TC PipeLines, LP is a United States growth-oriented Master Limited Partnership (MLP). It was formed by TransCanada PipeLines Limited to acquire, own and actively participate in the management of United States based natural gas pipelines and related assets. TC PipeLines, LP owns a 46.45 per cent interest in Great Lakes Gas Transmission Limited Partnership, which owns a 2,115-mile interstate pipeline system that transports gas from Emerson on the Manitoba-Minnesota border to St. Clair on the Michigan-Ontario border. It also owns a 50 per cent interest in Northern Border Pipeline Company, which owns a 1,249-mile interstate pipeline system that transports natural gas from the Montana-Saskatchewan border to markets in the midwestern United States. The third investment is a 100 per cent interest in Tuscarora Gas Transmission Company, which owns a 240-mile interstate pipeline system that transports natural gas from Oregon, where it interconnects with TransCanada's Gas Transmission Northwest System, to northern Nevada. The fourth investment is a 100 per cent interest in North Baja Pipeline, LLC, which owns an 80-mile pipeline system that transports natural gas from Southwestern Arizona to a point on the California/Mexico border and connects with a natural gas pipeline system in Mexico. Our general partner is TC PipeLines GP, Inc., an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of TransCanada Corporation. TransCanada is a leader in the responsible development and reliable operation of North American energy infrastructure including natural gas pipelines, power generation, gas storage facilities, and projects related to oil pipelines. TransCanada's network of wholly owned pipelines extends more than 36,500 miles, tapping into virtually all major gas supply basins in North America. TransCanada is one of the continent's largest providers of gas storage and related services with approximately 370 billion cubic feet of storage capacity. A growing independent power producer, TransCanada owns, or has interests in, over 10,900 megawatts of power generation in Canada and the United States. TransCanada's common shares trade on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges under the symbol TRP. TransCanada is the operator of all four of our pipeline systems.

Surge Global Energy, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Solana Beach, California. Surge Global Energy, Inc. was formerly known as The Havana Group, Inc. and changed its name to Surge Global Energy, Inc. in October 2004. Surge Global Energy has the urge to acquire crude oil and natural gas properties in the US and Canada. Surge Global Energy, Inc. portfolio includes a well in Wyoming, which it is drilling for commercial production of oil and gas, and the Green Springs Prospect in Nevada, which it plans to tap. Surge also invests in businesses engaged in alternative fuel technologies, such as biodiesel developer 11 Good Energy. Other investments include minority stakes in two Alberta-based companies, Andora Energy and North Peace Energy. Surge divested its interest in an Argentina project in 2008 to focus on its core North American operations and investments. Officers and board members as a group own about one-third of the company.

FX Energy, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. FX Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an independent gas and oil exploration and production company with principal operations in Poland. FX Energy, Inc. also explores for and produces oil from fields in Montana and Nevada, the United States; and holds an oilfield services company in northern Montana that performs contract drilling and well servicing operations. FX Energy, Inc. has projects involving the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas prospects in partnership with the Polish Oil and Gas Company with a primary focus on the Rotliegend sandstones of the Permian Basin in Poland. FX Energy owns gas and oil exploration rights in 9 project areas encompassing approximately 5.4 million gross acres in Poland. As of December 31, 2008, its total proved estimated gas and oil reserves were 45.9 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent.

Oakridge Energy, Inc. was founded in 1969 and is based in Wichita Falls, Texas.Oakridge Energy, Inc. engages in the exploration for, development, production, and sale of oil and gas primarily in Texas. Oakridge Energy, Inc. owns a 25% working interest in the BSR field consisting of 23 producing wells in Madison County, Texas. Oakridge Energy, Inc. also owns interest in a gravel property, which consists of gas, coal, and other mineral deposits on approximately 63.5 acres of land in La Plata County, Colorado. As of February 28, 2009, Oakridge Energy, Inc. owned working and overriding royalty interests in 8,884 gross acres of developed oil and gas leases, and 51 gross productive oil and gas wells.

This can get Kinder complicated: Kinder Morgan Management (KMM) was created in 2001 by pipeline operator Knight (formerly Kinder Morgan, Inc., or KMI), to become general partner of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP). KMM oversees KMP's business segments: pipelines that transport refined petroleum products (including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and natural gas liquids); natural gas pipelines; pipelines that transport carbon dioxide for oil field use; bulk terminals that handle coal, petroleum coke, and other products; and liquids terminals that handle refined petroleum products and chemicals. Knight controls KMM and, indirectly, KMP.

Tesco Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and service delivery of technology based solutions for the upstream energy industry worldwide. Tesco Corporation operates in three segments: Top Drive Drilling Systems, Tubular Services, and CASING DRILLING. The Top Drive Drilling Systems segment manufactures, sells, and supports top drives that are used in drilling operations to rotate the drill string. Tesco Corporation product line includes a range of portable and permanently installed top drive products with lifting capacities of 150 through 750 tons, both hydraulically and electrically powered. Tesco Corporation also provides hydraulically powered top drive systems for rent. The Tubular Services segment offers a range of tubular handling and installation services, including the TESCO Casing Drive System plus a range of downhole tool rentals and accessories. The CASING DRILLING segment provides downhole and surface equipment on a rental basis to allow a well to be drilled with conventional oilwell casing, eliminating the use of drill pipe. Tesco Corporation was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Midnight Oil Exploration Ltd. (MOX:TSX) is a top quality junior exploration and production company that focuses on selected multi-zone, high-potential areas of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. The oil and gas company focuses on exploiting the multizone areas of Wapiti/Elmworth portion of the Deep Basin in the Peace River Arch area of Alberta. Midnight Oil Exploration Ltd. is also acquiring natural gas reserves and undeveloped lands in the Red Earth area of Alberta. In 2008 Midnight Oil Exploration reported proved and probable reserves of about 7 million barrels of oil equivalent and a daily production of more than 1,830 barrels of oil equivalent.

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.

Transportadora Brasileira Gasoduto is duty-bound to bring gas to Brazil. The company is responsible for the Brazilian operation of Latin America's largest gas pipeline, which originates in Bolivia. It monitors and maintains more than 1,850 miles of pipeline through three regional management offices located in the states of Mato Grosso do Sul, So Paulo, and Santa Catarina (with jurisdiction over Paran and Rio Grande do Sul as well). TBG's pipes carry about 30 million cubic meters of natural gas per day. Its main customers are industrial and power plants. TBG was formed in 1997 and began operations in 1999. Government-controlled PETROBRAS, via subsidiary Gaspetro, owns 51% of the company.

TransGlobe Energy Corporation was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. TransGlobe Energy Corporation engages in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Republic of Yemen. TransGlobe Energy Corporation has interests in two production sharing concessions in Egypt; and five production sharing agreements in Yemen. The company was formerly known as Dusty Mac Mines, Ltd. and changed its name to TransGlobe Energy Corporation in April 1996 as a result of its business focus shift from mineral exploration and extraction to oil and gas business. TransGlobe Energy Corporation has interests in seven international blocks totaling 4.9 million acres, with active programs of exploration and development drilling underway.

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