EQT Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated energy company in the United States. The company operates in three segments: EQT Production, EQT Midstream, and Distribution. The EQT Production segment engages in the exploration, development, and production of natural gas and crude oil in the Appalachian Basin. This segment’s properties are located primarily in Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. As of December 31, 2009, it had 4.1 trillion cubic feet of proved reserves across 3.4 million acres. The EQT Midstream segment provides gathering, processing, transmission, and storage services to third parties in the Appalachian Basin. It has approximately 10,650 miles of gathering lines and 970 miles of transmission lines. The Distribution segment engages in the distribution and sale of natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in southwestern Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and eastern Kentucky. This segment served natural gas to approximately 275,900 customers comprising of 257,300 residential, and 18,600 commercial and industrial customers. The company was formerly known as Equitable Resources, Inc. and changed its name to EQT Corporation in February 2009. EQT Corporation was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Aquilex speaks softly and carries a big wrench. Through its operating subsidiaries, Aquilex Corporation provides maintenance, repair services and technical support to heavy industry worldwide. Customers include power generation facilities and other industrial plants, including cement, chemical, petrochemical, oil and natural gas processing, pulp and paper, metal refining, and steel manufacturing operations. The company was controlled by private equity firm Harvest Partners (which bought the company from First Reserve in 2007). In 2008 Harvest Partners sold the company to Teachers' Private Capital, the private investment arm of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.

Seeking fame and fortune in and outside Finland, energy powerhouse Fortum generates electric power across the region. In the Baltic Rim its power plants create electricity (more than 10,980 MW of generation capacity), and heat. Fortum distributes electricity to 1.6 million customers (primarily in Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Sweden). The company also has significant operations in a growth area, Russia, including 2,785 MW of power generation capacity. (Russia accounted for about 9% of Fortum's total revenues in 2009). Fortum has divested its oil and engineering assets in order to focus on its core power and heating businesses.

Marsulex is scrubbing up smokestacks in North America. The company provides outsourced air-quality regulation compliance services to the oil refinery and power generation industries. Among Marsulex's emission-control products are spent acid regeneration and sulphate scrubbing systems; the firm also processes and sells sulphur by-products. Customers in Marsulex's oil-refinery segment include Shell, Petro-Canada, BP, and Sunoco. The company provides services to power-generation customers worldwide. Marsulex operates seven plants in Canada and ten in the US, including one in Southern California. In 2009 investment firm Harrowston Holding acquired control of Marsulex.

Vermont Gas Systems was established in 1965 to supply natural gas to 6,400 customers in Chittenden and Franklin Counties. Over the years, residents and businesses in these communities have recognized natural gas to be a clean, efficient and abundant form of energy. Over 40,000 customers now recognize Vermont Gas’ commitment to providing safe, economical service. The Vermont Gas story begins in the abundant natural gas fields of Alberta, Canada. Our natural gas is transported across Canada via the TransCanada PipeLine and enters Vermont Gas Systems’ main pipeline at Highgate, on the Vermont/Canada border. Our customers are served through a network of more than 650 miles of underground transmission and distribution lines.

GDF SUEZ Energy North America (GDF-SENA) manages GDF Suez Energy International's energy business in Canada, Mexico, and the US. The company develops and operates electricity and cogeneration facilities, markets and sells energy products and services, and imports and distributes natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG). It serves both commercial and industrial customers. (GDF-SENA)'s primary unit (GDF SUEZ Energy Generation NA) owns and operates 60 power, cogeneration, steam, and chilled-water facilities, including those in construction, representing a capacity of 7,500 MW of electricity generation, 6 million pounds per hour of steam, and 42,000 tons per hour of chilled water.

Summerleaze has blown through a number of businesses -- aggregates, waste disposal, and renewable energy. The family-owned company, originally in the gravels/aggregates business, branched into using methane gas from the waste disposal landfills to make fuel. After acquiring renewable energy firm Thomas Graveson, it created Summerleaze RE-Generation, which has enough capacity (43 MW) to serve 70,000 houses from sites across the UK. Ennate Technology provides power generation equipment sales, maintenance, and hire services; its Green Hydrogen subsidiary supplies renewable hydrogen and oxygen for clients. Summerleaze also has a biogas unit, Summerleaze AnDigestion.

Infiltrator Systems is not connected to The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, spy satellites, or any other relic of Cold War espionage. The company is the world's leading maker of plastic leachfield products used to handle commercial and residential wastewater. Infiltrator Systems' leachfield drainage chambers are a direct and cost-effective replacement for stone and pipe leachfields, and create a footprint only half the size of traditional leachfields. The products, which are made at facilities in Kentucky and Utah, are sold throughout the US. The company estimates that one in four septic systems in the US uses Infiltrator Systems' products.

West Texas Gas is 100%-owned by CEO J. L. Davis. With a deep understanding the utility of natural gas, natural gas utility West Texas Gas distributes more than 25 billion cu. ft. of natural gas, propane, and other petroleum products to more than 25,000 residential, commercial, agricultural, and governmental customers in Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle region. West Texas Gas, Inc., the fourth-largest investor-owned public utility in Texas, also operates retail gasoline stations and convenience stores and has gas gathering, production, transmission, and marketing operations.

Sutton and East Surrey Water supplies water in southern England. The regulated utility distributes water to about 252,000 residential customers and some 18,000 businesses, (a population about 650,000 people), in the London boroughs of Croydon, Merton, and Sutton, as well as East Surrey and parts of Kent and Sussex. Formerly a subsidiary of East Surrey Holdings, the company was acquired by private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners in 2005 when Terra Firma was required to buy the parent company in order to obtain gas company Phoenix Natural Gas. Terra Firma quickly sold the water utility to a fund of Germany's Deutsche Bank.

Inviting Real Estate Agents, Job Placements Agents, Educational Institutes, Software Service Providers, Real Estate Builders, Marriage Bureaus, Travel Agents, Restaurant Owners, Health & Fitness Centers and other Local Businesses to Post a FREE Classified Advertisement on Cootera.com Classifieds Website.