Over the last 125 years ExxonMobil has evolved from a regional marketer of kerosene in the U.S. to the largest publicly traded petroleum and petrochemical enterprise in the world. Today we operate in most of the world's countries and are best known by our familiar brand names: Exxon, Esso and Mobil. We make the products that drive modern transportation, power cities, lubricate industry and provide petrochemical building blocks that lead to thousands of consumer goods. Some say gas, some say petrol, but ExxonMobil International Limited says cha-ching. The subsidiary is responsible for ExxonMobil's exploration, production operations, and gas marketing businesses in Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States. Its upstream units include Esso Exploration and Production UK Limited and Mobil North Sea Limited. The company also oversees the operation of the Fawley refinery, the largest in the UK (300,000 barrels of crude a day and 14% of the UK's petroleum products), and a network of 860 Esso-branded gas stations.

Samson Oil & Gas Limited was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Perth, Australia. Samson Oil & Gas Limited is an Australian based oil & gas company holding extensive development and exploration acreage in the USA. The Australia-based company acquires proved developed oil and gas leases, mainly in Wyoming but also in New Mexico, and Texas. Samson Oil and Gas Limited has four oil and gas properties, three of which are producing, and in 2008 reported proved reserves of 16.1 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. Samson Oil and Gas Limited holds a working interest in its properties which are exploited by third parties. Samson Oil and Gas also does exploratory and developmental drilling, primarily in Wyoming's Green River Basin. Samson Oil and Gas Limited owns interests in various projects located in Wyoming, North Dakota, New Mexico, and Texas.

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. was founded in 1968 and is based in Houston, Texas.Enterprise Products Partners is the leading player in the North American natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGL), and crude oil industries, with a range of processing, transportation, and storage services. Operations include natural gas processing, NGL fractionation, petrochemical services, and crude oil transportation. The hub of the company's business is Houston's Mont Belvieu refinery complex. In a major expansion move, in 2009 the company acquired rival TEPPCO Partners L.P. As a result, Enterprise has 48,000 miles of pipelines, and 200 million of crude of crude oil, refined products and NGL storage capacity. Chairman Dan Duncan holds a 34.5% stake in Enterprise.

Gateway Energy Corporation owns and operates natural gas gathering, transportation and distribution systems in Texas, Texas state waters and in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Gateway gathers offshore wellhead natural gas production and liquid hydrocarbons from producers, and then aggregates this production for processing and transportation to other pipelines. Gateway also transports gas through its mainline systems for non-affiliated shippers and through its affiliated distribution system and makes sales of natural gas to end users.

Parker Drilling parks its oil rigs off the beaten path. Parker Drilling Company helicopter-transportable rigs allow the drilling contractor to work in otherwise inaccessible desert, mountain, and remote jungle locations. Parker Drilling Company barge rigs allow the company to drill in transition zones (such as bays and marshes). Parker Drilling owns 28 land rigs and 17 US-based barge drilling and workover rigs. Parker Drilling Company drills worldwide (in nine countries in 2008) and has worked in 54 countries since its founding. Subsidiary Quail Tools provides rental tools for oil and gas drilling and workover activities, with operations in the Gulf Coast, the Rocky Mountains, and West Texas regions. Parker Drilling also has a drilling rig construction unit.

Colonial Group presides over an empire of oil and gas and shipping-related companies in the southeastern US. The group provides storage and distribution services (at more than 40 terminals) for liquid and dry bulk products including bulk chemicals, motor fuels, industrial fuel oil, and retail gas. It also provides ship bunkering, commercial shipping, and tug and barge services. Colonial Group also operates more than 70 gas stations and convenience stores in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina through its Enmark Stations unit. In addition, subsidiary Georgia Kaolin Terminals provides storage facilities for customers in the US kaolin industry.

Itochu Enex is totally immersed in Japan's oil and gas markets. Itochu Enex Co., Ltd. operates two divisions which house more than 20 subsidiaries. The home life segment supplies liquefied petroleum gas (LP gas) to more than 1 million homes and businesses throughout Japan. Itochu Enex Co., Ltd. second division, formed from its previous car life and industrial materials divisions, operates full service gas stations and sells gasoline, kerosene, and oil to service stations. Additionally, Itochu Enex Co., Ltd. caters to the manufacturing, trucking, and shipping industries, selling them oil, LP gas, and coal, as well as secondary energy like electricity and heat, and industrial materials such as asphalt and cement. Itochu Enex Co., Ltd. was established in 1961.

Technicoil is an integrated, technology-driven company that provides both primary well drilling and secondary well stimulation services to the oil and gas production industry. Technicoil provides coiled tubing and well-servicing technology to support oil and gas operations in North America. Coiled tubing, originally used for cleaning drilling oil and gas wells, is now used in drilling wells. Technicoil Corporation operates a fleet of 33 well-servicing (coiled tubing) rigs and drilling rigs. Technicoil Corporation has added rigs to its fleet to meet increased demand, driven primarily by more coalbed methane activity in North America. The drilling rigs can perform both directional and vertical drilling. Technicoil, which makes coiled tubing for well cleaning and stimulation, uses three crew members for its slimhole operations.

Tidelands Oil & Gas' hopes that the rising tide of oil prices will lift its revenues. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates a number of natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs) transportation, processing, distribution, and storage projects in the northeastern states of Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Le�n, and Tamaulipas) and in Texas. Sonora Pipeline operates an 80-mile natural gas pipeline and a gas processing plant in Texas Sonora Pipeline is owned by Frontera Pipeline, in which Tidelands has a 20% stake. Tidelands is also looking into developing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal near Long Beach.

Named after a powerful weasel (the mascot of the University of Michigan), Wolverine Pipe Line transports refined petroleum products across the US Midwest. It operates more than 1,000 miles of pipeline stretching through Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The company supplies about 35% of Michigan's refined petroleum products. Sunoco Logistics Partners' Eastern Pipeline System controls nearly a third of Wolverine Pipe Line.

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