Trinidad Drilling provides modern, reliable, expertly designed oil and gas drilling equipment operated by well-trained personnel. Trinidad Drilling Ltd. drilling fleet is one of the most adaptable, technologically advanced and competitive in the industry. Trinidad Drilling Ltd. provides contract drilling and workover services to a range of oil and gas companies. Trinidad Drilling operates a combined fleet of more than 160 drilling, well servicing, and preset/coring and barge rigs that have the capacity to drill to depths between 1,000 and 6,500 meters. Trinidad Drilling Ltd. has pursued a strategy of growing its operations through the acquisition of a number of smaller drilling companies and the construction of new drilling rigs. Trinidad Drilling Ltd. has operations in Canada, Mexico, and the US.

Paramount Resources' paramount business is discovery and development of natural gas assets, which accounts for 75% of its production. Paramount Resources Ltd. explores for, develops, processes, markets, and transports natural gas and petroleum. Paramount Resources Ltd. has interests in more than 2.3 million gross acres, primarily in Alberta and elsewhere in Western Canada (the Northwest Territories and British Columbia) and the US (Montana an North Dakota). In 2008 Paramount Resources reported proved plus probable reserves of about 36.4 million barrels of oil equivalent. Company management, led by chairman and CEO Clayton Riddell, controls Paramount Resources.

The Olympic Pipe Line Company, operated by BP Pipelines, North America, is a 400-mile interstate pipeline system that includes 12-inch, 14-inch, 16-inch, and 20-inch pipelines. The pipeline runs along a 299-mile corridor from Blaine, Washington to Portland, Oregon. The system transports gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. This fuel originates at four Puget Sound refineries, two in Whatcom County and two in Skagit County, and is delivered to Seattle's Harbor Island, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Olympia and Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. BP Pipelines (North America) is the second largest liquids pipeline company in the U.S. transporting over 450 million barrel-miles of oil, refined products, natural gas liquids, carbon dioxide, and chemicals daily - about 9 percent of the U.S. Liquids pipeline market. Beyond our core operations, we participate in various joint venture pipelines, several of which we operate.

GeoMet, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. GeoMet, Inc., an independent energy company, engages in the exploration for, and development and production of natural gas from coal seams and non-conventional shallow gas. GeoMet, Inc. principal operations and producing properties are located in the Cahaba Basin in Alabama, the central Appalachian Basin in West Virginia, and Virginia, as well as in British Columbia, Canada. As of December 31, 2008, GeoMet, Inc. controlled a total of approximately 213,000 net acres of coalbed methane, and oil and natural gas development rights. GeoMet also had 320 billion cubic feet of estimated proved reserves.

JED Oil's strategy is to develop and operate low risk and low cost oil and natural gas assets in Western Canada, particularly ones near proven fields in Alberta, and in the US Rockies. Subsidiary JED Oil (USA) is developing oil and gas assets in North Dakota and Wyoming. In 2007 JED Oil Inc. reported estimated proved reserves of 3 million barrels of oil equivalent. However, JED Oil's confidence has been shaken; it has been experiencing financial difficulties and in 2008 the company was forced to seek government protection from creditors under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act.

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.

Center Oil's core business is peddling petroleum. The company is one of the largest private wholesale distributors of gasoline and other petroleum products to customers primarily in the eastern region of the US. Center Oil owns a dozen storage terminals capable of storing 2.8 million barrels of petroleum products. It also has access to 36 terminals in 10 states, as well as access to the Magellan, Texas Eastern, Kinder Morgan Chicago, and Kaneb pipeline systems. Its products are also distributed through a fleet of ships, barges, and trucks.

Union Drilling, Inc. provides contract land drilling services and equipment primarily to onshore oil and natural gas producers in Arkansas, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia, the United States. Union Drilling, Inc. offers drilling rigs, as well as the drilling crews and ancillary equipment to operate its drilling rigs. Union Drilling, Inc. rigs operate in unconventional natural gas producing areas, which are characterized by formations with very low permeability rock, such as shales, tight sands, and coal bed methane that require specialized drilling techniques to develop the natural gas resources. Union Drilling focuses on providing its services in the Appalachian and Arkoma basins, as well as the Barnett Shale formation. Union Drilling, Inc. offers drilling services also to customers engaged in developing unconventional natural gas formations. As of December 31, 2008, Union Drilling, Inc. owned and operated a fleet of 71 land drilling rigs. Union Drilling, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas.

Frontier Oil Corporation is an independent oil refining and marketing company with complex refineries located in Wyoming and Kansas. Frontier's primary products of gasoline and diesel are marketed in the Rocky Mountain region and Plains States. Frontier Oil Corporation is headquartered in Houston, Texas. The subsidiary company Frontier Refining & Marketing, Inc. is located in Denver, Colorado.

Martin Resource Management of Kilgore is a leading independent provider of transportation, terminalling, marketing and logistics management services for hydrocarbon products and by-products, chemical and other bulk liquids.That's quite a statement when you consider its founder, R.S. Martin, Jr., started with a single truck and the simple desire to make a living for his family. Born in Camden Arkansas, Martin graduated from Texarkana Arkansas High School in 1941 and attended the University of Arkansas until volunteering for the Marine Corps in 1943. As a marine, he served in the 4th Marine division in four World War II invasions: Marshall Island, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. Returning to the University of Arkansas in 1946, he married Margaret Gerig of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, before graduating in 1948 with a business degree with a specialty in marketing. After two years with Continental Oil Company, he bought out his mother and brother in the ice company in Kilgore, Texas, with borrowed money.

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