Cordy Oilfield Services is building its construction business with acquisitions. The Canadian company owns and manages about a dozen operating subsidiaries in Alberta and British Columbia that provide heavy construction, pipeline, drilling manufacturing, and environmental services. These segments serve the oil and gas, mining, private real estate development, and public infrastructure markets. Heavy construction contracts account for about half of Cordy's revenue; services under this segment include road maintenance, gravel and concrete supply, dredging, heavy hauling, and bridge installation. The majority of Cordy's customers are located in western Canada.

Crudely moving into the private market, Polski Koncern Naftowy ORLEN is the largest refiner and distributor of oil in Poland. The company owns a total of seven refineries (including three in the Czech Republic and one in Lithuania) and has some 2,700 retail sites in the Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, and Poland. PKN ORLEN owns an 85% stake in chemical maker Anwil, has holdings in several other Polish companies, and controls Czech refiner and retailer Unipetrol. Two former state monopolies, Petrochemia Plock (Poland's largest refinery) and Centrala Produktow Naftowych (Poland's #1 petroleum distributor), merged in 1999 to create PKN ORLEN. The Polish government still owns 10% of the company.

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.

The South Texas Project Electric Generating Station is one of the newest and largest nuclear power facilities in the nation. STP's two units produce 2,700 megawatts of carbon-free electricity, providing clean energy to two million Texas homes. Through its uncompromising commitment to nuclear safety and a continuous focus on improving plant operations, STP has emerged as an industry leader. STP Nuclear Operating Company is jointly owned by NRG Energy (44%), CPS Energy (40%), and Austin Energy (16%). AEP Texas Central sold its former 25% stake in STPNOC to CPS Energy and NRG Energy.

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.

Shell's Martinez Refinery, in operation since 1915, is both a pioneer and a pacesetter. Throughout its history, it has amassed a tradition of technical achievement, and is currently one of the most complex refineries in the world. Located 30 miles northeast of San Francisco on about 1,000 acres of land, Shell's Martinez Refinery combines state-of-the-art facilities and equipment to convert up to 165,000 barrels of crude oil a day into many useful products. These products include automotive gasoline, jet fuel, diesel, petroleum coke, industrial fuel oils, liquefied petroleum gas, asphalt, and sulfur.

Ultra Petroleum Corp. was founded in 1979 and is based in Houston, Texas. Ultra Petroleum Corp. engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, production, and operation of oil and natural gas properties. Ultra Petroleum Corp. primarily focuses on developing and expanding a tight gas sand trend located in the Green River Basin in southwest Wyoming. As of December 31, 2008, Ultra Petroleum Corp. owned interests in approximately 59,953 net acres in Wyoming; and 152,227 net acres in Pennsylvania. Ultra Petroleum Corp. also owns an interest in 1,000 gross producing wells in this area and is operator of about half of those. Ultra Petroleum Corp. also has assets in Pennsylvania.

SK Energy (formerly SK Corp.) is the energy and chemical affiliate of South Korea's SK Group, which also operates trading and telecommunications units. Korea's largest oil refiner (1.1 million barrels of daily refining capacity), SK Energy controls about 35% of Korea's fuel retailing market and operates 4,270 service stations. The firm is involved in oil exploration and production in 15 countries and has proved reserves 500 million barrels of oil equivalent. SK Energy imports coal and liquid petroleum gas (LPG), and claims a 44% share of the Korean LPG market. SK Energy supplies natural gas to Seoul and other cities in Korea. The company also makes lubricants, low-pollutant gasoline, and petrochemicals.

Our company's roots go back to 1900 as an oil importing company, and the Caltex name has been in Australia for almost seventy years.The all-Australian oil importer Ampol was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in the late 1940s. Both Caltex and Ampol opened refineries in the 1950s and 1960s, Caltex in Sydney and Ampol in Brisbane, and they competed fiercely in the service station arena and oil product marketing generally. As the industry started to rationalise, Ampol acquired Total and Caltex acquired Golden Fleece. Despite this, Caltex and Ampol were relatively small. Their 1995 merger propelled the company to be the largest refiner-marketer in Australia, with debt at the time of the merger of approximately $1.4 billion. Since then, the Caltex brand has mostly replaced the Ampol brand.Caltex is an Australian company - through its listing on the ASX; through its Sydney-based head office and management team; through its 4,000 employees working all around Australia and through its many Australian shareholders. Caltex Australia operates independently, with all decisions made by the management and the Board in Australia. This is what sets Caltex apart from other refiner-marketers in Australia.

Trafina is focused on growth: dynamic growth through mergers, exploitive growth through the drilling of coal bed methane assets and portfolio growth through exploration. Trafina's plan is to stay disciplined financially and increase its operatorship as it grows. Trafina is a junior oil and gas company based in Calgary, Alberta. The Company's main areas of interest are in the Rangeview and Divide areas of southwest Saskatchewan and in the Pembina area of Alberta with other operated production in Wetaskawin, Retlaw and Ronalane in Alberta. TRAFINA Energy produces and explores for oil and natural gas in Alberta, Canada. TRAFINA Energy Ltd. drills conventional well and brings up oil and gas using unconventional drilling as well. More than half the company's revenues come from operational activities in the Wetaskiwin area of Alberta (a vast majority are natural gas sales). In addition to its Wetaskiwin projects where TRAFINA Energy Ltd. is the driller and operator, TRAFINA also has non-operated oil and gas properties in the area and in other parts of Alberta. TRAFINA Energy Ltd. produces an average of more than 300 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Chairman and CEO Roland Valentine founded TRAFINA in 1991.

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