On 1 September 2003, BP and Alfa, Access, Renova (AAR) announced the creation of a strategic partnership to jointly hold their oil assets in Russia and Ukraine. As a result, TNK-ВР was created. Today, TNK-BP is Russia’s third largest oil company in terms of reserves and crude oil production. ВР and AAR each own an equal interest in TNK-BP. ААR contributed its holdings in TNK International, ONAKO and SIDANCO, its share in RUSIA Petroleum (which holds licenses for the Kovykta gas condensate deposit and the Verkhnechonsk oil and gas deposit), its stake in the Rospan gas field in West Siberia (the New Urengoy and East Urengoy deposits).

Union Drilling, Inc. provides contract land drilling services and equipment primarily to onshore oil and natural gas producers in Arkansas, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia, the United States. Union Drilling, Inc. offers drilling rigs, as well as the drilling crews and ancillary equipment to operate its drilling rigs. Union Drilling, Inc. rigs operate in unconventional natural gas producing areas, which are characterized by formations with very low permeability rock, such as shales, tight sands, and coal bed methane that require specialized drilling techniques to develop the natural gas resources. Union Drilling focuses on providing its services in the Appalachian and Arkoma basins, as well as the Barnett Shale formation. Union Drilling, Inc. offers drilling services also to customers engaged in developing unconventional natural gas formations. As of December 31, 2008, Union Drilling, Inc. owned and operated a fleet of 71 land drilling rigs. Union Drilling, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas.

TXCO Resources Inc. is a full-cycle, U.S.-based, oil and gas exploration and production company with a diversified exploitation, development and exploration project inventory. Based in San Antonio, TXCO has more than 720,000 net acres under lease (1.3 million gross acres). TXCO Resources Inc. leverages its geological and geophysical expertise to increase shareholder value. TXCO Resources Inc. applies new technology to overlooked opportunities in high-potential areas that offer multiple resource plays and thousands of drilling prospects. Through its direct efforts and joint ventures with other oil and gas firms, the company explores for oil and natural gas in the Dakotas, Montana, and South Texas. In 2008 TXCO Resources Inc. reported estimated proved reserves of 81.7 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. TXCO Resources sells its oil and gas wholesale through independent marketers. Facing tough economic times, TXCO Resources Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May, 2009.

Tristream Energy, which provides natural gas producers with a range of gathering, transportation, fractionation, processing, marketing, treating, and related services. Tristream Energy, LLC. develops, acquires and operates infrastructure downstream of producer facilities in major US producing basins (in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and the Rockies). Tristream Energy, LLC. was formed by Ken Purgason, Tony Catalano, and Mike Urban (all formerly of Sago Energy) in 2005. Sago Energy had been owned and operated by president Purgason and Catalano. Tristream Energy, LLC. sold its major operating subsidiaries (Sago Jameson, LEDCO, Louisiana State Gas, and LEDCO Gas Gathering) in 2004.

ROC is one of Australia’s leading independent upstream oil and gas companies. Incorporated in Australia, ROC listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) in 1999. ROC currently has approximately 713 million shares on issue. ROC is an upstream oil and gas company with exploration and production interests in Australia, Africa, China, and the UK. Some of its assets include the Cliff Head Oil Field, located offshore in the Perth Basin in Western Australia, as well as the onshore Basker-Manta-Gummy (BMG) Oil and Gas Fields, also located in Australia. Together, the company's total assets cover 57,000 square kilometers and produced more than 4 million barrels of oil equivalent in 2008. ROC was formed 1997 as a private company, but Roc Oil Company Limited became a publicly-traded company two years later.

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.

Cudd Pumping Services, a division of Cudd Energy Services (a subsidiary of RPC), provides well control and stimulation services and equipment to customers in the oil and gas industry. Other services include coiled tubing, snubbing, wireline, nitrogen, and marine services. Cudd Pumping Services designs specific treatments for treating wells using pretreatment fluid testing to maximize compatibility, stability, and cost effectiveness. Cudd Pumping Services provides acidizing and fracturing products and other pumping and oilfield equipment. Cudd Pumping Services has offices in Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Incorporated in 1987, Mitsui & Co. Europe Plc (Mitsui Europe) is actively involved in business investment, project development and management and technology transfer, in addition to its traditional import/export business, off-shore trading and domestic wholesale concerns. Mitsui Europe, with its head office in the heart of London, manages the overall business activities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa through more than 50 offices in over 30 countries. Mitsui Europe has 10 operating divisions encompassing Iron & Steel Products, Iron & Steel Raw Materials & Non-Ferrous Metals, Projects, Machinery, Organic Chemicals, Plastics & Inorganic Chemicals, Energy & Financial Markets, Foodstuff & Retail, Consumer Products & Services and Transportation Logistics.

Unit Corporation operates as a contract drilling company. The company operates in three segments: Contract Drilling, Oil and Natural Gas, and Mid-Stream. The Contract Drilling segment engages in the land contract drilling of natural gas and oil wells. Unit Corporation has operations in the provinces of Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and North Dakota. The Oil and Natural Gas segment involves in the exploration, development, acquisition, and production of oil and natural gas properties. Unit Corporation producing oil and natural gas properties, undeveloped leaseholds, and related assets are located primarily in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico, as well as in Arkansas, North Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and a small portion in Canada. The Mid-Stream segment engages in buying, selling, gathering, processing, and treating natural gas. Unit Corporation operates 3 natural gas treatment plants, 8 operating processing plants, 33 active gathering systems, and 839 miles of pipeline in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Pennsylvania. Unit Corporation also operates a total fleet of 130 drilling rigs. The company was founded in 1963 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

GeoGlobal Resources Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. Oil and gas exploration and production company GeoGlobal Resources' resources are focused on the Indian subcontinent. Through its subsidiaries, GeoGlobal Resources Inc. is involved in production-sharing contracts with the Indian government, exploring four blocks in Gujarat, two in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin offshore eastern India, two in Maharashtra (in western India), and two in Rajasthan. GeoGlobal, along with its partners in the projects, has conducted 3D seismic surveying and multi-well drilling activities, but it is yet to commercially produce any oil or natural gas. President and CEO Jean Roy owns 49% of the company.

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