Energy Production Companies Receive Direct Cash in Place of Tax Credits-

The United States government is doing its part to incite venture capital investments in clean and renewable energy by offering cash awards to energy production companies in place of earned tax credits. In a recent announcement, U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu awarded $502 million in the first round of funding in an effort to help produce upfront capital – allowing companies to create jobs and begin construction that may have been put on hold. Twelve projects were awarded grants. Penascal wind farm in Sarita, Texas received the largest grant, over $114 million. The 12 winning projects would be able to produce 840 megawatts of electricity, representing a 3 percent increase in total U.S. renewable energy generation capacity. “These grants will help America’s business launch clean energy projects, putting Americans back to work in good construction and manufacturing jobs. The initiative will help double our renewable energy capacity over the next few years and make sure America leads the world in creating the clean energy economy of the future,” said Secretary of Energy Chu. Treasury Secretary Geithner said, “This renewable energy program will spur the manufacture and development of clean energy in urban and rural America, allowing us to protect our environment, create good jobs and revitalize our nation’s economy.” The agenda, introduced under Section 1602 of the Recovery Act, is anticipated to generate more than $3 billion in fiscal support for clean energy projects by supplying direct payments in place of tax credits. Over the life of the program, these direct payments will sustain around 5,000 renewable energy production facilities of all forms throughout the nation. More than 2,000 Americans will have access to jobs in the renewable energy industry as a result of this first round of funding – both in construction and manufacturing – and will bring the nation one step closer toward the goal of a clean energy economy.

Biotechnology Growth Stock Investment Opportunities-


As the swine flu pandemic slowly travels throughout the world, fear is on the rise; along with biotechnology investing opportunities. There are a few reputable biotech companies which have ascending stocks in this sector that may possibly have tremendous staying power. Like Techne (NASDAQ:TECH), an elite manufacturer of biotechnology products, who’s shares have skyrocketed 38 percent since its 52 week slump. The company’s diluted EPS fell by only 6.6 percent on a 2.4 percent drop in combined net sales vs. the company’s quarter a year prior. The uneven plunge in stock share price throughout the first three months of 2009 facilitated the group to re-purchase $10.5 million of its common stock at bargain prices. Amylin Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:AMLN) stock shares rose 3.5 percent resulting from the current undertaking of clinical trials for the company’s once-weekly administered diabetes drug. It was recently publicized that the company’s Exenatide drug produced more favorable outcome for the trial’s participants when compared to another leading biopharmaceutical company, Merck’s (NYSE:MRK) Januvia and Takeda pharmaceuticals. Amylin has combined forces with Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY) to further develop Exenatide and cash in on the mounting market for type 2 diabetes therapy medications.

PDL BioPharma, a pharmaceutical research and development company, announced revenue support for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009 of about $125M, as compared with $106M for the 2nd quarter of 2008. The company has revved up its Q2 revenue forecast supported by robust royalty earnings resulting from several of its contributory’s products such as Synagis, a respitory virus drug made by Medimmune – an AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN) holding. PDL BioPharma stocks have scaled 48 percent since striking a 52 week low in March. Carl Icahn, a corporate raider and private equity investor, has been involved in a proxy battle to release further value from the shares of biopharmecutical development and research company, Biogen Idec (Nasdaq:BIIB). Icahn continues to claim that the business is poorly managed and came close to success when the company approved at least one open seat on its board but that the votes were “too close to call” on a possible second seat. The company’s shares have increased 20 percent since striking a slump of $42.92 in the beginning of March 2009.

Biotechnology investment was obviously a safe speculation last year, but industry fluctuation has set stocks straggling in the market by a slim margin as we reach mid-2009. It will be curious to see what the remainder of the year brings for the biotechnology industry, but always remain on the look-out for individual potential breakout stocks like these.

Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas and Oil T-Z:

Team Industrial Services (NASDAQ:TISI) is a leading specialty and construction service provider, concentrated on nondestructive on-stream leak repairs; hot tapping, line stopping, and line freezing; field machining; technical bolting; valve repairs; field heat treating; NDT and inspections; turnaround shutdown and outage services; fugitive emissions control; energy management; and concrete repair services for the refining, petrochemical, power, pipeline and other related industries.

