Anadarko is the largest independent oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the world, with approximately 2.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BBOE) of proved reserves at year-end 2009. The company, the largest foreign oil producer in Algeria, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum, and has production facilities and other operating units located in the Algerian Sahara Desert. Anadarko Algeria accounts for about 15% of its parent's total revenues. Anadarko Algeria Company works closely with state-owned powerhouse Sonatrach. Anadarko Algeria is part of Anadarko Petroleum's International/Frontier division, which also oversees exploration and production activities in Brazil, China, Indonesia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

The core business activities of the Shell Group consist of Exploration & Production, Oil Products, Gas & Power, Chemicals and Renewable Energy. In Japan, the Oil Products business is operated by Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K., the Chemicals business by Shell Chemicals Japan Ltd., and Gas & Power business by Shell Gas & Power Japan Ltd. Show and tell? Showa Shell Sekiyu has plenty to talk about. Showa Shell, 40%-owned by Royal Dutch Shell, is one of Japan's leading oil refiners. The company, which was born in 1985 of a merger between Japan's Showa Oil and Royal Dutch Shell's Shell Sekiyu, imports, refines, and distributes petroleum products. The firm's three local refining affiliates, Showa Yokkaichi, Toa Oil, and Seibu Oil, have a collective refining capacity of 515,000 barrels a day. The company owns a network of 4,575 gas stations across Japan. In 2004 Royal Dutch/Shell sold a 10% stake of Showa Shell to Saudi Aramco.

CVR Energy is an independent and sophisticated petroleum refiner and marketer of high value transportation fuels, and through CVR Partners, LP, a limited partnership of which we own all current economic interests, a producer and marketer of nitrogen fertilizer products in North America. Our company generated approximately $5 billion in net sales revenue in 2008 and serves the respective refined petroleum products and fertilizers markets in the mid-continental United States. CVR Energy’s common stock is listed for trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "CVI." CVR Energy’s petroleum business is composed of four subsidiaries working together to serve our petroleum products customers: Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing, LLC; Coffeyville Resources Crude Transportation, LLC; Coffeyville Resources Terminal, LLC; and Coffeyville Resources Pipeline, LLC.

VAALCO Energy was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. VAALCO Energy, Inc., an independent energy company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas. VAALCO Energy, Inc. owns producing properties, as well as conducts exploration activities as an operator of consortiums internationally in Gabon and Angola, and as a non-operator in the British North Sea. VAALCO Energy, Inc. also has minor interests in the Texas Gulf Coast area and offshore Louisiana.

WSP Holdings Limited, through its subsidiaries, manufactures oil country tubular goods products. It offers casing, tubing, and drill pipes for oil and natural gas exploration, drilling, and extraction activities, as well as line pipes and green pipes. WSP Holdings Limited also provides American Petroleum Institute (API) products, which are products manufactured according to the standards formulated by the API; and non-API products, which are products tailor-made to meet customers specifications. WSP Holdings Limited serves oilfields in North America, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Russian Federation through distributors. WSP Holdings Limited was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Wuxi, the People's Republic of China.

Holly Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a petroleum refiner in the United States. The company process sour crude oils into light petroleum products, including gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, fuel oils, specialty lubricant products, gas oil/intermediates, carbon black oil, and liquid petroleum gas (LPG) and other products at its three refineries located in Artesia and Lovington, New Mexico; Woods Cross, Utah; and Tulsa, Oklahoma. It also manufactures and markets specialty and modified asphalt products from various terminals in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. In addition, the company owns interests in a 12-inch refined products pipeline project from Salt Lake City, Utah to Las Vegas, Nevada, together with terminal facilities in the Cedar City, Utah, and North Las Vegas areas. Further, it holds 34% interests in Holly Energy Partners, L.P., which owns and operates approximately 2,500 miles of petroleum product and crude oil pipelines located principally in west Texas and New Mexico; ten refined product terminals; a jet fuel terminal; four refinery loading rack facilities; a refined products tank farm facility; and on-site crude oil tanks at its refineries, an on-site refined product tankage at Tulsa refinery, and a 25% interest in a 95-mile crude oil pipeline joint venture. Holly Corporation markets its gasoline to other refiners, convenience store chains, independent marketers, and retailers; diesel fuel to other refiners, truck stop chains, wholesalers and railroads; jet fuel to military and commercial airlines; specialty lubricant products to commercial and specialty markets; asphalt to governmental entities or contractors; and LPG’s to LPG wholesalers and LPG retailers, as well as carbon black oil for further processing or blended into fuel oil. The company offers its products primarily in the Southwestern, Rocky Mountain, and Mid-Continent regions of the United States. Holly Corporation was founded in 1947 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

If you were to ask "what's our vector, Victor?" Vector Pipelines would include mainline natural gas transportation in its answer, whereas the cast from Airplane would surely answer differently (so please don't call the company "Shirley"). In service since 2000, Vector Pipelines operates a pipeline nearly 350 miles in length with receipt and delivery points in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ontario. Approximately 95% of the pipeline is located in the US; Vector Pipeline Limited Partnership is responsible for the 15 miles of pipeline in Canada. Calgary-based Enbridge owns a 60% stake in Vector Pipeline, and Detroit-based DTE Energy Company owns 40%.

BPZ Resources is committed to exploring for oil and gas resources in South America. BPZ Resources, Inc. once provided information technology services, including security and access services, application integration, and software development but has been focusing on oil and gas exploration and production in recent years. BPZ Resources, Inc. operates through its BPZ Energy subsidiary and that unit's BPZ Energy International Holdings subsidiary. BPZ Resources owns 2.4 million acres, in four blocks, of oil and gas properties in northwest Peru. BPZ Resources, Inc. also holds acreage in Ecuador. In 2008 BPZ Resources, Inc. reported proved reserves of 17.2 million barrels of oil equivalent.

The Wills Group willingly delivers petroleum products and related products and services to its customer base in southern Maryland. The Wills Group, Inc. operates four business subsidiaries: Dash-In Convenience Stores (with more than 25 locations); Delmarva Oil and Southern Maryland Oil (the largest home heating oil delivery service companies in the region); and Southern Maryland Oil (SMO) Motor Fuels (wholesale distribution of diesel, gasoline, and kerosene products, including CITGO, Chevron, and Shell-branded fuels). The Wills Group supplies 300 dealer-operated gas stations in Delaware, southern Maryland, and Washington, DC.

CNOOC Limited was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Central, Hong Kong.CNOOC Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration, development, production, and sale of crude oil, natural gas, and other petroleum products in offshore China. The company's oil and gas properties are located in offshore China, which include Bohai Bay, western south China Sea, eastern south China Sea, and east China Sea, as well as in Indonesia, Australia, and Africa. As of December 31, 2008, it had net proved reserves of 2.6 billion barrels of oil equivalent.CNOOC Limited operates as a subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corporation.

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