Neste Oil Corporation is a refining and marketing company concentrating on low-emission, high-quality traffic fuels. The company's strategy is based on growing both its oil refining and premium-quality renewable diesel businesses. Neste Oil's refineries are located in Porvoo and Naantali and have a combined crude oil refining capacity of approx. 260,000 barrels a day. Neste Oil goes for the black gold in Finland. The state-controlled firm focuses on refining, marketing, and shipping oil products, including gasoline, biodiesel fuel, and lubricants. Neste Oil primarily sells its products domestically, but also exports to customers in North America and Europe. It operates about 890 gas stations in Finland, and almost 290 outside the country (in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Northwest Russia). The company also has a biodiesel plant, as well as a diesel production line. The Finnish government owns more than 50% of Neste Oil, which was founded shortly after World War II to ensure a steady oil supply for the country.

Talisman Energy Inc. was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.Talisman Energy Inc. also explores in North Africa and in Latin America and the Caribbean region. In the North Sea the company operates more than 40 oilfields and has a large exploration holding in offshore Norway. Talisman Energy Inc. also has a vast acreage of natural gas reserves in Southeast Asia. In 2008 Talisman reported proved reserves of 1.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent and a production rate of 432,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

Fortress Energy Inc. is an Alberta-incorporated company whose primary focus is exploration, development and production of natural gas reserves in Western Canada. Fortress Energy Inc. exited its drug discovery business in 2004, and began acquiring oil and gas companies. In 2005 Fortress Energy (as SignalEnergy) acquired Predator Exploration, as well as Privateco, whose main asset resided in the Chigwell region of Central Alberta. Predator had natural gas properties in northeastern British Columbia and in West-Central and Central Alberta. In 2009 Fortress Energy reported it had 160,464 gross acres and net proved reserves of 30.8 billion cu. ft. of natural gas equivalent.

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.

Navigating the midstream energy markets, Magellan Midstream Holdings owns and controls Magellan GP, LLC, the general partner of Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P., which is engaged in the transportation, storage, and distribution of refined petroleum products. Magellan Midstream Partners' portfolio includes 29 inland terminals, and 1,100 miles of ammonia pipeline, 9,400 miles of refined petroleum pipeline, and 50 distribution terminals in the US Midwest. The partnership also owns seven marine terminal facilities with a combined usable storage capacity of 22 million barrels.

Dawson Geophysical Company provides onshore seismic data acquisition services in the United States. Dawson Geophysical Company acquires and processes two dimensional (2D), three dimensional (3D), and multi-component seismic data for oil and gas companies and independent oil and gas operators, as well as for providers of multi-client data libraries. Dawson Geophysical Company 2-D method involves the collection of seismic data in a linear fashion and generates a single plane of subsurface seismic data. Its 3-D method produces a volume of seismic data, which produces precise images of the earth's subsurface. As of September 30, 2008, Dawson Geophysical Company operated 16 seismic data acquisition crews in the lower 48 states of the United States and a seismic data processing center. Dawson Geophysical Company was founded in 1952. Dawson Geophysical Company is headquartered in Midland, Texas and has additional offices in Houston, Denver, Oklahoma City, and Michigan.

Coulson Oil Company was founded in 1969 and is based in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Coulson Oil Company, Inc. distributes gasoline and diesel fuel to convenience stores and fuel outlets in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Oklahoma. It offers c-store equipment installation, repair, and maintenance services, as well as provides loading, hauling, and delivery services. The company involves in buying, selling, and leasing convenience stores and commercial properties. It also offers pump repair and calibration, RPZ and fuel line testing, line leak/line leak detector testing, environmental compliance assistance, HVAC and refrigeration installation and repair, and EPOS installation and repair services.

EV Energy Partners is a natural gas and oil exploration and production company, which operates in the Appalachian Basin, primarily in West Virginia and Ohio, as well as in Louisiana, Michigan, Oklahoma, and Texas. In 2007 EV Energy Partners reported estimated proved reserves of 250 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 4.5 million barrels of oil. Its base in the Appalachian Basin puts EV Energy Partners in close proximity to the nation's major consuming markets, allowing for stronger pricing power. EV Energy Partners was formed in 2006 by Canadian energy industry investment group EnerVest, which owns 71% of EV Energy Partners' general partner.

Addax Petroleum Corporation specializes in exploring and producing oil and gas, focusing on regions in West Africa and the Middle East. Addax Petroleum, which has properties in Nigeria, Gabon, Cameroon, and the Kurdistan region of Iraq, produces about 137,000 barrels of crude oil a day. In 2008 Addax Petroleum reported proved and probable reserves of 536.7 million barrels of oil equivalent and held 4.4 million acres of exploration, development and production properties. That year the company was acquired by China's Sinopec for about $7.5 billion.

Richland Partners (doing business as Leffler Energy) puts its energy into supplying home heating oil products to areas of Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and Delaware. Richland Partners, LLC also installs and services heat pumps, central air conditioning, and hot water heaters. Meenan Oil, a subsidiary of Star Gas, purchased both SICO and Leffler and merged them to form Leffler Energy in 2003. With its roots in serving farming communities, Leffler Energy still provides a broad range of fueling and energy services (from customer service centers and storage facilities) to rural businesses throughout central and eastern Pennsylvania.

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