U.S. Oil Co., Inc. supplies refined oil products to US residents in the Midwest, and does a lot more. In addition to the wholesale distribution of oil products (its largest revenue generator), the company operates gas stations, and installs gas pumps, tanks, and other petroleum-related equipment. U.S. Oil Co., Inc. also provides plumbing and HVAC services, operates a research laboratory for environmental analysis, collects used waste oil to be processed into burner fuel, and has a metal custom manufacturing unit.Smitten with the oil distribution business, the founding Schmidt family owns and operates U.S. Oil Co.

C-Tech Oilwell Technologies Inc. is an innovative oil field technology development, sales and services company dedicated to developing coiled rod technology, products and bringing them to the market. C-Tech has been owned by Dover Corporation (NYSE: DOV) since June 2005. C-Tech operates under the Energy Products Group of the Fluid Management market segment of Dover. Through subsidiaries C-Tech provides customers with oil and gas field equipment and services. C-Tech Oilwell Technologies Inc. Pro-Rod subsidiary manufactures coiled rods, rod handling systems, and tubing. Its C-Tech Design and Manufacturing unit makes coiled tubing units and fabricates steel products, including shipping saddles, oil field boilers, and drilling rig modules. C-Tech also provides rig rebuilding, fabrication, and engineering services. Dover Corporation acquired C-Tech in 2005.

Blue Ridge Group, Inc was incorporated in August of 1993 as a Nevada Corporation. Once focused on Appalachia, holding company Blue Ridge Group, through its 14%-owned Bayou City Exploration unit, is now engaged in oil and gas exploration primarily in Texas and Louisiana. Bayou City Exploration conducts its activities through partnerships and the acquisition of direct stakes in oil and gas properties, and in exploratory and development wells. Blue Ridge Group, Inc. has four projects in Aransas, Willacy, and Kenedy Counties in coastal and south Texas, with estimated project reserves totalling 54.5 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent.

MFA Oil Company was organized in 1929 by Missouri farmers who wanted to be assured of a reliable supply of quality petroleum products at a fair price. The first bulk plant was located at Wright City, MO and seven more plants were established the same year. The energy cooperative, controlled by its farmer-members, produces fuel and lubrication products and manages bulk petroleum and propane plants in the Central US. Operating more than 100 propane plants, the company sells more propane for farm use and home heating than any other company in Missouri. MFA Oil Company also operates nearly 100 bulk plants and serves customers in Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Additionally, MFA Oil Company operates 76 convenience stores under the Break Time brand, more than 160 Petro-Card 24 fueling locations, and owns 10 Jiffy Lube and 10 Big O Tire franchises.

Richland Partners (doing business as Leffler Energy) puts its energy into supplying home heating oil products to areas of Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and Delaware. Richland Partners, LLC also installs and services heat pumps, central air conditioning, and hot water heaters. Meenan Oil, a subsidiary of Star Gas, purchased both SICO and Leffler and merged them to form Leffler Energy in 2003. With its roots in serving farming communities, Leffler Energy still provides a broad range of fueling and energy services (from customer service centers and storage facilities) to rural businesses throughout central and eastern Pennsylvania.

El Paso Corporation conducts meaningful work—day in, day out. We provide natural gas and related energy products in a safe, efficient, and dependable manner. We are organized around two core businesses—pipelines and exploration and production. We own North America’s largest interstate natural gas pipeline system—approximately 42,000 miles—transporting more than a quarter of the natural gas consumed in the country each day. Some of our pipeline assets are owned by El Paso Pipeline Partners, our master limited partnership (Learn more at www.eppipelinepartners.com).Our E&P operation ranks in the top 10 domestic independent producers, operating in high-quality basins across the United States and in Brazil and Egypt.

Blast Energy Services, Inc. operates as a technology company in the energy sector. Blast Energy Services, Inc. primarily provides applied fluid jetting services to stimulate production and increase reservoir recoveries on behalf of oil and gas operators primarily in North America. Blast Energy Services, Inc. also offers satellite communication services to energy companies and allows them to remotely monitor and control well head, pipeline, drilling, and other oil and gas operations through broadband data and voice services transmitted from remote operations where terrestrial or cellular communication networks do not exist. Blast Energy Services, Inc. was formerly known as Verdisys, Inc. and changed its name to Blast Energy Services, Inc. in June 2005 to reflect its focus on the energy services business. Blast Energy Services, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Excelsior Energy hopes to excel in producing oil from the vast bitumen sand deposits of Western Canada. Excelsior Energy Limited has a working interest in two prospective oil sands leases: Hangingstone and West Surmont, in the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta. Excelsior Energy's business model is to produce oil in-place using on-site thermal units, rather than the traditional model of transporting oil sands to a central processing plant. By 2009 Excelsior Energy Limited had done significant exploration drilling and found that Hangingstone could recover bitumen on an experimental basis, producing a maximum of 1,000 barrels of bitumen per day. Excelsior Energy plans to begin commercial production in the Hangingstone Project in 2011.

Rubis has grown to be one of the largest bulk liquid storage operators in France. Through its Rubis Terminal unit, the company stores chemicals, fertilizers, agriculture products, oil and gas, and waste materials. Through Rubis Energie (formerly Rubis Gaz), Rubis distributes liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to retailers, as well as propane and butane to residential and commercial customers. Outside France, Rubis has expanded LPG distribution operations to Bermuda, Comoros, the French Antilles, Madagascar, Morocco, and Senegal. Rubis sells LPG under the Vitogaz brand.

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.

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