Tengasco, Inc. (AMEX: TGC) – focuses on the acquisition, exploration and development of oil and natural gas in North America, with company operations concentrated in Kansas and Tennessee.

Tesco Corporation (TESOF) is an international leader in the design, manufacture and service of technology-based solutions for the upstream energy industry. With a strong commitment to an in-house research and development program, the company is able to take innovative solutions from concept to marketability. TESCO delivers solutions that add real value by reducing the cost of drilling for and producing oil and gas.

Teton Energy Corporation (AMEX: TEC), located in Denver, CO, is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of North American properties. The company’s current operations are concentrated in the prolific Rocky Mountain and Mid-continent regions of the U.S. Teton has leasehold interests in the Central Kansas Uplift, the Piceance Basin in western Colorado, the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming, the Williston Basin in North Dakota and the eastern Denver-Julesburg Basin in Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska.

Torch Energy Royalty Trust (TRU) is a royalty trust which provides unit holders with quarterly cash distributions from a 95% net profits interest in proved developed oil and gas properties in Texas, Alabama and Louisiana.

Trafalgar Energy LTD (TSE:TFL) is a Calgary, Alberta-based oil and gas company with operations in the western Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.

Transocean, Inc. (RIG) is the world’s largest offshore drilling contractor, offering the most versatile fleet of mobile offshore drilling units to help clients find and develop oil and natural gas reserves.

Trico Marine Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRMA) is a leading provider of marine support vessels to the offshore oil and gas industry, operating primarily in international markets, with operations in the North Sea, West Africa, Mexico, Brazil and Southeast Asia, as well as in the Gulf of Mexico.

Tri-Valley Corporation (AMEX: TIV) is a publicly traded oil, gas, and mineral exploration and production company. It also has subsidiaries with production rigs to service its wells, and a drilling company to drill new wells. As a deep drilling specialist, Tri-Valley holds the North American record for the longest, fastest single bit run (10,045 feet in 116 hours on its 19,085 foot Ekho No. 1 deep well in the year 2000). The company is involved in the exploration and development of oil, natural gas, and minerals mostly in California, Nevada, and Alaska.

True Energy Trust (PINK:TUIJF) is an exploration and production oil and gas trust based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. True is powered by a diverse asset base, focused on sustainable growth both in its people and in its properties. True has a significant multi-year drilling inventory of locations in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia.

Twin Butte Energy LTD (PINK:TBTEF) is a growth orientated junior oil & gas company based in Calgary, Alberta which commenced operations in June 2006, utilizing a tax loss vehicle structure and enjoys current carry forward tax losses and pools in excess of $190 million. The management team is focused on creating per share growth through a combination of strategic acquisitions and a focused exploration, development and exploitation program. Assets are primarily operated and high working interest located in the South East and West Central areas of Alberta and North East British Columbia presenting a low to medium risk profile of opportunities.

TXCO Resources, Inc. (TXCO) is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company with a diversified exploitation, development and exploration project inventory. Based in San Antonio, the company has more than 720,000 net acres under lease (1.3 million gross acres). Leveraging its geological and geophysical expertise to increase shareholder value, the company applies new technology to overlooked opportunities in high-potential areas that offer multiple resource plays and thousands of drilling prospects.

Unit Corporation (UNT) is a diverse energy company involved in the exploration for and production of oil and natural gas, the acquisition of producing oil and natural gas properties, the contract drilling of onshore oil and natural gas wells, and the gathering and processing of natural gas through its various subsidiaries. Operations are primarily located in the Mid-Continent region, including the Anadarko, Arkoma, Permian, Rocky Mountains and Gulf Coast Basins.

UTS Energy Corporation (UTS) is an oil and gas development company, principally focused in the creation of shareholder value through the production of bitumen from the oil sands deposits associated with the leases related to the Fort Hill oils sands project, the Frontier Project, the Equinox Project, and the Lease 421 Area, in addition to the potential development of the Company’s other exploration lands located in Alberta’s Athabasca Oil Sands Area.

Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO) is North America’s largest independent petroleum refiner and marketer. Valero supplies fuel and products with 16 refineries and seven ethanol plants stretching from California to Canada to the Caribbean. Well-positioned pipelines and terminals allow the company to deliver premium-quality clean fuels more quickly, responsibly and efficiently than any other refiner on the continent. The diversified product slate supports dozens of industries, from health care and plastics to transportation, beauty products and manufacturing.

Vero Energy, Inc. (PINK:VREYF) is a Calgary based, growth oriented company engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas, natural gas liquids and oil in western Canada. The company has achieved significant growth in production and production per share; cash flow and cash flow per share; reserves and reserves per share. Vero has a solid land base of over 169,000 net undeveloped acres and over 260 drilling locations.

Whiting Petroleum Corporation (WLL) is a Denver based independent oil and gas company that acquires, exploits, develops and explores for crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids primarily in the Permian, Rocky Mountain, Mid-Continent, Gulf Coast and Michigan basins of the United States.

Willbros Group, Inc. (WG) is a leading international contractor serving the oil, gas, power and refining and petrochemical industries, providing engineering and construction services to industry and government entities on a global scale.

W&T Offshore, Inc. (NYSE: WTI) is an independent oil and natural gas acquisition, exploitation and exploration company, focused primarily in the Gulf of Mexico area where the company has developed significant technical expertise.

Weatherford International Ltd. (NYSE:WFT) is one of the largest international providers of original mechanical, technology and service solutions for drilling and production of the oil and gas industry. The company operates in over 100 countries and employs approximately 45,000 people worldwide.

West Energy LTD (TSE:WTL) is a public surveying company in western Canada.  The company has focused its efforts in the prolific light oil Nisku reef fairway of west central Alberta since it began, and important investments in land, seismic and a large facility complex has centered West as one of the major companies in the industry. As of the end of Fiscal 2005, the company has drilled 13 Nisku wells and cased 8 (6.71 net) for a 62% success rate and identified over 50 Nisku exploration prospects (75% average W.I.) to be drilled on company property.

Wentworth Energy, Inc. (OTC:WNWG) is an independent exploration and production company focused on developing North American oil and natural gas reserves. The Company owns a 27,557-acre mineral block in east central Freestone County and west central Anderson County in the active East Texas Basin.

Williams Companies, Inc. (NYSE: WMB) is an integrated company that mostly surveys, produces, gathers, processes and transports clean-burning natural gas. The company’s operations serve the Northwest, California, Rocky Mountains, Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard areas; its ongoing production segments include Gas Pipeline, Exploration and Production, Midstream Gas and Liquids and Energy Marketing and Trading.

WSP Holdings Limited (WH) is a leading manufacturer of Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) in China, including seamless casing, tubing and drill pipes used for on-shore and off-shore oil and gas exploration, drilling and extraction, and other pipes and connectors. The Company’s products are used in China’s major oilfields and are exported to oil producing regions on a global scale.

These stock suggestions are based on many factors, including company growth and stock market trends. A-R stock investments can be found by visiting our main page.

Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas and Oil Q-S:

Questerre Energy Corporation (TSE:QEC), based in Calgary, Canada, is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company, primarily focused on high-impact projects throughout Canada.

Quest Resource Corporation (NASDAQ:QRCP) is a fully integrated natural gas and oil exploration and production company, which conducts business through its various subsidiaries. The company is primarily centered in a 1,000 square mile region of the Cherokee Basin in southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma that is served by its 1,000 mile gas pipeline system.

Questar Corporation (STR) is a natural gas-focused energy company with core operations in the Rockies and Midcontinent. The company explores, produces, gathers, processes, transports, stores and distributes natural gas.

RAM Energy Resources, Inc. (RAME) is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, exploitation and development of oil and natural gas properties and the production of oil and natural gas. Its properties are located in Texas, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Louisiana.

