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.

Nicklos Drilling Company provides land and offshore contract drilling services in the Texas Gulf Coast, Southeast Texas, and Southwest Louisiana. Nicklos Drilling has four differently configured rigs capable of drilling in a depth range from 6,500 feet depth maximum to 17,000 feet maximum. Nicklos Drilling Company is owned and managed by Texas oil industry veterans Jim Nicklos (whose previous oil contracting business had gone bankrupt in the mid-1980s) and Jack Blanton (a one-time VP of family-owned Scurlock Oil). Nicklos Drilling Company by providing valuable oil field services that Nicklos Drilling makes its money.

HOVENSA is among the top ten largest refineries in the world. The company became the owner and operator of the former Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corp. (HOVIC) refinery on October 30, 1998. HOVIC, a wholly owned Virgin Islands subsidiary of Hess Corporation, was established to construct and operate an oil refinery in coordination with the Virgin Islands Government’s efforts in the 1960’s to diversify the economy of the islands. HOVENSA provides employment to approximately 2,500 people in a culturally diverse workforce through its payroll and that of several maintenance contractors.

Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (NYSE: MMP) is a publicly traded partnership formed to own, operate and acquire a diversified portfolio of energy assets. Our primary business is the transportation, storage and distribution of refined petroleum products. Since going public in 2001, Magellan has acquired $2 billion in strategic assets while delivering consistently strong performance. Our current asset portfolio includes over 80 petroleum products terminals, a 9,500-mile petroleum products pipeline system and an 1,100-mile ammonia pipeline system.

Boots & Coots, Inc. provides a suite of integrated pressure control and related services to onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration and development companies primarily in North America, Asia, South America, north and west Africa, and the Middle East. Boots & Coots International Well Control, Inc. operates in three segments: Pressure Control, Well Intervention, and Equipment Services. The Pressure Control segment offers prevention and risk management services, including training, risk analysis, contingency planning, well plan reviews, audit programs, inspection services, and engineering services, as well as the prevention and control of blowouts and the mitigation of risks related to installations to reduce the number and severity of critical well events. This segment also involves in the rental and sale of firefighting equipment; provision of snubbing services, pre-event engineering services, specialized drilling engineering, and training services. Boots & Coots International Well Control, Inc. was formerly known as Boots & Coots International Well Control, Inc. and changed its name to Boots & Coots, Inc. in May 2009. Boots & Coots, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Transportadora Brasileira Gasoduto is duty-bound to bring gas to Brazil. The company is responsible for the Brazilian operation of Latin America's largest gas pipeline, which originates in Bolivia. It monitors and maintains more than 1,850 miles of pipeline through three regional management offices located in the states of Mato Grosso do Sul, So Paulo, and Santa Catarina (with jurisdiction over Paran and Rio Grande do Sul as well). TBG's pipes carry about 30 million cubic meters of natural gas per day. Its main customers are industrial and power plants. TBG was formed in 1997 and began operations in 1999. Government-controlled PETROBRAS, via subsidiary Gaspetro, owns 51% of the company.

The Hiller Group, Inc. primarily supplies wholesale Chevron and Texaco branded aviation fuel and support services to more than 350 fixed-base operations (FBOs, or refueling sites) for the airline industry. Planes get their filler from The Hiller Group. The Hiller Group also operates through three other companies -- HG Equipment, Hiller Carbon, and Hiller Trading. HG Equipment finances and leases aircraft refuelers to FBOs. Hiller Carbon brokers carbon products to foundries and steel mills, shipping by rail domestically or marine vessel internationally. Hiller Trading imports and exports a variety of raw materials such as chemical, energy, industrial, and recycled products.

Colorado Interstate Gas knows that there is no fuel like an old fuel -- natural gas. Founded in 1927, the company, a subsidiary of El Paso Corp., transports natural gas from fields in the Rocky Mountains and the Anadarko Basin to customers in the Rocky Mountains, Midwest, Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and California. All told, Colorado Interstate Gas has some 4,000 miles of pipeline that can carry more than 3 billion cu. ft. per day. It has storage facilities in Colorado and Kansas. It also has a 50% stake in WYCO Development LLC, a joint venture with an affiliate of Xcel Energy, which owns and operates an intrastate gas pipeline.

Parker Drilling parks its oil rigs off the beaten path. Parker Drilling Company helicopter-transportable rigs allow the drilling contractor to work in otherwise inaccessible desert, mountain, and remote jungle locations. Parker Drilling Company barge rigs allow the company to drill in transition zones (such as bays and marshes). Parker Drilling owns 28 land rigs and 17 US-based barge drilling and workover rigs. Parker Drilling Company drills worldwide (in nine countries in 2008) and has worked in 54 countries since its founding. Subsidiary Quail Tools provides rental tools for oil and gas drilling and workover activities, with operations in the Gulf Coast, the Rocky Mountains, and West Texas regions. Parker Drilling also has a drilling rig construction unit.

SulphCo, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, was founded in 1999. The original patents relating to our technology resulted from the research efforts of several scientists at the University of Southern California. Their novel work utilized high power ultrasound to enhance the oxidation of sulfur compounds in diesel fuel. Since the inception of the Company, we have continuously improved our Sonocracking™ technology by redesigning the ultrasound probe, systematically documenting the chemical reactions that occur during the Sonocracking™ process, and identifying efficient and cost effective catalyst and oxidant systems. Commercially, a variety of potential customers ranging from small independent “transmix” processors to major integrated oil companies are in various stages of evaluating the Sonocracking™ technology for their specific applications.

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