Drax Group has bragging rights when it comes to operating the largest coal-fired power plant in Europe. Drax Group primary subsidiary, Drax Power, operates the Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire, England. The generation facility (which has six generators) has a capacity of 4,000 MW, nearly twice that of the next largest coal-fired power station in the UK; Drax Group output is sold to wholesale electricity customers. Drax (which meets 7% of the UK's power needs) buys about 10 million tons of coal from the UK and international sources and sells about 21 terawatt hours of electricity per year.

Surge Global Energy, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Solana Beach, California. Surge Global Energy, Inc. was formerly known as The Havana Group, Inc. and changed its name to Surge Global Energy, Inc. in October 2004. Surge Global Energy has the urge to acquire crude oil and natural gas properties in the US and Canada. Surge Global Energy, Inc. portfolio includes a well in Wyoming, which it is drilling for commercial production of oil and gas, and the Green Springs Prospect in Nevada, which it plans to tap. Surge also invests in businesses engaged in alternative fuel technologies, such as biodiesel developer 11 Good Energy. Other investments include minority stakes in two Alberta-based companies, Andora Energy and North Peace Energy. Surge divested its interest in an Argentina project in 2008 to focus on its core North American operations and investments. Officers and board members as a group own about one-third of the company.

Seitel, Inc. is a leading provider of seismic data and related geophysical expertise to the petroleum industry. The data, which is used to locate oil and gas, primarily covers the Gulf of Mexico, the US Gulf Coast, and western Canada. Seitel, Inc. contracts with third-party seismic crews to gather data but handles the processing itself through its Olympic Seismic, Seitel Data, Seitel Matrix, Seitel Solutions business units. The bulk of Seitel's total revenues comes from the acquisition and licensing of seismic data. The balance is primarily generated by its Seitel Solutions subsidiary, which gives customers access to the company's seismic database. Main focus of Seitel, Inc. is at Onshore, offshore, and transition zone of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, onshore East Texas, and Canada.

Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is based in Houston, Texas.Carrizo Oil & Gas sees its future in 3-D. Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. is an independent exploration and production company that explores for oil and gas in the Barrett Shale play of North Texas, and in proven onshore fields along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana, Carrizo aggressively acquires 3-D seismic data and arranges land lease options in conjunction with conducting seismic surveys. As part of a new strategy, Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. is exploiting the Marcellus Shale play (New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia). Carrizo has additional properties in the Rockies, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, New Mexico, and in the North Sea. In 2008 the firm reported proved reserves of 432.1 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent.

The Navajo Refinery has a crude oil capacity of 100,000 BPSD and has the ability to process heavy,sour and light crude oils into high value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel. The Navajo Refinery converts approximately 92% of its raw materials throughput into high value light products. For 2009, gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel (excluding volumes purchased for resale) represented 58%, 32% and 2%, respectively, of the Navajo Refinery's sales volumes. Refined petroleum products spring from Navajo Refining Company's 85,000 barrels-per-day crude oil refinery, located in Artesia, New Mexico. Navajo Refining's main refinery operations are located on a 561 acre site. The integrated refinery has crude distillation, vacuum distillation, fluid catalytic cracking catalytic reforming, isomerization, sulfur recovery, and other units. The company has other supporting infrastructure at the Artesia site, including 2 million barrels of feedstock and product tankage, maintenance shops, office buildings, and warehouses. Navajo Refining is a subsidiary of Holly Corporation.

Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (formerly Petro Rubiales Energy Corp) has found a home in Colombia as a producer of heavy crude oil. The Canadian-based company is focused on the exploration, development and production of heavy crude oil in Colombia's Llanos Basin. Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (as Consolidated AGX Resources) had been involved in oil and gas exploration on Brazil and mineral mining exploration in Canada. In 2007 Consolidated AGX Resources completed the acquisition of Rubiales Holdings and subsequently changed its name to Petro Rubiales Energy Corp. In 2008 Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. merged with Pacific Stratus Energy Ltd and became Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. subsequently acquired Colombia-based Kappa Energy Holdings.

Swedish oil refining, Saudi ownership. Preem Petroleum, the largest oil refining company in Sweden, operates two refineries and a network of about 500 service stations nationwide. Its refineries, Preemraff Lysekil and Preemraff Gothenburg, process 16 million tons of oil annually, making Preem the largest refiner in the Nordic region. The refining and marketing company purchases about 50% of its crude oil supply from the North Sea and 47% from Russia. It exports about two-thirds of its refined products. Preem is controlled by Saudi Arabian investor Mohammed Hussein Ali Al-Amoudi.

Fred. Olsen Energy has its hold on drilling in the North Sea and in several other oil plays. Through its subsidiaries, Fred. Olsen Energy ASA provides offshore oil and gas drilling services. Through its Dolphin subsidiary, Fred. Olsen operates a fleet of nine semi-submersible rigs and one deepwater drillship used to support offshore drilling activities. Fred. Olsen also provides shipbuilding services through its Harland and Wolff subsidiary. Customers of the group have included Exxon Mobil, Kerr-McGee, Statoil, and Vaalco. Both Bonheur and Ganger Rolf hold about 27% of the company. Fred. Olsen Energy ASA focuses on rewarding long term customer relationships where innovative and integrated solutions are presented to the benefit of customers, shareholders and employees.

GeoTomo develops high-end geophysical software products that help geophysicists around the world to image beneath the subsurface. Oil and gas companies use GeoTomo’s software solutions to significantly reduce the risk and cost of finding and producing hydrocarbons. Geophysical engineering companies use GeoTomo’s software products to image buried objects or near-surface layers. GeoTomo LLC services include 2D and 3D seismic and tomographic imaging and java software development used for the presentation of results. Software designers, programming engineers, and collaborating users work together to design, implement, and test the company's products.

Aurado Energy Inc. is an upstream oil& gas company incorporated in 1994 (originally as a mining company) and listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Aurado Energy acquires production stage oil companies in the Caspian and Middle Eastern regions. Aurado Energy Inc. has been exploring primarily in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Aurado Energy Inc. also holds oil and gas assets in Canada. Aurado Energy Inc. has been operating in Kazakhstan through subsidiary Liman Caspian Oil, which held a 90% interest in the Liman Block, but the right to that license is in dispute with Aral Petroleum, previous owner of the block. Aurado Energy has announced that it is trying to confirm the rightful ownership of the Liman Block license and is pursuing all legal means toward that end.

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