Repsol YPF S.A.(NYSE: REP) is a integrated gas and oil company involved in the exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas, transportation of petroleum, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and natural gas (LNG), refining of petroleum products, petrochemical production and marketing.

Rock Energy Resources, Inc. (RCKE.OB), located in Houston, TX, is a domestic oil and gas corporation involved in oil production from the Diatomite and Monterey formations in the Orcutt field and from the northwest Casmalia Diatomite field, located in Santa Barbara County, California.

Rowan Companies Inc. (RDC) is a major supplier of international and domestic contract drilling services, owning and operating a manufacturing division that generates equipment for the drilling, mining and timber industries. The company’s manufacturing division built the first jack-up drilling rig in 1955 and has designed or built more than 200 rigs since, including all 22 in its fleet.

Royale Energy (ROYL) is an independent natural gas exploration and production company focused on acquisition, development, and marketing. The company owns and operates wells in the Sacramento and San Joaquin basins in California and in the U.S. Gulf Coast; and markets approximately 15,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas per day to its customers.

Santos LTD (STOSY) is an Australian oil and gas exploration and production company with high quality assets and projects throughout Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The company supplies over 20% of eastern Australia’s domestic gas and produced 54.4 million barrels of oil equivalent in 2008. Santos has the largest Australian exploration portfolio by area of any company – 192,000 square kilometers.

Second Wave Petroleum, Inc. (SCS.V) – is a newly reserved junior oil and gas company focused on surveying and developing oil and natural gas properties in Western Canada.

Sky Petroleum (SKPI.OB) is an emerging oil and gas company investing in international exploration and development activities in a prolific offshore oil & gas region in the United Arab Emirates.

Spindletop Oil & Gas Co. (SPND) is engaged in the exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas in North America. The company is also involved in rentals of oilfield production equipment.

St Mary Land Exploration (NYSE: SM) is engaged in the exploration, exploitation, development, acquisition, and production of natural gas and crude oil in five core areas in the United States: the Mid-Continent, Rocky Mountains, ArkLaTex, Permian Basin, and Gulf Coast regions are operated out of the company’s offices in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Billings, Montana; Shreveport, Louisiana; Midland, Texas; and Houston, Texas.

Stone Energy CP (NYSE: SGY) is an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana, with an additional office in Houston. The company’s focus is on increasing unitholder value through the acquisition, exploration and development of oil and natural gas in mature and emerging fields. Stone currently operates in the Gulf of Mexico, onshore Louisiana and is also engaged in an exploratory joint venture in Bohai Bay, China.

StormCat Energy Corporation (OTC:SCUEF) is an independent oil and gas company focused on the exploration, production and development of large unconventional gas reserves from fractured shales, coal beds and tight sand formations and from conventional formations. The company has producing properties in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, and Arkansas’ Arkoma Basin and exploration and development acreage in Canada.

Stratic Energy Corporation (PINK:SCRGF) is an international natural gas and oil exploration, acquisition and development company. Areas of focus are Africa, the Middle East and the U.K.

Suncor Energy, Inc. (NYSE: SU) is an integrated energy company focused on developing Canada’s Athabasca oil sands. The company is also involved in renewable energy investment opportunities, such as wind power and biofuels.

Sunoco, Inc.(NYSE: SUN) is a company involved in refining and marketing petroleum and chemicals, with interests in logistics and coal refining. The company’s operations involve manufacturing and marketing a wide variety of petroleum-based products.

Superior Energy Services, Inc. (SPN) is a leading provider of dedicated oilfield services and equipment, focused on serving the drilling and production-related needs of oil and gas companies as well as the plug and abandonment and decommissioning services required at the end of a well’s life.

Sure Energy, Inc.(PINK:SUGYF) is a junior TSX listed domestic natural gas & oil exploration company, was created in August 2006 through the merger of Clear Energy Inc. and NAV Energy Trust.

Surge Global Energy, Inc. (OTC:SRGG) is an independent exploration and production company with offices in Solana Beach, California and Alberta, Canada.

