Dominion Transmission, Inc., headquartered in Richmond, Va., is the interstate gas transmission subsidiary of Dominion. The company is primarily a provider of gas transportation and storage services. Dominion operates one of the largest underground natural gas storage systems in the United States with links to other major pipelines and to markets in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the United States. We maintain 7,800 miles of pipeline in six states — Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland and Virginia. We store and transport large quantities of natural gas for large customers, such as major utilities and power plants.

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.

Petroleum Marketers, Inc. (PMI), incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia on March 27, 1950, is an employee-owned family of companies whose first goal has always been customer service. Headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, we offer complete lines of branded and unbranded gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, home heating oil, bulk lubricants and motor oils. In addition, we operate branded convenience stores throughout Virginia and West Virginia. Our philosophy, our employees and our superb distribution system have enabled us to become one of the largest petroleum marketers in the Mid-Atlantic region. No fancy name for this company. It is what it says it is. Petroleum Marketers is a full service petroleum company with operations throughout Virginia and in southern Maryland, southern West Virginia, and Tennessee. The company runs a chain of convenience stores/gas stations under the banner Stop In Food Stores. Some locations have fast food eateries (run by its PM Foods division), including Burger King, Subway, and Taco Bell, located within or next door. Petroleum Marketers (which was founded in 1921) is also a supplier of gasoline, diesel fuel, motor oil, and antifreeze.

Precision Drilling Trust, through its subsidiaries, provides contract drilling, and completion and production services to the oil and gas exploration and production companies in Canada, the United States, and internationally. The contract drilling services include land drilling, and camp and catering services, as well as consist of the procurement and distribution of oilfield supplies, and manufacture and refurbishment of drilling and service rig equipment. The completion and production services include service rig well completion and workover services, trucking services, snubbing services, and wastewater treatment services, as well as comprise the rental of oilfield surface equipment, tubulars and well control equipment, and wellsite accommodations. As of December 31, 2008, Precision Drilling Trust had 220 land drilling rigs, 229 well completion and workover service rigs, 29 snubbing units, and approximately 12,000 rental items in Canada. Precision Drilling Trust had 151 land drilling rigs in the United States, 2 rigs in Mexico, and 1 in Chile. Precision Drilling Trust was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Russia's Sakhalin Island is Big Oil nirvana. The area's estimated reserves top 500 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 150 million tons of oil. Sakhalin Energy is a consortium of Royal Dutch Shell, Russia's Gazprom, and Japan's Mitsui and Mitsubishi formed to exploit those resources. Its facilities include offshore platforms, an oil pipeline terminal and a natural gas liquefaction plant, which the company hopes will give it an edge in serving the growing demand in Asia. Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. was formed in 1994 to develop the Piltun-Astokhskoye oil field and the Lunskoye gas field in the Sea of Okhotsk offshore Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East. Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. began producing and exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2009. The first delivery was to Japan in March of that year.

Action Energy Inc. began operations as a private company in 1999 developing plays in Shackleton, Saskatchewan and Medicine River, Alberta. Exploration and production independent Action Energy (formerly High Plains Energy) knows where the energy action is -- drilling for natural gas. Action Energy Inc. primarily explores oil and gas in Alberta, including operations in Lloydminster and Eagle Butte areas. In 2006 Action Energy Inc. acquired oil and gas explorer Action Energy in a reverse takeover. In 2007 Action Energy acquired Rolling Thunder Exploration. Post-acquisition, the company reported proved plus probable reserves of more than 9.6 million barrels of oil equivalent. In 2008 Action Energy Inc. acquired access to more than 10,000 acres in Saskatchewan. Financially struggling, in 2009 the company was placed in receivership and its top executives resigned.

Weatherford International Ltd. provides equipment and services used in the drilling, evaluation, completion, production, and intervention of oil and natural gas wells to independent oil and natural gas producing companies worldwide. Weatherford International Ltd. primarily offers artificial lift systems, which include progressing cavity pumps, reciprocating rod lift systems, gas lift systems, hydraulic lift systems, plunger lift systems, and hybrid lift systems, as well as wellhead systems and production optimization. Weatherford International Ltd. also designs and manufactures drilling jars, rotating control devices, and other pressure-control equipment used in drilling oil and natural gas wells; and provides a selection of in-house or third-party manufactured equipment for the drilling, completion, and work over of oil and natural gas wells for operators and drilling contractors. In addition, Weatherford International offers a line of completion tools and sand screens; wireline and evaluation services; re-entry, fishing, and thru-tubing services; pipeline and specialty services; and drilling and well construction services. Further, it provides chemical technology and services, including fracturing technologies, coiled tubing technologies, cement services, chemical systems, and drilling fluids; and operates land drilling rigs. Weatherford International Ltd. was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Destiny Resource Services provides front-end seismic services, including survey and mapping, line clearing, and shot-hole drilling, through its subsidiaries. Destiny Resource Services Corp. offers GPS surveying and GIS mapping through its Destiny Survey and Mapping unit and line clearing through its Destiny Line Clearing subsidiary. Destiny Drilling provides seismic shot-hole drilling services. Destiny Resource Services Corp. also provides navigation and positioning technology (through Destiny Navigation Technologies) and locating services (through Advanced Locating Services). Destiny serves energy explorers and producers and seismic acquisition companies. Logan Oil Tools agreed to buy Destiny in 2009.

Hyperdynamics was founded in 1996 and is traded on the NYSE Amex under the symbol HDY. Hyperdynamics has shifted its business focus from IT consulting services to oil and gas exploration, primarily in Africa. Hyperdynamics Corporation SCS Corporation subsidiary concentrates on developing an oil and gas concession located offshore the Republic of Guinea in West Africa. Hyperdynamics' HYD Resources subsidiary and gas exploration and production company focuses on low-risk shallow exploration projects in Louisiana, where in 2008 it held proved reserves of 150,435 barrels of oil. Chairman Kent Watts, who stepped down a CEO in 2009, owns 17% of Hyperdynamics. Hyperdynamics Corporation holds certain contract rights for the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas in an approximately 80,000 square kilometer concession off the coast of the Republic of Guinea.

Transportadora Brasileira Gasoduto is duty-bound to bring gas to Brazil. The company is responsible for the Brazilian operation of Latin America's largest gas pipeline, which originates in Bolivia. It monitors and maintains more than 1,850 miles of pipeline through three regional management offices located in the states of Mato Grosso do Sul, So Paulo, and Santa Catarina (with jurisdiction over Paran and Rio Grande do Sul as well). TBG's pipes carry about 30 million cubic meters of natural gas per day. Its main customers are industrial and power plants. TBG was formed in 1997 and began operations in 1999. Government-controlled PETROBRAS, via subsidiary Gaspetro, owns 51% of the company.

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