OPTI Canada is doing its best to optimize the value of Canadian oil sands. OPTI Canada Inc. uses its OrCrude technology to upgrade bitumen without natural gas, providing a more cost-efficient method of processing. Combined with other processes, the technology is expected to produce high-quality synthetic crude from oil sands. OPTI Canada is in a joint venture with energy company Nexen to develop the Long Lake Project in the Athabasca oil sands area of Alberta. The project is the first to integrate in-situ bitumen recovery with on-site upgrading. OPTI Canada owns about 1.5 billion barrels of synthetic crude (primarily premium sweet crude having a low-sulfur content) expected to be produced annually by the project.

Gary-Williams Energy Corporation (GWEC) is a small, independent oil and gas company, headquartered in Denver, with operations primarily in the Mid-Continent region of the United States. With approximately 300 employees, the company's subsidiaries include Wynnewood Refining Company (Oklahoma), Gary-Williams Production Company and Gary-Williams Real Estate Company. Refining and wholesale marketing are now the company's primary businesses. The company maintains a small marketing office in Oklahoma City. Today, the company's major asset is a 70,000 BPD crude oil refinery in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, purchased from Kerr-McGee in mid-1995, and operated as Wynnewood Refining Company (WRC). The refinery produces gasoline, diesel fuel, military jet fuel, solvents and asphalt.

Trafina is focused on growth: dynamic growth through mergers, exploitive growth through the drilling of coal bed methane assets and portfolio growth through exploration. Trafina's plan is to stay disciplined financially and increase its operatorship as it grows. Trafina is a junior oil and gas company based in Calgary, Alberta. The Company's main areas of interest are in the Rangeview and Divide areas of southwest Saskatchewan and in the Pembina area of Alberta with other operated production in Wetaskawin, Retlaw and Ronalane in Alberta. TRAFINA Energy produces and explores for oil and natural gas in Alberta, Canada. TRAFINA Energy Ltd. drills conventional well and brings up oil and gas using unconventional drilling as well. More than half the company's revenues come from operational activities in the Wetaskiwin area of Alberta (a vast majority are natural gas sales). In addition to its Wetaskiwin projects where TRAFINA Energy Ltd. is the driller and operator, TRAFINA also has non-operated oil and gas properties in the area and in other parts of Alberta. TRAFINA Energy Ltd. produces an average of more than 300 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Chairman and CEO Roland Valentine founded TRAFINA in 1991.

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. was founded in 1920 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. engages in the contract drilling of oil and gas wells in the United States and internationally. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. provides drilling rigs, equipment, personnel, and camps on a contract basis to explore for and develop oil and gas from onshore areas and from fixed platforms, tension-leg platforms, and spars in offshore areas. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. conducts domestic land drilling primarily in Oklahoma, California, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Utah, Arkansas, New Mexico, and North Dakota; and offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, offshore of California, Trinidad, and Equatorial Guinea. As of September 30, 2009, Helmerich & Payne, Inc. had 201 land drilling rigs in the United States; 9 offshore platform rigs; and international land rigs, including 1 in Venezuela, 6 in Colombia, 4 in Ecuador, 9 in Argentina, 1 in Tunisia, and 6 rigs in Mexico. In addition, Helmerich & Payne engages in the ownership, development, and operation of commercial real estate properties, as well as the research and development of rotary steerable technology.

Basic Energy Services, Inc. provides a range of well site services to oil and gas drilling and producing companies in the United States. Basic Energy Services, Inc. Well Servicing segment provides services in a mobile well servicing rig, including installation and removal of downhole equipment, elimination of obstructions in the well bore, and plugging and abandonment services. This segment operates a fleet of 405 well servicing rigs and related equipment. Basic Energy Services, Inc. Fluid Services segment provides oilfield fluid supply, transportation, and storage services, which include transportation of fluids used in drilling and workover operations; sale and transportation of fresh and brine water; operation of company-owned fresh water and brine source wells; rental of portable frac tanks and test tanks; and preparation, construction, and maintenance of access roads, drilling locations, and production facilities. Basic Energy Services, Inc. owns and operates nine land drilling rigs. Basic Energy Services, Inc. operates in onshore oil and natural gas producing regions located in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Wyoming, North Dakota, Colorado, Utah, and Montana. Basic Energy Services, Inc. is based in Midland, Texas.

Savanna Energy Services provides field services to oil and gas customers in Canada. Savanna Energy Services Corp. provides well servicing through subsidiaries Great Plains Well Servicing, Accell Well Services, and Command Coil, and drilling services through Trailblazer Drilling Corp., Lakota Drilling, and Akuna Drilling. Savanna Energy maintains a fleet of 99 drilling rigs, 56 well servicing rigs, and eight coiled tubing units. Savanna Energy Services Corp. operates primarily in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Savanna Energy was formed in 2001 and completed a public offering in 2004. In 2007 Savanna Energy Services Corp. sold its Ultraline Services subsidiary, which provides cased hole wireline services, to Halliburton.

Warren Equities fills car tanks and stomachs in the US Northeast. The holding company sells fuel and groceries from more than 300 Xtra Mart brand service stations and convenience stores from Maine to Virginia. Warren's distribution companies supply those stores, as well as independent outlets, with gasoline, grocery, and tobacco products. Other Warren companies trade and store petroleum, provide environmental testing services, and make promotional signs and clothing. Founder Warren Alpert's foundation gives annual grants to medical researchers. Alpert died in 2007.

Rock Energy Resources, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Rock Energy Resources, Inc., an independent oil and natural gas company, engages in the exploration, development, and production of natural gas and crude oil properties in the United States. Rock Energy Resources, Inc. natural gas projects include the company's 100% operated working interest in the Wilcox trend in the Garwood field, a leasehold of 1,650 acres in Colorado County, Texas with 3P reserves estimated to be approximately 37.5 billion cubic feet; and a 100% working interest in the Bob West Prospect, a 1,110 acre leasehold in Starr County, Texas with Wilcox discovery potential equal to 250 billion cubic feet. Rock Energy is also producing oil from the Diatomite and Monterey formations in the Orcutt field and from the Northwest Casmalia Diatomite field, both located in Santa Barbara County, California, where there is a known resource base of approximately 2.5 billion barrels of oil in place. As of December 31, 2008, Rock Energy Resources, Inc. had total proved net oil reserves of 9,000 barrels and total proved net natural gas reserves of 555,420 thousands of cubic feet.

Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. engages in the acquisition, management, exploration, and development of oil and natural gas properties. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. holds properties and other oil and gas interests primarily in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas, the United States. As of September 30, 2009, Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. had working and/or royalty interests in 4,861 producing oil and natural gas wells, as well as in 40 wells that were in the process of drilling or completion. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. customers include pipeline and marketing companies. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. was formerly known as Panhandle Royalty Company and changed its name to Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. in March 2007. Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc. was founded in 1926 and is based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

FX Energy, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. FX Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an independent gas and oil exploration and production company with principal operations in Poland. FX Energy, Inc. also explores for and produces oil from fields in Montana and Nevada, the United States; and holds an oilfield services company in northern Montana that performs contract drilling and well servicing operations. FX Energy, Inc. has projects involving the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas prospects in partnership with the Polish Oil and Gas Company with a primary focus on the Rotliegend sandstones of the Permian Basin in Poland. FX Energy owns gas and oil exploration rights in 9 project areas encompassing approximately 5.4 million gross acres in Poland. As of December 31, 2008, its total proved estimated gas and oil reserves were 45.9 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent.

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