Swift Energy Co. (SFY) is an independent U.S.-based company engaged in the acquisition, development, exploration, and operation of oil and natural gas properties, with a focus on the onshore and inland-water areas of the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast.

These stock suggestions are based on many factors, including company growth and stock market trends. T-Z oil and gas investment company picks to follow shortly!

Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas and Oil O-P:


Oakridge Energy, Inc. (OAKR) was incorporated in 1969 and for the past 35 years has been engaged in the exploration, development, production and sale of oil and gas, primarily in Texas.

Occidental Petroleum (OXY) is involved in the oil and gas and chemicals industry. The company explores, develops, produces and markets crude oil and natural gas; as well as manufacturing and marketing basic chemicals, vinyls and performance chemicals. Occidental’s domestic oil and gas operations are located in Elk Hills and other smaller locations in California, the Hugoton field in Kansas and Oklahoma, the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico, and the Gulf of Mexico. International operations are located in Colombia, Ecuador, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen. Occidental also has exploration interests in several other countries. The Company, through its affiliates, owns and operates chemical manufacturing plants at 24 sites in the United States.

Oceaneering International Inc (OII) is a highly developed applied technology company which offers engineering and hardware services to customers who operate in space, marine and other harsh environments. The company’s products and services are marketed on a global scale to gas/oil companies, government agencies and construction engineering industries.

Odyssey Petroleum Corp. (PINK:ODEFF) is an emerging oil and gas exploration company focused on developing significant oil and natural gas reserves in the southern United States. When oil and gas prices were low, the company aggressively bought participation in exploration and development fields located primarily in the Mississippi Interior Salt Basin.

Oil States International Inc. (NYSE: OIS) is a leading manufacturer of deepwater production products and subsea pipelines and is located in many countries around the world. The company is a global provider of products and services to the offshore oil and gas, onshore oil and gas, defense and general industries. These markets are serviced by the company’s three subsidiaries, Offshore Construction, Marine Pipelines and Elastomers.

Oracle Energy Corp. (CVE:OCL) is an international junior oil and gas exploration company with assets in Texas, Romania, Italy and Peru.

Pacific Asia Petroleum, Inc. (PFAP.OB) is engaged in the business of oil and gas development, production and distribution in Pacific Rim countries, with an initial focus on developing a broad range of energy opportunities in China. The company’s primary focus is identifying and managing low-risk, high-return projects.

Panhandle Royal (AMEX: PHX) is a mineral holding company involved in fee mineral acquisition, ownership, management and development. The company vigorously takes part in the surveying, drilling, production and attainment of hydrocarbons on producing properties.

PanTerra Resource Corporation (PAN.V) is an independent resource company focused on the exploration and development of Shale Gas in the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada. PanTerra is committed to explore for and develop shale gas on its extensive land holdings in the Province of Saskatchewan – where it hold all rights from surface to basement – and to create a solid asset base with an established Net Asset Value “NAV”.

Paramount Energy Trust (TSE:PMT.UN) began operations as Canada’s only 100% natural gas royalty energy trust in February 2003. The company generates cash flow from the production and sale of natural gas from assets that are primarily located in Alberta and southern Saskatchewan. PET produces from two core areas identified as the Northern District and the Southern District. The company also owns 93% of a private exploration company, Severo Energy Corp. which produces natural gas in central Alberta.

Paramount Resources LTD (POU.TO) is a Canadian-based petroleum and natural gas exploration, development and transportation energy company. The company has four operating units with distinct operating staff, capital budgets and targets in Kaybob; Grande Prairie; the Northern area which includes Northwest Alberta, the Liard Basin in the Northwest Territories and Northeast British Columbia; and the Southern area which includes production from southern Alberta, Montana and North Dakota. Paramount has adapted to a multitude of operating climates over the past 30 years and continues to record sustainable growth in value for shareholders.

Parker Drilling Co. (PKD) is an international offshore drilling and work over service energy company, based in Houston, Texas. Primary areas of interest are in the Gulf of Mexico and international land/offshore regions. The company also owns Quail Tools, a provider of premium industry rental tools.

