Aera Energy LLC (Aera), a California limited liability company, is one of California’s largest oil and gas producers, accounting for approximately 30% of the state’s production. With headquarters in Bakersfield, most of Aera’s production is centered in the San Joaquin Valley. Aera Energy LLC also has oilfield operations in the L.A. Basin and in Ventura and Monterey Counties. Aera produces approximately 160,000 barrels of oil and 50 million cubic feet of natural gas each day and has proved oil and gas reserves equivalent to approximately 800 million barrels of oil. Aera Energy LLC, which began operating as Aera Energy LLC on June 1, 1997, consists of the California onshore and offshore exploration and production (E&P) assets previously operated by CalResources LLC (a former Shell Oil Company affiliate), Mobil Exploration & Producing U.S. Inc. (now an Exxon Mobil Corporation affiliate), and ARCO. Today Aera is jointly owned by Shell and ExxonMobil and is operated as a stand-alone company through its own board of managers (directors). The California-based refining, retail petroleum marketing and pipeline operations of Shell and ExxonMobil are not included in Aera.

Eurogas explores for oil and gas in Spain and Tunisia. Eurogas Corporation controls Escal, which operates the Castor underground natural gas storage project. The project involves converting the Amposta, an abandoned oil field, to a facility with a storage capacity of 67 billion cu. ft. of gas, which will supply up to one third of the country's natural gas. Eurogas also has a 45% interest in an exploration permit looking for oil and natural gas in a 1 million acre block in Tunisia's Bay of Gabes. Eurogas Corporation works with Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum to explore the region. Eurogas is majority owned by Canadian merchant banking and financial services group Dundee Corporation.

CARBO Ceramics Inc. manufactures and supplies ceramic proppants primarily used in the hydraulic fracturing of natural gas and oil wells in the United States and internationally. CARBO Ceramics Inc. offers five ceramic proppants, including CARBOHSP and CARBOPROP designed for use in deep gas wells; CARBOLITE used in medium depth oil and gas wells; CARBOECONOPROP, a lightweight ceramic proppants; and CARBOHYDROPROP used to improve performance in slickwater fracture treatments. CARBO Ceramics Inc. also sells fracture simulation software, as well as provides fracture design, engineering, and consulting services to oil and natural gas companies. In addition, CARBO Ceramics Inc. provides a range of technologies for spill prevention, containment, and geotechnical monitoring, as well as offers monitoring systems and services for bridges, buildings, tunnels, dams, slopes, embankments, volcanoes, landslides, mines, and construction projects primarily serving various spectrum of customers in auto racing teams to surveyors, experimental physicists, radio astronomers, and naval architects markets. It sells its products and services to operators of oil and natural gas wells and oilfield service companies. CARBO Ceramics Inc. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Destiny Resource Services provides front-end seismic services, including survey and mapping, line clearing, and shot-hole drilling, through its subsidiaries. Destiny Resource Services Corp. offers GPS surveying and GIS mapping through its Destiny Survey and Mapping unit and line clearing through its Destiny Line Clearing subsidiary. Destiny Drilling provides seismic shot-hole drilling services. Destiny Resource Services Corp. also provides navigation and positioning technology (through Destiny Navigation Technologies) and locating services (through Advanced Locating Services). Destiny serves energy explorers and producers and seismic acquisition companies. Logan Oil Tools agreed to buy Destiny in 2009.

Compton Petroleum explores for and produces oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids (NGLs) in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin of Alberta. Compton Petroleum Corporation focuses its operations on areas with multizone potential, including unconventional resource prospects in southern and central Alberta (including three deep basin natural gas plays: the Basal Quartz sands at Hooker in southern Alberta, and the Gething/Rock Creek sands at Niton and Caroline in central Alberta). Compton Petroleum Corporation assets include a contiguous land base of about 859,800 net acres. In 2008 Compton Petroleum reported 1,460 oil and gas wells and net proved plus probable reserves of 215,500 million barrels of oil equivalent.

NuStar GP Holdings, LLC (NYSE: NSH) owns general partner and limited partner interests in NuStar Energy L.P. (NYSE: NS), one of the nation's largest asphalt refiners and marketers and operators of petroleum product terminals and petroleum liquids pipelines. The general partner manages the business affairs of NuStar Energy L.P., which is a master limited partnership based in San Antonio, with 8,417 miles of pipeline, 82 terminal facilities and four crude oil storage facilities. It has assets strategically located in major U.S. markets and in the Netherlands Antilles, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. NuStar Energy L.P.'s asphalt refineries, refined product terminals, petroleum and specialty liquids storage and terminaling operations, and crude oil storage tank facilities are predominantly located on waterways that are easily accessible by barge or vessel. Altogether, these facilities have over 91 million barrels of storage capacity. NuStar Energy L.P.'s crude oil and refined products pipeline systems largely serve growing markets in the Mid-Continent, Southwest and Texas-Mexico border region of the United States.

Pe Ben Oilfield Services L.P. provides transportation and field warehousing of drill pipe and casing for the petroleum industry. Pe Ben operates a versatile fleet of specialized vehicles and equipment engineered to safely and efficiently handle a broad range of commodities including oilfield and construction equipment, storage tanks and oilfield tubular goods. The company has a fleet of 235 tractors and 300 trailers. Pe Ben Oilfield Services L.P. pipeline subcontracting segment offers stockpiling and stringing of oil and gas transmission pipe used in pipeline construction, and has pipeyards with more than 350 acres of storage. Pe Ben Oilfield Services L.P. bulk petroleum transport segment transports gasoline, distillates, and refined lubicrants. Pe Ben Oilfield Service is a unit of the Mullen Group, which acquired the company in 2006.

APS Energy Services Company, Inc. (APS Energy Services) is the full-service energy services provider and competitive electricity subsidiary of Pinnacle West Capital Corporation (NYSE: PNW), an Arizona-based company with consolidated assets of approximately $11.6 Billion and annual revenues of $3.4 Billion. APS Energy Services was incorporated in the State of Arizona in 1998 and, as part of the Pinnacle West family of companies, energy customers benefit from a cumulative knowledge and experience in energy usage, generation, transmission and distribution. APS Energy Services has engineered, constructed and/or provided guaranteed savings for numerous Arizona-based energy service projects. APS Energy Services is a leading provider of innovative integrated energy efficient and renewable energy solutions in the Southwest. We empower customers by enabling them to meet their business goals while they manage risk, save energy and money, meet sustainability goals and preserve the environment. We seek to promote and implement the efficient use of energy, reduction in carbon footprint and develop comprehensive energy solutions. We are constantly seeking renewable energy alternatives where applicable and conducting work in a sustainable and environmentally responsible manner.

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.

Canadian Oil Sands Trust puts its trust in the oil that is in the sands in Alberta being exploited by Syncrude Canada. The Syncrude partnership's large oil sands mine and supporting plants produce value-added light, sweet crude oil. Established in 1964, the Syncrude Project is the largest single source of oil in Canada and accounts for about 15% of the country's total oil production. With a 37% share, Canadian Oil Sands Trust is the largest shareholder in Syncrude (in which Imperial Oil and Petro-Canada also hold significant minority stakes). In 2008 Canadian Oil Sands Trust reported proved and probable reserves of 1.8 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

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