Today, the Oxbow Group is made up of more than two dozen companies with yearly aggregate sales of over $3.7 billion, combined assets of over $1.7 billion and over 1200 employees worldwide. Oxbow’s primary businesses are the mining and marketing of energy and commodities such as coal, natural gas, petroleum, metallurgical and calcined coke. Oxbow Carbon LLC Company Profile Oxbow Carbon (formerly known as Oxbow Carbon & Minerals) distributes petroleum coke to customers worldwide, primarily in the cement, utilities, steel, and home heating industries. (Petroleum coke, a by-product of the oil refining process, is used as a fuel. Calcined petroleum coke, a refined form of petroleum coke, is used as a source of carbon, mainly by aluminum producers.) Oxbow Carbon also distributes metallurgical coke, a by-product of coal processing that is used by iron producers and sugar refiners. The company operates four bulk shipping terminals, located on the Gulf Coast and the West Coast of the US and in the Caribbean and South America. Oxbow Carbon is a unit of Oxbow.

Arena Resources, Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas properties. Arena Resources, Inc. owns interest in oil and gas properties in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Kansas. Arena Resources, Inc. principal properties in New Mexico comprise East Hobbs San Andres Unit, Seven Rivers Queen Unit, Humphrey Queen Unit, Langlie Mattix Queen Unit, South Leonard Queen Unit, North Benson Queen Unit, and Red Lake Unit, as well as Phillips Lea, Hale State, State 36, and Corbin 35 leases. It also holds interest in Fuhrman Mascho leases located in Andrews County, Texas; and Y6 lease situated in Fisher County, Texas; Ona Morrow Sand Unit located in Cimarron and Texas Counties, Oklahoma; Eva South Morrow Sand Unit located in Texas County, Oklahoma; and Midwell, Appleby, Smaltz, and Hanes Leases located in Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Arena Resources primarily sells its oil and natural gas production to end users, marketers, and other purchasers. As of December 31, 2008, Arena Resources, Inc. had proved reserves of approximately 65,646,034 barrels of oil equivalent. Arena Resources, Inc., through its subsidiaries, also involves in the drilling operations. Arena Resources was founded in 2000 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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.

Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. provides horsepower compression equipment to the natural gas industry in the United States. Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. primarily provides small to medium horsepower natural gas compression equipment on rental basis. Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. manufactures, fabricates, and rents natural gas compressors that enhance the production of natural gas wells, gas transportation lines, and processing plants; and provides maintenance services to compressors. Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. involves in the assembly of compressor components into compressor units, which are manufactured by the company or third parties; and designs and manufactures compressor frames, cylinders, and parts. Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. also engages in the design, fabrication, sale, installation, and service of flare stacks, and related ignition and control devices for the onshore and offshore incineration of gas compounds, such as hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, natural gas, and liquefied petroleum gases; and provides an exchange and rebuild program for screw compressors, and maintains an inventory of new and used compressors. Natural Gas Services Group was founded in 1998 and is based in Midland, Texas.

Concho Resources explores and develops properties, located primarily in the Permian Basin region of eastern New Mexico and West Texas, for the production of oil and gas. Concho Resources Inc. also owns properties in North Dakota and Arkansas. More than half of the company's 550 billion cu. ft. in proved reserves is made up of crude oil, while the rest consists of natural gas. Concho Resources gets two-thirds of its sales from crude oil. Two customers, energy marketers Navajo Refining Company (60% of 2007 sales) and DCP Midstream (23%), account for a great majority of Concho's sales. Concho Resources Inc. has more than 85 producing wells in operation.

Rubis has grown to be one of the largest bulk liquid storage operators in France. Through its Rubis Terminal unit, the company stores chemicals, fertilizers, agriculture products, oil and gas, and waste materials. Through Rubis Energie (formerly Rubis Gaz), Rubis distributes liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to retailers, as well as propane and butane to residential and commercial customers. Outside France, Rubis has expanded LPG distribution operations to Bermuda, Comoros, the French Antilles, Madagascar, Morocco, and Senegal. Rubis sells LPG under the Vitogaz brand.

Apco Oil & Gas International Inc.was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Apco Oil & Gas International Inc. engages in the exploration and production of oil and gas properties. Apco Oil & Gas International Inc. owns interests in seven oil and gas concessions and one exploration permit in Argentina. The company primarily holds a 52.79% interest in the exploration, production, and development of oil and gas in the Entre Lomas concession located in the provinces of Rio Negro and Neuquen in southwest Argentina. Apco Oil & Gas International Inc. was formerly known as Apco Argentina Inc. and changed its name to Apco Oil & Gas International Inc. on July 16, 2009. Apco Oil & Gas International Inc. is a subsidiary of Williams Companies, Inc.

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. was founded in 1920 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. engages in the contract drilling of oil and gas wells in the United States and internationally. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. provides drilling rigs, equipment, personnel, and camps on a contract basis to explore for and develop oil and gas from onshore areas and from fixed platforms, tension-leg platforms, and spars in offshore areas. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. conducts domestic land drilling primarily in Oklahoma, California, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Utah, Arkansas, New Mexico, and North Dakota; and offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, offshore of California, Trinidad, and Equatorial Guinea. As of September 30, 2009, Helmerich & Payne, Inc. had 201 land drilling rigs in the United States; 9 offshore platform rigs; and international land rigs, including 1 in Venezuela, 6 in Colombia, 4 in Ecuador, 9 in Argentina, 1 in Tunisia, and 6 rigs in Mexico. In addition, Helmerich & Payne engages in the ownership, development, and operation of commercial real estate properties, as well as the research and development of rotary steerable technology.

Dolphin was founded in 1965 under the name A/S Aker Drilling and was acquired by Fred.Olsen in 1976. Dolphin is one of the pioneers in the Norwegian oil industry. Since Dolphin A/S was established in 1965 Dolphin A/S has acquired a broad and deep experience in the operation of drilling units on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Dolphin A/S, a subsidiary of Fred.Olsen Energy, provides snubbing, hydraulic workover, and offshore drilling services to oil and gas exploration and production customers operating in the North Sea and off the coasts of Brazil and Trinidad. Dolphin, together with sister company Dolphin Drilling operates a fleet of eight semi-submersible drilling rigs, one deepwater drill ship, and a semisubmersible accommodation unit. Dolphin A/S customers have included Shell, Phillips Petroleum UK, and Smedvig.

The Company, headquartered in El Dorado, Arkansas, was originally incorporated in Louisiana in 1950 as Murphy Corporation. It was reincorporated in Delaware in 1964, at which time it adopted the name Murphy Oil Corporation. But, the Company's roots go back to a lumber and banking business in South Arkansas and, more directly, to 1907, when the first oil production was established in the Caddo Field in North Louisiana. Thereafter, oil and gas were important phases of the business. Until the mid 1930's however, oil and gas remained subordinate to timber operations and banking. Today, Murphy Oil Corporation is a worldwide oil and gas exploration and production company with refining and marketing operations in the United States and the United Kingdom. The Company's farm, timber and real estate subsidiary was spun-off to shareholders in 1996 and is now known as Deltic Timber Corporation.

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