Pebercan, Inc. (TSE:PBC) is engaged in the exploration, development and operation of oil reserves. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Peberco Limited, the company holds exclusive oil and gas exploration and operation rights to the Canasi, Seboruco and Santa Cruz concessions located in the Republic of Cuba.

Pemberton Energy Ltd (CVE:PBT) is a publicly held independent energy company focused on the acquisition, exploration, and development of oil and gas properties. The company leverages its 200+ years of combined experience to increase shareholder value through the consistent identification of oil and gas assets with relatively low geological risk, yet substantial reserve potential.

PenGrowth Energy Trust (TSE:PGF.UN) is one of North America’s largest energy income trusts and have developed a solid base of high quality oil and natural gas assets with a large extended inventory of low risk projects. The company continues to seek opportunities through acquisition, industry consolidation, development, synergies and all other means to maximize returns to shareholders.

Petrobank Energy & Resources LTD (TSE:PBG) is a natural gas and oil exploration and production company with operations throughout western Canada and Colombia. Light oil operations are focused on the Bakken play in SE Saskatchewan. In 2006, the company applied new technology which greatly improved well productivity and expected recoveries. Natural gas operations are focused in central Alberta, and the unit has recently added a significant base of light oil production from our extensive land position in southeast Saskatchewan. The business unit’s proved plus probable plus possible reserves total 12.7 million boe. The company’s Canadian Business Unit is developing a solid production platform from low risk gas opportunities in central Alberta and an extensive inventory of Bakken light oil locations in southeast Saskatchewan, matched by new exploration projects and a large immature land foundation. Their Latin American Business Unit is operated by Petrobank’s 80.7% owned, TSX-listed subsidiary, Petrominerales Ltd. (trading symbol: PMG), which produces oil through two Incremental Production Contracts in Colombia and has exploration contracts covering 1.5 million acres in the Llanos and Putumayo Basins. WHITESANDS Ltd., Petrobank’s 84% owned subsidiary, owns 39,680 acres of oil sands leases with an estimated 2.6 billion barrels of gross bitumen in place.

PetroFalcon Corporation (TSE:PFC.TO) is an independent oil and gas company with exploration and production assets in Venezuela.

Petroquest Energy (PQ) is an independent energy company involved in the exploration, development, acquisition and production of oil and natural gas reserves in East Texas, Arkoma Basin, South Louisiana and the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Peyto Energy Trust (TSE:PEY.UN) is a natural gas weighted energy trust, dedicated to sustaining its importance on building value through the exploration and development of high quality gas assets.

Pioneer Drilling Co. (PDC: AMEX) offers land drilling services to oil and gas exploration and production companies, as well as supplimentary equipment and drilling crews.

Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE:PXD) is a large independent exploration and production company with procedures in the United States Gulf coast and Alaska, Argentina, Canada, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, South Africa and Tunisia.

Plains All American Pipeline LP (PAA) is a publicly traded master limited partnership (MLP) engaged in the transportation, storage, terminalling and marketing of crude oil, refined products and liquefied petroleum gas and other natural gas related petroleum products. The company is also involved in the development and operation of natural gas storage, through their 50% indirect ownership in PAA Natural Gas Storage, LLC.

Prospex Resources LTD (TSE:PSX), based in Calgary, Canada, is a junior oil and gas exploration company, primarily involved in natural gas surveying throughout the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

Provident Energy Trust (TSE:PVE.UN) is a diverse energy company with high quality upstream oil and gas assets as well as midstream assets that include NGL extraction, fractionation, storage, transportation and marketing with access to markets across North America.

These stock suggestions are based on many factors, including company growth and stock market trends. O-Z oil and gas investment company picks to follow shortly!

Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas and Oil K-N:

Kestrel Energy, Inc. (KSTR.PK), based in Denver, CO, is an oil producing corporation, with properties in Wyoming, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas.

