Blue Ridge Group, Inc was incorporated in August of 1993 as a Nevada Corporation. Once focused on Appalachia, holding company Blue Ridge Group, through its 14%-owned Bayou City Exploration unit, is now engaged in oil and gas exploration primarily in Texas and Louisiana. Bayou City Exploration conducts its activities through partnerships and the acquisition of direct stakes in oil and gas properties, and in exploratory and development wells. Blue Ridge Group, Inc. has four projects in Aransas, Willacy, and Kenedy Counties in coastal and south Texas, with estimated project reserves totalling 54.5 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent.

Santa Energy, through it subsidiaries, provides home heating fuel delivery (Santa Fuel), commercial fleet fueling services (Santa Fleet Services), and petroleum products distribution services (Santa Buckley Energy, Buckley Energy Group, and Inland Fuel Terminals) to customers in the New England region of the US. Santa Energy Corporation has a 120-vehicle fleet. Santa Energy Corporation also offers air conditioning, heating, air duct cleaning, plumbing repair, and chimney relining services. Santa Energy is controlled by the Santa family.

TerraVest Income Fund (formerly Laniuk Industries) holds six companies close to its vest. TerraVest Income Fund invests in RJV Gas Field Services and Ezee-On Manufacturing. RJV supplies wellhead processing equipment to some of Western Canada's biggest natural gas producers. Ezee-On manufactures agricultural equipment, including cultivators, front-end loaders for grain farms and livestock operations, and seeder carts. TerraVest also has investments in furniture maker Stylus, well servicing company Diamond Energy Services (with about 25 rigs), and home textile products manufacturer Beco Industries. In addition, TerraVest Income Fund has invested in sheet metal and venting products manufacturer Don Park.

EGPI Firecreek Inc., is focused on oil and gas production with an emphasis on acquiring existing oil fields with proven reserves and upside potential. EGPI Firecreek, Inc. specializes in the rehabilitation of potentially high throughput oilfields, resource properties and inventories. EGPI Firecreek has refocused on US oil and gas activities. EGPI Firecreek, Inc. produces and sells oil and natural gas from wells in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, and Knox County, Texas. EGPI Firecreek, Inc. had a strategic alliance with Sahara Group, an oil and gas concern with expertise in Eastern Europe, North Africa, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine, but wound this down in 2008. In 2009 in a diversification move, EGPI Firecreek subsidiary Asian Ventures Corp. acquired M3 Lighting as EGPI Firecreek, Inc. expanded into light and traffic fixture manufacturing.

Compressor Systems (CSI) manufactures, sells, and services compression equipment used by international oil and gas customers for well head compression, gas gathering and storage, liquid recovery, gas transmission, and pressure maintenance. Compressor Systems sells equipment primarily in the Great Plains, Intermountain West, and Southwest, and has sales and service offices in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. Compressor Systems, Inc. is owned by founder Johnny Warren's Warren Equipment Company.

Wellstream Holdings PLC makes flexible pipeline similar in form and function to garden hoses that is used primarily by the energy industry for transporting fluids. For offshore operations, Wellstream makes spoolable pipeline to connect underwater extraction facilities with the surface end of the operation. Wellstream Holdings PLC flexible pipe has been used in seas throughout the world, including the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and offshore Brazil, where its product has reached depths of 2,000 meters. Customers have included BHB Billiton, Norsk Hydro, Exxon Mobil, Petrobras, and Kerr-McGee. Wellstream was founded in 1983 in Panama City, Florida USA.

Eagle Rock Energy Partners, L.P., together with its subsidiaries, engages in gathering, compressing, treating, processing, transporting, and selling natural gas, as well as in fractionating and transporting natural gas liquids (NGL). It also involves in acquiring, developing, and producing oil and natural gas working interests in Alabama and Texas; and acquiring and managing fee minerals and royalty interests. The company has natural gas gathering and processing assets in Texas Panhandle, east Texas/Louisiana, south Texas, west Texas, and the Gulf of Mexico. The Texas Panhandle operations include East Panhandle System and West Panhandle System. The East Panhandle System consists of approximately 1,100 miles of natural gas gathering pipelines; and 4 natural gas processing plants. The West Panhandle System has approximately 2,643 miles of natural gas gathering pipelines; 3 natural gas processing plants; 1 propane fractionation facility; and 1 condensate collection facility. The east Texas/Louisiana activities include approximately 1,195 miles of natural gas gathering pipelines; 2 cryogenic processing plants; 5 JT/refrigeration processing plants; and a 19-mile NGL pipeline. The south Texas operations consist of approximately 266 miles of natural gas pipeline; a compressor stations; and 3 processing stations. The Gulf of Mexico activities include approximately 40 miles of natural gas gathering pipelines; 2 cryogenic processing plants; and a NGL fractionator. Eagle Rock Energy GP, L.P. serves as the general partner of Eagle Rock Energy Partners, L.P. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Houston, Texas.

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.

Continental Energy is a junior oil and gas exploration company with assets in Indonesia. Continental Energy has production-sharing contracts giving it exclusive petroleum exploration and production rights in two significant exploration concessions, the Bengara-II (with about 1.2 million acres) and the Yapen block. The exploration and production company also had a concession to develop the Bangkudulis Oil Field, but sold it in 2005. In 2007 Continental Energy set up a biofuels subsidiary, Continental Biofuels. Directors and officers own about 24% of the Continental Energy.

Enerplus Resources Fund was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. Enerplus Resources Fund, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an open-end investment trust. Enerplus Resources Fund owns a diversified portfolio of crude oil and natural gas producing properties in the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, western Canada; and in the states of Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Utah, the United States. As of December 31, 2008, Enerplus Resources Fund had proved plus probable reserves of approximately 120,694 thousand barrels of light and medium crude oil; 45,929 thousand barrels of heavy crude oil; and 17,817 thousand barrels of natural gas liquids and 1,487,668 million cubic feet of natural gas.

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