Fortune Oil sees success in oil and gas in its future. Through various subsidiaries and joint ventures, Fortune Oil PLC develops and operates projects that supply fuels to businesses and homes. Among its investments are a facility that delivers crude oil to one of Sinopec's largest refineries in China; an aviation refueling joint venture with BP and China National Aviation Fuel Company that supplies jet fuel to about 15 airports in central and southern China; a coal bed methane joint venture with the Shanxi provincial government; and a natural gas distribution business, sales of which rank in the top 10 of private-sector companies in China. Fortune Oil PLC is registered in England and Wales (number 2173279, main board symbol FTO) and is subject to UK Listing Rules and compliance regulations.

Southern name, Western beat. SC Fuels (formerly Southern Counties Oil) is the oldest and largest wholesale distributor of gasoline, diesel fuel, and lubricants to more than 35,000 customers in the western US. SC Fuels delivers fuel and lubricants to commercial accounts in varied industries in Northern and Southern California. Clients include Costco and Albertsons. Through SC Fuels Pacific Northwest Energy subsidiary, SC Fuels provides heating oils, propane delivery, and heating and air conditioning repair services to residential, construction, industrial, and fleet operating customers in Washington state.

Texas Gas Transmission transmits natural gas from Texas to states in the South and Midwest. The company owns and operates a 5,900-mile natural gas pipeline system. The pipeline has the capacity to deliver 3.8 billion cu. ft. of gas a day to customers in eight states. Major customers include Anadarko Petroleum, Louisville Gas and Electric, and Memphis Light, Gas and Water. Texas Gas Transmission also owns nine underground gas storage fields in Indiana and Kentucky with a storage capacity of 180 billion cu. ft. of gas. The company is a subsidiary of Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP. Texas Gas is an interstate pipeline that moves natural gas from Gulf Coast and Fayetteville Shale supply areas to more distant on-system markets in the Midwest and to off-system markets in the Northeast via interconnections with third-party pipelines. It originates in the Louisiana Gulf Coast area and in East Texas and runs north and east through Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, and into Ohio, with smaller diameter lines extending into Illinois.

Constellation NewEnergy is a star player in the new energy arena of deregulation. The company is a competitive retail supplier that provides energy and related services to more than 19,000 large commercial and industrial customers. Constellation NewEnergy, a subsidiary of Constellation Energy Group, markets electricity and natural gas in 31 US states. It also supplies energy to customers in three Canadian provinces. The company delivers more than 13,000 MW of peak load electricity and 354 billion cu. ft. of annual natural gas consumption. Constellation NewEnergy serves numerous FORTUNE 500 companies, including Staples, 3M, and Kimberly-Clark.

Trading natural gas for retail cash, Gendis holds 2.5 million units of Fort Chicago Energy Partners, a limited partnership with interests in North American natural gas pipelines and plants. It also has interests in real estate. Gendis has said "sayonara" to its SAAN Stores subsidiary. Through that retail division, the firm had operated more than 200 department and houseware stores (under the SAAN and Red Apple Clearance Centre brand names) throughout Canada. Gendis sold SAAN Stores to a group of retail business investors in 2004. The company was founded in 1939.

St. Mary Land & Exploration Company was founded in 1908 and is based in Denver, Colorado. St. Mary Land & Exploration Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration, exploitation, development, acquisition, and production of natural gas and crude oil in North America. St. Mary Land & Exploration Company primarily operates in the ArkLaTex, the Mid-Continent, the Gulf Coast, the Permian, and the Rocky Mountain regions. As of December 31, 2008, it had estimated proved reserves of 51.4 million barrels of oil and 557.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas.

Ringing in the new era of utility competition, Electrabel remains the #1 power company in Belgium. Operating nuclear, fossil-fueled, and hydroelectric power plants, it has a generating capacity of 31,200 MW. The diversified utility supplies electricity to 5.2 million customers, natural gas to more than 2.1 million customers. Electrabel, which produces about 90% of Belgium's electricity, also provides energy, heat, and steam to domestic industrial customers, trades power and gas, and manages electricity and natural gas infrastructures. The company is a subsidiary of giant utility group GDF SUEZ.

Fairborne Energy (formerly Fairborne Energy Trust) holds oil and gas investments in Western Canada. Fairborne Energy Ltd. has oil assets in central Alberta and gas properties in west-central Alberta. In 2005 Fairborne Energy Ltd. was converted to Fairborne Energy Trust and a junior exploration company, Fairquest Limited. Fairborne Energy Ltd. owns more than 229,930 net acres of undeveloped land and has proved and probable reserves of 50.7 million barrels of oil equivalent. In 2004 Fairborne Energy acquired land assets from BP Canada and exploration and production company Case Resources. In 2007 the trust acquired total control of Fairquest and became Fairborne Energy.

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.

The balmy Trade Winds blow over Tesoro Hawaii, a subsidiary of Tesoro Petroleum, and operator of the 94,000-barrel-per-day Kapolei refinery on the coast of Oahu. The largest of Hawaii's two refineries, Kapolei has distillate hydrocracker, vacuum distillation, and catalytic reformer capabilities, and supplies jet and marine fuels to the trans-Pacific transportation industry that uses Hawaii as a major refueling location. It also serves the local Hawaiian market with gasoline and diesel fuels. Other products include fuel oil, liquefied petroleum gas, and liquid asphalt. The company's Hawaiian assets includes more than 30 Tesoro-branded gas stations.

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