Keyera Facilities Income FD (TSE:KEY.UN) operates one of the largest natural gas midstream businesses in Canada. Its three business lines consist of natural gas gathering and processing; the processing, transportation, and storage of natural gas liquids (NGLs) and crude oil; and the marketing of NGLs. Keyera’s gas processing plants and associated facilities are strategically located in the west central and foothills natural gas production areas of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Keyera’s NGL infrastructure includes pipelines, terminals and processing and storage facilities in Edmonton and Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, a major North American NGL hub. Keyera also markets propane, butane and condensate to customers across North America.

Kodiak Oil & Gas Corporation (AMEX:KOG) is an independent exploration and production company focused on exploring, developing and producing natural gas and oil in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. Its core areas include the Vermillion Basin of the Greater River Basin and the Williston Basin in Montana and North Dakota.

Kroes Energy (KRS) is a junior oil and gas company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol (KRS).

MDU Resources Group Inc. (MDU) is a growth focused oil and gas production company, dedicated to construction materials and mining, domestic and international independent power production, electric and natural gas utilities, natural gas pipelines and energy services, and utility services. The company is comprised of both regulated and non-regulated businesses that operate throughout much of the United States. The subsidiaries sell a broad spectrum of high quality products and services mostly related to supporting energy and transportation infrastructure.

Mahalo Energy LTD (TSE:CBM) is primarily focused on the acquisition, exploration, development and production of coalbed methane and shale gas in the United States. The company has earned land base of over 60,000 net acres of CBM and shale gas prospective lands. This land base includes a large inventory of drillable prospects, economically viable at lower gas prices.

Marathon Oil Corp (NYSE: MRO) is an integrated international energy company engaged in exploration and production; oil sands mining; integrated gas; and refining, marketing and transportation. The company, which is based in Houston, Texas, has principal operations in the United States, Angola, Canada, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Indonesia, Ireland, Libya, Norway and the United Kingdom. Marathon is the fourth largest United States-based integrated oil company and the nation’s fifth largest refiner.

MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. (MWE) is a limited partnership with solid midstream assets and a growing core of gas transmission resources. The company is the largest developer of natural gas in the Northeast and is the largest gas accumulator of natural gas in the prolific Carthage field in east Texas. It also has a growing number of other gas gathering and intrastate gas transmission assets in the Southwest, primarily in Texas and Oklahoma.

Matrix Service Co. (NASDAQ:MTRX) offers engineering construction, repair and maintenance services primarily to petroleum, petrochemical, bulk storage terminal, pipeline, power and industrial gas industries.

McMoRan Exploration Co Sc (NYSE: MMR) are engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas and oil offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore in the Gulf Coast region. The company has one of the largest acreage positions in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Coast areas, their main focus zone.

Metalore Resources LTD (TSE:MET) is actively engaged in the exploration and development of precious metals and hydrocarbons throughout Canada (and elsewhere) for the past 65 years and is the leading inland producer of natural gas from the Silurian formation in Ontario.

Midnight Oil Exploration LTD (TSE:MOX), based in Calgary, Canada, this junior gas and oil energy exploration company holds more than 100 sections along this resource fairway that includes the multi-layered tight gas resource potential of the Cadomin and Nikanassin combined with the high impact conventional gas reservoirs of the Deep Basin that provides strong economics and low risk repeatability for sustainable organic growth.

Murphy Oil CP Holding (NYSE:MUR) is an international oil and gas company that conducts business through various operating subsidiaries. The company produces oil and natural gas in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Malaysia and conducts exploration activities worldwide. Murphy owns refining and marketing operations in the United States and the United Kingdom and operates retail gasoline stations under the Murphy USA® brand across 20 states in the U.S. These are high-volume, low-cost retail gasoline stations, primarily in the parking areas of WalMart Supercenters. Murphy Oil USA, Inc. also operates a network of 12 Company-owned terminals. These terminals, along with numerous third-party terminals, provide fuel supply to retail and branded wholesale stations throughout 23 states.

