TonenGeneral Sekiyu K.K. has conducted business over many years as a leader in the petroleum and petrochemical industries in Japan. In our current operating environment, overall demand for oil in Japan is expected to decline due to changes in the energy demand structure associated with rising crude oil prices and evolution in the country's industrial composition. On the other hand, tightening of the supply/demand balance for petroleum products worldwide has led to increased export opportunities. In the petrochemical business, while global demand especially for basic petrochemical products continues to grow strongly and has supported our financial results in the last few years, we need to progress our strategy in a timely manner to cope with changes in the business environment. Under these conditions, the TonenGeneral Group is taking an integrated approach to all of its businesses, including refining and supply of petroleum products, marketing and chemicals. Specifically, we are pursuing the optimal combination of raw materials, product supply, and marketing channels to maximize added value. We also take full advantage of the ExxonMobil Group network to continue and further develop our business activities as a company with world-class cost competitiveness and technology, and the best refining, marketing and chemical operations in Japan. We intend to maintain growth and development in the future by achieving the highest global standards of operating efficiency and profitability.

SOCO International plc is the independent oil and gas exploration and production concern. SOCO International plc operates in a number of high-risk oil patches in Europe, Asia, and North Africa, including Thailand, Vietnam, and Yemen. SOCO International plc has sold its interests in Mongolia to Daqing for $93 million and is pursuing other exploration opportunities in West Africa, primarily in the Republic of Congo and neighboring Congo. In 2006 SOCO International had proved and probable reserves of 62.7 million barrels of oil equivalent. That year it produced an average of 6,766 barrels of oil per day.

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.

PAA Natural Gas Storage has much in store for its customers. PAA Natural Gas Storage, LLC operates and manages natural gas storage facilities in Michigan and Louisiana. PAA Natural Gas Storage, LLC assets, which together contain a storage capacity of 40 bcf (billion cubic feet), include its Bluewater facility located near Detroit and its Pine Prairie facility in Evangeline Parish. PAA Natural Gas Storage, LLC serves customers in the local gas distribution, electric power generation and utilities, pipeline, and industrial sectors and generates the bulk of its revenue from fee-based contractual services. PAA Natural Gas Storage, LLC was established by oil transporter Plains All American Pipeline (PAA) and another investor in 2005. PAA Natural Gas Storage filed an initial public offering (IPO) in 2010.

Houston American Energy Corp. was founded in 1981 and is based in Houston, Texas.Houston American Energy Corp. engages in the exploration, development, and production of natural gas, crude oil, and condensate. Houston American Energy Corp. primarily focuses on properties in the U.S. onshore Gulf Coast Region, principally Texas and Louisiana, as well as focuses on the development of concessions in the South American country of Colombia. Houston American Energy Corp. also holds interests in producing wells in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana; Matagorda County, Texas; and Ellis County, Oklahoma. As of December 31, 2008, its net proved and proved developed reserves consisted of 211,475 barrels of oil in South America and 1,941 barrels of oil in North America.

NorthernStar Natural Gas wants to help navigate fuel to its destinations (homes and businesses) on the US West Coast. NorthernStar Natural Gas Inc. is developing liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminals which will re-gasify the fuel from suppliers for consumers using existing pipelines. By cooling and converting it to a liquid form, natural gas can be transported more easily and cheaply across long distances. NorthernStar Natural Gas Inc. portfolio includes one terminal project with a capacity of 1.3 billion cu. ft. per day (Bradwood Landing, in Oregon) and one offshore terminal in California. Industry veteran executives William Garrett and Paul Soanes have teamed up with investment firm MatlinPatterson Global Advisors to fund the company's development.

Encore Acquisition Company was founded in 1998 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas.Encore Acquisition Company engages in the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas reserves from onshore fields in the United States. Encore Acquisition Company holds interests in various properties located in the Cedar Creek Anticline (CCA) in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota; the Permian Basin of west Texas and southeastern New Mexico; the Rockies, which includes non-CCA assets in the Williston, Big Horn, and Powder River Basins of Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota; the Paradox Basin of southeastern Utah; and the Mid-Continent area, including the Arkoma and Anadarko Basins of Oklahoma, the north Louisiana Salt Basin, the east Texas Basin, and the Mississippi Salt Basin. As of December, 31, 2008, Encore Acquisition Company had estimated total proved reserves of 134.5 MMBbls of oil and 307.5 Bcf of natural gas. Encore Acquisition Company sells its products to marketers, processors, refiners, and other purchasers.

Cygam Energy Inc. is a publicly traded exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in Canada. Cygam Energy Inc. has producing oil and gas properties in Canada and extensive international exploration concessions. Cygam Energy Inc., formerly Sheer Energy, is an oil and gas exploration and production company seeking development opportunities in Western Canada and internationally. In a reverse takeover in 2005, Sheer Energy acquired Italian oil and gas exploration companies Rigo Oil and Vega Oil and changed its corporate name to Cygam Energy. The bulk of the company's revenues are generated from gas production. Cygam Energy Inc. is developing exploration assets in Italy and Tunisia. Cygam Energy Inc. has five exploratory concessions in Italy and four exploratory concessions in Tunisia, encompassing four million gross acres.

No, Cosmo Oil is no relation to former Cosmo publisher Helen Gurley Brown. The company is one of Japan's top oil refiners and a major petroleum distributor. Cosmo Oil has four refineries; it markets its products through a network of more than 4,120 gas stations. The company imports crude oil from the Middle East and has affiliates in Singapore, the UK, and the US. Cosmo Oil is streamlining operations; it is pruning back its chain of service stations, and it has formed a refining and distribution joint venture with Nippon Oil that controls 40% of Japan's oil refining market. In 2008 Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment Company acquired 20% of the company and became its top shareholder.

Navigating the midstream energy markets, Magellan Midstream Holdings owns and controls Magellan GP, LLC, the general partner of Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P., which is engaged in the transportation, storage, and distribution of refined petroleum products. Magellan Midstream Partners' portfolio includes 29 inland terminals, and 1,100 miles of ammonia pipeline, 9,400 miles of refined petroleum pipeline, and 50 distribution terminals in the US Midwest. The partnership also owns seven marine terminal facilities with a combined usable storage capacity of 22 million barrels.

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