Midnight Oil Exploration Ltd. (MOX:TSX) is a top quality junior exploration and production company that focuses on selected multi-zone, high-potential areas of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. The oil and gas company focuses on exploiting the multizone areas of Wapiti/Elmworth portion of the Deep Basin in the Peace River Arch area of Alberta. Midnight Oil Exploration Ltd. is also acquiring natural gas reserves and undeveloped lands in the Red Earth area of Alberta. In 2008 Midnight Oil Exploration reported proved and probable reserves of about 7 million barrels of oil equivalent and a daily production of more than 1,830 barrels of oil equivalent.

Manas Petroleum is a Baar, Switzerland headquartered international oil exploration and development company. It was founded as a private company in 2004 and during its first two years spent approximately $7 million acquiring and advancing its Kyrgyz, Tajik and Albanian projects. Its portfolio now totals more than 5 million acres in 5 countries. Manas Petroleum Corporation, which focuses on about 3 million acres of land in Chile, Kyrgyzstan, and Albania, typically acquires exploration rights and then, in an effort to keep costs down, farms out its development operations to local third parties. Manas often collaborates with Australian oil and gas company Santos for its activities.

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.

George E. Warren is a major private wholesale distributor of petroleum in the eastern US. Founded in Boston by George E. Warren in 1907 as a coal and oil distributor, George E. Warren Corporation moved to Florida in 1989. The company distributes product mostly by barge and pipeline, though George E. Warren Corporation uses some tank trucks as well. Warren has distribution facilities in the southeastern and southwestern US.George E. Warren Corporation distributes products including ethylene and heating oil to various industries. President and CEO Thomas Corr owns the company.

Every day across North America, more than five million residential and business customers turn to Direct Energy for their electricity and natural gas, home energy services, energy efficient solutions and more. We are the largest competitive retailer of energy and related services in North America. At Direct Energy, we source, generate, trade, service and supply energy to meet your current and future energy needs.

TransGlobe Energy Corporation was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. TransGlobe Energy Corporation engages in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Republic of Yemen. TransGlobe Energy Corporation has interests in two production sharing concessions in Egypt; and five production sharing agreements in Yemen. The company was formerly known as Dusty Mac Mines, Ltd. and changed its name to TransGlobe Energy Corporation in April 1996 as a result of its business focus shift from mineral exploration and extraction to oil and gas business. TransGlobe Energy Corporation has interests in seven international blocks totaling 4.9 million acres, with active programs of exploration and development drilling underway.

PPL Generation, a subsidiary of PPL Corporation, operates more than 40 power plants in northeastern and northwestern portions of the US. Not a discriminating power producer, PPL Generation utilizes a variety of fuels at its plants, including coal, natural gas, oil, uranium, water, and renewables (biogas, solar and wind). PPL controls or owns nearly 12,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States, sells energy in key U.S. markets, and delivers electricity to about 4 million customers in Pennsylvania and the United Kingdom. PPL Generation output is marketed to wholesale customers by affiliate PPL EnergyPlus.

Parallel Petroleum seeks unparalleled success by exploring for and producing oil and natural gas. Parallel Petroleum Corporation operates primarily on the Gulf Coast of South Texas, in East Texas, and in the Permian Basin of West Texas, and well as in Colorado and Utah. In 2008 Parallel Petroleum Corporation reported proved reserves of 71.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 21.2 million barrels of oil. Parallel Petroleum sells directly on a month-to-month basis to other oil and gas companies. In 2009 global investment firm Apollo Global Management acquired Parallel Petroleum for about $483 million.

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.

EPCOR Utilities Inc. builds, owns and operates electrical transmission and distribution networks, water and wastewater treatment facilities and infrastructure in Canada. EPCOR is one of only 10 companies to be selected as Canada's Most Earth-Friendly Employers. EPCOR is headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta. At its core, EPCOR Utilities is an integrated energy provider. Its Energy Services division, which accounts for most of the company's sales, procures and markets electricity and natural gas for retail and wholesale customers and related products and servicess. EPCOR Utilities operates the regulated electricity and water distribution utilities in the Edmonton, Alberta, region, and it has interests in regulated and nonregulated power generation facilities in Canada and the US. The company also has energy infrastructure construction operations. The City of Edmonton owns EPCOR Utilities.

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