Indeck Energy Services tries to make sure it always has a project on deck. Indeck Energy Services, Inc. owns and operates 13 fossil-fueled, one hydroelectric, and four biomass generation plants located in the US (primarily in the Northeast) and in Canada, Guatemala, and the UK. Indeck Energy Services operates two plants (400-MW of capacity) in the northeastern US for NRG Energy. Affiliate Indeck Power Equipment rents or leases boilers and generators, and Indeck Operations runs and maintains power and steam plants. Chairman and CEO Gerald Forsythe owns Indeck Energy Services, which was founded in 1985.

Storm Cat Energy is an independent oil and gas company focused, on the exploration, production and development of large unconventional gas reserves from fractured shales, coal beds and tight sand formations and, secondarily, from conventional formations. Storm Cat Energy Corporation has producing properties in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, and Arkansas' Arkoma Basin and exploration and development acreage in Canada. Storm Cat's long-term strategy is to grow through development and via the acquisition of prospective acreage that compliments its existing assets and exploits the abilities of Storm Cat Energy Corporation technical team. Its core producing properties are in coalbed methane gas fields in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. Storm Cat Energy Corporation also has interests in oil and gas projects in Alaska and in Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan in Canada. In late 2008 Storm Cat Energy placed its US subsidiaries under bankruptcy protection.

Originally a shipping company, Siem Offshore has become a major player in the oil field services industry. Siem Offshore Inc. has a fleet of 27 vessels, including platform supply vessels (PSVs), multipurpose field- and remotely operated vehicle (ROV) support vessels, multi-role support vessels (MRSVs), anchor handling tug support vessels, a well stimulation vessel, a scientific core drilling vessel and crew boats. Siem Offshore Inc. also conducts technology research and development for the drilling and well services industries through Siem WIS AS and WellCem AS. Norwegian shipping conglomerate Siem Industries owns about 34% of Siem Offshore. Our goal is to become a preferred supplier based on quality, reliability and cost efficiency. Siem Offshore Inc. modern fleet and company culture will help to achieve goals. The current newbuilding program of 14 vessels represents a significant increase of future service capacity, including the variety of services to be offered by the new, high capacity AHTS vessels. Siem Offshore Inc. vessel services are supported through offices in Norway, Brazil and the Cayman Islands.

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.

China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is the largest offshore oil and gas producer in China. Besides production, which is handled through subsidiary CNOOC Limited, CNOOC has more than two dozen other subsidiaries involved in oil and gas refining and marketing, chemicals (China BlueChemical), technical and engineering services (such as China Oilfield Services), and financial services (such as a life insurance joint venture with AEGON). About half of the government-owned company's revenue comes from oil production; in 2008, China National Offshore Oil Corporation produced 194 million barrels of oil equivalent, while its refineries processed 3.35 million tons of crude. CNOOC's marketing arm owns almost 200 gas stations and eight oil depots.

Merrimac Energy Group was founded in 1988 by Mary Hazelrigg, Merrimac Energy Group brings expert solutions to your greatest fuel supply and management challenges.Merrimac Energy Group also provides environmental services. Its products include aviation fuels, diesel, food grade oil, generator fuel, gasoline, industrial oil, marine fuels, bulk propane, and transportation lubricants. The largest independent woman-owned energy company in California, Merrimac Energy serves construction companies, governmental agencies, industrial and commercial clients, and utilities.

The Crusader Energy Group was, formerly known as Westside Energy, specializes in horizontal drilling techniques and explores and develops oil and gas properties in the US. Crusader Energy Group LLC concentrates its efforts on the prolific Barnett Shale, the Anadarko Basin, and the Bakken Shale formation in the Williston Basin. Long a dormant company, Crusader Energy Group LLC was reactivated in 2004 as Westside Energy with the intention of developing oil and gas properties as well as looking for acquisitions. In 2008, that company combined with Crusader Energy Group and took on that name. In early 2010 Anadarko Basin explorer Jones Energy acquired Crusader Energy.

Kinder Morgan (formerly Knight) pipes in profits by operating 36,000 miles of natural gas pipelines in the US and Canada. Kinder Morgan, Inc. also distributes natural gas to more than 1.1 million customers, primarily in the Midwest, and it operates gas-fired power plants along its pipelines. Through Kinder Morgan Management, it controls Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, which transports refined products and operates 170 terminals that handle coal, petroleum coke, and other materials. In 2007 chairman and CEO Richard Kinder, who owns 31% of the company, led a group of investors in taking Kinder Morgan private and adopted the Knight name. To take advantage of its better-known brand, it reverted to Kinder Morgan in 2009.

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.

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. was founded in 1920 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. engages in the contract drilling of oil and gas wells in the United States and internationally. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. provides drilling rigs, equipment, personnel, and camps on a contract basis to explore for and develop oil and gas from onshore areas and from fixed platforms, tension-leg platforms, and spars in offshore areas. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. conducts domestic land drilling primarily in Oklahoma, California, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Utah, Arkansas, New Mexico, and North Dakota; and offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, offshore of California, Trinidad, and Equatorial Guinea. As of September 30, 2009, Helmerich & Payne, Inc. had 201 land drilling rigs in the United States; 9 offshore platform rigs; and international land rigs, including 1 in Venezuela, 6 in Colombia, 4 in Ecuador, 9 in Argentina, 1 in Tunisia, and 6 rigs in Mexico. In addition, Helmerich & Payne engages in the ownership, development, and operation of commercial real estate properties, as well as the research and development of rotary steerable technology.

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