If you were to ask "what's our vector, Victor?" Vector Pipelines would include mainline natural gas transportation in its answer, whereas the cast from Airplane would surely answer differently (so please don't call the company "Shirley"). In service since 2000, Vector Pipelines operates a pipeline nearly 350 miles in length with receipt and delivery points in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ontario. Approximately 95% of the pipeline is located in the US; Vector Pipeline Limited Partnership is responsible for the 15 miles of pipeline in Canada. Calgary-based Enbridge owns a 60% stake in Vector Pipeline, and Detroit-based DTE Energy Company owns 40%.

Thomas Petroleum is owned and managed by president L. Ray Thomas.Petroleum and heating oil wholesaler and retailer Thomas Petroleum operates in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Thomas Petroleum serves more than 145 wholesale customers, nearly 50 convenience store clients, and owns of nine convenience stores. Thomas Petroleum sells major petroleum brands, including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Marathon, and Sunoco. Thomas Petroleum is the only supplier of ethanol 85 to public fueling centers in North Carolina.

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.

The company engages in oil and natural gas exploration and production activities, mainly in the Gulf Coast, Michigan, and the mid-continent, Permian Basin, and Rocky Mountain regions. In 2008 Whiting Petroleum Corporation reported proved reserves of 180 million barrels of oil and 354.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas. That year Whiting Petroleum operated 3,337 net productive wells. Whiting Petroleum Corporation sells oil and gas production to end users, marketers, and other purchasers that have access to nearby pipeline facilities. Where there is no practical access to pipelines, oil is trucked to storage facilities. Whiting Petroleum Corporation had interests in 9,616 gross productive wells. Whiting Petroleum Corporation was founded in 1983 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

EGPI Firecreek Inc., is focused on oil and gas production with an emphasis on acquiring existing oil fields with proven reserves and upside potential. EGPI Firecreek, Inc. specializes in the rehabilitation of potentially high throughput oilfields, resource properties and inventories. EGPI Firecreek has refocused on US oil and gas activities. EGPI Firecreek, Inc. produces and sells oil and natural gas from wells in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, and Knox County, Texas. EGPI Firecreek, Inc. had a strategic alliance with Sahara Group, an oil and gas concern with expertise in Eastern Europe, North Africa, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine, but wound this down in 2008. In 2009 in a diversification move, EGPI Firecreek subsidiary Asian Ventures Corp. acquired M3 Lighting as EGPI Firecreek, Inc. expanded into light and traffic fixture manufacturing.

Incorporated in 1987, Mitsui & Co. Europe Plc (Mitsui Europe) is actively involved in business investment, project development and management and technology transfer, in addition to its traditional import/export business, off-shore trading and domestic wholesale concerns. Mitsui Europe, with its head office in the heart of London, manages the overall business activities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa through more than 50 offices in over 30 countries. Mitsui Europe has 10 operating divisions encompassing Iron & Steel Products, Iron & Steel Raw Materials & Non-Ferrous Metals, Projects, Machinery, Organic Chemicals, Plastics & Inorganic Chemicals, Energy & Financial Markets, Foodstuff & Retail, Consumer Products & Services and Transportation Logistics.

Hilcorp Energy, an oil and natural gas producer founded in 1989 by Jeffrey Hildebrand, is one of the nation's largest privately held energy companies. Hilcorp Energy Company employs the latest technology to extract oil and gas from mature fields that have been abandoned by other operators. Hilcorp Energy Company pumps about 25 million barrels of oil and natural gas equivalent annually and has proved reserves of 120 million barrels. A former Exxon Mobil geologist, Hildebrand started the company with former partner Thomas Hook.

CNPC (Hong Kong) Limited's mission is to find oil and gas for its customers. CNPC (Hong Kong) Limited specializes in the production and exploration for crude oil and natural gas in Asia, South America, and the Middle East. CNPC (Hong Kong) a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation has a production sharing agreement with PetroChina Company, as well as other production sharing contracts to develop and produce crude oil in certain regions in China. CNPC (Hong Kong) Limited has 14 oil exploration and production projects in seven countries. CNPC (Hong Kong) plans to expand its oil reserves primarily through exploration and production partnerships with other companies.

ENMAX Corporation gets the energy, distributes it, and makes sure its customers stay powered up. The company's nonregulated ENMAX Energy subsidiary supplies retail electricity to 614,000 residential and commercial customers in Alberta in Calgary, Red Deer, and Lethbridge. The unit also trades wholesale energy and provides natural gas and telecommunications services. Subsidiary ENMAX Power operates the company's regulated transmission and distribution system and provides infrastructure services. The City of Calgary controls ENMAX, which was founded in 1889, only five years after Calgary was formed.

First Choice Power wants to be the first choice of Texas power consumers. The retail electric provider (REP) serves more than 237,430 homes and businesses in Texas' deregulated power market. The company, a nonregulated indirect subsidiary of PNM Resources, serves the price-to-beat customers in sister-company Texas-New Mexico Power's transmission and distribution territories. It also serves residential, industrial, large and small commercial, and aggregated municipal customers in other competitive regions of Texas. First Choice Power is one of a number of retail electric providers that Electric Reliability Council of Texas oversees to ensure that consumers have a competitive choice of power provider.

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