Founded in 1951 as the Israel Fuel Corporation, a small chain of gas stations in an emerging nation Israel’s thriving economy nourished the company, allowing it to expand into a dynamic blue-chip conglomerate. Renown for its fuel marketing activities, Delek is currently a globally diverse investment group active in energy and infrastructure, financial services, real estate automotive and more.Through a long series of prudent and successful acquisitions, Delek has grown from strength to strength. The prominent and renowned entrepreneur, Mr. Isaac Sharon (Tshuva), assumed control in 1998. In 2000, the Group was restructured and is now listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: DLEKG) and is a member of the index of the largest companies in Israel, the TA100. The Group, has converted local achievement into international success; Delek US, the operator of over 500 gas stations and convenience stores was established and subsequently purchased the La Gloria oil refinery and marketing facilities in Tyler, Texas. Delek Energy expanded into oil drilling in Vietnam, the US and Russia. Delek Capital acquired Republic Companies Inc., a US insurance group and Phoenix one of Israel's largest insurance companies. Delek Real Estate invested extensively in West European and Canadian real estate. Most recently Delek Benelux was established managing 870 gasoline stations and convenience stores under the Texaco brand name.

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.

Lundin Petroleum AB was formed in 2001 as a result of the takeover of Lundin Oil AB by Canadian independent Talisman Energy. The oil and gas exploration and production company focuses on developing oil and gas assets in Cambodia, Congo, France, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Tunisia, the UK, and Vietnam. In 2009 Lundin Petroleum reported proved and probable reserves of 217.5 million barrels of oil equivalent, the bulk of which was in the UK and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea. Oil accounts for more than 85% of the Lundin Petroleum's total reserves. The Lundin family owns 24% of the company.

Fabricom is a major provider of installation and maintenance services with a focus on serving the offshore and onshore oil and gas industry. Fabricom designs, builds, and maintains such installations as offshore drilling rigs and platforms and onshore oil and gas terminals, as well as processing plants, gas processing stations, and pipelines. Fabricom provides engineering input and specialized advice in the designing of construction projects, as well as on-site installation, commissioning, and maintenance. Fabricom has operating units in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and the UK. Fabricom is a major division of giant industrial services group GDF SUEZ.

Century Energy Ltd. is a junior oil and gas exploration company actively pursuing exploration opportunities in Canada and South America. Century Energy Ltd. owns the petroleum and natural gas rights to 1,100 acres in the Bakken oil formation in Southern Saskatchewan. In conjunction with TriAxon Resources Ltd. (its joint venture partner with extensive experience in the Backken Shale play) Century Energy Ltd. has succeeded in producing oil from its first exploratory Bakken well and plans to develop several others.

Transneft operates one of the largest networks of oil pipelines in the world. The company moves crude oil through more than 30,000 miles of pipeline stretching across Eastern Europe and Asia. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the government agency that controlled the Russian oil industry and the pipeline system (Glavtransneft) reorganized and in 1991 formed the joint-stock company Transneft. Transneft operates a transportation network consisting of more than 30,000 miles of pipeline, about 390 oil refilling (pump) stations, and more than 830 reservoirs capable of storing more than 15 million cu. meters of petroleum products. The company transports about 93% of the oil produced in Russia.

NuTech Energy Alliance provides petrophysical, geological, geophysical, field study, and well site services to customers worldwide. By using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology and related interpretive software, NuTech offers clients detailed geographical data that can be used to analyze potential oil fields. By 2009 the company had evaluated more than 30,000 wells and more than 450 oil and gas companies around the world. NuTech offers five offices in the US and seven offices in other countries. NuTech is a privately-owned company founded in 1998 by ex-Schlumberger and Numar (now Halliburton) executives who pioneered Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) R&D.

Forest Oil Corporation was founded in 1916 and is based in Denver, Colorado with additional offices in Houston, Texas; and Calgary and Alberta, Canada.Forest Oil Corporation engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of natural gas and liquids primarily in North America. Forest Oil Corporation principally sells natural gas on a month-to-month basis in the spot market under short-term contracts. As of December 31, 2008, its proved reserves were approximately 2,668 billion cubic feet equivalent.

Trading natural gas for retail cash, Gendis holds 2.5 million units of Fort Chicago Energy Partners, a limited partnership with interests in North American natural gas pipelines and plants. It also has interests in real estate. Gendis has said "sayonara" to its SAAN Stores subsidiary. Through that retail division, the firm had operated more than 200 department and houseware stores (under the SAAN and Red Apple Clearance Centre brand names) throughout Canada. Gendis sold SAAN Stores to a group of retail business investors in 2004. The company was founded in 1939.

Winner of the US Department of Energy 2007 Renewable Energy Marketer of the Year award, Sterling Planet is a sustainability pioneer and innovative supplier of renewable energy, energy efficiency and low-carbon solutions.Sterling Planet offers comprehensive carbon neutral solutions for businesses, universities and organizations of all types, bringing together supply and demand side solutions in a rapidly emerging environmental market. The company currently is developing next-generation solar and bioenergy projects to produce ‘green power’ and verified carbon offsets and is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Climate Leaders partner, committed to net zero greenhouse gas emissions from its business operations. Since 2001, sales of renewable energy to 928 business clients, 43 colleges and universities, 136 government agencies, 52 utilities and thousands of residential customers have avoided 25 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, which compares to taking 2 million cars off the road for a year.

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