VAALCO Energy was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. VAALCO Energy, Inc., an independent energy company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas. VAALCO Energy, Inc. owns producing properties, as well as conducts exploration activities as an operator of consortiums internationally in Gabon and Angola, and as a non-operator in the British North Sea. VAALCO Energy, Inc. also has minor interests in the Texas Gulf Coast area and offshore Louisiana.

Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., the state-owned corporation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is responsible for the efficient, profitable, and dependable exploration, production, refining, transport and commerce of hydrocarbons. This company is deeply committed to environmental protection and its main objectives are to foster the harmonic development of the country, to guarantee sovereignty of national resources, to increase endogenous development and to serve and benefit the Venezuelan people, who correspond to their share of the country’s national wealth. The Venezuelan State is PDVSA’s sole stockholder under the provisions of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and represents the economic and political sovereignty exerted by the Venezuelan people over oil, their major energy resource.

Derek Oil & Gas Corporation was founded in 1981 as Cove Energy Corporation and changed its name to Derek Oil & Gas in 2003. Derek Oil & Gas explores for, acquires, and develops oil and gas properties in the US. Instead of searching for undeveloped properties, Derek Oil & Gas Corporation uses new recovery technologies to recover oil resources from existing oil and gas reservoirs. Derek Oil & Gas Corporation holds an indirect interest in the 8,000-acre LAK Ranch Project in the Powder River Basin of eastern Wyoming. Derek Oil & Gas Corporation is developing the project in collaboration with Ivanhoe Energy. The reservoir is expected to contain more than 190 million barrels of oil.

Penn West Energy Trust was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. Penn West Energy Trust (formerly Penn West Petroleum) has been pumping gas and oil from Western Canada in hopes of keeping black ink flowing from its auditor's pen. The independent exploration and production company has holdings of 3.2 million net acres of undeveloped land in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia. In 2007 Penn West Energy Trust reported net proved and probable reserves of 644.2 million barrels of oil equivalent. Shareholders converted Penn West Energy Trust into a trust in 2005, making it one of Canada's largest oil and gas income trusts. It combined general partners Penn West, Northern Reef, Trocana, and Penn West Exploration.

Now here's a company that pipes in the goods that keep the South fueled, naturally. Southern Natural Gas operates an 7,600-mile long natural gas pipeline (SNG System), which serves major markets across the southeastern US. This system transports more than 3 billion cu. ft. of natural gas per day. The SNG pipeline system has about 60 billion cu. ft. of underground working natural gas storage capacity. Major customers include Atlanta Gas Light Company, Alabama Gas, Southern Company, and SCANA. Southern Natural Gas is a part of El Paso Corporation's Pipeline Group.

Cogentrix Energy serves up a power treat for customers, albeit a small one, through its electric generating facilities.Cogentrix Energy develops, owns, and operates a handful of independent power plants, located primarily in the US. Cogentrix Energy once had a net operational generating capacity of about 4,900 MW from its stakes in 27 coal- and gas-fired facilities, but sold most of these after New York-based investment firm Goldman Sachs Group acquired the company in 2007. The investment firm has Cogentrix Energy looking for new energy opportunities beyond the US power plant industry.

FieldPoint Petroleum Corporation was founded in 1980 and is based in Cedar Park, Texas. FieldPoint Petroleum Corporation engages in the acquisition, operation, and development of oil and natural gas properties in the United States. The company's properties are primarily located in Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South-Central Texas, and Wyoming. As of December 31, 2008, FieldPoint Petroleum Corporation had varying ownership interest in 368 gross productive wells.

Since 1995, Pepco Energy Services has successfully evolved to become one of the leading providers of energy-saving and sustainable energy products and services for a wide range of energy users, including: large commercial; institutional; industrial; and government users. Pepco Energy Services currently provides services from North Carolina to Massachusetts and from New York to Tennessee and Illinois. A wholly owned, separately managed subsidiary of Pepco Holdings, Inc. (PHI), Pepco Energy Services provides both energy suppliers and large energy users such as utilities, municipalities, cooperatives and aggregators with an array of energy management services including the management of power generation assets. PHI is the energy holding company formed as a result of the merger between Pepco and Conectiv. The company delivers a combined 50,000 gigawatt hours of power to nearly 1.9 million customers in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland and New Jersey, making it one of the largest electricity delivery companies in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Thailand fills its tanks thanks to integrated oil company PTT, the nation's largest company. Its PTT Oil transportation and marketing unit operates more than 1,200 gas stations. PTT Gas procures, processes, transports, and distributes natural gas. PTT owns 49% of the nation's largest refiner, debt-plagued Thai Oil. Other PTT units engage in oil and gas exploration and production and produce petrochemicals. Thailand, which created PTT to secure energy supplies during the oil crunch of the late 1970s, sold a third of the company in a 2001 IPO. In 2008 the Government of Thailand owned 52% of PTT.

Magellan Petroleum Corporation was founded in 1957 and is based in Portland, Maine. Magellan Petroleum Corporation and its subsidiaries engage in the exploration for, and development, production, and sale of oil and gas reserves in Australia, North America, and the United Kingdom. Its assets include the Mereenie, Palm Valley, and Dingo fields in Australia; the East Poplar and Northwest Poplar fields in Montana; and a series of licenses (Markwells Wood / Havant) in the onshore southern United Kingdom. The company has proved reserves of 13.5 billion cu. ft. of natural gas and 722,000 barrels of oil. MPAL's main customer is the Northern Territory's Power and Water Corporation.

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