As one of the fastest growing retail electricity providers in the nation, Gexa Energy has a proven track record of growing its business and providing value to customers. In addition, the company is a great sales platform for the Texas generation portfolio under the FPL Group’s competitive energy subsidiary, NextEra Energy Resources. NextEra Energy Resources is primarily a competitive wholesale power generator. NextEra Energy Resources is the largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun in North America. NextEra Energy Resources has nearly 70 wind facilities in operation in 16 states and Canada, including 11 in Texas, producing more than 6,700 megawatts of electricity, or enough power for more than 1.6 million average homes. The company co-owns and operates the largest solar field in the world in California’s Mojave Desert. Gexa Energy offers NextEra Energy’s wind power and other renewable energy to serve customers throughout Texas. Gexa Green is a product supplied from 100% Texas wind energy. Gexa Energy is a subsidiary of FPL Group, Inc. (NYSE: FPL). FPL Group, with 2008 revenues of more than $16 billion and a presence in 27 states is one of the nation’s leading clean energy providers. FPL Group’s proven resources provide Gexa Energy the opportunity to continue its rapid growth across Texas and the nation, and expand its ability to provide additional offerings to customers.

Maxum Petroleum is a national marketer and logistics company for petroleum products, focused on providing a comprehensive fuel and lubricant offering to commercial and industrial industries.As energy managers for our client’s fuel consuming assets, innovation and customer service have been the hallmarks of our success for over 50 years. Hedging and financial management tools, proprietary fuel management applications, asset maintenance, engineering & testing services and custom products differentiate Maxum in the marketplace. Sweeping changes are occurring in the petroleum distribution industry, including the rationalization of the distributor base by the branded suppliers, technology demands by large clients, and the need for efficiencies of scale to simply compete. Rapidly changing market conditions are a challenge Maxum welcomes and we believe our philosophy and strategic vision position us well to meet future demands.

Kiewit Offshore Services, Ltd. was founded in 2001. Kiewit Offshore Services, Ltd. is a subsidiary of employee-owned Peter Kiewit Sons' that primarily acts as a contractor for oil and gas production customers operating off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Kiewit Offshore Services, Ltd. primarily manufactures and repairs offshore oil and gas platforms and large structural steel components. In addition to deepwater projects, Kiewit Offshore Services also builds small platforms, modules, suction piles, and tendons. After partnering with Bullwinkle Constructors to build the Bullwinkle Jacket (the largest oil-production platform and the time of its completion), Peter Kiewit Sons' formed Kiewit Offshore Services.

Atlas Energy, Inc. operates as an independent natural gas and oil producer principally in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Tennessee. Atlas Energy, Inc. holds interests in various properties located in the Appalachian Basin; the New Albany shale in Indiana; the Antrim Shale located in northern Michigan; and the Chattanooga Shale located in Tennessee. Atlas Energy, Inc. also provides natural gas gathering services in the Anadarko, Arkoma, and Permian Basins, as well as the Golden Trend in the southwestern and mid-continent United States. In addition, Atlas Energy, Inc. offers natural gas processing and treatment services in Oklahoma and Texas; and interstate gas transmission services in southeastern Oklahoma, Arkansas, southern Kansas, and southeastern Missouri. Atlas Energy, Inc. owns and operates approximately 7,900 miles of intrastate gas gathering pipeline and a 565-mile interstate natural gas pipeline in the Mid-Continent region; and approximately 1,600 miles of natural gas gathering pipelines in Appalachia. Atlas Energy, Inc. is based in Moon Township, Pennsylvania.

New Concept Energy, Inc. was incorporated in 1991 and is based in Dallas, Texas. New Concept Energy (formerly CabelTel International) is looking to put a new face on some really old resources. New Concept Energy, Inc., which operates a residential community for senior citizens in Oregon, is looking to diversify into the shale-sourced natural gas business. New Concept Energy's retirement home offers programs ranging from meal preparation and housekeeping to transportation and recreational activities. New Concept Energy, Inc. formerly owned an outlet shopping mall, but sold that in 2007. It also rescinded its acquisition of cable operator CabelTEL AD that year.

Derek Oil & Gas Corporation was founded in 1981 as Cove Energy Corporation and changed its name to Derek Oil & Gas in 2003. Derek Oil & Gas explores for, acquires, and develops oil and gas properties in the US. Instead of searching for undeveloped properties, Derek Oil & Gas Corporation uses new recovery technologies to recover oil resources from existing oil and gas reservoirs. Derek Oil & Gas Corporation holds an indirect interest in the 8,000-acre LAK Ranch Project in the Powder River Basin of eastern Wyoming. Derek Oil & Gas Corporation is developing the project in collaboration with Ivanhoe Energy. The reservoir is expected to contain more than 190 million barrels of oil.

Century Energy Ltd. is a junior oil and gas exploration company actively pursuing exploration opportunities in Canada and South America. Century Energy Ltd. owns the petroleum and natural gas rights to 1,100 acres in the Bakken oil formation in Southern Saskatchewan. In conjunction with TriAxon Resources Ltd. (its joint venture partner with extensive experience in the Backken Shale play) Century Energy Ltd. has succeeded in producing oil from its first exploratory Bakken well and plans to develop several others.

Petrel Resources is incorporated in Ireland. Petrel Resources plc had signed a working agreement to explore Block 6 in Iraq's Western Desert during the reign of Saddam Hussein. Following the fall of Saddam, Petrel Resources has been seeking an agreement to develop three existing oil fields in Southern Iraq, while Petrel Resources plc renegotiates its Western Desert arrangements with the Iraqi government. Petrel Resources plc secured the first and largest contract awarded since 2003 by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil. Its core interest since 1999 has been the Subbha & Luhais project. Petrel Resources plc also has exploration interests in Jordan and Syria. Petrel Resources was founded in 1982 as Kish Developments.

Center Oil's core business is peddling petroleum. The company is one of the largest private wholesale distributors of gasoline and other petroleum products to customers primarily in the eastern region of the US. Center Oil owns a dozen storage terminals capable of storing 2.8 million barrels of petroleum products. It also has access to 36 terminals in 10 states, as well as access to the Magellan, Texas Eastern, Kinder Morgan Chicago, and Kaneb pipeline systems. Its products are also distributed through a fleet of ships, barges, and trucks.

Cenovus Energy reserves the right to recover and refine oil in the US and Canada. With major operations in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Cenovus Energy Inc. has proved reserves of some 909 million barrels of oil equivalent and about 1.9 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. Cenovus Energy Inc. also maintains ownership interest in two refineries in Illinois and Texas that are part of a 50/50 joint venture with ConocoPhillips. That venture provides integration of Cenovus' upstream oil production with downstream refining of such consumer products as diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel. Together, the refineries have a processing capacity of about 500,000 barrels of oil per day. Cenovus Energy was formed in late 2009 as a spinoff of EnCana.

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