Miller Petroleum, Inc. was founded in 1967 and is based in Huntsville, Tennessee. Miller Petroleum, which operates as Miller Energy Resources, has been exploring and producing in the southern Appalachian region since 1967. Miller Petroleum, Inc. operates oil and gas wells, organizes joint drilling ventures with partners, and rebuilds and sells oil field equipment (including compressors, oil field trailers, and drilling rigs). Active in drilling and production in eastern Tennessee, in 2008 Miller had total proved reserves of 1.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 74,413 barrels of crude oil. Miller Petroleum, Inc. is developing more than 43,490 acres of oil and gas leases. Diversifying, in 2009 it acquired Alaskan oil explorer Cook Inlet Energy.

Pride International, Inc. was founded in 1966 and is based in Houston, Texas. Pride International, Inc. provides offshore contract drilling services to oil and natural gas exploration and production companies. Pride International, Inc. offers services through the use of mobile offshore drilling rigs in the United States and international waters. As of February 19, 2010, the company operated a fleet of 23 rigs consisting of 2 deepwater drillships, 12 semisubmersible rigs, 7 jackups, and 2 managed deepwater drilling rigs. Pride International, Inc. also offers rig management services on various rigs, including technical drilling assistance, personnel, repair and maintenance, and drilling operation management services. Pride International, Inc. have positioned our fleet in some of the world's largest and most active exploration and production areas, with a market presence in West Africa (Angola), Latin America (Brazil), the Gulf of Mexico, the Middle East and India.

Edeco Petroleum Services Limited (EDECO) provides specialized products and services to the oil and gas, geothermal, and mining industries. Edeco Petroleum Services Limited services include drilling equipment design and manufacture, oil field equipment supply, onshore drilling, oil field tubular services, workover services, and wellhead and valve repair. The EDECO moniker derives from the company's original name, English Drilling Equipment Company Limited, founded in 1931. Today, EDECO is owned by the Simmons Group of Canada and combines Simmons world-wide experience and reputation in oilfield drilling and workover with it's own impressive history in onshore drilling and workover, oilfield and industrial services together with a strong capability in design and specialist manufacturing.

CARBO Ceramics Inc. manufactures and supplies ceramic proppants primarily used in the hydraulic fracturing of natural gas and oil wells in the United States and internationally. CARBO Ceramics Inc. offers five ceramic proppants, including CARBOHSP and CARBOPROP designed for use in deep gas wells; CARBOLITE used in medium depth oil and gas wells; CARBOECONOPROP, a lightweight ceramic proppants; and CARBOHYDROPROP used to improve performance in slickwater fracture treatments. CARBO Ceramics Inc. also sells fracture simulation software, as well as provides fracture design, engineering, and consulting services to oil and natural gas companies. In addition, CARBO Ceramics Inc. provides a range of technologies for spill prevention, containment, and geotechnical monitoring, as well as offers monitoring systems and services for bridges, buildings, tunnels, dams, slopes, embankments, volcanoes, landslides, mines, and construction projects primarily serving various spectrum of customers in auto racing teams to surveyors, experimental physicists, radio astronomers, and naval architects markets. It sells its products and services to operators of oil and natural gas wells and oilfield service companies. CARBO Ceramics Inc. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Southwestern Energy Company was founded in 1929 and is based in Houston, Texas. Southwestern Energy Company engages in the exploration, development, and production of natural gas and crude oil in the United States. Southwestern Energy Company operates in two segments, Exploration and Production, and Midstream Services. The Exploration and Production segment involves in the development of the unconventional gas reservoir located on the Arkansas side of the Arkoma Basin, as well as exploration and production activities in Oklahoma, Texas, and Pennsylvania. This segment also engages in conventional drilling programs in the Arkansas part of the Arkoma Basin; and conducts development drilling and exploration programs in the Oklahoma portion of the Arkoma Basin, Texas and Pennsylvania, as well as operates drilling rigs in the Fayetteville Shale play and in East Texas. The Midstream Services segment engages in the marketing of its own gas production, as well as third party natural gas; and transportation of natural gas. As of December 31, 2008,Southwestern Energy Company estimated proved natural gas and oil reserves were approximately 2,185 billion cubic feet of gas equivalent.

IBERDROLA RENEWABLES (formerly PPM Energy) is a real power player in the energy industry. Part of IBERDROLA RENOVABLES global network, IBERDROLA RENEWABLES develops cogeneration power plants and wind farms; IBERDROLA RENEWABLES, Inc. has generating capacity of more than 3,100 MW in operation and more than 23,000 under construction or in the product pipeline, primarily in the Midwest and western US. IBERDROLA RENEWABLES also markets wholesale energy and offers risk and asset management services. The company's customers include public and private utilities, industrial companies, and other energy marketers. IBERDROLA RENEWABLES, Inc. holds the nonregulated North American operations of Scottish Power (acquired by IBERDROLA in 2007).

Parker Drilling parks its oil rigs off the beaten path. Parker Drilling Company helicopter-transportable rigs allow the drilling contractor to work in otherwise inaccessible desert, mountain, and remote jungle locations. Parker Drilling Company barge rigs allow the company to drill in transition zones (such as bays and marshes). Parker Drilling owns 28 land rigs and 17 US-based barge drilling and workover rigs. Parker Drilling Company drills worldwide (in nine countries in 2008) and has worked in 54 countries since its founding. Subsidiary Quail Tools provides rental tools for oil and gas drilling and workover activities, with operations in the Gulf Coast, the Rocky Mountains, and West Texas regions. Parker Drilling also has a drilling rig construction unit.

Altek Power hopes it has all the technology it needs to become a top player in the global electricity market. The independent power producer is a manufacturer of distributed generation plants. Altek Power Corporation operates a generation facility in Alberta that is fueled with solution gas (a waste product of the petroleum industry). Altek Power also sells distributed generation equipment, including waste gas-fired turbine generators and biomass (organic waste) energy systems. Altek Power Corporation provides engineering and construction services for power plants and other heavy industrial facilities.

Nippon Mining Holdings is involved in mining and energy operations. Subsidiary Japan Energy is engaged in both upstream and downstream oil and gas activities as well as petrochemical manufacturing. The company refines oil at its three refineries and markets its petroleum products through a network of 3,300 JOMO service stations throughout Japan. Petroleum products include gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, petrochemicals, lubricants, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). Subsidiary Nippon Mining & Metals is engaged in resources development activities such as smelting and refining, recycling and environmental services, metal fabrication, and the manufacture of electronic materials.

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