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.

Fabricom is a major provider of installation and maintenance services with a focus on serving the offshore and onshore oil and gas industry. Fabricom designs, builds, and maintains such installations as offshore drilling rigs and platforms and onshore oil and gas terminals, as well as processing plants, gas processing stations, and pipelines. Fabricom provides engineering input and specialized advice in the designing of construction projects, as well as on-site installation, commissioning, and maintenance. Fabricom has operating units in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and the UK. Fabricom is a major division of giant industrial services group GDF SUEZ.

Amalie Oil (named after the founders' grandmother) blends and supplies lubricants and other oil products including motor oils, transmission fluids, gear oils, and greases. To control costs, the company also manufactures its own bottles to store its products. Amalie Oil, which markets its products worldwide, has distribution operations in Dallas; Jacksonville, Florida; and Los Angeles. Amalie Oil blends and packages some 200 different products in package sizes ranging from 8-ounce plastic bottles to bulk rail transports.

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.

Gary-Williams Energy Corporation (GWEC) is a small, independent oil and gas company, headquartered in Denver, with operations primarily in the Mid-Continent region of the United States. With approximately 300 employees, the company's subsidiaries include Wynnewood Refining Company (Oklahoma), Gary-Williams Production Company and Gary-Williams Real Estate Company. Refining and wholesale marketing are now the company's primary businesses. The company maintains a small marketing office in Oklahoma City. Today, the company's major asset is a 70,000 BPD crude oil refinery in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, purchased from Kerr-McGee in mid-1995, and operated as Wynnewood Refining Company (WRC). The refinery produces gasoline, diesel fuel, military jet fuel, solvents and asphalt.

Holly Energy Partners is having a jolly good time piping petroleum. The company transports refined petroleum products and crude oil from Holly Corporation's Navajo refinery in New Mexico and Woods Cross refinery in Utah, and Alon USA's Big Spring refinery in Texas, to customers in the southwestern US. It operates 1,330 miles of refined petroleum pipelines (including 340 miles of leased pipelines), 11 distribution terminals, one jet fuel terminal, and two truck-loading facilities used to transport gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. Holly Corporation, the parent of the company's general partner (Holly Logistics), holds a 46% stake in Holly Energy Partners.

The core business activities of the Shell Group consist of Exploration & Production, Oil Products, Gas & Power, Chemicals and Renewable Energy. In Japan, the Oil Products business is operated by Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K., the Chemicals business by Shell Chemicals Japan Ltd., and Gas & Power business by Shell Gas & Power Japan Ltd. Show and tell? Showa Shell Sekiyu has plenty to talk about. Showa Shell, 40%-owned by Royal Dutch Shell, is one of Japan's leading oil refiners. The company, which was born in 1985 of a merger between Japan's Showa Oil and Royal Dutch Shell's Shell Sekiyu, imports, refines, and distributes petroleum products. The firm's three local refining affiliates, Showa Yokkaichi, Toa Oil, and Seibu Oil, have a collective refining capacity of 515,000 barrels a day. The company owns a network of 4,575 gas stations across Japan. In 2004 Royal Dutch/Shell sold a 10% stake of Showa Shell to Saudi Aramco.

Texas Gas Transmission transmits natural gas from Texas to states in the South and Midwest. The company owns and operates a 5,900-mile natural gas pipeline system. The pipeline has the capacity to deliver 3.8 billion cu. ft. of gas a day to customers in eight states. Major customers include Anadarko Petroleum, Louisville Gas and Electric, and Memphis Light, Gas and Water. Texas Gas Transmission also owns nine underground gas storage fields in Indiana and Kentucky with a storage capacity of 180 billion cu. ft. of gas. The company is a subsidiary of Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP. Texas Gas is an interstate pipeline that moves natural gas from Gulf Coast and Fayetteville Shale supply areas to more distant on-system markets in the Midwest and to off-system markets in the Northeast via interconnections with third-party pipelines. It originates in the Louisiana Gulf Coast area and in East Texas and runs north and east through Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, and into Ohio, with smaller diameter lines extending into Illinois.

Gasco Energy, Inc. was formerly known as San Joaquin Resources, Inc. Gasco Energy, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Englewood, Colorado. Gasco Energy, Inc. operates as a natural gas and petroleum exploitation, development, and production company. Gasco Energy, Inc. engages in locating and developing hydrocarbon resources primarily in the Rocky Mountain region. Gasco Energy, Inc. acquires leasehold interests in petroleum and natural gas rights, and exploits and develops properties subject to those leases. Gasco Energy focuses on drilling efforts in the Riverbend project located in the Uinta Basin of northeastern Utah. As of December 31, 2008, the company held interests in 330,923 gross acres located in Utah, Wyoming, California, and Nevada; and 126 gross producing wells and 5 shut-in wells. Gasco Energy, Inc. serves natural gas transmission pipeline and marketing companies, utilities, refining companies, and private industry end-users.

Petron Corporation's patrons are Filipinos. The company is the Philippines' largest oil refining and marketing company. Its refinery has a capacity of 180,000 barrels per day and produces almost 40% of the country's oil requirements. Petron distributes its products (including lubes, grease, asphalt, and specialty products) through a network of 32 bulk plants and terminal to more than 1,400 service stations. The Philippine government and Saudi Aramco each owned 40% of the company until both groups sold their stakes to private investment firm Ashmore Group in 2008. In 2009 local business power player San Miguel acquired a controlling stake in Petron.

Inviting Real Estate Agents, Job Placements Agents, Educational Institutes, Software Service Providers, Real Estate Builders, Marriage Bureaus, Travel Agents, Restaurant Owners, Health & Fitness Centers and other Local Businesses to Post a FREE Classified Advertisement on Cootera.com Classifieds Website.