name to Boots & Coots, Inc. in May 2009. Boots & Coots, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Gulf Oil bridges the gap between petroleum producers and retail sales outlets. The petroleum wholesaler distributes gasoline and diesel fuel to more than 2,400 Gulf-brand stations in 11 northeastern states. Gulf Oil, which owns 12 (and operates a network of more than 60) storage terminals, also distributes motor oils, lubricants, and heating oil to commercial, industrial, and utility customers. Gulf Oil Limited Partnership has alliances with terminal operators in areas in the Northeast where it does not have a proprietary terminal. Gulf Oil boasts one of the oldest and most recognizable brands in the oil business. Regional convenience store chain and gas retailer Cumberland Farms controls the company.

Plains Exploration and Production Company was founded in 2002 and is based in Houston, Texas. Plains Exploration & Production Company engages in the acquisition, development, exploration, and production of oil and gas properties primarily in the United States. Plains Exploration and Production Company owns interests in various oil and gas properties located in the Onshore and Offshore California; the Gulf of Mexico; the Gulf Coast Region, including the Haynesville Shale and South and East Texas; the Mid-Continent Region; and the Rocky Mountains, as well as an interest in an exploration prospect offshore Vietnam. As of December 31, 2008, Plains Exploration and Production Company had proved reserves of approximately 292.1 million barrels of oil equivalent.

Alon Brands is gaining some independence, but it won't be going it alone in its new venture. Trading on the 7-Eleven and FINA brands, Alon Brands operates convenience stores and, through its wholesale marketing segment, provides motor fuels, supplies, and services to distributors in the southern US. The company is the largest 7-Eleven licensee in the US, with more than 300 convenience stores located in Texas and New Mexico. Alon Brands is also the sole licensee of the FINA brand for motor fuels in the South Central and Southwestern US. Alon USA Energy formed Alon Brands in 2008 as a holding company for its retail and wholesale marketing segments, with the intention of spinning the company off in an IPO.

Basic Earth Science Systems, Inc. was founded in 1969 and is based in Denver, Colorado.Basic Earth Science Systems, Inc. engages in the exploration, acquisition, development, operation, production, and sale of crude oil and natural gas in the United States. Basic Earth Science Systems, Inc. focuses its activities in the North Dakota and Montana portions of the Williston basin, the Denver-Julesburg basin of Colorado, the southern portions of Texas, and the onshore portions of the Gulf Coast. As of March 31, 2009, Basic Earth Science Systems, Inc. owned working interest in 94 producing oil wells and 36 producing gas wells in the states of North Dakota, Montana, Colorado, Texas, and Wyoming. Basic Earth Science Systems, Inc. estimated proved developed and undeveloped oil and gas reserves were 794,000 barrels of oil equivalent.

Starting in the southwest, Northwest Pipeline pipes up the gas. The company operates a 3,900-mile-long pipeline system which carries natural gas to customers located between New Mexico and Washington. It also operates 41 gas transmission compressor stations and a liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage facility in Plymouth, Washington. Northwest Pipeline's customers include Puget Sound Energy (20% of Northwest Pipeline's 2007 sales) and Northwest Natural Gas (11% of sales). The company is a part of The Williams Companies' natural gas pipeline and transportation division.

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