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.

Bayside Fuel Oil Depot, which provides heating oil to customers in New York through its own four Brooklyn terminals, and from two other locations, the 149th Street terminal in the Bronx and the Western Nassau terminal in Nassau County. Bayside Fuel Oil Depot Corporation was founded in 1937 as a retail distributor of heating oil, by Sergio Allegretti, In 1965 Bayside Fuel became a wholesale oil terminal operator. Bayside Fuel Oil Depot Corporation sold its retail business in 2001. Vincent Allegretti, the grandson of the company's founder, runs the business.

Quicksilver Resources Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas with additional offices in Cut Bank, Montana; Glen Rose, Texas; and Calgary, Canada. Quicksilver Resources Inc., an independent energy company, engages in the acquisition, exploitation, exploration, development, production, and sale of natural gas, natural gas liquids, and crude oil in North America. Quicksilver Resources Inc. also involves in marketing, processing, and transmission of natural gas. Quicksilver Resources Inc. has interests in the Barnett Shale play in the Fort Worth Basin in north Texas; and the Rocky Mountain properties located in Montana and Wyoming, as well as interests in 127,000 contiguous acres in the Horn River Basin in northeast British Columbia. Quicksilver Resources Inc. also holds interests in the Canadian CBM properties in Alberta, Canada, as well as exploring the Delaware Basin in West Texas. Quicksilver Resources Inc. sells natural gas and crude oil to various customers, including utilities, oil and natural gas companies or their affiliates, industrial companies, trading and energy marketing companies, and other users of petroleum products. As of December 31, 2008, Quicksilver Resources Inc. had total estimated total proved reserves of 2.2 trillion cubic feet equivalents of natural gas. Quicksilver Resources Inc. has a strategic alliance with Enia S.p.A. to explore properties in the Fort Worth Basin.

Exterran Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides operations, maintenance, service, and equipment for oil and natural gas industry. Exterran Holdings, Inc. Contract Operations segment offers natural gas compression and production, and processing services, as well as provides engineering, procurement, and on site construction of natural gas compression stations and/or crude oil or natural gas production and processing facilities. Exterran Holdings, Inc. Aftermarket Services segment sells parts and components, and provides operation, maintenance, overhaul, and reconfiguration services. Exterran Holdings, Inc. Fabrication segment designs, engineers, fabricates, installs, and sells natural gas compression units and accessories; and oil and natural gas production and processing equipment designed to heat, separate, dehydrate, and condition crude oil and natural gas. Exterran Holdings, Inc. products include line heaters, oil and natural gas separators, glycol dehydration units, dewpoint control plants, water treatment, mechanical refrigeration and cryogenic plants, and skid-mounted production packages designed for both onshore and offshore production facilities. This segment also provide engineering, procurement, and construction services primarily related to the manufacturing of process equipment for refinery and petrochemical facilities; the construction of tank farms; and the construction of evaporators and brine heaters for desalination plants. Exterran Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Energy, Inc, a holding company, is the parent to Energy West, Inc., a natural gas distribution company with operations in Montana, Wyoming, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Energy, Inc. currently serves approximately 61,600 customers within our core utilities. In August 2009, Energy, Inc. completed reorganization into a holding company as the successor to Energy West, Inc. (Energy West), now a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Energy, Inc. We believe that the reorganization will help facilitate future acquisitions and financings to support our growth strategy. Our common stock currently trades on the NYSE Amex under the ticker symbol “EGAS.”

Continental Resources, Inc. was founded in 1967 and is based in Enid, Oklahoma.Continental Resources, Inc. engages in the exploration, exploitation, and production of oil and natural gas properties primarily in the Rocky Mountain, Mid-Continent, and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. Continental Resources, Inc. primarily sells its oil and natural gas production to end users, as well as to midstream marketing companies or oil refining companies at the lease. As of December 31, 2008, Continental Resources, Inc. estimated proved reserves were 159.3 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMBoe), with estimated proved developed reserves of 106.0 MMBoe. Continental Resources owned 1,114,445 net undeveloped and 399,825 net developed acres, as well as had interests in 2,192 wells and operated 1,657 of these wells.

Wild Well Control provides emergency well control, firefighting, and engineering services to oil and gas companies worldwide. Wild Well Control, Inc. services include well control training, relief well design, emergency response planning, and data management. Wild Well Control, Inc. offers a portfolio of equipment including firefighting pumps and wagons, deluge systems, and field response units, as well as equipment and maintenance. Wild Well Control has contained oil well fires at land and offshore rigs in Europe, the Middle East, North and South America, and Southeast Asia. Wild Well Control, Inc. is a subsidiary of Superior Energy Services, which bought Wild Well Control in 2001.

Belgium-based Fabricom GTI operates four business units that serve separate customer groups. Fabricom GTI Industry unit specializes in industrial installations and has four regional divisions and two cross regional divisions that focus on maintenance and services and process systems. Major Projects works on piping, mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation for multidisciplinary projects in all market segments that use large-scale industrial equipment and systems. Infra provides electromechanical installations in the infrastructure market. Fabricom GTI International operations offers services through subsidiaries located throughout Western Europe. Fabricom GTI is an indirect subsidiary of GDF SUEZ.

Shell makes a major contribution to the UK, not just through providing products and services to our customers, but also through employment, tax revenues and investment which boost the economy. We employ around 8,500 people directly in the UK. Shell is a key provider of the energy that millions of people use for heating and powering the UK. We produce around one tenth of the UK's oil and gas and operate almost a fifth. We are probably best known to the public for our service stations and we have around 900 retail sites in the UK. Our Stanlow refinery near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire is at the heart of Britain’s oil and chemical industry, producing a range of transport fuels, including Shell V-Power, and chemicals for industry.Our two main businesses are Shell U.K. Exploration and Production, an operating division of Shell U.K. Limited, and Shell U.K. Oil Products Limited. Each has its own board of directors and is a subsidiary of Shell Holdings (U.K.) Limited.

China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec Corp.) is the largest refiner and petrochemical producer in China. Its parent, state-owned China Petrochemical (Sinopec Group), reorganized in 2000 and pooled the best of its assets as Sinopec Corp. Sinopec Corp.'s businesses include oil and gas exploration and production; crude oil processing; oil products trading, transportation, distribution, and marketing; and petrochemicals manufacturing. It has proved reserves of 4 billion barrels of oil and more than 7 trillion cu. ft. of gas, and owns more than 29,000 gas stations. The government of China controls about 75% of the company through the Sinopec Group.

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