WesternGeco, a business unit of Schlumberger, is the world's leading geophysical services company, providing comprehensive worldwide reservoir imaging, monitoring, and development services, with the most extensive geophysical survey crews and data processing centers in the industry, as well as the world's largest multiclient data library. Services range from 3D and 4D (time-lapse) seismic surveys to multicomponent and electromagnetic surveys, supplying our clients with accurate measurements of subsurface geology. WesternGeco operations include land and marine seismic products and services, as well as multiclient services (including extensive libraries of survey data and database analysis). Formed in 2000, WesternGeco married the seismic survey and analysis operations of two oil field service titans: Schlumberger's Geco-Prakla unit and Baker Hughes' Western Geophysical unit. In 2006 Schlumberger acquired Baker Hughes' 30% stake in the company for $2.4 billion.

US Power Generating Company (”USPowerGen”) owns and operates fifty-eight generating units at six facilities with a total capacity of over 5,000 Megawatts (MW). USPowerGen subsidiaries sell their energy and capacity into the NYISO and ISO-New England deregulated markets. The combined company represents generation sufficient to serve approximately 20% of the overall load in New York City as well as approximately 50% of the overall load in the Boston metropolitan area. USPowerGen is led by Mark Sudbey, the CEO, and a management team headquartered in New York City. US Power Generating Company sells electricity as well as capacity (utilities are required to carry extra capacity), and ancillary services including automatic generation control, operating reserves, reactive supply, and voltage support.

LOOP (Louisiana Offshore Oil Port) was organized in 1972 as a Delaware corporation and converted to a limited liability company in 1996. Marathon Pipe Line LLC, Murphy Oil Corporation, and Shell Oil Company are LOOP's owners.The port facility is located in the Gulf of Mexico, eighteen miles south of Grand Isle, Louisiana, in 110 feet of water. LOOP is the only port in the U.S. capable of offloading deep draft tankers known as Ultra Large Crude Carriers (ULCC) and Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC). Along with offloading crude from VLCC’s, LOOP also offloads smaller tankers. The port consists of three single-point mooring buoys used for the offloading of crude tankers and a marine terminal consisting of a two-level pumping platform and a three-level control platform. The onshore oil storage facility, twenty-five miles inland (the “Clovelly facility”), is connected to the port complex by a 48-inch diameter pipeline. It provides interim storage for crude oil before it is delivered via connecting pipelines to refineries on the Gulf Coast and in the Midwest.

SmartestEnergy is licensed as an electricity supplier, a natural gas supplier and a natural gas shipper. The company began trading in October 2001, primarily to enable smaller embedded generators of primarily renewable energy to gain access to the deregulated energy market in the UK. SmartestEnergy relies on its quick-wittedness to survive in the highly competitive UK energy trading sector. The company, a subsidiary of leading Japanese trading company Marubeni, primarily markets electricity in the deregulated UK market through partnerships with independent power producers, including its sister company Marubeni Europower. SmartestEnergy also trades natural gas and other energy commodities, provides market analysis and risk management services, and provides retail energy supply services to commercial and industrial customers.

Rix Petroleum is the largest member of the Rix group of companies. It distributes and retails petroleum products throughout Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the Midlands, the East Coast of Scotland and now East Anglia.Rix Petroleum delivers competitively priced domestic heating oil to the home market using specialist vehicles designed with rural delivery challenges in mind. Boiler maintenance and tank services are just part of the service package.Over 100 Rix branded service stations fulfil the essential retail and social role previously provided by rural Post Offices and village shops and are serviced by the Rix fleet of articulated fuel tankers. The agricultural and haulage sectors are also serviced through the provision of fuels, oils, lubricants and a wide range of storage tankers.From refinery to customer, Rix Petroleum provides the complete fuel service delivered by a family company that cares.

DCP Midstream Partners, LP is a midstream master limited partnership formed by DCP Midstream, LLC to own, operate, and continue to broaden our portfolio of complementary midstream assets. The Partnership gathers, treats, processes, transports, and markets natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs) and is a leading wholesale distributor of propane. Supported by our relationship with DCP Midstream, LLC, and its parents, Spectra Energy and ConocoPhillips, our geographically diverse assets, with strong market positions, and our mix of fee-based and substaintially hedged commodity-based margins, position the Partnership for the long term.

The Wills Group willingly delivers petroleum products and related products and services to its customer base in southern Maryland. The Wills Group, Inc. operates four business subsidiaries: Dash-In Convenience Stores (with more than 25 locations); Delmarva Oil and Southern Maryland Oil (the largest home heating oil delivery service companies in the region); and Southern Maryland Oil (SMO) Motor Fuels (wholesale distribution of diesel, gasoline, and kerosene products, including CITGO, Chevron, and Shell-branded fuels). The Wills Group supplies 300 dealer-operated gas stations in Delaware, southern Maryland, and Washington, DC.

Repsol YPF, Spain's largest oil company. A fully integrated oil and gas company, Repsol YPF operates in Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa. The firm controls YPF, Argentina's #1 oil company, and has operations in about 30 other countries. Repsol YPF operates five refineries in Spain and one in Peru and produces chemicals, plastics, and polymers. Repsol YPF sells gas under the brands Campsa, Petronor, and Repsol at more than 6,000 service stations in Europe and Latin America. Repsol YPF is one of Spain's largest sellers of liquefied petroleum gas and liquefied natural gas. In 2008 Repsol YPF reported estimated proved reserves of 2.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

Thailand fills its tanks thanks to integrated oil company PTT, the nation's largest company. Its PTT Oil transportation and marketing unit operates more than 1,200 gas stations. PTT Gas procures, processes, transports, and distributes natural gas. PTT owns 49% of the nation's largest refiner, debt-plagued Thai Oil. Other PTT units engage in oil and gas exploration and production and produce petrochemicals. Thailand, which created PTT to secure energy supplies during the oil crunch of the late 1970s, sold a third of the company in a 2001 IPO. In 2008 the Government of Thailand owned 52% of PTT.

Formed by the merger of Conoco and Phillips Petroleum, ConocoPhillips is the #2 integrated oil and gas company in the US, behind Exxon Mobil, and consolidated that position by buying Burlington Resources (for a reported $35 billion). The company explores for oil and gas in more than 30 countries and has proved reserves of 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent (excluding its Syncrude oil sands assets). It has a refining capacity of more than 2.6 million barrels per day and sells petroleum at 8,340 retail outlets in the US under the 76, Conoco, and Phillips 66 brands, and at 1,260 gas stations in Europe. Other operations include chemicals, gas gathering, fuels technology, and power generation.

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