Wood Group Pressure Control, a subsidiary of John Wood Group, provides oil and gas equipment to customers worldwide. Wood Group Pressure Control, L.P. designs and manufactures wellheads, gate valves, chokes, and actuators that control formation pressures and product flow. Wood Group Pressure Control, L.P. is one of the largest global suppliers of surface wellheads and valves. Its equipment is designed to control pressure and flow for oil companies from the time of initial drilling through production. Wood Group Pressure Control, L.P. also offers repair and maintenance services. Wood Group Pressure Control, L.P. is a unit of John Wood Group's Well Support division, which makes electric submersible pumps, and operates in 46 countries.

NOVATEK is a major player in the Russian natural gas market . OAO NOVATEK is the country's largest independent gas producer and second largest producer of natural gas (behind state-owned Gazprom). Established in 1994, NOVATEK explores for and processes natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons, boasting 4.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent reserves. OAO NOVATEK sells natural gas directly throughout the country. NOVATEK focuses its production on the prolific Yamal-Nenets region, the world's largest natural gas area. Power generation plants, metallurgical plants, and wholesale gas suppliers are among the company's main customers.

Cooperation is a refined art and refining a cooperative art for the National Cooperative Refinery Association (NCRA), which provides three farm supply cooperatives (CHS, GROWMARK, and MFA Oil) with fuel through its oil refinery in Kansas. The refinery's production rate is 81,460 barrels per day. Fuel from the refinery is allocated to member/owners on the basis of ownership percentages. In addition to the refinery, NCRA owns Jayhawk Pipeline, minority interests in two other pipeline companies, and an underground oil storage facility. CHS owns 74% of the cooperative, GROWMARK, 19%, and MFA, 7%.

Great Plains Exploration has been exploring for oil and gas in the Great Plains of Canada since its spinoff from Eurogas Corporation. Great Plains focuses its drilling and exploration activities on properties in Alberta (including the Peace River Arch, Pembina, and Randell areas). In 2005 Great Plains Exploration Inc. acquired Calgary-based Rock Creek Resources. Great Plains Exploration Inc. has grown rapidly through acquisition with the additions of Energy Explorer and assets in the Altares area of northeastern British Columbia. In 2008 Great Plains Exploration Inc. acquired undeveloped lands and a large exploration block in northeastern British Columbia. Great Plains Exploration Inc. has proved plus probable reserves of 6.9 million barrels of oil equivalent.

The company 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, the company 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.

Continental Resources, Inc. was founded in 1967 and is based in Enid, Oklahoma.Continental Resources, Inc. engages in the exploration, exploitation, and production of oil and natural gas properties primarily in the Rocky Mountain, Mid-Continent, and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. Continental Resources, Inc. primarily sells its oil and natural gas production to end users, as well as to midstream marketing companies or oil refining companies at the lease. As of December 31, 2008, Continental Resources, Inc. estimated proved reserves were 159.3 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMBoe), with estimated proved developed reserves of 106.0 MMBoe. Continental Resources owned 1,114,445 net undeveloped and 399,825 net developed acres, as well as had interests in 2,192 wells and operated 1,657 of these wells.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) spreads its wings over the United Arab Emirates (UAE), accounting for 94% of its 97.8 billion barrels of proved oil reserves, the fourth-largest national reserves in the world behind Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait. Abu Dhabi National Oil Company also has proved reserves of 6.1 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. Abu Dhabi National Oil Company oversees oil production of more than 2.7 million barrels a day. The ADNOC group includes exploration and production companies, support companies, maritime crude oil transport companies, and a refined-product distribution company that operates more than 200 UAE service stations.

C-Tech Oilwell Technologies Inc. is an innovative oil field technology development, sales and services company dedicated to developing coiled rod technology, products and bringing them to the market. C-Tech has been owned by Dover Corporation (NYSE: DOV) since June 2005. C-Tech operates under the Energy Products Group of the Fluid Management market segment of Dover. Through subsidiaries C-Tech provides customers with oil and gas field equipment and services. C-Tech Oilwell Technologies Inc. Pro-Rod subsidiary manufactures coiled rods, rod handling systems, and tubing. Its C-Tech Design and Manufacturing unit makes coiled tubing units and fabricates steel products, including shipping saddles, oil field boilers, and drilling rig modules. C-Tech also provides rig rebuilding, fabrication, and engineering services. Dover Corporation acquired C-Tech in 2005.

FEC Resources Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. FEC Resources Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of natural resource and mineral properties. FEC Resources Inc. focuses on the development of oil, natural gas, iron ore, gold, and coal in the Philippines. FEC Resources Inc. was formerly known as Forum Energy Corporation and changed its name to FEC Resources Inc. in May 2005.

NuTech Energy Alliance provides petrophysical, geological, geophysical, field study, and well site services to customers worldwide. By using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology and related interpretive software, NuTech offers clients detailed geographical data that can be used to analyze potential oil fields. By 2009 the company had evaluated more than 30,000 wells and more than 450 oil and gas companies around the world. NuTech offers five offices in the US and seven offices in other countries. NuTech is a privately-owned company founded in 1998 by ex-Schlumberger and Numar (now Halliburton) executives who pioneered Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) R&D.

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