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.

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.

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.

Transocean Ltd. provides offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells worldwide. Transocean Ltd. offers deepwater and harsh environment drilling, oil and gas drilling management, and drilling engineering and project management services, as well as explores, develops, and produces oil and gas resources. As of December 31, 2008, Transocean Ltd. owned and operated 136 mobile offshore drilling units comprising 39 high-specification floaters, 28 midwater floaters, 10 high-specification jackups, 55 standard jackups, and 4 other rigs, as well as 10 ultra-deepwater floaters under construction or contracted for construction. Transocean Ltd. provide rigs for all types of petroleum companies in offshore drilling markets that include the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and eastern Canada, Brazil, the U.K. and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea, West Africa, Asia, including Australia, the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, India and the Mediterranean. Transocean Ltd. was founded in 1953 and is based in Vernier, Switzerland.

Fortress Energy Inc. is an Alberta-incorporated company whose primary focus is exploration, development and production of natural gas reserves in Western Canada. Fortress Energy Inc. exited its drug discovery business in 2004, and began acquiring oil and gas companies. In 2005 Fortress Energy (as SignalEnergy) acquired Predator Exploration, as well as Privateco, whose main asset resided in the Chigwell region of Central Alberta. Predator had natural gas properties in northeastern British Columbia and in West-Central and Central Alberta. In 2009 Fortress Energy reported it had 160,464 gross acres and net proved reserves of 30.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent.

In addition to its exploration activities, the Corporation was given powers and operational interests in refining, petrochemicals and products transportation as well as marketing. Between 1978 and 1989, NNPC constructed refineries in Warri, Kaduna and Port Harcourt and took over the 35,000-barrel Shell Refinery established in Port Harcourt in 1965. Whether it's downstream or upstream, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) goes with the flow of oil and gas. NNPC oversees the petroleum industry of one of the top, albeit politically turbulent, oil-producing countries in the world. the NNPC produces oil through dominant positions in partnerships with major world oil companies. The company has four refineries, in Port Harcourt (2), Warri, and Haduna) with a total capacity of 445,000 barrels per day. NNPC also oversees the nation's natural gas industry and has liquefied natural gas operations. It oversees 5,000 kilometers of oil and gas pipeline, 21 storage tanks and nine LPG depots.

Hess Corporation is a leading global independent energy company, engaged in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas, as well as in refining and in marketing refined petroleum products, natural gas, and electricity. Our vision is to maximize shareholder value by enhancing financial performance and providing long-term profitable growth. We are committed to meeting the highest standards of corporate citizenship by protecting the health and safety of our employees, safeguarding the environment and creating a long-lasting, positive impact on the communities in which we do business. Exploration and production is the engine of future income and growth, currently representing nearly 80% of capital employed and over 95% of annual capital expenditures. The Company has operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, Russia, Equatorial Guinea, Algeria, Libya, Gabon, Egypt, Ghana, the Joint Development Area of Malaysia and Thailand, Indonesia, Thailand, Azerbaijan, Australia, Brazil and St. Lucia. We continue to increase reserves outside the mature regions of the United States and North Sea.

TransMontaigne Partners L.P. is a terminaling and transportation company with operations along the Gulf Coast, in the Midwest, in Brownsville, Texas, along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, and in the Southeastern United States. We provide integrated terminaling, storage, transportation and related services for customers engaged in the distribution and marketing of light refined petroleum products, heavy refined petroleum products, crude oil, chemicals, fertilizers and other liquid products. Light refined products include gasolines, diesel fuels, heating oil and jet fuels. Heavy refined products include residual fuel oils and asphalt. We do not purchase or market products that we handle or transport. TransMontaigne Partners, formed by parent TransMontaigne Inc. in 2005, provides integrated terminaling, storage, and pipeline services for companies engaged in refined petroleum products and crude oil distribution and marketing. Products handled include light refined products (gasolines, heating oils, and jet fuels), heavy refined products (asphalt and residual fuel oils), and crude oil. The company's petroleum products terminaling and transportation operations are located along the Gulf Coast, in Brownsville, Texas, along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and in the Midwest.

The Navajo Refinery has a crude oil capacity of 100,000 BPSD and has the ability to process heavy,sour and light crude oils into high value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel. The Navajo Refinery converts approximately 92% of its raw materials throughput into high value light products. For 2009, gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel (excluding volumes purchased for resale) represented 58%, 32% and 2%, respectively, of the Navajo Refinery's sales volumes. Refined petroleum products spring from Navajo Refining Company's 85,000 barrels-per-day crude oil refinery, located in Artesia, New Mexico. Navajo Refining's main refinery operations are located on a 561 acre site. The integrated refinery has crude distillation, vacuum distillation, fluid catalytic cracking catalytic reforming, isomerization, sulfur recovery, and other units. The company has other supporting infrastructure at the Artesia site, including 2 million barrels of feedstock and product tankage, maintenance shops, office buildings, and warehouses. Navajo Refining is a subsidiary of Holly Corporation.

TransMontaigne gathers, transports, stores, and markets refined petroleum products, chemicals, and crude oil. TransMontaigne Inc. operates primarily in the Mississippi River corridor and along the Colonial and Plantation pipelines, which run from the Gulf Coast to the eastern US, and through the TEPPCO, Explorer, and other pipeline systems. Through subsidiaries, the firm operates a supply, distribution, and marketing network, and provides supply management, terminal, pipeline, tug, and barge businesses. TransMontaigne Inc. controls the general partner of terminalling and storage spinoff TransMontaigne Partners. TransMontaigne is owned by Morgan Stanley Capital.

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