The TOTAL brand has been marketed in the UK since 1955 and was set up as Total Oil Great Britain Ltd (TOGB) originally formed as part of the French Total SA group. It quickly established itself as an innovative petrol retailer increasing its number of service stations at a rapid rate. When it comes to the UK petroleum refining and distribution industry, TOTAL UK does it all. The company is a subsidiary of French oil giant TOTAL S.A.. It provides gasoline to about 850 retail services stations in the UK (about 10% of the British retail market) and operates a petroleum refinery capable of producing more than 220,000 barrels of petroleum products per day. The company also has a lubricant blending plant, a bitumen plant, and has oil storage facilities located all across the UK. Through the AIR TOTAL brand name, TOTAL UK supplies aviation fuels to airports in Heathrow, Gatwick, and Stansted.

Kinder Morgan (formerly Knight) pipes in profits by operating 36,000 miles of natural gas pipelines in the US and Canada. Kinder Morgan, Inc. also distributes natural gas to more than 1.1 million customers, primarily in the Midwest, and it operates gas-fired power plants along its pipelines. Through Kinder Morgan Management, it controls Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, which transports refined products and operates 170 terminals that handle coal, petroleum coke, and other materials. In 2007 chairman and CEO Richard Kinder, who owns 31% of the company, led a group of investors in taking Kinder Morgan private and adopted the Knight name. To take advantage of its better-known brand, it reverted to Kinder Morgan in 2009.

C & C provides a wide range of survey and mapping services for the land and offshore oil and gas industry, the telecommunications industry and the U.S. government. The company has divisions including Land and Transition Zone Survey Division, the Marine Construction Survey Division, the Geophysical and Geoscience Division, the Geotechnical Division and the Worldwide DGPS Services Division. C & C’s operational divisions are sustained by several in-house support functions including a database department, a systems development department, an information technology department, an electronics department, a mechanical fabrication department, as well as an HSE and QA department.

Texas Gas Transmission transmits natural gas from Texas to states in the South and Midwest. The company owns and operates a 5,900-mile natural gas pipeline system. The pipeline has the capacity to deliver 3.8 billion cu. ft. of gas a day to customers in eight states. Major customers include Anadarko Petroleum, Louisville Gas and Electric, and Memphis Light, Gas and Water. Texas Gas Transmission also owns nine underground gas storage fields in Indiana and Kentucky with a storage capacity of 180 billion cu. ft. of gas. The company is a subsidiary of Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP. Texas Gas is an interstate pipeline that moves natural gas from Gulf Coast and Fayetteville Shale supply areas to more distant on-system markets in the Midwest and to off-system markets in the Northeast via interconnections with third-party pipelines. It originates in the Louisiana Gulf Coast area and in East Texas and runs north and east through Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, and into Ohio, with smaller diameter lines extending into Illinois.

Apco Oil & Gas International Inc.was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Apco Oil & Gas International Inc. engages in the exploration and production of oil and gas properties. Apco Oil & Gas International Inc. owns interests in seven oil and gas concessions and one exploration permit in Argentina. The company primarily holds a 52.79% interest in the exploration, production, and development of oil and gas in the Entre Lomas concession located in the provinces of Rio Negro and Neuquen in southwest Argentina. Apco Oil & Gas International Inc. was formerly known as Apco Argentina Inc. and changed its name to Apco Oil & Gas International Inc. on July 16, 2009. Apco Oil & Gas International Inc. is a subsidiary of Williams Companies, Inc.

Wellstream Holdings PLC makes flexible pipeline similar in form and function to garden hoses that is used primarily by the energy industry for transporting fluids. For offshore operations, Wellstream makes spoolable pipeline to connect underwater extraction facilities with the surface end of the operation. Wellstream Holdings PLC flexible pipe has been used in seas throughout the world, including the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and offshore Brazil, where its product has reached depths of 2,000 meters. Customers have included BHB Billiton, Norsk Hydro, Exxon Mobil, Petrobras, and Kerr-McGee. Wellstream was founded in 1983 in Panama City, Florida USA.

Cheshire Oil is confident that the smile it has put on customers' faces in Southern New Hampshire and Vermont won't suddenly disappear. The company's services (under the Cheshire Oil and T-Bird Fuel brands) to residential and commercial clients include heating oil delivery, oil and propane furnace and boiler installation, service, and repair, fleet fueling, and central air-conditioning installation and repair. Cheshire Oil also operates gas stations and convenience stores under the T-Bird Mini-Marts moniker. The company is owned and managed by members of the founding Robertson family.

Valvoline International helps the Tin Man get loose, the squeaky wheel get the grease, and your car flip its odometer. The division of Ashland produces all manner of automotive lubricants and fluids, motor oil and transmission fluids being only the most ubiquitous. Through its Valvoline Instant Oil Change division, the company also operates more than 800 oil change centers -- both company-owned and franchised -- across 38 US states, making it the second largest such operation in the nation (behind Royal Dutch Shell's Jiffy Lube). It also offers automotive cleaning products under the Eagle One brand name. Valvoline serves more than 100 countries worldwide.

Questar is on a quest for natural gas -- finding it, producing an gathering it, processing it, and transporting, storing, and distributing it. Questar Corporation operates through five major units. Questar Corporation exploration units (Questar Exploration and Production and Wexpro) reported proved reserves of about 2.2 trillion cu. ft. equivalent in 2008. Public utility Questar Gas distributes natural gas to almost 900,000 customers in Utah, southwestern Wyoming, and southeastern Idaho. Questar is also engaged midstream field services (through Gas Management), and energy marketing (through Energy Trading). Questar Pipeline operates a 2,500-mile transportation system and gas storage facilities in Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado.

NuVista Energy is the new view of Bonavista Petroleum, which reorganized in 2003 to form an income trust company (Bonavista Energy Trust) and an oil and natural gas exploration company. NuVista focuses on oil and natural gas exploration, development, and production in east-central Alberta and west-central Saskatchewan. Operating in the Oyen, Provost, and Pembina areas, NuVista Energy Ltd. has proved plus probable reserves of 82.2 million barrels of oil equivalent. The group's strategy is to concentrate on its core natural gas-prone areas, drilling medium-risk prospects, and to invest 10% of its capital on higher-risk properties. In 2009 NuVista Energy Ltd. acquired assets in British Columbia and Northwest Alberta for $174 million.

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