Integrated oil giant Rosneft conducts oil and gas exploration and production activities in Siberia, the Far East, the North Caucasus, Timan-Pechora, the Volga-Urals region, the Black, Caspian, and Azov Seas, and in Kamchatka. OAO Rosneft Oil Company also has exploration projects in Algeria, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. OAO Rosneft Oil Company has proved, probable and possible reserves of 49 billion barrels of oil equivalent. OAO Rosneft Oil Company has seven refineries with an aggregate capacity of 56.7 million tonnes. Rosneft also operates shipping and pipeline companies, as well as a national network of 1,700 gasoline stations. The Russian government owns 75% of Rosneft.

The foundation of Unipetrol in 1994 represented the completion of one of the gradual conceptual steps in the privatisation of the Czech petrochemical industry. Unipetrol was meant to unite selected Czech petrochemical companies into a conglomerate that would be able to compete with strong international groups. Represented by the National Property Fund, the Czech state was the majority shareholder with 63 percent. The remaining shares were owned by investment funds and small shareholders. The original concept was that the state’s interest in the company should be privatised. Kaučuk, Chemopetrol, Benzina, Paramo, Koramo, Česká rafinérská, Unipetrol Trade, Spolana and Unipetrol Rafinérie were gradually integrated into Unipetrol.Effective from 1 January 1996, refineries of Chemopetrol in Litvínov and Kaučuk in Kralupy were separated to be united within Česká rafinérská.

China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec Corp.) is the largest refiner and petrochemical producer in China. Its parent, state-owned China Petrochemical (Sinopec Group), reorganized in 2000 and pooled the best of its assets as Sinopec Corp. Sinopec Corp.'s businesses include oil and gas exploration and production; crude oil processing; oil products trading, transportation, distribution, and marketing; and petrochemicals manufacturing. It has proved reserves of 4 billion barrels of oil and more than 7 trillion cu. ft. of gas, and owns more than 29,000 gas stations. The government of China controls about 75% of the company through the Sinopec Group.

XTO Energy was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. XTO Energy Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, development, exploitation, and exploration of producing oil and gas properties in the United States. XTO Energy Inc. also engages in the production, processing, marketing, and transportation of oil and natural gas. The company's properties are concentrated in Texas, Arkansas, Montana, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah, Kansas, West Virginia, Colorado, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, and North Dakota. As of December 31, 2008, XTO Energy Inc. had estimated proved reserves of 11.80 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, 76 million barrels of natural gas liquids, and 268 million barrels of oil; and owned interests in 18,235.7 net producing wells. XTO Energy markets its gas to brokers, local distribution companies, and end-users. XTO Energy Inc. was formerly known as Cross Timbers Oil Company and changed its name to XTO Energy Inc. in June 2001.

NWF (from its earlier name, North Western Farmers) wants to feed the family and fuel the farm. NWF Group plc provides agricultural and distribution services to customers in the UK through three divisions: Feeds (feed manufacturing and supply of farm products), Food distribution (storing and distributing groceries to supermarkets), Fuels (providing fuels to commercial and residential customers). Through NWF Group plc fuels division, which accounts for more than 60% of NWF's sales, NWF Group plc is the largest independent distributor of the Chevron gasoline in Europe. NWF Group plc also distributes ConocoPhillips and TOTAL products. NWF has 13 oil depots and more than 1,000 fuel bunkering sites across the UK.

Talisman Energy Inc. was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.Talisman Energy Inc. also explores in North Africa and in Latin America and the Caribbean region. In the North Sea the company operates more than 40 oilfields and has a large exploration holding in offshore Norway. Talisman Energy Inc. also has a vast acreage of natural gas reserves in Southeast Asia. In 2008 Talisman reported proved reserves of 1.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent and a production rate of 432,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. operates as an offshore energy company. Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. provides development solutions and various other contracting services to the energy market, as well as to its oil and gas properties. Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. provides a range of contracting services primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, the Asia Pacific, and West Africa regions primarily in deepwater. Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. offers development services comprising installation of subsea pipelines, flowlines, control umbilicals, manifolds, and risers; pipelay and burial; installation and tie-in of riser and manifold assembly; commissioning, testing, and inspection services; and cable and umbilical lay and connection. Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. also provides various production services, including inspection, repair, and maintenance of production structures, risers, pipelines, and subsea equipment; well intervention; life of field support; and intervention engineering. In addition, Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. offers decommissioning and remediation services; plugging and abandonment services; platform salvage and removal services; pipeline abandonment services; and site inspections. Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. offers its products and services to independent oil and gas producers and suppliers, pipeline transmission companies, and offshore engineering and construction firms. Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. was formerly known as Cal Dive International, Inc. and changed its name to Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. in March 2006. Helix Energy Solutions Group was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Quest Resource Corporation's quest is to make money from oil and gas exploration and production. The company acquires, explores, develops, produces, and transports natural gas, primarily coalbed methane. Quest Resource's exploration and drilling efforts are focused in the Cherokee Basin of southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma, and the Appalachian Basin, where it is accumulating leasehold acreage. The company has net proved reserves of 211 billion cu. ft. of net proved reserves (99% of which is coalbed methane) and operates more than 2,000 miles of gas gathering pipeline in Kansas and Oklahoma. In 2008 the company shifted its strategic focus to the Appalachian Basin.

Peninsula Petroleum Ltd is a major physical bunker and lubricant supplier at the ports of Gibraltar, Ceuta, Canary Islands and Panama and is active as a worldwide trader with annual sales in excess of 5,000,000 metric tonnes. Peninsula Petroleum guarantees high quality products and first-class customer care. From our offices in London, Gibraltar, Geneva, Tønsberg, Athens, Dubai, Singapore, Shanghai and Montevideo our staff bring the benefits of their experience and expertise to provide clients with a professional, cost-effective means of meeting their fuel requirements on a global basis.

Russia's Sakhalin Island is Big Oil nirvana. The area's estimated reserves top 500 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 150 million tons of oil. Sakhalin Energy is a consortium of Royal Dutch Shell, Russia's Gazprom, and Japan's Mitsui and Mitsubishi formed to exploit those resources. Its facilities include offshore platforms, an oil pipeline terminal and a natural gas liquefaction plant, which the company hopes will give it an edge in serving the growing demand in Asia. Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. was formed in 1994 to develop the Piltun-Astokhskoye oil field and the Lunskoye gas field in the Sea of Okhotsk offshore Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East. Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. began producing and exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2009. The first delivery was to Japan in March of that year.

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