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.

Making money is a major motive behind Motiva Enterprises, which operates the eastern and southeastern US refining and marketing businesses of Shell Oil and Saudi Aramco. The company operates three refineries with a total capacity of 740,000 barrels a day, and it sells fuel at about 7,700 Shell-branded gas stations. It also has stakes in more than 40 refined product storage terminals (with almost 20 billion barrels of storage capacity) in the East and Gulf Coast regions. Motiva and sister company Shell Oil Products US, which operates in the West and Midwest, together make up the #1 US gasoline retailer. Motiva is a 50-50 joint venture of Shell and Saudi Aramco.

Eaton Oil Tools, Inc. is a diversified oilfield service company, headquartered in Broussard, Louisiana. Our organization consists of talented operators, technical and managerial veterans who bring many years of experience to our firm. Over thirty years ago, Eaton was formed to answer a growing need in the oilfield service industry. Growing with the south Louisiana oil fields, we have continued to expand our areas of expertise and involvement. Eaton Oil Tools also provides well abandonment services. Operating from its primary supply facility in Broussard, Louisiana, the company provides a range of other services, including equipment design, manufacturing, and technical support. Throughout these years, the company has developed a complete line of cutting and milling equipment.

Gulf South Pipeline is a “web-like” interstate natural gas pipeline system that gathers gas from basins between Texas and Alabama and delivers it to on-system markets within its footprint and to off-system markets in the Northeast, Midwest and Southeast through interconnections with third-party pipelines. Gulf South is located entirely in the Gulf Coast states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Gulf South is headquartered in Houston, Texas with operational offices in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.

Trican provides innovative, engineered solutions to its customers involved in the exploration and development of oil and natural gas reserves. In Canada Trican Well Service Ltd. offers a range of products, equipment, and services for use in the drilling, completion, stimulation, and reworking of oil and gas wells, primarily for unconventional oil and gas plays. Trican Well Service Ltd. also operates in Russia through its investment in R-Can Services, which provides cementing and fracturing services to customers in the Tyumen region of Western Siberia, and in the US. Trican Well Services operates through two main divisions. Trican Well Service Ltd. well service include cementing and fracturing, deep-coiled tubing, and nitrogen services. Trican Well Service Ltd. production services include acidizing, intermediate-depth coiled tubing, and jet pumping.

Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. provides horsepower compression equipment to the natural gas industry in the United States. Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. primarily provides small to medium horsepower natural gas compression equipment on rental basis. Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. manufactures, fabricates, and rents natural gas compressors that enhance the production of natural gas wells, gas transportation lines, and processing plants; and provides maintenance services to compressors. Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. involves in the assembly of compressor components into compressor units, which are manufactured by the company or third parties; and designs and manufactures compressor frames, cylinders, and parts. Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. also engages in the design, fabrication, sale, installation, and service of flare stacks, and related ignition and control devices for the onshore and offshore incineration of gas compounds, such as hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, natural gas, and liquefied petroleum gases; and provides an exchange and rebuild program for screw compressors, and maintains an inventory of new and used compressors. Natural Gas Services Group was founded in 1998 and is based in Midland, Texas.

Stratic Energy Corporation is a Canadian-incorporated international oil and gas company involved in the production, development, appraisal and exploration of hydrocarbons. Stratic Energy Corporation key interests are in the North Sea (UK and Dutch sectors) and Italy, with further interests in Turkey, Syria, Slovenia and Morocco. The oil and gas exploration independent identifies international exploration opportunities in high-impact oil patches that are either underdeveloped or in the early stages of exploration. Since its formation in 1997, Stratic has acquired very early exploration phase concessions, and then partnered with major oil companies to develop these prospects. Stratic has operations and interests in Morocco, Slovenia, Syria, Turkey, and the UK North Sea. All told, the company has proved and possible reserves of more than 19 million barrels of oil equivalent. To raise cash, in 2009 it agreed to sell its Italy-based gas assets to Enel.

Penn Octane has taken its foot off the gas (liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG), and throttled back on the octane. Penn Octane Corporation has no assets other than its role as 75% owner and manager of Rio Vista GP LLC, the general partner of pipeline and terminal company Rio Vista Energy Partners. Once a provider of LPG transportation and storage services, in 2006 Penn Octane sold its LPG assets to TransMontaigne Product Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of TransMontaigne, for $9.8 million, to pay down debt. Penn Octane Corporation also exited its gasoline and diesel fuel reseller operations in 2008 to further pay down expenses. Former chairman Jerome Richter controls about 28% of the company.

Cheniere Energy, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Houston, Texas. Cheniere Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the development, construction, ownership, and operation of onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminals and natural gas pipelines along the Gulf Coast of the United States. Cheniere Energy, Inc. develops LNG receiving terminal projects on Sabine Pass LNG in western Cameron Parish, Louisiana on the Sabine Pass Channel; Corpus Christi LNG near Corpus Christi, Texas; Creole Trail LNG at the mouth of the Calcasieu Channel in central Cameron Parish, Louisiana; and Freeport LNG on Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas. Cheniere Energy, Inc. also engages in oil and natural gas exploration and development activities in the Gulf of Mexico.

National Oilwell Varco, Inc. designs, constructs, manufactures, and sells systems, components, and products used in oil and gas drilling and production; provides oilfield services and supplies; and distributes products, and provides supply chain integration services to the upstream oil and gas industry worldwide. National Oilwell Varco, Inc. operates through three business segments: Rig Technology, Petroleum Services & Supplies, and Distribution Services. The Rig Technology segment offers offshore and onshore drilling rigs; derricks; pipe lifting, racking, rotating, and assembly systems; rig instrumentation systems; coiled tubing equipment and pressure pumping units; well workover rigs; wireline winches; and cranes. The Petroleum Services & Supplies segment manufactures, rents, and sells consumable goods for use in drilling operations, including drill pipe, wired drill pipe, transfer pumps, solids control systems, drilling motors, drill bits, reamers and other down hole tools, and mud pump consumables. National Oilwell Varco, Inc. primarily serves drilling contractors, shipyards and other rig fabricators, well servicing companies, pressure pumping companies, national oil companies, independent oil and gas companies, supply stores, and pipe-running service providers. National Oilwell Varco, Inc. has joint venture agreements with Schlumberger, Ltd. and Austrian based Voestalpine Group. National Oilwell Varco, Inc. was founded in 1862 and is based in Houston, Texas.

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