The American Enterprise Association (AEA) arrived in Washington in 1943, in the thick of World War II. In Congress there was talk of making wartime price and production controls permanent to prevent another Depression when peace finally arrived. The tiny AEA, a business group formed in New York City in 1938, was horrified; it resolved to open a Washington office to advocate rapid postwar economic demobilization and, more generally, to improve Congress's understanding of the economic consequences of its actions. The new AEA office, which eventually became headquarters and graduated from "association" to "institute," was the avant-garde of two momentous developments of the decades to come, both responding to the growing size and power of the federal government: the migration of business and trade associations from commercial centers to the nation's capital and the emergence of the policy "think tank."

TonenGeneral Sekiyu K.K. has conducted business over many years as a leader in the petroleum and petrochemical industries in Japan. In our current operating environment, overall demand for oil in Japan is expected to decline due to changes in the energy demand structure associated with rising crude oil prices and evolution in the country's industrial composition. On the other hand, tightening of the supply/demand balance for petroleum products worldwide has led to increased export opportunities. In the petrochemical business, while global demand especially for basic petrochemical products continues to grow strongly and has supported our financial results in the last few years, we need to progress our strategy in a timely manner to cope with changes in the business environment. Under these conditions, the TonenGeneral Group is taking an integrated approach to all of its businesses, including refining and supply of petroleum products, marketing and chemicals. Specifically, we are pursuing the optimal combination of raw materials, product supply, and marketing channels to maximize added value. We also take full advantage of the ExxonMobil Group network to continue and further develop our business activities as a company with world-class cost competitiveness and technology, and the best refining, marketing and chemical operations in Japan. We intend to maintain growth and development in the future by achieving the highest global standards of operating efficiency and profitability.

Warren Equities fills car tanks and stomachs in the US Northeast. The holding company sells fuel and groceries from more than 300 Xtra Mart brand service stations and convenience stores from Maine to Virginia. Warren's distribution companies supply those stores, as well as independent outlets, with gasoline, grocery, and tobacco products. Other Warren companies trade and store petroleum, provide environmental testing services, and make promotional signs and clothing. Founder Warren Alpert's foundation gives annual grants to medical researchers. Alpert died in 2007.

Syntroleum Corporation has come a long way since its founding in 1984 by Kenneth L. Agee. The company’s synthetic fuel technologies make it a recognized force in the renewable fuels, biomass-to-liquids (BTL), gas-to-liquids (GTL), and coal-to-liquids (CTL) industries, and is one of the most vocal about introducing the possibilities of these technologies to the world. Syntroleum’s recent announcement regarding its renewable synthetic fuels venture with Tyson Foods is the latest example of its leadership in the industry. Together with Tyson, Syntroleum will construct the world’s first renewable synthetic fuels plant utilizing its Bio-synfining™ technology and Tyson sourced agricultural feedstock. With an investment of over $150 million and the creation of over 300 jobs, the initial 75 million gallon per year plant will not only have a positive impact on the local economy where the plant is located, but will contribute much needed incremental clean and environmentally friendly fuel to our nation’s transportation fuel supply.

Frontier Refining & Marketing, a subsidiary of Frontier Holdings Inc. (which is a subsidiary of Frontier Oil Corporation), operates all of Frontier Oil's marketing, crude and product supply, planning, human resources, and accounting functions. Frontier Refining & Marketing primarily sells its gasoline and diesel to unbranded jobbers, but it also supplies retail operations of other oil companies. The company itself has no retail marketing locations, but does allow jobbers to use the Frontier logo on their retail outlets. Frontier Refining & Marketing is also a major marketer of asphalt to the Front Range area.

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.

Transocean Ltd. provides offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells worldwide. Transocean Ltd. offers deepwater and harsh environment drilling, oil and gas drilling management, and drilling engineering and project management services, as well as explores, develops, and produces oil and gas resources. As of December 31, 2008, Transocean Ltd. owned and operated 136 mobile offshore drilling units comprising 39 high-specification floaters, 28 midwater floaters, 10 high-specification jackups, 55 standard jackups, and 4 other rigs, as well as 10 ultra-deepwater floaters under construction or contracted for construction. Transocean Ltd. provide rigs for all types of petroleum companies in offshore drilling markets that include the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and eastern Canada, Brazil, the U.K. and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea, West Africa, Asia, including Australia, the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, India and the Mediterranean. Transocean Ltd. was founded in 1953 and is based in Vernier, Switzerland.

China North East Petroleum Holdings is engaged in the extraction and production of crude oil in a region of Northern China. China North East Petroleum Holdings Limited current operations are focused on four oilfields located in China's Jilin province, where it operates about 250 producing wells. China North East Petroleum Holdings Limited operates in tandem with oil giant PetroChina to exploit a number of 20-year leases held by PetroChina. China North East Petroleum Holdings has proved reserves of approximately 5.5 million barrels of crude oil equivalent. Large-scale commercial drilling at the Jilin Quinan Oil Field started in 1986.

Technicoil is an integrated, technology-driven company that provides both primary well drilling and secondary well stimulation services to the oil and gas production industry. Technicoil provides coiled tubing and well-servicing technology to support oil and gas operations in North America. Coiled tubing, originally used for cleaning drilling oil and gas wells, is now used in drilling wells. Technicoil Corporation operates a fleet of 33 well-servicing (coiled tubing) rigs and drilling rigs. Technicoil Corporation has added rigs to its fleet to meet increased demand, driven primarily by more coalbed methane activity in North America. The drilling rigs can perform both directional and vertical drilling. Technicoil, which makes coiled tubing for well cleaning and stimulation, uses three crew members for its slimhole operations.

FEC Resources Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. FEC Resources Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of natural resource and mineral properties. FEC Resources Inc. focuses on the development of oil, natural gas, iron ore, gold, and coal in the Philippines. FEC Resources Inc. was formerly known as Forum Energy Corporation and changed its name to FEC Resources Inc. in May 2005.

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