The Company, headquartered in El Dorado, Arkansas, was originally incorporated in Louisiana in 1950 as Murphy Corporation. It was reincorporated in Delaware in 1964, at which time it adopted the name Murphy Oil Corporation. But, the Company's roots go back to a lumber and banking business in South Arkansas and, more directly, to 1907, when the first oil production was established in the Caddo Field in North Louisiana. Thereafter, oil and gas were important phases of the business. Until the mid 1930's however, oil and gas remained subordinate to timber operations and banking. Today, Murphy Oil Corporation is a worldwide oil and gas exploration and production company with refining and marketing operations in the United States and the United Kingdom. The Company's farm, timber and real estate subsidiary was spun-off to shareholders in 1996 and is now known as Deltic Timber Corporation.

Hardy Oil and Gas is a hearty endorser of the booming oil and gas industry. The international oil and gas exploration and production company primarily focuses on India, with strategic positioning in the oil and gas basins on the east coast of India and off of the Saurashtra west coast, near the Bombay High field. Hardy Oil and Gas plc has also acquired development assets in the proven oil province of the Niger Delta of Nigeria. Hardy Oil and Gas (then known as Jehan Energy Ltd.) was founded by Sastry Karra (CEO) and Yogeshwar Sharma (COO) in 1997. Hardy Oil and Gas plc was renamed Hardy Oil and Gas in 2001 and became a public company in 2005.

Zapata Energy Corporation is a Calgary-based junior oil and gas exploration and production company. Zapata Energy Corporation has oil and gas production and processing facilities as well as undeveloped petroleum and natural gas rights in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. Financially sound and conservatively managed, Zapata Energy Corporation acquires and develops promising energy assets offering reasonable risks and the potential for strong, stable cash flow and competitive rates of return. Zapata Energy Corporation has about 251,400 net acres in Alberta and 5,200 net acres in British Columbia. Zapata Energy has a large inventory of oil projects and its looking to team up with other oil firms and investors in order to exploit them.

Wenzel Downhole Tools Ltd. (WZL) and its predecessor companies has been a leading supplier of downhole drilling tools to the oil and gas industry for over thirty years. Wenzel Downhole Tools Ltd. has and continues to pioneer and patent new concepts in motor capabilities for numerous drilling applications. Wenzel Downhole Tools Ltd. makes drilling tools (drilling motors, shock tools, and drilling jars) used by the oil and gas drilling industry. Among the company's products are coatings (installation of protective coatings), downhole motors (straight hole, short radius, coiled tubing, and multi-point drilling motors), fabricated equipment, solids-control equipment (screens), and underground tooling. Wenzel Downhole Tools Ltd. also provides oil field equipment rental and repair. Wenzel Downhole Tools operates from Canada and the US; the company offers its products to customers worldwide.

Kinder Morgan is one of the largest pipeline transportation and energy storage companies in North America with approximately 37,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. We transport, store and handle energy products like natural gas, refined petroleum products, crude oil, ethanol, coal and carbon dioxide (CO2). These products are essential for generating electricity, heating homes, powering cars and much more. Almost all of our assets are owned by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (NYSE: KMP), the largest publicly traded pipeline master limited partnership with an enterprise value of more than $29 billion. In most of our businesses, we operate like a giant toll road, receiving a fee for our services and providing connectivity for our customers. We are currently investing billions of dollars to construct new and expand existing infrastructure to help meet future energy demands in growing markets across North America.

Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (formerly Petro Rubiales Energy Corp) has found a home in Colombia as a producer of heavy crude oil. The Canadian-based company is focused on the exploration, development and production of heavy crude oil in Colombia's Llanos Basin. Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (as Consolidated AGX Resources) had been involved in oil and gas exploration on Brazil and mineral mining exploration in Canada. In 2007 Consolidated AGX Resources completed the acquisition of Rubiales Holdings and subsequently changed its name to Petro Rubiales Energy Corp. In 2008 Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. merged with Pacific Stratus Energy Ltd and became Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. subsequently acquired Colombia-based Kappa Energy Holdings.

Williams Pipeline Partners L.P. Company Profile Williams Pipeline Partners is piping up across the Rockies to the northwestern US. Williams Pipeline Partners L.P. owns a 35% general partnership interest in Northwest Pipeline, which operates a natural gas pipeline extending from the San Juan Basin in New Mexico and Colorado to the Canadian border near Sumas, Washington. With about 3,900 miles of pipeline, Northwest can move some 3 billion cu. ft. of natural gas each day and has a storage capacity of 12.6 billion cu. ft. In 2010 parent The Williams Companies announced plans to merge Williams Pipeline Partners into Williams Partners. The Williams Companies owns a 2% general partner interest and about a 46% limited partner interest in Williams Pipeline Partners.

Texalta Petroleum Ltd. is an oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, acquisition and development of prospective oil & gas properties, primarily in Saskatchewan, and an 82% interest in Exploration Permits EP 103 and EP 104 in the Northern Territory of Australia. Texalta Petroleum also has an interest in exploration permits in the Northern Territory of Australia, but it is focusing on its Canadian activities.In Canada, Texalta's main focus at this time is in the Wordsworth and West Queensdale project areas in southeast Saskatchewan. A new horizontal well in the Wordsworth area was completed on June 9, 2006 resulted in a new pool discovery where Texalta as Operator holds a 47.5% working interest. At the present time exploration activities are being directed at the Mississippian Alida, and deeper Palaeozoic plays of Southeastern Saskatchewan as well as Leduc Reef and Mesozoic plays in Central Alberta. Texalta Petroleum Ltd. also has a working interest in a project in the Wordsworth area of Saskatchewan and also works as that project's operator.

Linn Energy, LLC was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Linn Energy, LLC, through its subsidiaries, engages in the development and acquisition of gas and oil properties in the United States. Linn Energy, LLC has oil and gas, and natural gas reserves in Mid-Continent, which includes the Texas Panhandle operating area; and Western region comprising the Brea Olinda field of the Los Angeles Basin in California. As of December 31, 2007 the company had proved reserves of 1,945.5 billion cubic feet equivalent of oil and gas, and natural gas liquids. Linn Energy, LLC also operated 7,305 gross productive wells.

TGC Industries, Inc. provides geophysical services for clients in the oil and gas industry in the continental United States and Canada. TGC Industries, Inc. conducts Three-D surveys and offers seismic data acquisition services primarily to domestic onshore oil and natural gas exploration and development companies for use in the onshore drilling and production of oil and natural gas. TGC Industries, Inc. also owns a data bank that contains gravity data and magnetic data, from oil and natural gas producing areas located in the United States. As of December 31, 2009, TGC Industries operated 11 seismic crews, which supplied seismic data to companies engaged in the domestic exploration and development of oil and natural gas on land and in land-to-water transition areas. The company was formerly known as Tidelands Geophysical Co., Inc. and changed its name to TGC Industries, Inc. in July 1986. TGC Industries, Inc. was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

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