Zion Oil and Gas is on a mission in Israel. As an oil and gas exploration company, Zion has exploration operations primarily on two onshore properties that cover about 162,000 acres between Tel-Aviv and Haifa. Zion Oil and Gas, Inc. operates through two licenses that were issued by the State of Israel, and it owns 100% of the working interest in both licenses. When Zion Oil and Gas, Inc. eventually discovers oil and gas, Zion has stated that it will focus its production operations on helping Israel become a more energy-independent country. Zion Oil and Gas, Inc., which was founded in 2000 by chairman John M. Brown, went public in 2007.

Largo Vista is in the business of supplying liquid petroleum gas (LPG) through pipelines and in bottles to consumers in the People's Republic of China. Largo Vista Group, Ltd. conducts its operations through strategic partnerships with Chinese companies Zunyi Shilin Xinmao Petrochemical Industries and Jiahong Gas. Largo Vista Group, Ltd. purchases and resells LPG in the retail and wholesale markets to both residential and commercial customers in the city of Zunyi, in Guizhou Province. Largo Vista has closed its unprofitable storage depot operations in that city and is focusing on supplying LPG in bottles and via pipelines. Largo Vista Group, Ltd. is eyeing further expansion in both China and Vietnam.

Today, the Oxbow Group is made up of more than two dozen companies with yearly aggregate sales of over $3.7 billion, combined assets of over $1.7 billion and over 1200 employees worldwide. Oxbow’s primary businesses are the mining and marketing of energy and commodities such as coal, natural gas, petroleum, metallurgical and calcined coke. Oxbow Carbon LLC Company Profile Oxbow Carbon (formerly known as Oxbow Carbon & Minerals) distributes petroleum coke to customers worldwide, primarily in the cement, utilities, steel, and home heating industries. (Petroleum coke, a by-product of the oil refining process, is used as a fuel. Calcined petroleum coke, a refined form of petroleum coke, is used as a source of carbon, mainly by aluminum producers.) Oxbow Carbon also distributes metallurgical coke, a by-product of coal processing that is used by iron producers and sugar refiners. The company operates four bulk shipping terminals, located on the Gulf Coast and the West Coast of the US and in the Caribbean and South America. Oxbow Carbon is a unit of Oxbow.

St. Mary Land & Exploration Company was founded in 1908 and is based in Denver, Colorado. St. Mary Land & Exploration Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration, exploitation, development, acquisition, and production of natural gas and crude oil in North America. St. Mary Land & Exploration Company primarily operates in the ArkLaTex, the Mid-Continent, the Gulf Coast, the Permian, and the Rocky Mountain regions. As of December 31, 2008, it had estimated proved reserves of 51.4 million barrels of oil and 557.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas.

Quest Energy Partners, L.P. engages in the acquisition, exploitation, and development of oil and natural gas properties in the Cherokee basin of southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma (the Cherokee Basin Operations), and the Appalachian Basin in West Virginia and New York. Quest Energy Partners, L.P. Appalachian Basin operations primarily focus on the development of the Marcellus Shale; and Cherokee Basin Operations focus on developing coal bed methane gas production. As of December 31, 2008, Quest Energy Partners, L.P. had a total of approximately 167.1 billion cubic feet equivalent of net proved reserves. Quest Energy Partners, L.P. also operated approximately 2,438 gross gas wells in the Cherokee Basin and 27 gross oil wells. In addition, Quest Energy Partners, L.P. had approximately 4,000 oil and gas leases covering approximately 559,084 net acres; and owned the development rights to approximately 557,603 net acres throughout the Cherokee Basin. Quest Energy GP, LLC serves as the general partner of Quest Energy Partners, L.P. Quest Energy Partners, L.P. is based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Quest Energy Partners, L.P. is a subsidiary of Quest Resource Corporation.

PETRONAS was incorporated on 17 August 1974 as the national oil company of Malaysia, vested with the entire ownership and control of the petroleum resources in the country. It has since grown from merely being the manager and regulator of Malaysia’s upstream sector into a fully integrated oil and gas corporation, ranked among the FORTUNE Global 500® largest corporations in the world. Headquartered in the world's tallest buildings (PETRONAS Twin Towers), state-owned Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) towers above other Malaysian companies in revenues. As a holding company for Malaysia's oil and natural gas concerns, PETRONAS' subsidiaries engage in exploration and production and refining and sales ventures in more than 30 countries, primarily in Asia and Africa. The company has estimated proved reserves of more than 27 billion barrels of oil equivalent (the bulk of which is natural gas). It is a major producer of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). PETRONAS markets petroleum products through more than 900 domestic gas stations; it also sells aviation fuels, kerosene, and lubricants.

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.

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.

Dakota Gasification Company (Dakota Gas), owns and operates the Great Plains Synfuels Plant (Synfuels Plant). The Synfuels Plant is the only commercial-scale coal gasification plant in the United States that manufactures natural gas. Dakota Gasification Company is also the cleanest energy plant operating in the state of North Dakota, according to a comparison of emissions data available from the North Dakota Department of Health. The Great Plains Synfuels Plant harnesses the abundant coal resources underlying the North Dakota prairie. The gasification process transforms more than 6 million tons of coal into more than 54 billion cu. ft. of natural gas annually, which is then used to supply the Eastern US. In addition to natural gas, the company's Synfuels plant produces carbon dioxide, fertilizers, solvents, phenol, and other chemicals.

Habanero Resources hopes to become a hot item as an oil and gas, minerals, and precious metals prospector. Habanero Resources Inc. main assets are its stakes (an major acreage) in a handful of Alberta Oil Sands prospects. Traditionally an oil and gas explorer, Habanero Resources has diversified its operations as a hedge against lower oil prices. Habanero Resources Inc. holds significant acreage (more than 662,300 acres) in Yukon where it has set its sights on developing lithium prospects. Habanero Resources Inc. is also exploring for lithium in Alberta, holds two gold prospects in British Columbia, and has a silver prospect in the Yukon.

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