YPF Sociedad Anonima engages in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil, natural gas, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Argentina. The company also involves in the refining, marketing, transportation, and distribution of oil and a range of petroleum products, petroleum derivatives, petrochemicals, LPG, and bio-fuels. As of December 31, 2008, its crude oil transportation network included approximately 2,700 kilometers of crude oil pipelines with approximately 640,000 barrels of aggregate daily transportation capacity of refined products; crude oil tankage of approximately 7 million barrels; and terminal facilities at 5 Argentine ports. In addition, it participates in 3 power stations with an aggregate installed capacity of 1,622 megawatts; and engages in gas separation and natural gas distribution businesses. As of December 31, 2008, its automotive petroleum products’ retail distribution network consisted of 1,642 YPF-branded service stations. The company was founded in 1977 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. YPF Sociedad Anonima is a subsidiary of Repsol YPF, S.A.

Statoil ASA was founded in 1972 and is based in Stavanger, Norway. Statoil ASA engages in the exploration, production, transportation, refining, and marketing of petroleum and petroleum-derived products. Statoil ASA involves in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas in Norway and internationally, as well as extraction of natural gas liquids. Statoil ASA also transports and markets natural gas and natural gas products; and operates 2,000 full-service Statoil-branded service stations in Scandinavia, as well as approximately 100 fully-automated sales outlets under the 1-2-3 name. In addition, Statoil engages in petroleum refining operations; marketing crude oil and refined petroleum products; and provision of technical services for approximately 7,000 kilometers of pipeline from the Norwegian continental shelf to Europe. Statoil ASA was formerly known as StatoilHydro ASA and changed its name to Statoil ASA in November 2009.

Twin Butte is an oil and gas exploration, development, and production company that has assets on more than 150,000 net acres in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Its half-a-dozen properties, located in Alberta and British Columbia, have proved net reserves of 23,212 MMcf (million cubic feet) of natural gas and 1,528 Mbbl (thousand barrels) of light and medium oil (in fiscal year 2008); it produces more than 2,700 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Twin Butte traces its roots back to 1997. Twin Butte Energy Ltd. intends to focus future growth in the Deep Basin areas of Ansell and Jayar, and the conventional heavy oil area of Frog Lake. Both of these areas provide repeatable plays on our current lands with lower risk wells at Frog Lake and strong, long life growth potential in the Deep Basin.

Noble Energy, Inc. was founded in 1932 and is based in Houston, Texas. Noble Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, production, and marketing of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids in the United States and internationally. Noble Energy, Inc. operates and holds interests in properties, including Wattenberg field and Piceance basin located in Colorado; San Juan basin in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado; Niobrara field in the tri-state area (eastern Colorado, extending into Kansas and Nebraska); Bowdoin field in north central Montana; and the Wind River basin in central Wyoming. Noble Energy, Inc. also holds properties in Texas, Panhandle, Oklahoma and Kansas deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Illinois, Indiana, and other areas. Noble Energy also operates in Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon in West Africa, the North Sea, Israel, Ecuador, China, and Suriname.

CanArgo Energy, formerly Fountain Oil, is an independent oil and gas company that primarily acquires, develops, and exploits gas and oil properties in Eastern Europe. The main focus of CanArgo Energy is the Ninotsminda field in the Kura Basin in the Republic of Georgia, where the company's Ninotsminda Oil subsidiary operates a production-sharing venture with Georgian Oil. In 2008 CanArgo's shares of reported proved reserves at the Ninotsminda field stood at 1.3 million barrels of oil and 1.5 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. CanArgo Energy Corporation reported oil production from the field of 400 barrels a day and gas production of 49,000 cubic meters per day.

Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. engages in the acquisition, management, exploration, and development of oil and natural gas properties. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. holds properties and other oil and gas interests primarily in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas, the United States. As of September 30, 2009, Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. had working and/or royalty interests in 4,861 producing oil and natural gas wells, as well as in 40 wells that were in the process of drilling or completion. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. customers include pipeline and marketing companies. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. was formerly known as Panhandle Royalty Company and changed its name to Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. in March 2007. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. was founded in 1926 and is based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Signa Engineering Corp. is a leading edge petroleum engineering and operations management company. Signa's primary focus is the evaluation, design and execution of drilling and completion operations, onshore and offshore, both domestic and international, for projects involving vertical, directional, horizontal or underbalanced operations. Signa has the engineering expertise and the drilling consultants required. Signa Engineering Corp. services include underbalanced operation engineering, oil and gas property management, field supervision, reservoir and geological engineering, and litigation support. Signa Engineering also develops custom software used for engineering analysis, hydraulics simulation, and multimedia presentations. Signa Engineering Corp. was founded in 1992 by chairman and CEO Rick Stone. Its customers include Burlington Resources, Chevron, and Weatherford International.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) spreads its wings over the United Arab Emirates (UAE), accounting for 94% of its 97.8 billion barrels of proved oil reserves, the fourth-largest national reserves in the world behind Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait. Abu Dhabi National Oil Company also has proved reserves of 6.1 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. Abu Dhabi National Oil Company oversees oil production of more than 2.7 million barrels a day. The ADNOC group includes exploration and production companies, support companies, maritime crude oil transport companies, and a refined-product distribution company that operates more than 200 UAE service stations.

Pulse Seismic maintains a seismic data library of about 257,300 net kilometers of 2-D data and more than 12,800 net sq. km. of 3-D data covering primarily Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin plays. The information is sold to oil and gas companies to assist them in seeking commercially viable drilling locations. Pulse Data changed its name to Pulse Seismic in 2009 in order to promote its primary focus as a pure-play seismic data provider. Pulse Seismic Inc. proven business model includes continually augmenting its data library through acquisitions and participation surveys Pulse's business model is based on the enduring value of seismic data, which can be repeatedly re-used by the oil and natural gas industry. Continuous library expansion enables Pulse to generate increased revenues and improve operating efficiencies, supporting high cash operating margins and driving growth in cash EBITDA. Pulse's data library has an estimated replacement value of over $1 billion based on current field replacement cost.

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.

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