Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) spreads its wings over the United Arab Emirates (UAE), accounting for 94% of its 97.8 billion barrels of proved oil reserves, the fourth-largest national reserves in the world behind Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait. Abu Dhabi National Oil Company also has proved reserves of 6.1 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. Abu Dhabi National Oil Company oversees oil production of more than 2.7 million barrels a day. The ADNOC group includes exploration and production companies, support companies, maritime crude oil transport companies, and a refined-product distribution company that operates more than 200 UAE service stations.

Martin Resource Management likes to push around petroleum products. Martin Resource Management, Inc. flagship operation, Martin Midstream Partners, offers transportation, storage, marketing, and logistics management services for petroleum products, including sulfur, sulfur derivatives, fuel oil, liquefied petroleum gas, asphalt and other bulk tank liquids, primarily in the southern US. Martin Resource also manufactures and markets fertilizer and other processed sulfur products. Through its Midstream Fuel Service subsidiary, Martin Resource Management, Inc. offers inland marine supply and offshore support services.

Hyperdynamics was founded in 1996 and is traded on the NYSE Amex under the symbol HDY. Hyperdynamics has shifted its business focus from IT consulting services to oil and gas exploration, primarily in Africa. Hyperdynamics Corporation SCS Corporation subsidiary concentrates on developing an oil and gas concession located offshore the Republic of Guinea in West Africa. Hyperdynamics' HYD Resources subsidiary and gas exploration and production company focuses on low-risk shallow exploration projects in Louisiana, where in 2008 it held proved reserves of 150,435 barrels of oil. Chairman Kent Watts, who stepped down a CEO in 2009, owns 17% of Hyperdynamics. Hyperdynamics Corporation holds certain contract rights for the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas in an approximately 80,000 square kilometer concession off the coast of the Republic of Guinea.

Energy Transfer Partners, L.P., through its subsidiaries, engages in the natural gas midstream, and intrastate transportation and storage businesses in the United States. The company’s midstream operations focus on the gathering, compression, treating, blending, processing, and marketing of natural gas in the Austin Chalk trend of southeast Texas, the Permian Basin of west Texas and New Mexico, the Barnett Shale in north Texas, the Bossier Sands in east Texas, and the Uinta and Piceance Basins in Utah and Colorado. Its intrastate transportation and storage operations focus on transporting natural gas from various natural gas producing areas through connections with other pipeline systems, as well as through its Oasis pipeline and natural gas pipeline and storage assets. The company’s interstate transportation operations transports natural gas to the California border; and delivers natural gas from the east end of its system to Texas intrastate and Midwest markets. In addition, it sells propane and propane-related products and services to residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers. As of December 31, 2009, the company owned and operated approximately 14,800 miles of in service natural gas gathering and intrastate transportation pipelines, 3 natural gas processing plants, 11 natural gas treating facilities, 11 natural gas conditioning facilities, and 3 natural gas storage facilities located in Texas. Energy Transfer Partners GP, L.P. serves as a general partner of the company. Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. was founded in 2002 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

EV Energy Partners is a natural gas and oil exploration and production company, which operates in the Appalachian Basin, primarily in West Virginia and Ohio, as well as in Louisiana, Michigan, Oklahoma, and Texas. In 2007 EV Energy Partners reported estimated proved reserves of 250 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 4.5 million barrels of oil. Its base in the Appalachian Basin puts EV Energy Partners in close proximity to the nation's major consuming markets, allowing for stronger pricing power. EV Energy Partners was formed in 2006 by Canadian energy industry investment group EnerVest, which owns 71% of EV Energy Partners' general partner.

Americas Power Partners focuses on cogeneration technologies as it develops small-scale independent power plants (generating less than 100 MW of power) in the US and sells electricity to utilities, marketers, and industrial and commercial users. Americas Power Partners company also provides on-site distributed generation and optimization services (whereby it improves plant operations but leaves ownership in the hands of the client). In addition, Americas Power Partners improves some plant's utility and distribution systems while taking ownership and operation of the plant. Armstrong Service is the company's major strategic partner.

Eurogas explores for oil and gas in Spain and Tunisia. Eurogas Corporation controls Escal, which operates the Castor underground natural gas storage project. The project involves converting the Amposta, an abandoned oil field, to a facility with a storage capacity of 67 billion cu. ft. of gas, which will supply up to one third of the country's natural gas. Eurogas also has a 45% interest in an exploration permit looking for oil and natural gas in a 1 million acre block in Tunisia's Bay of Gabes. Eurogas Corporation works with Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum to explore the region. Eurogas is majority owned by Canadian merchant banking and financial services group Dundee Corporation.

Excelsior Energy hopes to excel in producing oil from the vast bitumen sand deposits of Western Canada. Excelsior Energy Limited has a working interest in two prospective oil sands leases: Hangingstone and West Surmont, in the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta. Excelsior Energy's business model is to produce oil in-place using on-site thermal units, rather than the traditional model of transporting oil sands to a central processing plant. By 2009 Excelsior Energy Limited had done significant exploration drilling and found that Hangingstone could recover bitumen on an experimental basis, producing a maximum of 1,000 barrels of bitumen per day. Excelsior Energy plans to begin commercial production in the Hangingstone Project in 2011.

Although it carries the ancient Sanskrit name for India (Bharat), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is a modern refining and distribution company. It vies with Hindustan Petroleum for the #2 slot behind Indian Oil. The company processes petroleum and petroleum products; its refinery in Mumbai processes 260,000 barrels of crude per day. It also controls refineries in Kochi and Numaligarh. BPCL sells engine oils and gasolines, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and kerosene. It has more than 6,550 gas stations, more than 1,000 kerosene dealers, and a national network of LPG distributors. The Indian government owns 55% of the firm, although it plans to sell this stake as part of industrywide deregulation.

TGC Industries, Inc. provides geophysical services for clients in the oil and gas industry in the continental United States and Canada. TGC Industries, Inc. conducts Three-D surveys and offers seismic data acquisition services primarily to domestic onshore oil and natural gas exploration and development companies for use in the onshore drilling and production of oil and natural gas. TGC Industries, Inc. also owns a data bank that contains gravity data and magnetic data, from oil and natural gas producing areas located in the United States. As of December 31, 2009, TGC Industries operated 11 seismic crews, which supplied seismic data to companies engaged in the domestic exploration and development of oil and natural gas on land and in land-to-water transition areas. The company was formerly known as Tidelands Geophysical Co., Inc. and changed its name to TGC Industries, Inc. in July 1986. TGC Industries, Inc. was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

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