Gazprom, Russia's largest company, produces 83% of the nation's natural gas, controls 17% of the world's reserves, and is also the world's largest gas producer. OAO Gazprom is engaged in gas exploration, processing, transport, and marketing. OAO Gazprom operates Russia's domestic gas pipeline network and delivers gas to countries across Central Asia and Europe. Gazprom relies heavily on Western exports. OAO Gazprom also holds stakes in Russian financial institutions, a polypropylene plant, and its own telecom network. The Russian government has boosted its stake in Gazprom from 38% to just more than 50%. Gazprom accounts for about 25% of Russia's tax revenues.

Apache was formed in 1954 with $250,000 of investor capital with the simple concept of becoming a significant and profitable oil company. Today, Apache Corporation is one of the world's top independent oil and gas exploration and production companies. Apache North Sea manages exploration and production activities in the Forties field for its parent Apache Corporation. Apache North Sea began drilling in the field in 2004. A core production area for Apache (averaging 70,000 barrels per day, up from 40,000 a day in 2003), the Forties field has estimated proved reserves of 189 million barrels of oil equivalent. In 2008 Apache North Sea's production of 21.9 million barrels of oil equivalent, accounted for approximately 11% of Apache's total production. In 2009 Apache North Sea Limited boosted output by bringing some seven development wells into production.

Bolt Technology Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of marine seismic data acquisition equipment to the oil and gas industry worldwide. Bolt Technology Corporation operates in three segments: Seismic Energy Sources, Underwater Cables and Connectors, and Seismic Energy Source Controllers. The Seismic Energy Sources segment develops, manufactures, and sells marine seismic energy sources (air guns) and replacement parts. The Underwater Cables and Connectors segment provides underwater cables, connectors, hydrophones, depth and pressure transducers, and seismic source monitoring systems. The Seismic Energy Source Controllers segment offers air gun controllers/synchronizers, data loggers, and auxiliary equipment. The company serves marine seismic exploration contractors and oil and gas companies. Bolt Technology was founded in 1960 and is based in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Trafina is focused on growth: dynamic growth through mergers, exploitive growth through the drilling of coal bed methane assets and portfolio growth through exploration. Trafina's plan is to stay disciplined financially and increase its operatorship as it grows. Trafina is a junior oil and gas company based in Calgary, Alberta. The Company's main areas of interest are in the Rangeview and Divide areas of southwest Saskatchewan and in the Pembina area of Alberta with other operated production in Wetaskawin, Retlaw and Ronalane in Alberta. TRAFINA Energy produces and explores for oil and natural gas in Alberta, Canada. TRAFINA Energy Ltd. drills conventional well and brings up oil and gas using unconventional drilling as well. More than half the company's revenues come from operational activities in the Wetaskiwin area of Alberta (a vast majority are natural gas sales). In addition to its Wetaskiwin projects where TRAFINA Energy Ltd. is the driller and operator, TRAFINA also has non-operated oil and gas properties in the area and in other parts of Alberta. TRAFINA Energy Ltd. produces an average of more than 300 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Chairman and CEO Roland Valentine founded TRAFINA in 1991.

PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP) was established for the sole purpose of searching for black gold, that is. PTT Exploration and Production Public engages in petroleum exploration and production, with more than 40 active projects in Algeria, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Oman, Thailand, and Vietnam. The company has proved reserves of 946 million barrels of oil equivalent. PTT Exploration and Production Public end products include crude oil, natural gas, liquid propane gas, and condensate. PTTEP also operates natural gas pipelines. PTT Exploration and Production Public was founded in 1985; PTT Public Co. owns 66% of its shares.

The story of CITGO Petroleum Corporation as an enduring American success story began back in 1910 when pioneer oilman, Henry L. Doherty, created the Cities Service Company.When Cities Service determined that it needed to change its marketing brand, it introduced the name CITGO in 1965, retaining the first syllable of its long-standing name and ending with "GO" to imply power, energy and progressiveness. The now familiar and enduring CITGO "trimark" logo was born. Occidental Petroleum bought Cities Service in 1982, and CITGO was incorporated as a wholly owned refining, marketing and transportation subsidiary in the spring of the following year. Then, in August, 1983, CITGO was sold to The Southland Corporation to provide an assured supply of gasoline to Southland's 7-Eleven convenience store chain.

SeaEnergy PLC (formerly Ramco Energy plc), a Scottish public limited company, and its subsidiaries and associates form an energy group, headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland. Through subsidiaries and affiliates, the holding company explores for oil and gas in the UK North Sea, the Irish Sea, Central Europe (Bulgaria), and Iraq. SeaEnergy PLC has also entered the renewable energy field and is looking for global opportunities for large-scale offshore wind farm development through its 88%-owned SeaEnergy Renewables. Because of SeaEnergy PLC new focus on offshore wind power, SeaEnergy PLC changed its name from Ramco Energy in 2009.

EOG Resources, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is based in Houston, Texas.EOG Resources hogs a resource -- natural gas. The independent oil and gas company is engaged in exploring for natural gas and crude oil and developing, producing, and marketing those resources. In 2008 EOG, an independent offspring of the once powerful Enron, reported estimated proved reserves of 6.8 trillion cu. ft. equivalent, including 7.3 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas reserves and 225 million barrels of crude oil, condensate, and natural gas liquid (NGL) reserves. EOG Resources, Inc. operates in major production basins in Canada, offshore Trinidad, the US, the UK sector of the North Sea, and in China (Sichuan basin).

Imperial Oil Limited engages in the exploration, production, and sale of crude oil and natural gas in Canada. The company operates through three segments: Upstream, Downstream, and Chemical. The Upstream segment engages in the exploration and production of conventional crude oil, natural gas, synthetic oil, and bitumen primarily in the Western Provinces, the Canada Lands, and the Atlantic Offshore. Its primary conventional oil producing asset includes the Norman Wells oil field in the Northwest Territories. The Downstream segment engages in the transportation and refining of crude oil, as well as blending, distribution, and marketing of refined products. It owns and operates crude oil, and natural gas liquids and products pipelines in Alberta, Manitoba, and Ontario. The Chemical segment engages in the manufacture and marketing of various petrochemicals, including ethylene, benzene, aromatic and aliphatic solvents, plasticizer intermediates, and polyethylene resin. As of December 31, 2009, Imperial Oil Limited had 1,204 million oil-equivalent barrels of proved undeveloped reserves; maintained a nation-wide distribution system, including 24 primary terminals, to handle bulk and packaged petroleum products moving from refineries to market by pipeline, tanker, rail, and road transport; and sold petroleum products through 1,850 Esso retail service stations, of which about 540 were company owned or leased. The company was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. Imperial Oil Limited is a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation.

Allis-Chalmers Energy provides drilling and oil field services to oil and gas exploration companies operating primarily in the western and southern US. It operates in three segments: Drilling and Completion; Oilfield Services (underbalanced drilling, directional drilling, tubular services, and production services); and Rental Services. Its Strata Directional Technology subsidiary offers drilling services to clients in Texas and Louisiana. Through its AirComp unit, Allis-Chalmers operates a fleet of 260 compressors, as well as a portfolio of full-time directional drillers, measurement-while-drilling tools, and downhole motors used for well production enhancement and completion. Allis-Chalmers Energy Inc. was founded in 1913 and is based in Houston, Texas.

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