Our goal is to be the leading independent refiner and supplier of unbranded petroleum products in Europe and to be an industry leader in returning value to our shareholders. Petroplus Holdings (formerly Petroplus International) handles plus-sized amounts of petroleum. The company, which was founded in 1993 by Marcel van Poecke and Willem Willemstein, specializes in oil refining, storage, and marketing. Petroplus owns refineries in France, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. These refineries have a total capacity of 816,000 barrels per day. RIVR, an investment vehicle jointly owned by US private equity firms Carlyle Group and Riverstone Holdings, spent about $300 million in 2005 to acquire Petroplus and take it private. It went public again in 2006.

Twin Butte is an oil and gas exploration, development, and production company that has assets on more than 150,000 net acres in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Its half-a-dozen properties, located in Alberta and British Columbia, have proved net reserves of 23,212 MMcf (million cubic feet) of natural gas and 1,528 Mbbl (thousand barrels) of light and medium oil (in fiscal year 2008); it produces more than 2,700 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Twin Butte traces its roots back to 1997. Twin Butte Energy Ltd. intends to focus future growth in the Deep Basin areas of Ansell and Jayar, and the conventional heavy oil area of Frog Lake. Both of these areas provide repeatable plays on our current lands with lower risk wells at Frog Lake and strong, long life growth potential in the Deep Basin.

Exterran Partners, L.P. provides natural gas compression services in the United States and internationally. Exterran Partners, L.P. offers contract operations services, which include designing, sourcing, owning, installing, operating, servicing, repairing, and maintaining equipment for oil and gas production, processing, and transportation applications. Exterran Partners, L.P. serves companies operating in the oil and natural gas industry, including natural gas producers, processors, gatherers, transporters, and storage providers. Exterran General Partner, L.P. operates as the general partner of Exterran Partners, L.P. Exterran Partners, L.P. was formerly known as Universal Compression Partners, L.P. and changed its name to Exterran Partners, L.P. in August 2007. Exterran Partners, L.P. is based in Houston, Texas.

Sparrows Offshore is a unit of Energy Cranes International, the world's largest crane management and engineering services contractor to the offshore oil and gas industry. In 1973, Sparrows became the first contractor to send specialist crane operators and maintainers to work in the UK’s fledgling North Sea oil and gas industry. Sparrows offers offshore platform crane operation, maintenance, and management services. Sparrows Offshore Services Limited operates primarily in the North Sea, although it has bases in the Middle East, the Caspian Sea, Australasia, and West Africa. Since 2005, further offshore crane service and engineering centres have been established in Indonesia, Brazil, Angola, the Netherlands, India and Singapore. In 2008 Sparrows Offshore Services Limited established a regional headquarters and engineering center in Singapore to serve the growing Asian market.

AMERICAN AGIP Co. Inc. was established in North America in 1987. American Agip is part of the Eni Group, a global company operating in the oil, natural gas, power generation and petrochemicals industries, as well as oil field services and engineering. After having, in 2008, spun off its methanol and petroleum products trading activity to its sister company, Eni Trading and Shipping (ETS), American Agip is now active and exclusively focused on the manufacturing and marketing of quality lubricants.

Crudely moving into the private market, Polski Koncern Naftowy ORLEN is the largest refiner and distributor of oil in Poland. The company owns a total of seven refineries (including three in the Czech Republic and one in Lithuania) and has some 2,700 retail sites in the Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, and Poland. PKN ORLEN owns an 85% stake in chemical maker Anwil, has holdings in several other Polish companies, and controls Czech refiner and retailer Unipetrol. Two former state monopolies, Petrochemia Plock (Poland's largest refinery) and Centrala Produktow Naftowych (Poland's #1 petroleum distributor), merged in 1999 to create PKN ORLEN. The Polish government still owns 10% of the company.

On a barren piece of land in Harris County, Texas, just outside of Houston, a discouraged but still determined drilling crew struck “black gold” in 1917. Weeks after paychecks from the new Crown Oil and Refining Company had run dry, ‘Well Number 3’ finally spouted oil. What flowed from the well was more than just crude oil; it was the foundation of what became Crown Central Petroleum Corporation and has evolved into Crown Central LLC. The revenue generated by ‘Well 3’ enabled the young company to construct its own refinery. One of the very first refineries built on the Houston Ship Channel, the plant opened in 1920 with lube oil as its only product. But the range of products would begin to grow with the manufacturing of gasoline in 1925, the same year the Company was incorporated as Crown Central Petroleum Corporation.

Guardian Exploration Inc. is a junior oil and gas exploration company operating primarily in Montana's Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Guardian Exploration Inc. has relinquished its rights to the western block of the reservation, which contained 150,000 tribal mineral acres. But Guardian Exploration Inc. retains exploration rights on the east side of the reservation for 100,000 tribal mineral acres. The firm has not commercially produced in the area, and plans to seek new opportunities in Western Canada. In 2009 Guardian Exploration Inc. agreed to merge with fellow explorer Luxor Oil & Gas, but the deal fell through.

With a production of 2.34 million barrels of oil equivalent per day with reserves of 10.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent, Total is the fifth largest energy group in the world with operations in more than 130 countries covering the entire chain of oil and gas: upstream (exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas, LNG) and downstream (refining, distribution, marketing and transportation of crude oil and petroleum products). Di rilievo è inoltre l'impegno del Gruppo nella Chimica di base (petrolchimica e fertilizzanti) e nella Chimica delle specialità (caucciù, resine, adesivi). Of importance is also the Group's commitment in basic chemicals (petrochemicals and fertilizers) and specialty chemistry (rubber, resins, adhesives). TOTAL detiene partecipazioni nei settori elettrico e del carbone ed è attiva nello sviluppo delle energie rinnovabili (solare, biomasse) e nel nucleare. TOTAL has interests in electricity and coal and is active in the development of renewable energy (solar, biomass) and nuclear. For the international dimension and for activities within the areas of energy and chemical industries, Total plays an important role in the economic and social development. TOTAL è una società impegnata a creare innovazione ea dar vita a iniziative che forniscano una risposta sostenibile alla necessità di energia. TOTAL is a company committed to creating innovation and result in initiatives that provide a sustainable response to the need for energy. Inoltre, l'azienda si dedica allo sviluppo delle risorse, alla protezione dell'ambiente, all'integrazione nelle culture dei Paesi che la ospitano. In addition, the company devotes resources development, environmental protection, integration in the cultures of the countries that host them.

Dixie Gas & Oil, a distributor of propane, heating oil, industrial lubricants, and other petroleum products to customers in Virginia and West Virginia. Dixie Gas & Oil Corporation also operates gas stations and convenience stores and provides fleeting fueling services. In addition to propane and petroleum, Dixie Gas & Oil supplies CITGO- and Castrol-branded commercial and food grade lubricants; Dixie Gas & Oil Corporation also supplies some retailers with BP and Pure petroleum products. Dixie Gas & Oil Corporation was founded as Dixie Bottled Gas Company in 1946. Dixie Gas & Oil's five gas stations/convenience stores offer BP fuels, Subway sandwiches and salads, as well as convenience food items.

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