Heading up petroleum transportation around the Great Lakes is Enbridge Energy Partners, which owns the 1,900-mile US portion of the world's longest liquid petroleum pipeline. When combined with the Canadian segment (owned and operated by Enbridge Inc.), the pipeline system spans some 3,500 miles across North America. Other midstream assets include 5,300 miles of crude oil gathering and transportation lines and 28.9 million barrels of crude oil storage and terminaling capacity, and 11,700 miles of natural gas gathering and transportation pipelines. Enbridge Energy Management owns a 14% stake in the company. In 2008 Enbridge Inc. boosted its overall stake in the partnership to 27%.

Zedi Inc. has developed equipment for that. Zedi manufactures products and services to support the operation and management of oil and gas wells. Zedi Inc. primary product is Smart-Alek, a wireless meter designed for the remote monitoring of natural gas production and to increase operator efficiencies. Other brands include PetroNet (production accounting) and Roughneck (operations management). Zedi, founded in 1987, and whose name comes from the Japanese word for "the final frontier," markets primarily to gas producers operating in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Zedi Inc. is also has begun to cater to the US market.

Thai Oil Public Company Limited, Owner and operator of a highly complex refinery which integrated in related to petrochemical production that utilizes modern processing technologies to produce petroleum products predominantly for domestic distribution, Thaioil has expanded into energy-related industries of petrochemicals and lube base production, power generation, as well as marine and pipeline transportation systems for petroleum products and petrochemicals. Owner and operator of a highly complex refinery which integrated in related to petrochemical production that utilizes modern processing technologies to produce petroleum products predominantly for domestic distribution, Thaioil has expanded into energy-related industries of petrochemicals and lube base production, power generation, as well as marine and pipeline transportation systems for petroleum products and petrochemicals.

Chugach Alaska Corporation is a vision of indigenous people running their own businesses on their own land. Chugach Alaska was formed following the activation of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (which was passed by the US Congress in 1971), to provide land management services for the 928,000-acre Chugach region of Alaska. Chugach Alaska Corporation derives the bulk of its sales from oil and gas production, mining, commercial timber, and tourist activities that occur in the region. Chugach Alaska's shareholders consist of Aleut, Eskimo, and Indian natives.

Gale Force Petroleum prefers oil fractures to computer fractals. Founded in 1996 as Rolland Virtual Business Systems, Gale Force Petroleum Inc. shifted its focus to oil and gas in 2006 and renamed itself Rolland Energy. In 2008 the company changed names to Gale Force Petroleum. That year Gale Force Petroleum Inc. acquired Kentucky Shale Gas Property, consisting of 22,000 acres of oil and gas leases, nine gas wells, and five miles of gathering lines, including compressors. Gale Force Petroleum Inc. also holds stakes in a number of producing wells in Manitoba. Facing a tough market the company filed for bankruptcy protection in early 2009. That April its restructuring proposal won court approval, but a failed property acquisition forced to it to postpone the plan in July.

Sibir Energy plc is a fully integrated independent energy company with exploration and production operations in Western Siberia and refining and marketing in the City of Moscow and the Moscow region. Since its creation in 1996, Sibir has grown its attributable reserves to over 680 million barrels (Russian classification A+B+C1+C2) and daily production to over 80,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) making Sibir one of the largest UK-listed energy companies. In ten years of doing business in Russia, Sibir’s Western management team has partnered with its largest Russian shareholder to overcome the challenges of doing business in this dynamic market and has strengthened the company at each turn. Upstream, Sibir’s production comes from its Yuzhnoye field, operated by Magma Oil Company (95% Sibir owned), and its joint venture with Shell in the Shell-operated Salym group of fields (50% Sibir owned). Sibir’s total current production is over 80,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd), including its 50% of production from the Salym Fields and its wholly owned Magma production unit. By the end of 2009 Sibir’s total production is expected to exceed 100,000 bopd.

Mullen Group has mulled over its future and has decided it is about oil field services and trucking. Mullen Group Ltd. oil field services unit moves overweight and oversized equipment, such as drilling rigs, for the oil and gas industry in Western Canada. Mullen Group Ltd. also transports heavy oil and offers drilling, production, and pipeline services. Mullen's trucking unit provides truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation in Canada, Mexico, and the US. (Mullen has acquired more than 20 companies since 2002, including its nearly $1 billion purchase of Producers Oilfield Services). Mullen Group Ltd. reorganized from an income trust into a traditional corporation in 2009 to allow for greater financial flexibility.

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.

The American Enterprise Association (AEA) arrived in Washington in 1943, in the thick of World War II. In Congress there was talk of making wartime price and production controls permanent to prevent another Depression when peace finally arrived. The tiny AEA, a business group formed in New York City in 1938, was horrified; it resolved to open a Washington office to advocate rapid postwar economic demobilization and, more generally, to improve Congress's understanding of the economic consequences of its actions. The new AEA office, which eventually became headquarters and graduated from "association" to "institute," was the avant-garde of two momentous developments of the decades to come, both responding to the growing size and power of the federal government: the migration of business and trade associations from commercial centers to the nation's capital and the emergence of the policy "think tank."

Global Energy Development is the international exploration and production arm of US-based HKN. HKN owns 34% of Global Energy Development, which focuses on Latin America. Global Energy Development is active in Colombia, Panama, and Peru, where it has received six contracts and rights to explore for or produce oil and gas. Global Energy Development holds a more than 5 million acre portfolio in Latin America and has proved and probable reserves of 15.2 million barrels of oil equivalent. Global Energy Development core operations are in Colombia, where it has been involved workover and drilling development activities in several fields. Global Energy Development is also active in northeastern Peru and in the Garachine field in Panama.

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