Petron Corporation's patrons are Filipinos. The company is the Philippines' largest oil refining and marketing company. Its refinery has a capacity of 180,000 barrels per day and produces almost 40% of the country's oil requirements. Petron distributes its products (including lubes, grease, asphalt, and specialty products) through a network of 32 bulk plants and terminal to more than 1,400 service stations. The Philippine government and Saudi Aramco each owned 40% of the company until both groups sold their stakes to private investment firm Ashmore Group in 2008. In 2009 local business power player San Miguel acquired a controlling stake in Petron.

Barnwell Industries, Inc. was founded in 1956 and is based in Honolulu, Hawaii.Barnwell Industries explores for and produces oil and natural gas primarily in Alberta. It has proved reserves of 1.4 million barrels of oil and 24 billion cu. ft. of gas. Subsidiary Water Resources International drills water and geothermal wells and installs and repairs water pump systems in Hawaii. Barnwell Industries, Inc. also owns a 78% interest in Kaupulehu Developments, which owns leasehold rights to more than 1,000 acres in Hawaii. In 2007 Barnwell Industries established a real estate development segment to acquire house lots and build single-family homes.

SHV Holdings is a superheavyweight in Dutch commerce. SHV Holdings N.V., which is the largest private company in the Netherlands, has global interests in energy, retail, and raw-material distribution businesses. SHV Holdings N.V. is one of the world's top liquefied petroleum gas companies, and owns German metal recycling firm TSR Recycling. SHV also operates the Makro store chain, which has more than 170 stores in Asia and South America selling to small and medium-sized retailers. SHV Holdings N.V. Mammoet unit provides heavy lifting and transport services to the chemicals industry as well as to power plants. SHV is run by chairman Paul Fentener van Vlissingen and controlled by his family, which founded SHV more than a century ago.

Phoenix Technology Income Fund (formerly Phoenix Technology Services) looks to bring new life, in terms of profits, over and over again. It provides contracting services for oil and gas well drilling, specializing in directional and horizontal drilling. It also provides equipment, supervision, and technology services to oil and gas enterprises worldwide and has drilled more than 6,000 wells. In addition to drilling services, it sells its own drilling guidance systems. The income fund operates in Canada through Phoenix Technology Services and in the US through Nevis Energy Services. Phoenix Technology has operated since 1985 and was reorganized as a trust in 2004.

NGAS Resources, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is based in Lexington, Kentucky. NGAS Resources, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration and production of natural gas principally in the southern portion of the Appalachian Basin in the eastern United States. NGAS Resources, Inc. also has interests in the New Albany shale play within the Illinois Basin in western Kentucky, as well as interests in a non-operated coalbed methane project in the Arkoma Basin and non-operated projects in West Virginia and Virginia. In addition, NGAS Resources, Inc. own rights to gold and silver properties covering 381 acres on Unga Island in the Aleutian Chain, southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. Further, NGAS Resources, Inc. owns and operates distribution systems for retail sales of natural gas for two communities in southcentral Kentucky. The company's customers include gas marketing intermediaries, pipelines, transmission companies, and local refineries.

Merit Energy Company is a private firm specializing in direct investments in oil and gas assets. Merit Energy Company acquires, develops, and operates mature producing oil and gas properties on behalf of equity-based limited partnerships. Merit Energy has operations 13 US states (primarily in the Rockies, Midcontinent, and the South and Southwest) and in the Canadian province of Alberta. It also has operations in Michigan and the Gulf of Mexico. In 2008 Merit Energy Company reported proved reserves of 471 million barrels of oil equivalent, and production of more than 94,400 barrels of oil equivalent per day. It has interests in more than 12,500 wells.

Arena Resources, Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas properties. Arena Resources, Inc. owns interest in oil and gas properties in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Kansas. Arena Resources, Inc. principal properties in New Mexico comprise East Hobbs San Andres Unit, Seven Rivers Queen Unit, Humphrey Queen Unit, Langlie Mattix Queen Unit, South Leonard Queen Unit, North Benson Queen Unit, and Red Lake Unit, as well as Phillips Lea, Hale State, State 36, and Corbin 35 leases. It also holds interest in Fuhrman Mascho leases located in Andrews County, Texas; and Y6 lease situated in Fisher County, Texas; Ona Morrow Sand Unit located in Cimarron and Texas Counties, Oklahoma; Eva South Morrow Sand Unit located in Texas County, Oklahoma; and Midwell, Appleby, Smaltz, and Hanes Leases located in Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Arena Resources primarily sells its oil and natural gas production to end users, marketers, and other purchasers. As of December 31, 2008, Arena Resources, Inc. had proved reserves of approximately 65,646,034 barrels of oil equivalent. Arena Resources, Inc., through its subsidiaries, also involves in the drilling operations. Arena Resources was founded in 2000 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Niko Resources' wingspan stretches from Calgary to Gujarat. The oil and natural gas exploration and production company operates primarily in five oil and gas fields in Bangladesh and in the Indian state of Gujarat. Niko Resources Ltd. also has oil and gas assets offshore. In addition, Niko Resources Ltd. has holdings in Kurdistan, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Thailand. Niko Resources Ltd. typically begins operations in an area by reworking existing wells, then expands its business with exploration and development operations. In 2008 Niko Resources had proved plus probable net reserves of 4.1 million barrels of oil, 1 trillion cu. ft. of gas, and 2.8 million barrels of natural gas liquids.

Crimson Exploration, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in Houston, Texas.Crimson Exploration, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, development, exploitation, and exploration of oil and natural gas properties, primarily in the onshore U.S. Gulf Coast and South Texas regions. Crimson Exploration, Inc. also has operations and prospective acreage in the Denver Julesburg Basin of Colorado; and owns acreage positions in the Haynesville Shale play in East Texas. As of December 31, 2008, it had a total of 358 gross oil and natural gas productive wells, as well as estimated proved reserves of approximately 131.9 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent. Crimson Exploration, Inc. was formerly known as GulfWest Energy, Inc. and changed its name to Crimson Exploration, Inc. in May 2005.

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.

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