Crudely moving into the private market, Polski Koncern Naftowy ORLEN is the largest refiner and distributor of oil in Poland. The company owns a total of seven refineries (including three in the Czech Republic and one in Lithuania) and has some 2,700 retail sites in the Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, and Poland. PKN ORLEN owns an 85% stake in chemical maker Anwil, has holdings in several other Polish companies, and controls Czech refiner and retailer Unipetrol. Two former state monopolies, Petrochemia Plock (Poland's largest refinery) and Centrala Produktow Naftowych (Poland's #1 petroleum distributor), merged in 1999 to create PKN ORLEN. The Polish government still owns 10% of the company.

KBC Advanced Technologies provides technical consulting services to the hydrocarbon processing industry. The company provides capital expense consulting, and process improvement services, including clean fuels programs, design services, oil storage optimization, and loss control services. KBC also provides in-depth strategic analysis of all aspects of a company's oil refining, petrochemical, or processing businesses to find opportunities to improve operational efficiencies. The company's extensive global base of customers includes Exxon Mobil, Huntsman, Husky Energy, and PETROBRAS. KBC combines independent, impartial advice supported by deep industry knowledge and market insight with technical process engineering skills, best-in-class models and simulation capabilities, and a suite of implementation services to provide clients with practical solutions for improving strategic decisions, benefiting from market opportunities, increasing operating performance, and complying with environmental regulations. Our goal is to help clients take strategic and tactical actions today to produce tangible results that will position the organisation for NextGen Performance in the future.

Filling jets up at more than 600 airports in 60 countries worldwide, Air BP is one of the world's largest suppliers of aviation fuels. A segment within the refining and marketing division of BP, the company also supplies lubricants (for both turbine and piston-engined aircraft). Its aviation fuels are both jet kerosene and aviation gasoline. The company also offers technical services and engineering consulting. It supplies more than 8 billion gallons (26 million tons) of aviation fuels and lubricants to passenger airlines (both national and international airlines), cargo airlines, and governments. It also serves corporate and general aviation customers.

Ramos Oil Company was founded in 1951 as a Shell Oil Distributor by Bill Ramos. Our headquarters is located in West Sacramento, California (along the banks of the Sacramento River). Ramos Oil, which distributes bulk and pre-packaged petroleum products to businesses and individual customers in California and Nevada. Ramos Oil Company, Inc. also provides fleet fueling, lubrication consulting, cardlock, and transportation services. Ramos Oil distributes all the leading petroleum brands available, including ARCO, BP, Shell, Chevron, Mobil, Texaco, Tosco, and Valero.

CREDO Petroleum Corporation was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.CREDO Petroleum Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and marketing of oil and gas properties in the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States. CREDO Petroleum Corporation operates projects in Texas, central Kansas, Wyoming, Colorado, Louisiana, and North Dakota. CREDO Petroleum Corporation also involves in developing, testing, refining, and patenting its patented Calliope Gas Recovery System from wellbores using pressure differentials enabling gas previously trapped by fluid build-up in the wellbore to flow to the surface. As of October 31, 2009, CREDO Petroleum operated approximately 135 wells, as well as owned working interests in 350 producing wells and overriding royalty interests in approximately 1,200 wells.

J-W Operating Company designs, manufactures, and distributes oilfield equipment and provides oilfield services used to expedite the production of oil and natural gas wells. Through subsidiaries Cohort Energy, Excell Services, J-W Gathering, J-W Measurement, J-W Power, and J-W Wireline, J-W Operating Company provides gas gathering and processing, gas compression and measurement, oil and gas exploration, and drilling and production services across the US. J-W Operating Company is an Energy Development and Energy Services company that specializes in natural gas compression, gathering, exploration and production, well servicing and gas measurement. J-W Operating Company various businesses operate in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, California, Montana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Dakota. J-W Operating is owned by the family of CEO Howard G. Westerman, Jr.

The company engages in oil and natural gas exploration and production activities, mainly in the Gulf Coast, Michigan, and the mid-continent, Permian Basin, and Rocky Mountain regions. In 2008 Whiting Petroleum Corporation reported proved reserves of 180 million barrels of oil and 354.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas. That year Whiting Petroleum operated 3,337 net productive wells. Whiting Petroleum Corporation sells oil and gas production to end users, marketers, and other purchasers that have access to nearby pipeline facilities. Where there is no practical access to pipelines, oil is trucked to storage facilities. Whiting Petroleum Corporation had interests in 9,616 gross productive wells. Whiting Petroleum Corporation was founded in 1983 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

With a production of 2.34 million barrels of oil equivalent per day with reserves of 10.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent, Total is the fifth largest energy group in the world with operations in more than 130 countries covering the entire chain of oil and gas: upstream (exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas, LNG) and downstream (refining, distribution, marketing and transportation of crude oil and petroleum products). Di rilievo è inoltre l'impegno del Gruppo nella Chimica di base (petrolchimica e fertilizzanti) e nella Chimica delle specialità (caucciù, resine, adesivi). Of importance is also the Group's commitment in basic chemicals (petrochemicals and fertilizers) and specialty chemistry (rubber, resins, adhesives). TOTAL detiene partecipazioni nei settori elettrico e del carbone ed è attiva nello sviluppo delle energie rinnovabili (solare, biomasse) e nel nucleare. TOTAL has interests in electricity and coal and is active in the development of renewable energy (solar, biomass) and nuclear. For the international dimension and for activities within the areas of energy and chemical industries, Total plays an important role in the economic and social development. TOTAL è una società impegnata a creare innovazione ea dar vita a iniziative che forniscano una risposta sostenibile alla necessità di energia. TOTAL is a company committed to creating innovation and result in initiatives that provide a sustainable response to the need for energy. Inoltre, l'azienda si dedica allo sviluppo delle risorse, alla protezione dell'ambiente, all'integrazione nelle culture dei Paesi che la ospitano. In addition, the company devotes resources development, environmental protection, integration in the cultures of the countries that host them.

Trident Resources Corp. produces natural gas by releasing it from coalbed seams. Canadian subsidiary, Trident Exploration, is that country's largest coalbed methane company. Trident Resources Corp. is a natural gas exploration and development company, principally focused on coal bed methane ("CBM"), from resource plays in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin ("WCSB"). Trident Resources controls two significant beds (Mannville and Horseshoe Canyon) in Alberta and a shale gas play in British Columbia. Land holdings (Canada and Northwestern US) total more than a 1.3 million acres. Trident Resources Corp. has proved reserves of 394.9 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. Failing to secure funds to pay down its rising debt, in 2009 Trident Resources filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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.

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