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.

EXCO Resources, Inc. was founded in 1955 and is based in Dallas, Texas with additional offices in Akron, Ohio; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania; and The Woodlands, Texas. EXCO Resources, Inc., an independent oil and natural gas company, engages in the acquisition, development, and exploitation of onshore oil and natural gas properties. Its operations are focused on the North American oil and natural gas areas, including the east Texas/north Louisiana, Appalachia, mid-continent, and Permian.EXCO Resources, Inc. also involves in midstream operations in the east Texas/north Louisiana area. As of December 31, 2008, EXCO Resources’ proved reserves were approximately 1.9 trillion cubic feet equivalent. EXCO Resources, Inc. also operated 11,973 gross wells.

Crosstex Energy, L.P was founded in 1992 and is based in Dallas, Texas.Crosstex Energy, L.P gathers, transports, treats, and processes natural gas through more than 3,300 miles of natural pipeline, 10 processing plants, three fractionators, and 225 gas treating plants. Its revenues are generated through the purchase and resale of natural gas from more than 40 independent producers located along the US Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida. Through its treating division, Crosstex cleans carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide from natural gas, enabling it to meet pipeline quality requirements. Crosstex Energy Inc. owns and controls the general partner of Crosstex Energy.

Quicksilver Gas Services LP engages in gathering and processing natural gas and natural gas liquids on the Barnett Shale formation of the Fort Worth Basin located in north Texas. Quicksilver Gas Services LP provides its gathering and processing services to Quicksilver Resources Inc. and natural gas producers under fee-based contracts. As of December 31, 2008, Quicksilver Gas Services LP owned the Cowtown Pipeline, which consists of a pipeline gathering system and gas compression facilities in the southern portion of the Fort Worth Basin; and the Cowtown Plant that comprises two natural gas processing units, as well as the Corvette Plant, which consists of a natural gas processing unit in Hood County, Texas. Quicksilver Gas Services GP LLC serves as the general partner of Quicksilver Gas Services LP. Quicksilver Gas Services LP was founded in 2004 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas. Quicksilver Gas Services LP operates as a subsidiary of Quicksilver Resources Inc.

Martin Midstream Partners moves petroleum products. The company gets most of its sales from the distribution of liquefied petroleum gases (LPGs). Martin Midstream buys the LPGs from natural gas processors and oil refiners and sells them to propane retailers and industrial customers. Martin Midstream also manufactures sulfur and sulfur-based fertilizer products and provides marine transportation and storage of liquid hydrocarbons. The company operates primarily in the Gulf Coast region of the US. Martin Resource Management controls a 35% stake in Martin Midstream and owns its general partner.

Superior Plus has four divisions that try to live up to its bold corporate name. Superior Propane distributes propane and provides related services and products to clients across Canada through some 170 locations. Winroc, which has 44 branches in Canada and the US, offers construction products to the walls and ceilings industry. Superior Energy Management provides natural gas supply services to Canadian residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Another unit, ERCO Worldwide, offers potassium and chloralkali (chlorine and an alkaline salt) products in North America, as well as sodium chlorate and technology to the paper and pulp sectors.

No, Cosmo Oil is no relation to former Cosmo publisher Helen Gurley Brown. The company is one of Japan's top oil refiners and a major petroleum distributor. Cosmo Oil has four refineries; it markets its products through a network of more than 4,120 gas stations. The company imports crude oil from the Middle East and has affiliates in Singapore, the UK, and the US. Cosmo Oil is streamlining operations; it is pruning back its chain of service stations, and it has formed a refining and distribution joint venture with Nippon Oil that controls 40% of Japan's oil refining market. In 2008 Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment Company acquired 20% of the company and became its top shareholder.

NGAS Resources, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is based in Lexington, Kentucky. NGAS Resources, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration and production of natural gas principally in the southern portion of the Appalachian Basin in the eastern United States. NGAS Resources, Inc. also has interests in the New Albany shale play within the Illinois Basin in western Kentucky, as well as interests in a non-operated coalbed methane project in the Arkoma Basin and non-operated projects in West Virginia and Virginia. In addition, NGAS Resources, Inc. own rights to gold and silver properties covering 381 acres on Unga Island in the Aleutian Chain, southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. Further, NGAS Resources, Inc. owns and operates distribution systems for retail sales of natural gas for two communities in southcentral Kentucky. The company's customers include gas marketing intermediaries, pipelines, transmission companies, and local refineries.

Spectra Energy Partners LP is a growth-oriented, Delaware master limited partnership formed by Spectra Energy Corp, headquartered in Houston, Texas, to own and operate natural gas transportation and storage assets. Spectra Energy, which is comprised of the former natural gas businesses of Duke Energy Corporation, became a stand-alone publicly traded company in January 2007. Spectra Energy, a Fortune 500 company, is one of the largest operators of natural gas pipelines and storage facilities in North America.

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. was founded in 1920 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. engages in the contract drilling of oil and gas wells in the United States and internationally. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. provides drilling rigs, equipment, personnel, and camps on a contract basis to explore for and develop oil and gas from onshore areas and from fixed platforms, tension-leg platforms, and spars in offshore areas. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. conducts domestic land drilling primarily in Oklahoma, California, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Utah, Arkansas, New Mexico, and North Dakota; and offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, offshore of California, Trinidad, and Equatorial Guinea. As of September 30, 2009, Helmerich & Payne, Inc. had 201 land drilling rigs in the United States; 9 offshore platform rigs; and international land rigs, including 1 in Venezuela, 6 in Colombia, 4 in Ecuador, 9 in Argentina, 1 in Tunisia, and 6 rigs in Mexico. In addition, Helmerich & Payne engages in the ownership, development, and operation of commercial real estate properties, as well as the research and development of rotary steerable technology.

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