From the tanker to the main, Enagás keeps gas moving. Enagás is engaged in the construction and operation of Spain's natural gas distribution pipeline infrastructure and the transportation and storage of natural gas to distributors and transporters in the region. It operates more than 4,750 miles of high-pressure gas pipeline, and a network of regulation and measurement stations, compression stations, regasification plants, and storage facilities. About 37% of the company's natural gas comes from sources in Algeria; 24% from Nigeria. Enagás, founded in 1972, has restructured its debt and reorganized its management structure in an effort to modernize its business.

Merit Energy Company is a private firm specializing in direct investments in oil and gas assets. Merit Energy Company acquires, develops, and operates mature producing oil and gas properties on behalf of equity-based limited partnerships. Merit Energy has operations 13 US states (primarily in the Rockies, Midcontinent, and the South and Southwest) and in the Canadian province of Alberta. It also has operations in Michigan and the Gulf of Mexico. In 2008 Merit Energy Company reported proved reserves of 471 million barrels of oil equivalent, and production of more than 94,400 barrels of oil equivalent per day. It has interests in more than 12,500 wells.

Canadian Oil Sands Trust puts its trust in the oil that is in the sands in Alberta being exploited by Syncrude Canada. The Syncrude partnership's large oil sands mine and supporting plants produce value-added light, sweet crude oil. Established in 1964, the Syncrude Project is the largest single source of oil in Canada and accounts for about 15% of the country's total oil production. With a 37% share, Canadian Oil Sands Trust is the largest shareholder in Syncrude (in which Imperial Oil and Petro-Canada also hold significant minority stakes). In 2008 Canadian Oil Sands Trust reported proved and probable reserves of 1.8 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) was set up to manage 5 million acres on Alaska's North Slope after the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971 cleared the way for oil development in the area. ASRC gets more than two-thirds of sales from its energy services subsidiary (ASRC Energy Services) and its petroleum refining and marketing unit (Petro Star). Other operations include construction, engineering, and governmental services. The family of companies of ASRC extends into the professional fields of engineering, financial management, oil and gas support services, petroleum refining and distribution, civil construction and communications.

Bucking Horse Energy Inc. is a public company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The company's business is focused on the exploration, development, and production of natural gas and natural gas liquids at its Pinedale Anticline natural gas properties in southwest Wyoming. Bucking Horse Energy has proved plus probable net reserves of 291 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent. In 2008 Gemini Energy (the parent of Arrowhead Resources) was acquired by NRG Investments (which subsequently changed its name to Bucking Horse Energy).

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.

Cimarex Energy's energy is devoted to oil and gas exploration and production. The independent is focusing its operations on the Midcontinent, Gulf Coast, Permian Basin, and Gulf of Mexico. Cimarex Energy Co. reported proved reserves in 2008 of about 1.1 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas and 45.2 million barrels of oil and natural gas liquids. Cimarex Energy participated in drilling 450 gross wells (about 280 net) during 2008. That year company-operated wells accounted for 83% of its total proved reserves and some 81% of it total production (of 22,940 barrels of oil per day).

Eurogas explores for oil and gas in Spain and Tunisia. Eurogas Corporation controls Escal, which operates the Castor underground natural gas storage project. The project involves converting the Amposta, an abandoned oil field, to a facility with a storage capacity of 67 billion cu. ft. of gas, which will supply up to one third of the country's natural gas. Eurogas also has a 45% interest in an exploration permit looking for oil and natural gas in a 1 million acre block in Tunisia's Bay of Gabes. Eurogas Corporation works with Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum to explore the region. Eurogas is majority owned by Canadian merchant banking and financial services group Dundee Corporation.

Sword Energy Inc., formerly Thunder Energy Trust, engages in the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Sword Energy Inc. is a privately-owned company. Sword Energy invests in oil and gas operations in Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan. Sword Energy Inc. (formerly called Thunder Energy Trust) has estimated proved reserves of about 26 billion barrels of oil equivalent, and produces about 7,800 barrels of oil equivalent a day (65% as natural gas). Sword Energy Inc. produces natural gas in Alberta's Peace River Arch and Deep Bain, as well as in Central, Northern and Western Alberta, and in Southeastern Saskatchewan. Aston Hill Financial, an investment group that specializes in the oil and gas business, owns Sword Energy.

Crystal Flash Energy, one of Michigan's largest energy-related products suppliers, delivers heating oil, propane, and other energy options to its 45,000 rural customers. Crystal Flash Energy's fleet of 125 trucks deliver propane and heating oil to thousands of homes, and gasoline and diesel fuel to trucking companies, construction firms, and farms. Crystal Flash Energy manage fuel supplies for homes, businesses and farms. Crystal Flash Energy also provide a number of environmental services and products to business. On the alternative energy side, it operates and sells electricity generated by wind-powered turbines. Crystal Flash Energy recycles used motor oil, oil filters, and antifreeze.

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