Penn Octane has taken its foot off the gas (liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG), and throttled back on the octane. Penn Octane Corporation has no assets other than its role as 75% owner and manager of Rio Vista GP LLC, the general partner of pipeline and terminal company Rio Vista Energy Partners. Once a provider of LPG transportation and storage services, in 2006 Penn Octane sold its LPG assets to TransMontaigne Product Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of TransMontaigne, for $9.8 million, to pay down debt. Penn Octane Corporation also exited its gasoline and diesel fuel reseller operations in 2008 to further pay down expenses. Former chairman Jerome Richter controls about 28% of the company.

Legacy Reserves LP was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Midland, Texas. Legacy Reserves LP, an independent oil and natural gas limited partnership, engages in the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas properties, primarily located in the Permian Basin and Mid-continent regions of the United States. As of December 31, 2008, Legacy Reserves LP had proved reserves of approximately 30.8 million barrels of crude oil equivalent. Legacy Reserves LP owned interests in producing oil and natural gas properties in 270 fields in the Permian Basin, Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma, and various other states; operated 1,603 gross productive wells; and owned non-operated interests in 2,247 gross productive wells. Legacy Reserves GP, LLC serves as the general partner of Legacy Reserves LP.

GMX Resources Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.GMX Resources Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration, development, and production of properties for the production of crude oil and natural gas in Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico. The company's drilling, development, and production activities primarily focus on the Cotton Valley Sands in the Sabine Uplift of the Carthage, North Field of Harrison and Panola counties of east Texas. As of December 31, 2008, GMX Resources Inc. had proved reserves of 464.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent and 236 net producing wells.

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.

EQT Production is not a cutie, it's a operating division of a large oil and gas company. EQT Production (formerly Equitable Supply), is one of the largest natural companies in the Appalachian region. EQT Production has exploration and production wells in Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, has 13,000 gross productive wells and 3.4 million acres of land assets. EQT Production, a division of EQT Corporation, has proved reserves of 3 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. EQT Production explores in unconventional reservoirs such as coalbed methane, shale, and tight sands.

Tesoro Corporation engages in refining and marketing petroleum products. It operates in two segments, Refining and Retail. The Refining segment processes both heavy and light crude oils and produces primarily gasoline and gasoline blendstocks, jet fuel, diesel fuel, and heavy fuel oils. It also manufactures other refined products, including liquefied petroleum gas, petroleum coke, and asphalt. As of December 31, 2008, this segment owned and operated seven petroleum refineries located in the western and mid-continental United States with a combined crude oil capacity of 665 thousand barrels per day. The Retail segment sells gasoline and diesel fuel through company-operated retail stations and third-party branded distributors in the western and mid-continental United States. As of the above date, it included a network of 389 branded retail stations primarily operated by the company under the Tesoro, Mirastar, Shell, and USA Gasolinetm names; and 490 branded stations operated by independent dealers. Tesoro Corporation markets its refined products to wholesale and retail customers, as well as commercial end-users. The company was formerly known as Tesoro Petroleum Corp and changed its name to Tesoro Corporation in November 2004. Tesoro Corporation was founded in 1939 and is based in San Antonio, Texas.

Hiland Partners, LP is a midstream energy partnership engaged in purchasing, gathering, compressing, dehydrating, treating, processing and marketing of natural gas and the fractionating, or separating, and marketing of natural gas liquids, or NGLs. Hiland Partners also provides air compression and water injection services to Continental Resources, Inc. ("CLR"), a publicly traded exploration and production company, for use in its oil and gas secondary recovery operations. Hiland Partners' operations are primarily located in the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States. In the Partnership's midstream segment, Hiland Holdings GP, LP connects the wells of natural gas and crude oil producers in its operating areas to its gathering systems, treats natural gas to remove impurities, processes natural gas for the removal of NGLs, fractionates NGLs into NGL products and provides an aggregate supply of natural gas and NGL products to a variety of transmission pipelines and markets.

Rock Energy Inc. is a junior oil and gas company currently producing more than 3,600 boe per day (60% oil) from two main core areas (Plains/Lloydminster and West Central/Deep Basin). The oil and gas exploration and production company owns heavy oil and natural gas properties in Western Canada, primarily in Alberta and Northeastern British Columbia (the Plains). During the last four years Rock has consistently generated solid performance in production/reserves growth. In 2006 Rock delivered top-quartile finding and development costs. Rock Energy Inc. has an inventory of more than 100 drilling locations (three to four years) which includes a variety of projects generating a full range of risk and reward plays (low risk development locations to high impact exploration projects). Rock has the opportunities and the financial capacity to deliver growth for its shareholders.

TETRA Technologies, Inc. operates as a diversified oil and gas services company. TETRA Technologies, Inc. operates in three divisions: Fluids, Offshore, and Production Enhancement. The Fluids division manufactures and markets clear brine fluids, additives, and other associated products and services to the oil and gas industry for use in well drilling, completion, and workover operations in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. TETRA Technologies, Inc. also markets liquid and dry calcium chloride to various markets outside the energy industry. The Offshore division provides downhole and subsea services, such as plugging and abandonment, workover, and wireline services; construction and decommissioning services, including hurricane damage remediation of offshore oil and gas production platforms, subsea wells, and pipelines; and diving services comprising conventional and saturated air diving and the operation of various dive support vessels. TETRA Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in the Woodlands, Texas.

Gale Force Petroleum prefers oil fractures to computer fractals. Founded in 1996 as Rolland Virtual Business Systems, Gale Force Petroleum Inc. shifted its focus to oil and gas in 2006 and renamed itself Rolland Energy. In 2008 the company changed names to Gale Force Petroleum. That year Gale Force Petroleum Inc. acquired Kentucky Shale Gas Property, consisting of 22,000 acres of oil and gas leases, nine gas wells, and five miles of gathering lines, including compressors. Gale Force Petroleum Inc. also holds stakes in a number of producing wells in Manitoba. Facing a tough market the company filed for bankruptcy protection in early 2009. That April its restructuring proposal won court approval, but a failed property acquisition forced to it to postpone the plan in July.

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