Equitrans, an indirect subsidiary of integrated natural gas behemoth EQT provides natural gas gathering, storage and transmission services through pipelines that connect to delivery points in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. EQT formed Equitrans to forge a new relationship between pipelines and their markets, where customers were not passive recipients of natural gas, but active, discriminating buyers of energy services. Equitrans is expanding it operations in the lucrative Marcellus Shale play in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, to better serve growing natural gas demand in the Northeast.

Kinder Morgan is one of the largest pipeline transportation and energy storage companies in North America with approximately 37,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. We transport, store and handle energy products like natural gas, refined petroleum products, crude oil, ethanol, coal and carbon dioxide (CO2). These products are essential for generating electricity, heating homes, powering cars and much more. Almost all of our assets are owned by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (NYSE: KMP), the largest publicly traded pipeline master limited partnership with an enterprise value of more than $29 billion. In most of our businesses, we operate like a giant toll road, receiving a fee for our services and providing connectivity for our customers. We are currently investing billions of dollars to construct new and expand existing infrastructure to help meet future energy demands in growing markets across North America.

Gulf Oil bridges the gap between petroleum producers and retail sales outlets. The petroleum wholesaler distributes gasoline and diesel fuel to more than 2,400 Gulf-brand stations in 11 northeastern states. Gulf Oil, which owns 12 (and operates a network of more than 60) storage terminals, also distributes motor oils, lubricants, and heating oil to commercial, industrial, and utility customers. Gulf Oil Limited Partnership has alliances with terminal operators in areas in the Northeast where it does not have a proprietary terminal. Gulf Oil boasts one of the oldest and most recognizable brands in the oil business. Regional convenience store chain and gas retailer Cumberland Farms controls the company.

Castle Oil, the largest independent heating oil distribution outfit in the New York metropolitan area. The company predominantly delivers heating oil to around 10,000 commercial, industrial, and real estate development customers through a fleet of more than 100 vehicles; it also provides homeowner delivery. Castle Oil owns three deep-water storage terminals in the area. It also markets natural gas as an alternative heating fuel to some 3,000 clients. The company was founded by Mauro Romita Sr., and is now owned and run by his descendants.

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.

Peyto Energy Trust (formerly PEYTO Exploration & Development) invests in long-life gas projects in Alberta's Central Deep Basin. Through subsidiary Peyto Exploration, it focuses on the Sundance and Smoky/Kakwa areas and has proved reserves of 124.3 million barrels of oil equivalent. It also operates gas plants and more than 200 miles of gas gathering pipeline. The company pursues a strategy of developing long-lived reserves requiring low operating costs in order to secure a high return on capital.

Gastar Exploration Ltd. was founded in 1987 and is based in Houston, Texas. Gastar Exploration Ltd., an independent energy company, engages in the exploration, development, and production of natural gas and oil in the United States and Australia. Gastar Exploration Ltd. also involves in the development of coal bed methane (CBM). Gastar Exploration Ltd. owns and operates exploration and development acreage in the deep Bossier gas play of East Texas; and has exploration operations in the Marcellus Shale in West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania. Gastar Exploration Ltd. primary CBM properties are in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, the United States; and in the Gunnedah Basin of New South Wales, Australia.

Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is based in Houston, Texas.Carrizo Oil & Gas sees its future in 3-D. Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. is an independent exploration and production company that explores for oil and gas in the Barrett Shale play of North Texas, and in proven onshore fields along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana, Carrizo aggressively acquires 3-D seismic data and arranges land lease options in conjunction with conducting seismic surveys. As part of a new strategy, Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. is exploiting the Marcellus Shale play (New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia). Carrizo has additional properties in the Rockies, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, New Mexico, and in the North Sea. In 2008 the firm reported proved reserves of 432.1 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent.

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.

Savanna Energy Services provides field services to oil and gas customers in Canada. Savanna Energy Services Corp. provides well servicing through subsidiaries Great Plains Well Servicing, Accell Well Services, and Command Coil, and drilling services through Trailblazer Drilling Corp., Lakota Drilling, and Akuna Drilling. Savanna Energy maintains a fleet of 99 drilling rigs, 56 well servicing rigs, and eight coiled tubing units. Savanna Energy Services Corp. operates primarily in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Savanna Energy was formed in 2001 and completed a public offering in 2004. In 2007 Savanna Energy Services Corp. sold its Ultraline Services subsidiary, which provides cased hole wireline services, to Halliburton.

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