EPCOR Utilities Inc. builds, owns and operates electrical transmission and distribution networks, water and wastewater treatment facilities and infrastructure in Canada. EPCOR is one of only 10 companies to be selected as Canada's Most Earth-Friendly Employers. EPCOR is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta. At its core, EPCOR Utilities is an integrated energy provider. Its Energy Services division, which accounts for most of the company's sales, procures and markets electricity and natural gas for retail and wholesale customers and related products and servicess. EPCOR Utilities operates the regulated electricity and water distribution utilities in the Edmonton, Alberta, region, and it has interests in regulated and nonregulated power generation facilities in Canada and the US. The company also has energy infrastructure construction operations. The City of Edmonton owns EPCOR Utilities.

Cenovus Energy reserves the right to recover and refine oil in the US and Canada. With major operations in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Cenovus Energy Inc. has proved reserves of some 909 million barrels of oil equivalent and about 1.9 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. Cenovus Energy Inc. also maintains ownership interest in two refineries in Illinois and Texas that are part of a 50/50 joint venture with ConocoPhillips. That venture provides integration of Cenovus' upstream oil production with downstream refining of such consumer products as diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel. Together, the refineries have a processing capacity of about 500,000 barrels of oil per day. Cenovus Energy was formed in late 2009 as a spinoff of EnCana.

Marubeni Corporation was founded in May 1858.One of Japan's largest "sogo shosha" (general trading companies), Marubeni is involved in the handling of products and provision of services in a broad range of sectors. These areas encompass importing and exporting, as well as transactions in the Japanese market, related to food, textiles, materials, pulp and paper, chemicals, energy, metals and mineral resources, iron and steel products, and transportation machinery, and includes offshore trading. Marubeni Corporation activities also extend to power projects and infrastructure, plants, ships and industrial machinery, real estate development and construction, and finance, logistics and information. Additionally, Marubeni conducts business investment, development and management on a global level.

The Sunoco® brand has stood for quality products and services for over 120 years. While we are proud of our excellent and long-standing reputation, we continue to grow to meet the needs of consumers in today’s fast-paced environment. Sunoco’s Retail Marketing business is comprised of approximately 4,700 retail gasoline outlets in 26 states, which are primarily supplied by four high-efficiency refineries. With over 5 billion gallons of gasoline sold and $700 million of merchandise sales per year, Sunoco is a major retailer and recognized brand in the sale of gasoline and convenience store items. Sunoco’s retail outlets are primarily located along the east coast of the United States, especially the I-95 corridor. Sunoco APlus® convenience stores are located along the east coast from Massachusetts to Florida and west into upstate New York and Ohio. Our 700 APlus stores carry national brand-named products, including: snacks, beverages, cigarettes, hot and cold lunches, and fresh-brewed Gulliver’s® coffee. Most of our stores are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days of the year.

Legacy Reserves LP was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Midland, Texas. Legacy Reserves LP, an independent oil and natural gas limited partnership, engages in the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas properties, primarily located in the Permian Basin and Mid-continent regions of the United States. As of December 31, 2008, Legacy Reserves LP had proved reserves of approximately 30.8 million barrels of crude oil equivalent. Legacy Reserves LP owned interests in producing oil and natural gas properties in 270 fields in the Permian Basin, Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma, and various other states; operated 1,603 gross productive wells; and owned non-operated interests in 2,247 gross productive wells. Legacy Reserves GP, LLC serves as the general partner of Legacy Reserves LP.

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.

RWE npower is a leading integrated UK energy company and is part of the RWE Group, one of Europe’s leading utilities. We serve around 6.6 million customer accounts and produce more than 10% of the electricity used in England and Wales.We supply electricity and gas to residential and business customers through our retail business, npower, and we operate and manage a flexible portfolio of coal, oil and gas-fired power stations. We also manage a portfolio of cogeneration plant and, through RWE Power International, we sell our expertise in power generation to third parties. RWE npower has gone to the nth degree to bring to power in the UK. The company controls the UK holdings of the former National Power, whose non-UK businesses have been organized as International Power. The integrated energy company's primary business, npower, is a retail energy supplier that serves 6.6 million electricity customers and natural gas customers. RWE npower is also an energy trader, and has a generation capacity of about 10,000 MW (primarily fossil-fueled). Other operations include engineering services and energy conservation services. Affiliate npower renewables, part of RWE Innogy, leads the UK wind power market. German multi-utility RWE acquired the company in 2002.

Ringing in the new era of utility competition, Electrabel remains the #1 power company in Belgium. Operating nuclear, fossil-fueled, and hydroelectric power plants, it has a generating capacity of 31,200 MW. The diversified utility supplies electricity to 5.2 million customers, natural gas to more than 2.1 million customers. Electrabel, which produces about 90% of Belgium's electricity, also provides energy, heat, and steam to domestic industrial customers, trades power and gas, and manages electricity and natural gas infrastructures. The company is a subsidiary of giant utility group GDF SUEZ.

Sibir Energy plc is a fully integrated independent energy company with exploration and production operations in Western Siberia and refining and marketing in the City of Moscow and the Moscow region. Since its creation in 1996, Sibir has grown its attributable reserves to over 680 million barrels (Russian classification A+B+C1+C2) and daily production to over 80,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) making Sibir one of the largest UK-listed energy companies. In ten years of doing business in Russia, Sibir’s Western management team has partnered with its largest Russian shareholder to overcome the challenges of doing business in this dynamic market and has strengthened the company at each turn. Upstream, Sibir’s production comes from its Yuzhnoye field, operated by Magma Oil Company (95% Sibir owned), and its joint venture with Shell in the Shell-operated Salym group of fields (50% Sibir owned). Sibir’s total current production is over 80,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd), including its 50% of production from the Salym Fields and its wholly owned Magma production unit. By the end of 2009 Sibir’s total production is expected to exceed 100,000 bopd.

Bolt Technology Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of marine seismic data acquisition equipment to the oil and gas industry worldwide. Bolt Technology Corporation operates in three segments: Seismic Energy Sources, Underwater Cables and Connectors, and Seismic Energy Source Controllers. The Seismic Energy Sources segment develops, manufactures, and sells marine seismic energy sources (air guns) and replacement parts. The Underwater Cables and Connectors segment provides underwater cables, connectors, hydrophones, depth and pressure transducers, and seismic source monitoring systems. The Seismic Energy Source Controllers segment offers air gun controllers/synchronizers, data loggers, and auxiliary equipment. The company serves marine seismic exploration contractors and oil and gas companies. Bolt Technology was founded in 1960 and is based in Norwalk, Connecticut.

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