Questar Corporation's origins date to the 1922 discovery of natural gas in southwestern Wyoming by a predecessor exploration and production company. Questar Market Resources conducts parent Questar's nonregulated exploration and production, gas gathering, processing, and storage, and energy trading operations. Questar Market Resources, Inc. subsidiaries acquire and develop gas and oil properties, generate and drill prospects, and develop gas reserves for affiliate utility Questar Gas. Questar Market Resources, Inc. also provide gas gathering and processing services for affiliates and other companies, market equity and third-party gas and oil, own and operate an underground gas storage reservoir, and provide risk-management services. Questar Market Resources has proved reserves of 1.9 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent.

The Chinese petroleum handled by this company is in the other China, Taiwan. CPC (formerly Chinese Petroleum Corporation) is engaged in the exploration, production, refining, storage, transportation, and the sale of oil and oil products in Taiwan. To supplement oil supply to hydrocarbon-poor Taiwan, the state-owned monopoly has stakes in oil and gas exploration ventures in Australia, Chad, Ecuador, Kenya, Indonesia, Libya, the US, and Venezuela. Its refineries produce natural gas, kerosene, fuel oil, ethylene, propylene, and other refined products. CPC owns and operates more than 2,030 gas stations, as well as boat and aviation refueling stations. The Taiwanese government has CPC on track for privatization.

Trading natural gas for retail cash, Gendis holds 2.5 million units of Fort Chicago Energy Partners, a limited partnership with interests in North American natural gas pipelines and plants. It also has interests in real estate. Gendis has said "sayonara" to its SAAN Stores subsidiary. Through that retail division, the firm had operated more than 200 department and houseware stores (under the SAAN and Red Apple Clearance Centre brand names) throughout Canada. Gendis sold SAAN Stores to a group of retail business investors in 2004. The company was founded in 1939.

No, Cosmo Oil is no relation to former Cosmo publisher Helen Gurley Brown. The company is one of Japan's top oil refiners and a major petroleum distributor. Cosmo Oil has four refineries; it markets its products through a network of more than 4,120 gas stations. The company imports crude oil from the Middle East and has affiliates in Singapore, the UK, and the US. Cosmo Oil is streamlining operations; it is pruning back its chain of service stations, and it has formed a refining and distribution joint venture with Nippon Oil that controls 40% of Japan's oil refining market. In 2008 Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment Company acquired 20% of the company and became its top shareholder.

NXT Energy Solutions, (formerly Energy Exploration Technologies) depends on a quantum physics-based technology to explore for oil and gas. NXT Energy Solutions Inc. is working to commercialize a remote-sensing airborne survey technology known as Stress Field Detector (SFD), and it plans to use the technology in its quest to become a global leader in oil and gas exploration in Canada, Africa, and the Middle East. Unlike other remote methods, SFD solutions deliver unique indicators of structure and reservoir potential, which enable companies to quickly focus their exploration activities on the most prospective areas. SFD data offers an independent verification of reservoir potential that can be used to significantly reduce exploration risk when empirically correlated to other data and known reservoir analogs. NXT Energy Solutions Inc. wide-area reconnaisance surveys are used to prioritize oil and gas prospects for further evaluation through conventional seismic and drilling technologies. CEO George Liszicasz, who invented the technology in 1992, owns 17% of the company.

Swift Energy Company is an independent oil and gas company headquartered in Houston, Texas. Swift Energy has interests in more than 1,200 producing wells, primarily in Louisiana and Texas. Swift Energy company's core US production areas are the Lake Washington Field in Louisiana, the AWP Olmos Field in Texas, and the Toledo Bend region. Swift Energy aims to increase reserves and production by adjusting the balance between drilling and acquisition activities in response to market conditions. In 2007 Swift Energy Company reported estimated proved reserves of 150.1 million barrels of oil equivalent.

Transneft operates one of the largest networks of oil pipelines in the world. The company moves crude oil through more than 30,000 miles of pipeline stretching across Eastern Europe and Asia. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the government agency that controlled the Russian oil industry and the pipeline system (Glavtransneft) reorganized and in 1991 formed the joint-stock company Transneft. Transneft operates a transportation network consisting of more than 30,000 miles of pipeline, about 390 oil refilling (pump) stations, and more than 830 reservoirs capable of storing more than 15 million cu. meters of petroleum products. The company transports about 93% of the oil produced in Russia.

Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. provides onshore contract drilling services to independent oil and natural gas operators in North America. It offers pressure pumping services, including well stimulation and cementing for completion of new wells, and remedial work on existing wells to oil and natural gas operators primarily in the Appalachian Basin. Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. provides contract drilling services principally in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, as well as western Canada. Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. also owns and invests in oil and natural gas assets located primarily in Texas and New Mexico. As of February 11, 2010, the company had approximately 350 marketable land-based drilling rigs. Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Drax Group has bragging rights when it comes to operating the largest coal-fired power plant in Europe. Drax Group primary subsidiary, Drax Power, operates the Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire, England. The generation facility (which has six generators) has a capacity of 4,000 MW, nearly twice that of the next largest coal-fired power station in the UK; Drax Group output is sold to wholesale electricity customers. Drax (which meets 7% of the UK's power needs) buys about 10 million tons of coal from the UK and international sources and sells about 21 terawatt hours of electricity per year.

SINOPEC Shijiazhuang Refining & Chemical Branch (shorted for SRCB) was registered and set up on Dec. 26, 2007 after the assets and business of its original Shijiazhuang Refining & Chemical Co., Ltd. was integrated by SINOPEC. SRCB inherits all assets, business, staff, corresponding rights and obligations of its original Shijiazhuang Refining & Chemical Co., Ltd. At present, SRCB has the comprehensive capacity of processing 4.2 million tons crude oil per year with 22 sets processing units. Such as, annul 5 million tons Atmospheric and Vacuum Distillation Unit, annul 2 million tons Catalytic Cracking (MIP-CGP processing) Units, annul 0.8 million tons Delayed Coking Unit and etc. The main economic and technical indexes are increasing. By revamping, all products meet the latest national standards and some products can be supplied to Beijing market. The products are becoming more and more competitive.

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