Northern Natural Gas (NNG) keeps the pipes gassed up. The company operates 15,140 miles of pipeline stretching from the Permian Basin in Texas to the Great Lakes in the Midwest. It also provides transportation and storage services (five natural gas storage facilities) to some 75 utilities and a variety of other customers in the Upper Midwest. NNG has a 5.3 billion cu. ft. per day market area peak capacity. Dynegy took over NNG in 2002 from the pipeline unit's former parent, bankrupt energy giant Enron. The deal was part of Dynegy's proposed acquisition of Enron, which was called off. To strengthen its own balance sheet, Dynegy sold NNG to MidAmerican Energy Holdings later that year.

Operating four oil refineries, with a total of 28.1 million tons annual crude oil processing capacity, Tüpraş is Turkey’s largest industrial enterprise. In addition, a 50,000 ton capacity petrochemical production facility, a majority stake ( 79,98 %) in shipping company DİTAŞ and 40% share ownership of petrol retailer Opet, creates synergies and adds value to the operations. The roots of Tüpraş, an integrated petroleum company with a large market share, corporate reliability, production complexes and affiliates, dates back to İPRAŞ (İstanbul Petrol Rafinerisi A.Ş.) founded by the U.S. Caltex Company. In 1983, İPRAŞ and three other publicly owned refineries were brought under the Tüpraş umbrella by arrangements made for a more effective operation of State Economic Enterprises. The first step for operational diversification of Tüpraş was the purchase in 2001 of the Petkim Yarımca facilities, putting in place the ready-to-operate infrastructure for enlargement projects that were needed by the refining operations.

Holly Energy Partners is having a jolly good time piping petroleum. The company transports refined petroleum products and crude oil from Holly Corporation's Navajo refinery in New Mexico and Woods Cross refinery in Utah, and Alon USA's Big Spring refinery in Texas, to customers in the southwestern US. It operates 1,330 miles of refined petroleum pipelines (including 340 miles of leased pipelines), 11 distribution terminals, one jet fuel terminal, and two truck-loading facilities used to transport gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. Holly Corporation, the parent of the company's general partner (Holly Logistics), holds a 46% stake in Holly Energy Partners.

Regency Energy Partners LP (NASDAQ: RGNC) is midstream natural gas services provider, committed to enhancing and building America’s energy infrastructure. Regency is a growth-oriented Master Limited Partnership that specializes in the gathering and processing, contract compression, and transportation of natural gas and natural gas liquids. Regency focuses on servicing the prolific natural gas producing regions in the United States. Regency’s general partner is owned by an affiliate of GE Energy Financial Services (GE EFS), a business unit of GE (NYSE: GE). Regency serves as a platform for GE EFS’ growth in the midstream sector, and has the ability to support a thriving and growing natural gas market for generations to come.

Crimson Exploration, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in Houston, Texas.Crimson Exploration, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, development, exploitation, and exploration of oil and natural gas properties, primarily in the onshore U.S. Gulf Coast and South Texas regions. Crimson Exploration, Inc. also has operations and prospective acreage in the Denver Julesburg Basin of Colorado; and owns acreage positions in the Haynesville Shale play in East Texas. As of December 31, 2008, it had a total of 358 gross oil and natural gas productive wells, as well as estimated proved reserves of approximately 131.9 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent. Crimson Exploration, Inc. was formerly known as GulfWest Energy, Inc. and changed its name to Crimson Exploration, Inc. in May 2005.

rek Resources, Inc. is an independent energy company that is engaged in the exploration, development, exploitation and acquisition of on-shore oil and natural gas properties in conventional producing areas of the United States. Trek Resources, Inc. originally incorporated our company in the State of Utah in 1983 under the name of Quasar-Tech, Inc. Trek Resources is on has it exploring for and producing oil and natural gas primarily in Texas and Oklahoma, but also in New Mexico. Trek Resources, Inc. business strategy is to refurbish and improve the production potential of existing oil and gas producing properties and to develop non-producing and undeveloped reserves on other properties that it owns. Formerly a publicly traded company, Trek Resources was taken private in a reverse stock split in May 2005; chairman and CEO Michael Montgomery owns a controlling stake in the company.

Qatargas Operating Company Limited operates offshore in the North Field and onshore at Ras Laffan, a vast petroleum complex, where natural gas is cooled to a liquid form for easier transport by ship. The Middle East nation of Qatar is the world's #1 producer of liquified natural gas (LNG) and Qatargas, a subsidiary of Qatar Petroleum, owns a share of that rating. Qatargas Operating Company Limited produces more than 31 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG along with byproducts condensate, sulfur compounds, and helium. Qatargas' four trains, or plants, supply utility customers in Europe, Asia, and North America with Japan and Spain leading and China coming on fast. Major customers include CNOOC, Chubu Electric, and Gas Natural.

Chaparral Energy is an independent oil and gas producer and operator with headquarters in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and field offices throughout the South Central United States. Chaparral has experienced steady growth since beginning its operations in 1988. Although predominately a Mid Continent and Permian Basin producer, Chaparral has operations extending from off-shore gulf coast in south Texas, east to Mississippi, west to Utah and north to North Dakota. In the beginning, Chaparral Energy, Inc. primarily targeted acquisition opportunities operated in environments that had been abandoned by other producers. Chaparral Energy, Inc. has become known for its expertise and specialization in well rejuvenation. Chaparral has transitioned from mostly an acquisition company into an active drilling company, and in 2004 began acquiring license rights to existing 3D seismic to evaluate additional drilling opportunities. Chaparral is also known for its expertise in enhanced oil recovery and has a large inventory of carbon dioxide (CO2) tertiary recovery projects in the Mid-Continent and Permian Basin.

Russia's Sakhalin Island is Big Oil nirvana. The area's estimated reserves top 500 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 150 million tons of oil. Sakhalin Energy is a consortium of Royal Dutch Shell, Russia's Gazprom, and Japan's Mitsui and Mitsubishi formed to exploit those resources. Its facilities include offshore platforms, an oil pipeline terminal and a natural gas liquefaction plant, which the company hopes will give it an edge in serving the growing demand in Asia. Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. was formed in 1994 to develop the Piltun-Astokhskoye oil field and the Lunskoye gas field in the Sea of Okhotsk offshore Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East. Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. began producing and exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2009. The first delivery was to Japan in March of that year.

PetroBakken Energy is developing its holdings in the Bakken oil shale play in southeast Saskatchewan. Formerly an oil and gas explorer and producer in Alberta and Saskatchewan, in 2009 PetroBakken Energy Ltd. (as TriStar Oil and gas) combined with the Canadian business unit of Petrobank Energy and Resources to form PetroBakken Energy, solely focused on the Bakken Shale play. PetroBakken Energy has estimated proved plus probable reserves of 127 million barrels of oil equivalent, and produces about 37,000 barrels per day. Petrobank Energy controls about two-thirds of the company. In 2010 PetroBakken Energy agreed to buy Canadian junior oil and gas firms Berens Energy for $319 million and Result Energy for $480 million.

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