Tesoro Refining and Marketing manages the refining and marketing businesses of Tesoro Corporation. The parent company's seven refineries have a capacity of 658,000 barrels per day and produce a range of motor fuels and other petroleum products. Tesoro Refining and Marketing markets fuel to 880 branded retail gas stations (including 290 company-owned stations under the Tesoro, Shell, Mirastar, and USA Gasoline brands), in Alaska, Hawaii, and 15 western states. On the wholesale side, it markets 643,000 barrels of oil products per day. It also supplies jet fuel to the vast majority of commercial airlines with routes in the West.

Nippon Mining Holdings is involved in mining and energy operations. Subsidiary Japan Energy is engaged in both upstream and downstream oil and gas activities as well as petrochemical manufacturing. The company refines oil at its three refineries and markets its petroleum products through a network of 3,300 JOMO service stations throughout Japan. Petroleum products include gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, petrochemicals, lubricants, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). Subsidiary Nippon Mining & Metals is engaged in resources development activities such as smelting and refining, recycling and environmental services, metal fabrication, and the manufacture of electronic materials.

NorthernStar Natural Gas wants to help navigate fuel to its destinations (homes and businesses) on the US West Coast. NorthernStar Natural Gas Inc. is developing liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminals which will re-gasify the fuel from suppliers for consumers using existing pipelines. By cooling and converting it to a liquid form, natural gas can be transported more easily and cheaply across long distances. NorthernStar Natural Gas Inc. portfolio includes one terminal project with a capacity of 1.3 billion cu. ft. per day (Bradwood Landing, in Oregon) and one offshore terminal in California. Industry veteran executives William Garrett and Paul Soanes have teamed up with investment firm MatlinPatterson Global Advisors to fund the company's development.

Integrated oil giant Rosneft conducts oil and gas exploration and production activities in Siberia, the Far East, the North Caucasus, Timan-Pechora, the Volga-Urals region, the Black, Caspian, and Azov Seas, and in Kamchatka. OAO Rosneft Oil Company also has exploration projects in Algeria, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. OAO Rosneft Oil Company has proved, probable and possible reserves of 49 billion barrels of oil equivalent. OAO Rosneft Oil Company has seven refineries with an aggregate capacity of 56.7 million tonnes. Rosneft also operates shipping and pipeline companies, as well as a national network of 1,700 gasoline stations. The Russian government owns 75% of Rosneft.

APS Energy Services Company, Inc. (APS Energy Services) is the full-service energy services provider and competitive electricity subsidiary of Pinnacle West Capital Corporation (NYSE: PNW), an Arizona-based company with consolidated assets of approximately $11.6 Billion and annual revenues of $3.4 Billion. APS Energy Services was incorporated in the State of Arizona in 1998 and, as part of the Pinnacle West family of companies, energy customers benefit from a cumulative knowledge and experience in energy usage, generation, transmission and distribution. APS Energy Services has engineered, constructed and/or provided guaranteed savings for numerous Arizona-based energy service projects. APS Energy Services is a leading provider of innovative integrated energy efficient and renewable energy solutions in the Southwest. We empower customers by enabling them to meet their business goals while they manage risk, save energy and money, meet sustainability goals and preserve the environment. We seek to promote and implement the efficient use of energy, reduction in carbon footprint and develop comprehensive energy solutions. We are constantly seeking renewable energy alternatives where applicable and conducting work in a sustainable and environmentally responsible manner.

Western states and international operations describes the global span of this oil and gas investment company. Western States International Incorporated has proven, seasoned relationships worldwide at every level. Western States International is an independent company with international access and response. Led by oil industry veteran CEO Ingrid Aliet-Gass, Western States International invests in companies engaged in oil and gas processing, and natural resource development, primarily in Indonesia and in California (in Kern County). Western States International also has operations in geothermal energy production, biofuel development, and liquid natural gas and petroleum products terminalling. In addition, Western States International, Inc. has sea fishing operations in East Java.

Peyto Energy Trust (formerly PEYTO Exploration & Development) invests in long-life gas projects in Alberta's Central Deep Basin. Through subsidiary Peyto Exploration, it focuses on the Sundance and Smoky/Kakwa areas and has proved reserves of 124.3 million barrels of oil equivalent. It also operates gas plants and more than 200 miles of gas gathering pipeline. The company pursues a strategy of developing long-lived reserves requiring low operating costs in order to secure a high return on capital.

Newpark Resources, Inc. and its subsidiaries provide fluids management, waste disposal, and well site preparation products and services primarily to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. Newpark Resources, Inc. operates in three segments: Fluids Systems and Engineering, Mats and Integrated Services, and Environmental Services. The Fluids Systems and Engineering segment offers drilling fluids products and technical services to drilling projects involving subsurface conditions, such as horizontal, directional, geologically deep, or deep water drilling. This segment also provides completion fluids and equipment rental services. The Mats and Integrated Services segment offers mat rentals, location construction, and related well site services to exploration and production customers in the onshore U.S. Gulf Coast, western Colorado, and northeast U.S. regions; and mat rentals to the utility industry in the United Kingdom. It also installs access roads and temporary work sites for pipeline, electrical utility, and highway construction projects. Newpark Resources, Inc. provides its products and services primarily in the United States Gulf Coast, west Texas, east Texas, Oklahoma, North Louisiana, Rocky Mountains, and northeast region of the United States, as well as Canada, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and North Africa. Newpark Resources, Inc. was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas.

Webber Oil Company provides home heating oil and propane in Maine and New Hampshire. Webber Oil has 18 heating oil and propane supply locations in Maine, and three in New Hampshire. Webber Oil Company, which was founded in 1935 by Alburney Webber, also rents and installs energy efficient space heaters and hot water heaters, and provides other energy-related services. Webber Oil Company once owned and operated more than a dozen gas stations and convenience stores in the region, but in late 2008 decided to exit that business. Webber Energy Fuels remains one of the largest and most progressive fuel companies in New England.

Forum was founded when eleven companies came together to do a better job for the drilling and production industries. Forum Oilfield Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells its equipment to global customers consisting of onshore and offshore drilling contractors, drilling equipment rental companies, oilfield service companies, and assemblers of drilling and well servicing equipment. Drilling products include tubular handling equipment and drilling data management systems. Flow control products include expendable fluid end-components for mud and centrifugal pumps, valves, choke and kill manifolds, and pressure control equipment. Forum Oilfield Technologies, Inc. also repairs and refurbishes rig components.

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