KBC Advanced Technologies provides technical consulting services to the hydrocarbon processing industry. The company provides capital expense consulting, and process improvement services, including clean fuels programs, design services, oil storage optimization, and loss control services. KBC also provides in-depth strategic analysis of all aspects of a company's oil refining, petrochemical, or processing businesses to find opportunities to improve operational efficiencies. The company's extensive global base of customers includes Exxon Mobil, Huntsman, Husky Energy, and PETROBRAS. KBC combines independent, impartial advice supported by deep industry knowledge and market insight with technical process engineering skills, best-in-class models and simulation capabilities, and a suite of implementation services to provide clients with practical solutions for improving strategic decisions, benefiting from market opportunities, increasing operating performance, and complying with environmental regulations. Our goal is to help clients take strategic and tactical actions today to produce tangible results that will position the organisation for NextGen Performance in the future.

The Hiller Group, Inc. primarily supplies wholesale Chevron and Texaco branded aviation fuel and support services to more than 350 fixed-base operations (FBOs, or refueling sites) for the airline industry. Planes get their filler from The Hiller Group. The Hiller Group also operates through three other companies -- HG Equipment, Hiller Carbon, and Hiller Trading. HG Equipment finances and leases aircraft refuelers to FBOs. Hiller Carbon brokers carbon products to foundries and steel mills, shipping by rail domestically or marine vessel internationally. Hiller Trading imports and exports a variety of raw materials such as chemical, energy, industrial, and recycled products.

Empresas Copec's investments are concentrated in two large areas of specialization: energy and natural resources. In the energy field, Empresas Copec is prominent in the distribution of liquid fuels, liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas, and also electric power generation, sectors that are strongly linked with the growth and development of Chile. In natural resources, Empresas Copec is active in the forestry, commercial fishing and mining industries, fields in which the country enjoys clear-cut comparative advantages. The position achieved by Empresas Copec is the result of an efficient cost structure, continual commercial efforts and a conservative financial profile. Long-term vision combined with the hard work and drive of its people have enabled Empresas Copec to lead markets and grow soundly while keeping up its firm commitment with Chile.

Approach Resources takes a different approach to natural gas and oil exploration, development, and production. Specializing in finding and exploiting unconventional reservoirs, Approach Resources Inc. operates primarily in West Texas' Ozona Northeast field. Approach Resources Inc. also has operations in western Kentucky, and northern New Mexico. The company's unconventional designation results from a focus on developing natural gas reserves in tight gas sands and shale areas, necessitating a reliance on advanced completion, fracturing and drilling techniques. In 2008 Approach Resources reported proved reserves of 193.7 billion cu. ft. of oil equivalent, with a reserve life index of about 19 years. Yorktown Energy Partners controls the company.

Samson is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma and maintains division offices in Houston, Denver, and Midland. Samson Investment is an independent oil and gas entity with exploration, development, and production activities in Canada and the US (19 states), as well as in Australia. Key producing regions include East Texas, Texas Gulf Coast, Anadarko, Permian, San Juan, Green River, and the Williston Basin. Samson Investment operates more than 4,000 wells and has stakes in more than 11,000 wells. Samson Investment Company strategy is to make acquisitions that complement its existing areas of operations and establish its presence in new core regions. In 2007 Samson Investment Company acquired PYR Energy, which has assets in the Gulf Coast, Texas, and Rocky Mountain regions.

Oil refiner and marketer Shell Oil Products US and its sister company Motiva have the US covered. It operates refineries in the western US and markets petroleum products via Shell-branded outlets in the West and Midwest. Motiva does the same in the eastern US. Together Motiva (7,700 gas stations) and Shell Oil Products US (6,000 gas stations) form the #1 US gasoline retailing business. Motiva is a 50-50 joint venture with Saudi Aramco. Though the company has sold two of its refineries in this decade, Shell still operates four refineries throughout the country; Motiva has three of its own.

Canadian Oil Sands Trust puts its trust in the oil that is in the sands in Alberta being exploited by Syncrude Canada. The Syncrude partnership's large oil sands mine and supporting plants produce value-added light, sweet crude oil. Established in 1964, the Syncrude Project is the largest single source of oil in Canada and accounts for about 15% of the country's total oil production. With a 37% share, Canadian Oil Sands Trust is the largest shareholder in Syncrude (in which Imperial Oil and Petro-Canada also hold significant minority stakes). In 2008 Canadian Oil Sands Trust reported proved and probable reserves of 1.8 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

BJ Services Company provides pressure pumping and other oilfield services to the oil and natural gas industry in the United States, Mexico, Canada, and internationally. BJ Services Company pressure pumping services are provided both on land and offshore. BJ Services Company pressure pumping services comprise stimulation and cementing services. The stimulating services are designed to improve the flow of oil and natural gas from producing formations; the cementing services consist of pumping a cement slurry into a well between the casing and the wellbore to isolate fluids that might damage the casing and/or affect productivity, or that could migrate to different zones, primarily during the drilling and completion phases of a well. BJ Services Company oilfield services include casing and tubular services; precommissioning, maintenance, turnaround, and pipeline inspection services in the process and pipeline services business; and chemical services. BJ Services Company also designs, manufactures, assembles, and installs downhole completion tools that use gravel and sand control screens to control the migration of reservoir sand into the well and direct the flow of oil and natural gas into the production tubing; and sells and reclaims clear completion fluids and performs related fluid maintenance activities, such as filtration and reclamation. BJ Services Company was founded in 1872 and is based in Houston, Texas.

It's not refined Greek thought, but refined Greek oil that makes Hellenic Petroleum the leading oil refining company in Greece and neighboring Macedonia. Greece's largest company, Hellenic Petroleum operates four refineries: at Aspropyrgos, Elefsina, and Thessaloniki in Greece and Skopje in Macedonia. It also operates about 1,525 gas stations in Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia. It has 1,200 gas stations in Greece (23% of the retail market). Its other businesses include petrochemical production, oil and gas exploration, and infrastructure development. Hellenic Petroleum is owned by Paneuropean Oil and Industrial Holdings S.A. (35.89%) and the Greek government (35.5%).

Merit Energy Company is a private firm specializing in direct investments in oil and gas assets. Merit Energy Company acquires, develops, and operates mature producing oil and gas properties on behalf of equity-based limited partnerships. Merit Energy has operations 13 US states (primarily in the Rockies, Midcontinent, and the South and Southwest) and in the Canadian province of Alberta. It also has operations in Michigan and the Gulf of Mexico. In 2008 Merit Energy Company reported proved reserves of 471 million barrels of oil equivalent, and production of more than 94,400 barrels of oil equivalent per day. It has interests in more than 12,500 wells.

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