LUKOIL is one of the world’s leading vertically integrated oil & gas companies. Main activities of the Company are exploration and production of oil & gas, production of petroleum products and petrochemicals, and marketing of these outputs. Most of the Company's exploration and production activity is located in Russia, and its main resource base is in Western Siberia. LUKOIL owns modern refineries, gas processing and petrochemical plants located in Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, near-abroad countries. Most of the Company's production is sold on the international market. LUKOIL petroleum products are sold in Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, near-abroad countries and the USA. LUKOIL is the second largest private oil Company worldwide by proven hydrocarbon reserves. The Company has around 1.1% of global oil reserves and 2.3% of global oil production. LUKOIL dominates the Russian energy sector, with 18% of total Russian oil production and 19% of total Russian oil refining.

Manas Petroleum is a Baar, Switzerland headquartered international oil exploration and development company. It was founded as a private company in 2004 and during its first two years spent approximately $7 million acquiring and advancing its Kyrgyz, Tajik and Albanian projects. Its portfolio now totals more than 5 million acres in 5 countries. Manas Petroleum Corporation, which focuses on about 3 million acres of land in Chile, Kyrgyzstan, and Albania, typically acquires exploration rights and then, in an effort to keep costs down, farms out its development operations to local third parties. Manas often collaborates with Australian oil and gas company Santos for its activities.

Gastar Exploration Ltd. was founded in 1987 and is based in Houston, Texas. Gastar Exploration Ltd., an independent energy company, engages in the exploration, development, and production of natural gas and oil in the United States and Australia. Gastar Exploration Ltd. also involves in the development of coal bed methane (CBM). Gastar Exploration Ltd. owns and operates exploration and development acreage in the deep Bossier gas play of East Texas; and has exploration operations in the Marcellus Shale in West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania. Gastar Exploration Ltd. primary CBM properties are in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, the United States; and in the Gunnedah Basin of New South Wales, Australia.

NuStar GP Holdings, LLC (NYSE: NSH) owns general partner and limited partner interests in NuStar Energy L.P. (NYSE: NS), one of the nation's largest asphalt refiners and marketers and operators of petroleum product terminals and petroleum liquids pipelines. The general partner manages the business affairs of NuStar Energy L.P., which is a master limited partnership based in San Antonio, with 8,417 miles of pipeline, 82 terminal facilities and four crude oil storage facilities. It has assets strategically located in major U.S. markets and in the Netherlands Antilles, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. NuStar Energy L.P.'s asphalt refineries, refined product terminals, petroleum and specialty liquids storage and terminaling operations, and crude oil storage tank facilities are predominantly located on waterways that are easily accessible by barge or vessel. Altogether, these facilities have over 91 million barrels of storage capacity. NuStar Energy L.P.'s crude oil and refined products pipeline systems largely serve growing markets in the Mid-Continent, Southwest and Texas-Mexico border region of the United States.

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.

Holly Energy Partners is having a jolly good time piping petroleum. The company transports refined petroleum products and crude oil from Holly Corporation's Navajo refinery in New Mexico and Woods Cross refinery in Utah, and Alon USA's Big Spring refinery in Texas, to customers in the southwestern US. It operates 1,330 miles of refined petroleum pipelines (including 340 miles of leased pipelines), 11 distribution terminals, one jet fuel terminal, and two truck-loading facilities used to transport gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. Holly Corporation, the parent of the company's general partner (Holly Logistics), holds a 46% stake in Holly Energy Partners.

BP's French operations encompass a diverse palette of oil and energy offerings. BP France primarily runs one of the country's largest networks of service stations, with 430 sites nationwide. BP France markets heating and industrial fuels, bitumen, lubricants, and liquefied petroleum gas. It also produces specialty products for the marine and aviation sectors. BP France has manufacturing facilities outside Paris, Montpellier. Established in 1921, BP France foresees a broadening of its services, including the further development of gas, power, and renewable energy (primarily solar) operations.

Cobra Venture is posied to strike in the oil patches of Western Canada. Cobra Venture Corporation is an emerging exploration and production company focused on the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas reserves in Western Canada. Cobra Venture Corporation core properties are located in Viewfield in Saskatchewan (8 producing light oil wells on the Frobisher and Bakken formations, and 2,000 acres under development); Pembina in Alberta (40% interest in seven sections of land, with 10-12 potential drilling locations); and Inga in British Columbia (640 acres held under lease, expiring in 2011).

Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is based in Houston, Texas.Carrizo Oil & Gas sees its future in 3-D. Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. is an independent exploration and production company that explores for oil and gas in the Barrett Shale play of North Texas, and in proven onshore fields along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana, Carrizo aggressively acquires 3-D seismic data and arranges land lease options in conjunction with conducting seismic surveys. As part of a new strategy, Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. is exploiting the Marcellus Shale play (New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia). Carrizo has additional properties in the Rockies, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, New Mexico, and in the North Sea. In 2008 the firm reported proved reserves of 432.1 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent.

Noble Energy, Inc. was founded in 1932 and is based in Houston, Texas. Noble Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, production, and marketing of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids in the United States and internationally. Noble Energy, Inc. operates and holds interests in properties, including Wattenberg field and Piceance basin located in Colorado; San Juan basin in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado; Niobrara field in the tri-state area (eastern Colorado, extending into Kansas and Nebraska); Bowdoin field in north central Montana; and the Wind River basin in central Wyoming. Noble Energy, Inc. also holds properties in Texas, Panhandle, Oklahoma and Kansas deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Illinois, Indiana, and other areas. Noble Energy also operates in Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon in West Africa, the North Sea, Israel, Ecuador, China, and Suriname.

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