The Lykins family first took a liking to petroleum and petroleum products marketing when Guy Lykins founded the enterprise in 1948. The Lykins Companies serves as a marketer for large oil companies such as BP, Exxon Mobil, Marathon Oil, and Royal Dutch Shell, and supplies more than 130 independent dealers. Products hauled by its trucking unit include gasoline, heating oil, diesel, biodiesel, and kerosene. Lykins Companies, Inc. has operations in 14 states. Lykins Companies, Inc. also serves more that 25,000 homes with heating oil. Most its customers are located in southwestern Ohio, northern Kentucky, and eastern Indiana. Lykins D&L Leasing unit provides daily, weekly, and monthly leases on cars, trucks, and vans.

Action Energy Inc. began operations as a private company in 1999 developing plays in Shackleton, Saskatchewan and Medicine River, Alberta. Exploration and production independent Action Energy (formerly High Plains Energy) knows where the energy action is -- drilling for natural gas. Action Energy Inc. primarily explores oil and gas in Alberta, including operations in Lloydminster and Eagle Butte areas. In 2006 Action Energy Inc. acquired oil and gas explorer Action Energy in a reverse takeover. In 2007 Action Energy acquired Rolling Thunder Exploration. Post-acquisition, the company reported proved plus probable reserves of more than 9.6 million barrels of oil equivalent. In 2008 Action Energy Inc. acquired access to more than 10,000 acres in Saskatchewan. Financially struggling, in 2009 the company was placed in receivership and its top executives resigned.

ONEOK Partners gasses up and ships its products through interstate natural gas pipelines in 10 states. Its pipelines include Midwestern Gas Transmission, Guardian Pipeline, Viking Gas Transmission, and OkTex Pipeline. It operates 14,300 miles of gas-gathering pipeline and 5,630 miles of transportation pipeline, as well as gas processing plants and storage facilities. It also owns one of the US's top natural gas liquids (NGL) systems, and operates a parking garage and leases office space in Tulsa. ONEOK holds a 46% stake in ONEOK Partners and 100% of its general partner.

Hiland Partners, LP is a midstream energy partnership engaged in purchasing, gathering, compressing, dehydrating, treating, processing and marketing of natural gas and the fractionating, or separating, and marketing of natural gas liquids, or NGLs. Hiland Partners also provides air compression and water injection services to Continental Resources, Inc. ("CLR"), a publicly traded exploration and production company, for use in its oil and gas secondary recovery operations. Hiland Partners' operations are primarily located in the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States. In the Partnership's midstream segment, Hiland Holdings GP, LP connects the wells of natural gas and crude oil producers in its operating areas to its gathering systems, treats natural gas to remove impurities, processes natural gas for the removal of NGLs, fractionates NGLs into NGL products and provides an aggregate supply of natural gas and NGL products to a variety of transmission pipelines and markets.

Tri-Valley Corporation was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Bakersfield, California. Tri-Valley Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration, acquisition, and development of petroleum, metal, and mineral properties. Tri-Valley Corporation principal oil and gas properties include the Ekho property and Sunrise-Mayel Natural Gas project located in California. Tri-Valley Corporation operates precious metals properties in Alaska comprising the Richardson claim block consisting of 28,720 gross acres located in the north of Richardson Highway; and the Shorty Creek project in the Livengood District of Alaska. Tri-Valley Corporation also holds industrial minerals project, which consists of the Admiral calcium carbonate mine located on the north-west side of Prince of Wales Island. In addition, Tri-Valley Corporation involves in oil and gas drilling and development operations.

Dragon Oil plc is an independent oil development and production company, registered in Ireland and listed under a dual primary listing on the London and Irish Stock Exchanges. Approximately 52% of the Company’s equity is held by the Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) L.L.C. (“ENOC”), a company owned by the Government of Dubai. Dragon Oil is headquartered in Dubai and its principal development and production activity is the development of its asset in the Cheleken Contract Area, offshore Turkmenistan by a Group subsidiary, Dragon Oil (Turkmenistan) Limited. Dragon Oil had proved and probable oil reserves at 30 June 2008 of 645 million barrels and 3.2 trillion cuft of gas resources. The company reports recoverable proved and probable reserves of 645 million barrels of oil and condensate in the Cheleken area. Dragon Oil PLC is a subsidiary of the Emirates National Oil Company. Dragon Oil PLC owns a 52% stake in Dragon Oil, but in 2009 bid to acquire 100%. Shareholders rebuffed the offer.

Tullow Oil plc Oil and gas exploration, development, and production company. Tullow Oil has focused its energy on exploiting hydrocarbon resources in Africa and Europe, as well as in South America and South Asia. Tullow Oil plc has interests in more than 85 licenses in 22 countries. In 2008 Tullow Oil plc reported proved and probable reserves of 825 million barrels of oil equivalent. That year Tullow Oil plc reported production of 66,600 barrels of oil equivalent per day. In 2008 Tullow Oil plc drilled about 100 exploration, appraisal, and developmental wells, including multiple-well initiatives in Ghana and Uganda.

Encore Acquisition Company was founded in 1998 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas.Encore Acquisition Company engages in the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas reserves from onshore fields in the United States. Encore Acquisition Company holds interests in various properties located in the Cedar Creek Anticline (CCA) in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota; the Permian Basin of west Texas and southeastern New Mexico; the Rockies, which includes non-CCA assets in the Williston, Big Horn, and Powder River Basins of Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota; the Paradox Basin of southeastern Utah; and the Mid-Continent area, including the Arkoma and Anadarko Basins of Oklahoma, the north Louisiana Salt Basin, the east Texas Basin, and the Mississippi Salt Basin. As of December, 31, 2008, Encore Acquisition Company had estimated total proved reserves of 134.5 MMBbls of oil and 307.5 Bcf of natural gas. Encore Acquisition Company sells its products to marketers, processors, refiners, and other purchasers.

Linn Energy, LLC was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Linn Energy, LLC, through its subsidiaries, engages in the development and acquisition of gas and oil properties in the United States. Linn Energy, LLC has oil and gas, and natural gas reserves in Mid-Continent, which includes the Texas Panhandle operating area; and Western region comprising the Brea Olinda field of the Los Angeles Basin in California. As of December 31, 2007 the company had proved reserves of 1,945.5 billion cubic feet equivalent of oil and gas, and natural gas liquids. Linn Energy, LLC also operated 7,305 gross productive wells.

New Concept Energy, Inc. was incorporated in 1991 and is based in Dallas, Texas. New Concept Energy (formerly CabelTel International) is looking to put a new face on some really old resources. New Concept Energy, Inc., which operates a residential community for senior citizens in Oregon, is looking to diversify into the shale-sourced natural gas business. New Concept Energy's retirement home offers programs ranging from meal preparation and housekeeping to transportation and recreational activities. New Concept Energy, Inc. formerly owned an outlet shopping mall, but sold that in 2007. It also rescinded its acquisition of cable operator CabelTEL AD that year.

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