Desire Petroleum is a UK-based independent exploration company with a strong desire to explore for oil and gas in the waters offshore the Falkland Islands. Desire Petroleum plc holds extensive oil and gas exploration licenses in the North Falkland Basin. Desire Petroleum is trying to overcome legal, operational, and logistical hurdles to its drilling program. Since acquiring a 3D seismic survey in 2004 Desire Petroleum plc has identified new prospects and is making progress toward resuming drilling in the North Falkland Basin. Desire Petroleum plc, founded in 1996 to participate in the offshore licensing of the Falkland Islands, was named after HMS Desire, the British ship whose crew discovered the islands in 1592.

Newpark Resources, Inc. and its subsidiaries provide fluids management, waste disposal, and well site preparation products and services primarily to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. Newpark Resources, Inc. operates in three segments: Fluids Systems and Engineering, Mats and Integrated Services, and Environmental Services. The Fluids Systems and Engineering segment offers drilling fluids products and technical services to drilling projects involving subsurface conditions, such as horizontal, directional, geologically deep, or deep water drilling. This segment also provides completion fluids and equipment rental services. The Mats and Integrated Services segment offers mat rentals, location construction, and related well site services to exploration and production customers in the onshore U.S. Gulf Coast, western Colorado, and northeast U.S. regions; and mat rentals to the utility industry in the United Kingdom. It also installs access roads and temporary work sites for pipeline, electrical utility, and highway construction projects. Newpark Resources, Inc. provides its products and services primarily in the United States Gulf Coast, west Texas, east Texas, Oklahoma, North Louisiana, Rocky Mountains, and northeast region of the United States, as well as Canada, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and North Africa. Newpark Resources, Inc. was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas.

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.

Heading up petroleum transportation around the Great Lakes is Enbridge Energy Partners, which owns the 1,900-mile US portion of the world's longest liquid petroleum pipeline. When combined with the Canadian segment (owned and operated by Enbridge Inc.), the pipeline system spans some 3,500 miles across North America. Other midstream assets include 5,300 miles of crude oil gathering and transportation lines and 28.9 million barrels of crude oil storage and terminaling capacity, and 11,700 miles of natural gas gathering and transportation pipelines. Enbridge Energy Management owns a 14% stake in the company. In 2008 Enbridge Inc. boosted its overall stake in the partnership to 27%.

Our goal is to be the leading independent refiner and supplier of unbranded petroleum products in Europe and to be an industry leader in returning value to our shareholders. Petroplus Holdings (formerly Petroplus International) handles plus-sized amounts of petroleum. The company, which was founded in 1993 by Marcel van Poecke and Willem Willemstein, specializes in oil refining, storage, and marketing. Petroplus owns refineries in France, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. These refineries have a total capacity of 816,000 barrels per day. RIVR, an investment vehicle jointly owned by US private equity firms Carlyle Group and Riverstone Holdings, spent about $300 million in 2005 to acquire Petroplus and take it private. It went public again in 2006.

Empresas Copec's investments are concentrated in two large areas of specialization: energy and natural resources. In the energy field, Empresas Copec is prominent in the distribution of liquid fuels, liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas, and also electric power generation, sectors that are strongly linked with the growth and development of Chile. In natural resources, Empresas Copec is active in the forestry, commercial fishing and mining industries, fields in which the country enjoys clear-cut comparative advantages. The position achieved by Empresas Copec is the result of an efficient cost structure, continual commercial efforts and a conservative financial profile. Long-term vision combined with the hard work and drive of its people have enabled Empresas Copec to lead markets and grow soundly while keeping up its firm commitment with Chile.

PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP) was established for the sole purpose of searching for black gold, that is. PTT Exploration and Production Public engages in petroleum exploration and production, with more than 40 active projects in Algeria, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Oman, Thailand, and Vietnam. The company has proved reserves of 946 million barrels of oil equivalent. PTT Exploration and Production Public end products include crude oil, natural gas, liquid propane gas, and condensate. PTTEP also operates natural gas pipelines. PTT Exploration and Production Public was founded in 1985; PTT Public Co. owns 66% of its shares.

Monument Resources, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is based in Denver, Colorado. Monument Resources, Inc. engages in the exploration, development, production, and sale of oil and gas from its properties in the United States. Monument Resources, Inc. also involves in acquiring and brokering mineral, and oil and gas properties, as well as operates a gas pipeline. Monument Resources, Inc. offers natural gas and crude oil to various producers, including pipeline companies. It owns interest in the Kansas gas project covering approximately 4,500 acres of oil and gas leases located in Leavenworth County, Kansas. As of September 30, 2008, Monument Resources owned interest in approximately 62 gas wells in Leavenworth County, Kansas. Monument Resources, Inc. was formerly known as Monument Resource Development, Inc. and changed its name to Monument Resources, Inc. in June 1987.

Occidental Petroleum Corporation was founded in 1920 and is based in Los Angels, California.Occidental Petroleum Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an oil and gas exploration and production company. Occidental Petroleum Corporation has three segments: Oil and Gas; Chemical; and Midstream, Marketing, and Other. The Oil and Gas segment engages in the exploration, development, production, and marketing of crude oil, natural gas liquids, and condensate and natural gas in Texas, New Mexico, California, Kansas, Oklahoma, Utah, and Colorado, as well as in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Libya, Oman, Qatar, the unite Arab Emirates, and Yemen. As of December 31, 2008, Occidental Petroleum Corporation had proved reserves of approximately 2,978 million barrels of oil equivalent. The Chemical segment manufactures and markets basic chemicals, vinyls, and performance chemicals. The Midstream, Marketing, and Other Segment gathers, treats, processes, transports, stores, trades, and markets crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids, and condensate and carbon dioxide, as well as generates and markets power. In addition, Occidental Petroleum Corporation involves in the calcium chloride business.

Mullen Group has mulled over its future and has decided it is about oil field services and trucking. Mullen Group Ltd. oil field services unit moves overweight and oversized equipment, such as drilling rigs, for the oil and gas industry in Western Canada. Mullen Group Ltd. also transports heavy oil and offers drilling, production, and pipeline services. Mullen's trucking unit provides truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation in Canada, Mexico, and the US. (Mullen has acquired more than 20 companies since 2002, including its nearly $1 billion purchase of Producers Oilfield Services). Mullen Group Ltd. reorganized from an income trust into a traditional corporation in 2009 to allow for greater financial flexibility.

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