Tesoro Refining and Marketing manages the refining and marketing businesses of Tesoro Corporation. The parent company's seven refineries have a capacity of 658,000 barrels per day and produce a range of motor fuels and other petroleum products. Tesoro Refining and Marketing markets fuel to 880 branded retail gas stations (including 290 company-owned stations under the Tesoro, Shell, Mirastar, and USA Gasoline brands), in Alaska, Hawaii, and 15 western states. On the wholesale side, it markets 643,000 barrels of oil products per day. It also supplies jet fuel to the vast majority of commercial airlines with routes in the West.

Merrimac Energy Group was founded in 1988 by Mary Hazelrigg, Merrimac Energy Group brings expert solutions to your greatest fuel supply and management challenges.Merrimac Energy Group also provides environmental services. Its products include aviation fuels, diesel, food grade oil, generator fuel, gasoline, industrial oil, marine fuels, bulk propane, and transportation lubricants. The largest independent woman-owned energy company in California, Merrimac Energy serves construction companies, governmental agencies, industrial and commercial clients, and utilities.

Noble Corporation was founded in 1921 and is based in Sugar Land, Texas. Noble Corporation may be heir to a fortune as demand increases for deepwater oil and gas contract drilling services. Noble Corporation, with operations in waters off the coasts of five continents, has a fleet of 63 offshore drilling units: three submersibles, four dynamically positioned drillships, 13 semisubmersibles, and 43 jack-up rigs. Many of its rigs are capable of operating in depths greater than 5,000 feet. About 85% of the Noble Corporation drilling fleet is deployed in international markets, primarily in the Middle East, India, Mexico, the North Sea, Brazil, and West Africa. Noble (which is domiciled in Switzerland) also provides labor contract drilling, well site, and project management services.

Pyramid Oil has been in business for more than a century, focusing on the exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas. Pyramid Oil Company major operations and all of its income-producing assets are located in Kern and Santa Barbara counties in Southern California, where Pyramid Oil Company owns and operates about 30 oil and gas leases. Pyramid Oil also holds minority stakes in some oil and gas leases in New York, Texas, and Wyoming. In 2008 Pyramid Oil reported proved reserves of more than 470,000 barrels of oil and 330 million cu. ft. of natural gas. Company chairman Michael Herman owns about 36% of Pyramid Oil. Crude oil and natural gas produced from Pyramid’s properties are sold to various refineries and pipeline companies. The majority of all oil and gas properties that Pyramid owns and operates is for its own account. Pyramid also participates in joint ventures with other companies in the development of oil and gas properties.

Tribute Resources Inc. was incorporated under the Business Corporations Act of the Province of Alberta on May 15, 1997. Tribute is a publicly traded junior energy company trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol “TRB”. Tribute is currently involved in three business segments: oil and gas production and exploration, the development of natural gas storage, and renewable energy development. The energy marketing company is developing underground gas storage facilities near Tipperary, Ontario, that will provide 3.2 billion cu. ft. (bcf) of natural gas storage and storage facilities at Bayfield that will add an additional 8 bcf. In addition to storing gas, Tribute also produces oil and gas. Tribute Resources Inc. has proven and provable reserves of 84,000 barrels of oil equivalent and interests in seven gas-producing wells in Huron County as well as a 15 mile pipeline. Tribute Resources and its joint venture partners are developing their gas assets through the Huron Storage Development Project.

Goodrich Petroleum Corporation was founded in 1970 and is based in Houston, Texas. Goodrich Petroleum Corporation engages in the exploration, exploitation, development, and production of oil and natural gas properties in the Cotton Valley trend and Haynesville Shale play of East Texas and Northwest Louisiana. Goodrich Petroleum Corporation offers drilling activities and holds interests in various areas, including primarily North Minden, Dirgin-Beckville, Angelina River, South Henderson, Bethany-Longstreet, Longwood, and Caddo Pine Island. As of December 31, 2008, Goodrich Petroleum Corporation had estimated proved reserves of approximately 390.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 1.9 million barrels of oil and condensate. Goodrich Petroleum Corporation owned working interests in 414 active oil and gas wells located in 30 fields in six states.

The Olympic Pipe Line Company, operated by BP Pipelines, North America, is a 400-mile interstate pipeline system that includes 12-inch, 14-inch, 16-inch, and 20-inch pipelines. The pipeline runs along a 299-mile corridor from Blaine, Washington to Portland, Oregon. The system transports gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. This fuel originates at four Puget Sound refineries, two in Whatcom County and two in Skagit County, and is delivered to Seattle's Harbor Island, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Olympia and Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. BP Pipelines (North America) is the second largest liquids pipeline company in the U.S. transporting over 450 million barrel-miles of oil, refined products, natural gas liquids, carbon dioxide, and chemicals daily - about 9 percent of the U.S. Liquids pipeline market. Beyond our core operations, we participate in various joint venture pipelines, several of which we operate.

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.

Zion Oil and Gas is on a mission in Israel. As an oil and gas exploration company, Zion has exploration operations primarily on two onshore properties that cover about 162,000 acres between Tel-Aviv and Haifa. Zion Oil and Gas, Inc. operates through two licenses that were issued by the State of Israel, and it owns 100% of the working interest in both licenses. When Zion Oil and Gas, Inc. eventually discovers oil and gas, Zion has stated that it will focus its production operations on helping Israel become a more energy-independent country. Zion Oil and Gas, Inc., which was founded in 2000 by chairman John M. Brown, went public in 2007.

Newpark Mats & Integrated Services, LLC, a subsidiary of Newpark Resources, makes mat systems used to create temporary roads and walkways on wet, soft, and environmentally sensitive areas around drilling and construction sites. Newpark Mats & Integrated Services, LLC also provides pipeline construction services. Newpark Mats & Integrated Services' pipeline crews test soils, lay mats, dig trenches, install pipe, and restore disturbed areas to pristine condition. Newpark Mats & Integrated Services, LLC also provides environmental remediation services, pit design, and well connection and maintenance.

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