Cygam Energy Inc. is a publicly traded exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in Canada. Cygam Energy Inc. has producing oil and gas properties in Canada and extensive international exploration concessions. Cygam Energy Inc., formerly Sheer Energy, is an oil and gas exploration and production company seeking development opportunities in Western Canada and internationally. In a reverse takeover in 2005, Sheer Energy acquired Italian oil and gas exploration companies Rigo Oil and Vega Oil and changed its corporate name to Cygam Energy. The bulk of the company's revenues are generated from gas production. Cygam Energy Inc. is developing exploration assets in Italy and Tunisia. Cygam Energy Inc. has five exploratory concessions in Italy and four exploratory concessions in Tunisia, encompassing four million gross acres.

TXCO Resources Inc. is a full-cycle, U.S.-based, oil and gas exploration and production company with a diversified exploitation, development and exploration project inventory. Based in San Antonio, TXCO has more than 720,000 net acres under lease (1.3 million gross acres). TXCO Resources Inc. leverages its geological and geophysical expertise to increase shareholder value. TXCO Resources Inc. applies new technology to overlooked opportunities in high-potential areas that offer multiple resource plays and thousands of drilling prospects. Through its direct efforts and joint ventures with other oil and gas firms, the company explores for oil and natural gas in the Dakotas, Montana, and South Texas. In 2008 TXCO Resources Inc. reported estimated proved reserves of 81.7 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. TXCO Resources sells its oil and gas wholesale through independent marketers. Facing tough economic times, TXCO Resources Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May, 2009.

ERG (formerly known as Raffineria Edoardo Garrone) lives up to its name -- ergo, it's in the energy business. Italy's largest independent oil refiner (accounting for about 11% of Italy's oil refining capacity), ERG is engaged in refining, marketing, and distributing crude oil and refined products such as diesel and lubricants. The group processes about 380,000 barrels of crude oil a day. With a nationwide network of about 2,000 Ergo-branded service stations, ERG holds about 7% of Italy's retail market share. The company also distributes oil products directly to agricultural, industrial, and utility customers. In addition, the company has interests in power generation. The Garrone family owns about 63% of ERG.

The story behind Valero is one unequaled in corporate America. Named for the mission San Antonio de Valero – the original name of the Alamo – Valero Energy Corporation was created on January 1, 1980, as the corporate successor to LoVaca Gathering Company, a subsidiary of the Coastal States Gas Corporation. Valero is the direct result of a $1.6 billion settlement approved unanimously in 1978 by the Texas Railroad Commission, the state’s natural gas regulatory agency, which ended more than six years of litigation brought against Coastal by its municipal gas customers who claimed they had been overcharged for natural gas. Valero’s journey as a natural gas transportation company evolved in the mid-1980s when the company purchased a 50 percent interest in a Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery owned by Saber Energy. The operation began as nothing more than a vacuum unit and crude unit on a humble plot of land near the Corpus Christi Ship Channel. But in the years to follow, Valero amassed its “Refinery of the Future” and added 16 more refineries to the fold starting in 1997. Through these acquisitions, the company also branched into retail and wholesale markets and continues to operate under the Valero, Diamond Shamrock, Shamrock, Ultramar and Beacon brands.

Addax Petroleum Corporation specializes in exploring and producing oil and gas, focusing on regions in West Africa and the Middle East. Addax Petroleum, which has properties in Nigeria, Gabon, Cameroon, and the Kurdistan region of Iraq, produces about 137,000 barrels of crude oil a day. In 2008 Addax Petroleum reported proved and probable reserves of 536.7 million barrels of oil equivalent and held 4.4 million acres of exploration, development and production properties. That year the company was acquired by China's Sinopec for about $7.5 billion.

Shell is a leading oil and gas producer in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, a recognized pioneer in oil and gas exploration and production technology and one of America’s leading oil and natural gas producers, gasoline and natural gas marketers and petrochemical manufacturers. We operate in 50 states and employ more than 22,000 people delivering energy in technically innovative ways. Shell Oil doesn't shilly-shally around, it explores for, produces, and markets oil, natural gas, and chemicals. The company's Shell Exploration & Production unit focuses its exploration on the deepwater plays in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell partners with Saudi Aramco in a US refining and marketing venture (Motiva), and owns Motiva's sister company Shell Oil Products US (formerly Equilon). Shell also produces petrochemicals (Shell Chemical) and liquefied natural gas (Shell US Gas & Power), and markets natural gas and electricity. Shell's parent, Royal Dutch Shell, is the world's #2 petroleum company (behind Exxon Mobil).

Petrobras America is engaged in oil exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico. Petrobras America Inc. also refines and markets oil and oil products and procures materials and equipment for its parent, PETROLEO BRASILEIRO (PETROBRAS). Petrobras America Inc. owns 50% of the Pasadena Refinery in Texas and has stakes in the Cascade, Chinook, and Cottonwood oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico. Petrobras America is also engaged in the purchase and sale of petroleum products, including crude oil, fuel oil, gasoline, special products, naphtha, and liquid petroleum gas. Petrobras America Inc. procures oil services equipment and related supplies, primarily to support its operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Petrobras America Inc. Petrobras, a large integrated oil company is producing over 2. 2 million bbl/day worldwide and will be investing US$ 85 Billion over the next 5 years to increase this production to 3.5 million bbl/day. (PAI) was incorporated in 1987 in the United States. PAI corporate office is located in Houston, Texas.

CREDO Petroleum Corporation was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.CREDO Petroleum Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and marketing of oil and gas properties in the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States. CREDO Petroleum Corporation operates projects in Texas, central Kansas, Wyoming, Colorado, Louisiana, and North Dakota. CREDO Petroleum Corporation also involves in developing, testing, refining, and patenting its patented Calliope Gas Recovery System from wellbores using pressure differentials enabling gas previously trapped by fluid build-up in the wellbore to flow to the surface. As of October 31, 2009, CREDO Petroleum operated approximately 135 wells, as well as owned working interests in 350 producing wells and overriding royalty interests in approximately 1,200 wells.

PSO is the market leader in Pakistan’s energy sector. The company has the largest network of retail outlets to serve the automotive sector and is the major fuel supplier to aviation, railways, power projects, armed forces and agriculture sector. PSO also provides Jet Fuel to Refueling Facilities at 9 airports in Pakistan and ship fuel at 3 ports. The company takes pride in continuing the tradition of excellence and is fully committed to meet the energy needs of today and rising challenges of tomorrow. Pakistan State Oil, the largest oil marketing company in the country, is currently engaged in storage, distribution and marketing of various POL products. The company’s current market share of 82.3% in the black oil market and 59.4% share in the white oil market, alone speak volumes about its success.

LiteWave is a development-stage oil and gas company that has been acquiring interests in leases and drilling natural gas wells in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. LiteWave Corp. is developing a gas play in Bourbon County, Kansas, an area with a rich history of oil and gas production from shallow levels. In Oklahoma, LiteWave has participated in a natural gas drilling project in Grant County, though production has not yet commenced. LiteWave Corp. originally started as Homefront Safety Services of Nevada in 1989; its name was changed to LiteWave in 1999. Another 10 years later, Lightwave decided to change its business again, buying platinum group metals (PGM) properties in Quebec.

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