Penn Virginia Corporation was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania with its additional offices in Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia.Penn Virginia Corporation is an independent oil and gas company primarily engaged in the development, exploration and production of natural gas and oil through our wholly owned subsidiary, Penn Virginia Oil & Gas Corporation, or PVOG. Penn Virginia Corporation also own partner interests in Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P., (NYSE: PVR), which is involved in the coal and natural resource management and natural gas midstream businesses, and Penn Virginia GP Holdings, L.P., or PVG, which owns PVR’s general partner.We have a geographically diverse asset base with core areas of operation in the East Texas, Mid-Continent, Appalachian, Mississippi and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. As of December 31, 2008, Penn Virginia Corporation had proved natural gas and oil reserves of approximately 916 Bcfe, of which 82% were natural gas and 51% were proved developed, with an SEC pre-tax PV-10 value of $908.0 million and standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows of $729.4 million.

McMoRan Exploration Co. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. McMoRan Exploration Co., through its subsidiary, McMoRan Oil & Gas LLC, engages in the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore in the Gulf Coast area. McMoRan Exploration Co. also engages in the incorporation of 3-D seismic interpretation, offshore drilling to total depths, and horizontal drilling. As of December 31, 2008, McMoRan Exploration Co. owned or controlled interests in 380 oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore Louisiana, and Texas covering 1.22 million gross acres. McMoRan Exploration Co. had proved oil and natural gas reserves of approximately 344.8 billion cubic feet equivalent, of which 70 percent represented natural gas reserves.

Birchcliff Energy Ltd. is an intermediate oil and gas exploration, development and production company based in Calgary, Alberta , and has estimated proved and probable reserves of 46.5 million barrels of oil equivalent. Birchcliff Energy Ltd. produces about 10,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Formed in early 2004, Birchcliff Energy acquired Scout Capital in a reverse merger and became publicly traded. The proceeds of its public offering were used to fund the purchase of a natural gas processing plant and gas-producing properties in the Peace River Arch area. Birchcliff's strategy is to expand its natural gas and light oil focused asset base in the Peace River Arch area of Alberta. Birchcliff has up to $3 billion of development drilling on its resource plays. The first resource play is a very large, extensive Montney/Doig natural gas resource play with some 607 or more potential natural gas horizontal well locations, in the Pouce Coupe and Pouce Coupe south areas of North West Alberta. The second resource play is the exploitation, development and water flooding of the Worsley light oil pool located near Worsley, Alberta.

SINOPEC Shijiazhuang Refining & Chemical Branch (shorted for SRCB) was registered and set up on Dec. 26, 2007 after the assets and business of its original Shijiazhuang Refining & Chemical Co., Ltd. was integrated by SINOPEC. SRCB inherits all assets, business, staff, corresponding rights and obligations of its original Shijiazhuang Refining & Chemical Co., Ltd. At present, SRCB has the comprehensive capacity of processing 4.2 million tons crude oil per year with 22 sets processing units. Such as, annul 5 million tons Atmospheric and Vacuum Distillation Unit, annul 2 million tons Catalytic Cracking (MIP-CGP processing) Units, annul 0.8 million tons Delayed Coking Unit and etc. The main economic and technical indexes are increasing. By revamping, all products meet the latest national standards and some products can be supplied to Beijing market. The products are becoming more and more competitive.

Nexen, formerly Canadian Occidental Petroleum (CanadianOxy), is a globe-trotting oil and gas and chemicals company. Nexen Inc. has exploration and production activities primarily in the UK North Sea (which account for 41% of Nexen's total annual production), the US Gulf of Mexico, western Canada (including unconventional natural gas resource plays such as coalbed methane and shale gas, and the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta), Yemen, offshore West Africa and Colombia. Nexen Inc. has proved reserves of 664 million barrels of oil equivalent. Nexen is also involved in power marketing in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation engages in the development, exploitation, and exploration of oil and gas properties in North America. Its principal areas of operation comprise the Appalachian Basin; the onshore Gulf Coast, including south and east Texas and north Louisiana; the Rocky Mountains; and the Anadarko Basin. Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation also operates in the deep gas basin of Western Canada. In addition, it transports, stores, gathers, and produces natural gas for resale. As of December 31, 2008, Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation had total proved reserves of 1,942 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalents.

Tesoro Corporation, a Fortune 100 company, is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products. Tesoro, through its subsidiaries, operates seven refineries in the western United States with a combined capacity of approximately 665,000 barrels per day. Tesoro's retail-marketing system includes over 870 branded retail stations, of which over 380 are company operated under the Tesoro®, Shell®, Mirastar® and USA Gasoline™ brands. A pioneer of oil refining in Alaska, Tesoro Alaska is a regional oil refinery and refined petroleum products marketing unit of Tesoro Corporation. The unit manages Tesoro Corporation's and Alaska's first oil refinery, at Kenai. The 72,000 barrels-a-day refinery produces gasoline, liquefied petroleum gas, heavy oils, bunker fuels, and liquid asphalt, as well as distillates (jet fuel, diesel fuel, and heating oil). The plant's primary product is jet fuel for Anchorage International Airport, located 70 miles from the refinery. A 40,000-barrels-per-day pipeline connects the refinery with the airport. The Kenai refinery also supplies gasoline and diesel to about 90 Tesoro-branded retail outlets in Alaska.

Western states and international operations describes the global span of this oil and gas investment company. Western States International Incorporated has proven, seasoned relationships worldwide at every level. Western States International is an independent company with international access and response. Led by oil industry veteran CEO Ingrid Aliet-Gass, Western States International invests in companies engaged in oil and gas processing, and natural resource development, primarily in Indonesia and in California (in Kern County). Western States International also has operations in geothermal energy production, biofuel development, and liquid natural gas and petroleum products terminalling. In addition, Western States International, Inc. has sea fishing operations in East Java.

Wood Group Pressure Control, a subsidiary of John Wood Group, provides oil and gas equipment to customers worldwide. Wood Group Pressure Control, L.P. designs and manufactures wellheads, gate valves, chokes, and actuators that control formation pressures and product flow. Wood Group Pressure Control, L.P. is one of the largest global suppliers of surface wellheads and valves. Its equipment is designed to control pressure and flow for oil companies from the time of initial drilling through production. Wood Group Pressure Control, L.P. also offers repair and maintenance services. Wood Group Pressure Control, L.P. is a unit of John Wood Group's Well Support division, which makes electric submersible pumps, and operates in 46 countries.

SK Group, one of South Korea's top five "chaebol" (industrial conglomerates), covers a broad spectrum of businesses through its affiliates. The company has about 40 affiliated companies, with operations ranging from energy, telecommunications, finance, and construction. Its energy and chemical arm, SK Energy, is Korea's largest petroleum refiner. Like other "chaebol" under government orders to reorganize in the wake of the Korean financial collapse of the late-1990s, SK Group has pared down its affiliates. The slimmer SK Group is focusing on three core businesses: information and telecommunications (through SK Telecom), energy and chemicals (through SK Energy), and trading and services (SK Networks).

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