Marathon is a company that strives to bring value and values together. We create value for our shareholders and provide quality products and services for our customers. In doing so, we act responsibly toward those who work for us, the communities in which we operate and our business partners.In the long-running competition for profits in the oil and gas industry, Marathon Oil is keeping up a steady pace. Through its Marathon Oil Company subsidiary, the company explores for and produces oil and gas primarily in Angola, Canada, Equatorial Guinea, Libya, Norway, Indonesia, the UK, and the US. It has net proved reserves of 1.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent and 299 million barrels of bitumen (oil sands). Marathon Oil's Marathon Petroleum operates seven refineries with a total capacity of 1 million barrels of crude oil a day. Marathon Petroleum supplies about 4,600 Marathon-branded US retail gas outlets. Marathon Oil also services 1,620 Speedway SuperAmerica gas stations.

WesternGeco, a business unit of Schlumberger, is the world's leading geophysical services company, providing comprehensive worldwide reservoir imaging, monitoring, and development services, with the most extensive geophysical survey crews and data processing centers in the industry, as well as the world's largest multiclient data library. Services range from 3D and 4D (time-lapse) seismic surveys to multicomponent and electromagnetic surveys, supplying our clients with accurate measurements of subsurface geology. WesternGeco operations include land and marine seismic products and services, as well as multiclient services (including extensive libraries of survey data and database analysis). Formed in 2000, WesternGeco married the seismic survey and analysis operations of two oil field service titans: Schlumberger's Geco-Prakla unit and Baker Hughes' Western Geophysical unit. In 2006 Schlumberger acquired Baker Hughes' 30% stake in the company for $2.4 billion.

Today, the Oxbow Group is made up of more than two dozen companies with yearly aggregate sales of over $3.7 billion, combined assets of over $1.7 billion and over 1200 employees worldwide. Oxbow’s primary businesses are the mining and marketing of energy and commodities such as coal, natural gas, petroleum, metallurgical and calcined coke. Oxbow Carbon LLC Company Profile Oxbow Carbon (formerly known as Oxbow Carbon & Minerals) distributes petroleum coke to customers worldwide, primarily in the cement, utilities, steel, and home heating industries. (Petroleum coke, a by-product of the oil refining process, is used as a fuel. Calcined petroleum coke, a refined form of petroleum coke, is used as a source of carbon, mainly by aluminum producers.) Oxbow Carbon also distributes metallurgical coke, a by-product of coal processing that is used by iron producers and sugar refiners. The company operates four bulk shipping terminals, located on the Gulf Coast and the West Coast of the US and in the Caribbean and South America. Oxbow Carbon is a unit of Oxbow.

Every day across North America, more than five million residential and business customers turn to Direct Energy for their electricity and natural gas, home energy services, energy efficient solutions and more. We are the largest competitive retailer of energy and related services in North America. At Direct Energy, we source, generate, trade, service and supply energy to meet your current and future energy needs.

NuTech Energy Alliance provides petrophysical, geological, geophysical, field study, and well site services to customers worldwide. By using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology and related interpretive software, NuTech offers clients detailed geographical data that can be used to analyze potential oil fields. By 2009 the company had evaluated more than 30,000 wells and more than 450 oil and gas companies around the world. NuTech offers five offices in the US and seven offices in other countries. NuTech is a privately-owned company founded in 1998 by ex-Schlumberger and Numar (now Halliburton) executives who pioneered Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) R&D.

Bonavista Energy Trust is a Calgary-based oil and gas royalty trust created through the reorganization of Bonavista Petroleum Ltd. in July 2003. The exploration and production company focuses on four core areas in Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan. In 2008 Bonavista Energy Trust reported it had about 1.2 million net acres of undeveloped land, the bulk of which is in Alberta. Bonavista also has proved reserves of 142.2 million barrels of oil equivalent and has identified some 700 quality drilling prospects. Bonavista Energy Trust has a balanced production of 52,500 barrels of oil equivalent per day -- 55% natural gas, 34% light oil, and 11% heavy oil. In 2009 Bonavista Energy Trust built up its asset base, acquiring properties in central Alberta area for about $698 million.

Esso S.A.F. specializes in the exploration and production of petroleum and has refining and distribution operations as well (through its two refineries at Fos-sur-Mer and Port-J�r�me Gravenchon). Key products include automobile and aviation fuels, distillates, heavy fuels, and other related products that are sold worldwide through the company's more than 700 service stations. In addition, Esso S.A.F. manufactures lubricants for both professional and private usage. Industry giant Exxon Mobil Corporation owns controls the exploration, production, refining, and marketing company.

Oakridge Energy, Inc. was founded in 1969 and is based in Wichita Falls, Texas.Oakridge Energy, Inc. engages in the exploration for, development, production, and sale of oil and gas primarily in Texas. Oakridge Energy, Inc. owns a 25% working interest in the BSR field consisting of 23 producing wells in Madison County, Texas. Oakridge Energy, Inc. also owns interest in a gravel property, which consists of gas, coal, and other mineral deposits on approximately 63.5 acres of land in La Plata County, Colorado. As of February 28, 2009, Oakridge Energy, Inc. owned working and overriding royalty interests in 8,884 gross acres of developed oil and gas leases, and 51 gross productive oil and gas wells.

Oil States International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides specialty products and services to the oil and gas drilling and production companies worldwide. Oil States International, Inc. operates in three segments: Well Site Services, Offshore Products, and Tubular Services. The Well Site Services segment offers a range of products and services that are used to establish and maintain the flow of oil and gas from a well throughout its lifecycle, and to accommodate personnel in remote locations. Oil States International, Inc. provides land drilling, remote site accommodations, tools rental, and temporary and permanent work force accommodation services. The Offshore Products segment designs and manufactures flexible bearings and connector products; sub sea pipeline products; marine winches, mooring and lifting systems, and rig equipment; and conductor casing connections and pipes, as well as provides blowout preventor stack assembly, integration, testing, and repair services, and drilling riser repair services. The Tubular Services segment distributes a range of casing and tubing products; provides threading, logistical, and inventory management services; and offers e-commerce pricing, ordering, tracking, and financial reporting capabilities. Oil States International serves national oil companies, major and independent oil and gas companies, onshore and offshore drilling companies, and other oilfield service companies. Oil States International, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Formed by the merger of Conoco and Phillips Petroleum, ConocoPhillips is the #2 integrated oil and gas company in the US, behind Exxon Mobil, and consolidated that position by buying Burlington Resources (for a reported $35 billion). The company explores for oil and gas in more than 30 countries and has proved reserves of 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent (excluding its Syncrude oil sands assets). It has a refining capacity of more than 2.6 million barrels per day and sells petroleum at 8,340 retail outlets in the US under the 76, Conoco, and Phillips 66 brands, and at 1,260 gas stations in Europe. Other operations include chemicals, gas gathering, fuels technology, and power generation.

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