Aminex is an international oil and natural gas exploration and production company with operations in the US, Africa, and North Korea. In the US it operates along the Texas Gulf Coast area. Aminex PLC owns Tanzoil NL, the largest holder of exploration acreage in Tanzania. Its completion of a well in the East Songo Songo/Nyuni area in Tanzania in 2004 was the first offshore well in East Africa for more than a decade. Aminex PLC also has operations in Egypt and Kenya. Aminex PLC has acquired a 10% stake in a North Korean resources company, Kobril Ltd. Aminex also owns AMOSSCO Ltd, an international oilfield service, supply, and logistics company.

Today, the Oxbow Group is made up of more than two dozen companies with yearly aggregate sales of over $3.7 billion, combined assets of over $1.7 billion and over 1200 employees worldwide. Oxbow’s primary businesses are the mining and marketing of energy and commodities such as coal, natural gas, petroleum, metallurgical and calcined coke. Oxbow Carbon LLC Company Profile Oxbow Carbon (formerly known as Oxbow Carbon & Minerals) distributes petroleum coke to customers worldwide, primarily in the cement, utilities, steel, and home heating industries. (Petroleum coke, a by-product of the oil refining process, is used as a fuel. Calcined petroleum coke, a refined form of petroleum coke, is used as a source of carbon, mainly by aluminum producers.) Oxbow Carbon also distributes metallurgical coke, a by-product of coal processing that is used by iron producers and sugar refiners. The company operates four bulk shipping terminals, located on the Gulf Coast and the West Coast of the US and in the Caribbean and South America. Oxbow Carbon is a unit of Oxbow.

Hiland Partners, LP is a midstream energy partnership engaged in purchasing, gathering, compressing, dehydrating, treating, processing and marketing of natural gas and the fractionating, or separating, and marketing of natural gas liquids, or NGLs. Hiland Partners also provides air compression and water injection services to Continental Resources, Inc. ("CLR"), a publicly traded exploration and production company, for use in its oil and gas secondary recovery operations. Hiland Partners' operations are primarily located in the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States. In the Partnership's midstream segment, Hiland Holdings GP, LP connects the wells of natural gas and crude oil producers in its operating areas to its gathering systems, treats natural gas to remove impurities, processes natural gas for the removal of NGLs, fractionates NGLs into NGL products and provides an aggregate supply of natural gas and NGL products to a variety of transmission pipelines and markets.

Martin Midstream Partners moves petroleum products. The company gets most of its sales from the distribution of liquefied petroleum gases (LPGs). Martin Midstream buys the LPGs from natural gas processors and oil refiners and sells them to propane retailers and industrial customers. Martin Midstream also manufactures sulfur and sulfur-based fertilizer products and provides marine transportation and storage of liquid hydrocarbons. The company operates primarily in the Gulf Coast region of the US. Martin Resource Management controls a 35% stake in Martin Midstream and owns its general partner.

Manas Petroleum is a Baar, Switzerland headquartered international oil exploration and development company. It was founded as a private company in 2004 and during its first two years spent approximately $7 million acquiring and advancing its Kyrgyz, Tajik and Albanian projects. Its portfolio now totals more than 5 million acres in 5 countries. Manas Petroleum Corporation, which focuses on about 3 million acres of land in Chile, Kyrgyzstan, and Albania, typically acquires exploration rights and then, in an effort to keep costs down, farms out its development operations to local third parties. Manas often collaborates with Australian oil and gas company Santos for its activities.

Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) is universally recognized as one of today's top ten oil energy conglomerates, and a leader in providing safe, clean energy to the global markets. The state-owned conglomerate is one of the world's largest integrated oil concerns, and has subsidiaries active in all aspects of the oil and gas industry, including onshore and offshore exploration and production, and refining, marketing, and retailing. Kuwait Petroleum Corporation also has petrochemical production and marine transportation businesses. In 2008 KPC reported estimated proved oil and gas reserves of 104 billion barrels of oil and 1.8 trillion cu. meters of natural gas. KPC markets 301,000 barrels per day of pertroleun products in Western Europe.

RKA Petroleum is a regional wholesale distributor of petroleum products to commercial and retail fueling locations in the US. Led by the RKA Petroleum Terminal in Romulus, Michigan, RKA Petroleum Companies, LLC has storage capacity of more than 13 million gallons of product, including an additional storage capacity of more than 60,000 gallons for alternative fuels.

Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. engages in the acquisition, management, exploration, and development of oil and natural gas properties. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. holds properties and other oil and gas interests primarily in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas, the United States. As of September 30, 2009, Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. had working and/or royalty interests in 4,861 producing oil and natural gas wells, as well as in 40 wells that were in the process of drilling or completion. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. customers include pipeline and marketing companies. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. was formerly known as Panhandle Royalty Company and changed its name to Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. in March 2007. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. was founded in 1926 and is based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Dixie Gas & Oil, a distributor of propane, heating oil, industrial lubricants, and other petroleum products to customers in Virginia and West Virginia. Dixie Gas & Oil Corporation also operates gas stations and convenience stores and provides fleeting fueling services. In addition to propane and petroleum, Dixie Gas & Oil supplies CITGO- and Castrol-branded commercial and food grade lubricants; Dixie Gas & Oil Corporation also supplies some retailers with BP and Pure petroleum products. Dixie Gas & Oil Corporation was founded as Dixie Bottled Gas Company in 1946. Dixie Gas & Oil's five gas stations/convenience stores offer BP fuels, Subway sandwiches and salads, as well as convenience food items.

Shipping energy to individual home owners is a family tradition for Shipley Energy, which provides 45,000 customers in 15 counties in central Pennsylvania with heating oil, propane, and natural gas. Shipley Energy Company also provides air conditioning, air duct cleaning, and heating system repair services, and wholesales petroleum products and natural gas to commercial and industrial clients. Shipley Energy distributes 125 million gallons of petroleum products a year, offering unbranded and branded gasolines to gas stations in its service region. Shipley Energy Company, which was founded in 1929 by Thomas Shipley, is controlled by the Shipley family.

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