Petrobras Distribuidora is the retail distribution arm of Brazil's state-owned oil company, PETROLEO BRASILEIRO (PETROBRAS), which is also the country's largest government-controlled business. From its warehouses and 6,780 service stations, Petrobras Distribuidora (known by the brand name BR) furnishes the nation with petroleum derivative products, including gasoline, lubes, fuel oil, hydrated alcohol, and natural gas. Petrobras Distribuidora is also building up its market position in a number of neighboring countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Uruguay.

Miller Petroleum, Inc. was founded in 1967 and is based in Huntsville, Tennessee. Miller Petroleum, which operates as Miller Energy Resources, has been exploring and producing in the southern Appalachian region since 1967. Miller Petroleum, Inc. operates oil and gas wells, organizes joint drilling ventures with partners, and rebuilds and sells oil field equipment (including compressors, oil field trailers, and drilling rigs). Active in drilling and production in eastern Tennessee, in 2008 Miller had total proved reserves of 1.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 74,413 barrels of crude oil. Miller Petroleum, Inc. is developing more than 43,490 acres of oil and gas leases. Diversifying, in 2009 it acquired Alaskan oil explorer Cook Inlet Energy.

Cudd Pumping Services, a division of Cudd Energy Services (a subsidiary of RPC), provides well control and stimulation services and equipment to customers in the oil and gas industry. Other services include coiled tubing, snubbing, wireline, nitrogen, and marine services. Cudd Pumping Services designs specific treatments for treating wells using pretreatment fluid testing to maximize compatibility, stability, and cost effectiveness. Cudd Pumping Services provides acidizing and fracturing products and other pumping and oilfield equipment. Cudd Pumping Services has offices in Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Bolt Technology Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of marine seismic data acquisition equipment to the oil and gas industry worldwide. Bolt Technology Corporation operates in three segments: Seismic Energy Sources, Underwater Cables and Connectors, and Seismic Energy Source Controllers. The Seismic Energy Sources segment develops, manufactures, and sells marine seismic energy sources (air guns) and replacement parts. The Underwater Cables and Connectors segment provides underwater cables, connectors, hydrophones, depth and pressure transducers, and seismic source monitoring systems. The Seismic Energy Source Controllers segment offers air gun controllers/synchronizers, data loggers, and auxiliary equipment. The company serves marine seismic exploration contractors and oil and gas companies. Bolt Technology was founded in 1960 and is based in Norwalk, Connecticut.

GeoGlobal Resources Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. Oil and gas exploration and production company GeoGlobal Resources' resources are focused on the Indian subcontinent. Through its subsidiaries, GeoGlobal Resources Inc. is involved in production-sharing contracts with the Indian government, exploring four blocks in Gujarat, two in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin offshore eastern India, two in Maharashtra (in western India), and two in Rajasthan. GeoGlobal, along with its partners in the projects, has conducted 3D seismic surveying and multi-well drilling activities, but it is yet to commercially produce any oil or natural gas. President and CEO Jean Roy owns 49% of the company.

Melrose Resources plc is an Edinburgh-based oil and gas exploration, development and production company with interests in Egypt, Bulgaria, Romania, United States, France and Turkey. Melrose was founded in the 1990's and was listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in 1999. In 2008, Melrose was admitted to the FTSE 250 share index. Melrose Resources plc, which in 2006 had proved reserves (primarily in Egypt) of 17.3 million barrels of oil and 211.5 billion cu. ft. of natural gas, also produces and distributes ethanol in the US. Melrose Resources plc interests in the US are primarily in Texas and New Mexico. Melrose Resources' primary strategy for growth is to take large equity positions in upstream assets and ramp up the assets' value to shareholders. Melrose Resources plc range of activities include wildcat exploration, new field development, and enhanced recovery projects.

Blue Rhino, the cerulean rhinoceros with a flaming snout is displayed across all 50 states in the US and Puerto Rico. Blue Rhino exchanges propane cylinders (the ones used for gas grills). Customers exchange empty cylinders for prefilled ones at hardware and convenience stores, including Home Depot, Lowe's, Wal-Mart, and Circle K. In an effort to gain greater control over distribution, the company has acquired additional independent propane distributors that deliver the cylinders to stores. Blue Rhino also serves the paintball market through Rhino Power, which provides a retail-based CO2 tank exchange program. Blue Rhino is a unit of propane powerhouse Ferrellgas.

Duncan Energy Partners owns interests in assets located primarily in Texas and Louisiana, including interests in approximately 9,200 miles of natural gas pipelines with a transportation capacity aggregating approximately 6.8 billion cubic feet (“Bcf”) per day; more than 1,600 miles of NGL and petrochemical pipelines featuring access to the world's largest fractionation complex at Mont Belvieu, Texas; two NGL fractionation facilities located in south Texas; approximately 18 million barrels (“MMBbls”) of leased NGL storage capacity; 8.5 Bcf of leased natural gas storage capacity; and 34 underground salt dome caverns with more than 100 MMBbls of NGL storage capacity at Mont Belvieu.

Superior Well Services, Inc. provides a range of wellsite solutions to oil and natural gas companies in the United States. Superior Well Services, Inc. operates in two segments, Technical Services and Fluid Logistics. The Technical Services segment offers technical pumping services comprising stimulation services to improve the flow of oil and natural gas from producing zones; nitrogen services that use nitrogen to stimulate wellbores; and cementing services that ensure proper pump time, compression strength, and fluid loss control. Superior Well Services, Inc. also provides completion and production services, including plugging and abandonment services, and roustabout services on well sites. In addition, Superior Well Services, Inc. sells expendable equipment that is used during the cementing process and in the completion of wells, such as plugs, tubing anchors, retainers, and other accessories; and rents electric generators, lighting equipment, and a line of reusable tools and equipments that are used in the completion and production phases. Superior Well Services, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Iteration Energy reiterates its desire to be a top oil and gas exploration and production company. Originally a biotech company -- SYNSORB Biotech, then an oil and gas company -- Hawker Resources, the group subsequently acquired other companies exploring in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin for natural gas and oil. As Hawker Resources it acquired fellow explorers Southward Energy and ZORIN Exploration in 2003 and 2004, respectively. In 2005 Iteration Energy Ltd. acquired Iteration Energy and took on that company's name. Following Iteration Energy's acquisition of fellow explorer Cyries Energy in 2008 the company reported proved reserves of 34.7 million barrels of oil equivalent.

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