Nabors Industries LTD (NBR) owns and operates about 528 land drilling and approximately 763 land workover and well-servicing rigs in North America. The company has actively marketed offshore fleets consisting of 37 platform rigs, 13 jack-up units and 3 barge rigs in the United States and multiple international markets. Additionally, Nabors produces top drives and drilling instrumentation systems and provides comprehensive oilfield hauling, engineering, civil construction, logistics and facilities maintenance, and project management services. The company is involved in most of the significant oil, gas and geothermal markets in the world.

NAL Oil & Gas Trust (TSE:NAE.UN) manages about 43,000 boe (barrels of oil equivalent) per day and operates 80 percent of this production on behalf of NAL Oil & Gas Trust and a subsidiary of Manulife Financial Corporation–a major Canadian financial institution. Primary areas include southeastern Saskatchewan, central Alberta, northeastern British Columbia and Lake Erie, Ontario. NAL operates five gas plants; the Sylvan Lake, Brent, Hanna and Sturgeon Lake gas plants are in Alberta and the Nottingham gas plant is located in Saskatchewan.

NATCO Group Inc. (NTG) is a leading producer of wellhead process equipment, systems and services used in the production of oil and gas. The company has designed, constructed and marketed production equipment and services for more than 75 years, used both onshore and offshore by most major oil and gas producing areas of the world.

Newfield Exploration Company (NYSE: NFX) is an independent crude oil and natural gas exploration and production company based in Houston, Texas. The company was founded in 1989 and went public in 1993. The sole focus area, until the mid-1990s, was the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, but by year-end 2008, the company had total proved reserves of 2.95 Tcfe and nearly 90% of those reserves were located onshore in the U.S. Newfield’s reserve base is 72% natural gas and 62% is proved developed.

Nexen Inc. (NYSE: NXY) is a Canadian-based, global energy company, strategically positioned in some of the world’s most exciting regions: the North Sea, deep-water Gulf of Mexico, Middle East, offshore West Africa and the Canadian Athabasca oil sands.

Niko Resources LTD (TSE:NKO) is a natural gas production company, generating about 80 million cubic feet per day of natural gas in fiscal 2006, compared to 61 million cubic feet per day the previous year.
NiSource Inc. (NI) and it’s subsidiaries engage in virtually all phases of the natural gas business, as well as electric generation, transmission and distribution within the passageway running from the Gulf Coast through the Midwest to New England.

Nitro Petrolum (NTRO.OB) is a globally-based oilfield equipment company, in operation for almost six decades. The company’s value workmanship has earned them the reputation as one of the worlds premiere oilfield equipment producers. Nitro specializes in drilling rigs, pump jack, OCTG, mud pumps and truck mounted rigs.

Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NBL) is a leading independent energy company, focused on the exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas in the U.S. and internationally. With a sundry portfolio of high-quality assets, the company measures success in the value they deliver to their investors, business partners and employees.

North Peace Energy (NPE.V) primary assets consist of about 86,400 acres of oil sands leases in north central Alberta with 2.0 to 3.1 billion barrels of discovered petroleum initially-in-place/ North Peace has 100 percent working interest and has drilled and cored 17 wells on this asset since the company’s establishment.

NuVista Energy LTD. (TSE:NVA) is an independent Canadian oil and natural gas exploration, development and production company with its common shares trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “NVA”.

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Galleon Energy, Inc. (TSE:GO) is a technologically advanced gas and oil corporation with undertakings near the Peace River Arch in Alberta, Canada. The company opened in 2003 and has had great success in obtaining immature land, drilling and production.

Genesis Energy L.P.(AMEX:GEL) is a growth-oriented limited partnership, involved in oil and gas exploration, acquisition and marketing in the Gulf Coast region of the U.S. The company provides services to refinery owners; oil, natural gas and CO2 producers; industrial and commercial enterprises utilizing CO2 and other industrial gases; and companies or individuals using their dry-goods trucking services.

Gentry Resources LTD is a growth-oriented oil and natural gas producer, based in Calgary, Canada. The company’s activities are concentrated in central Alberta and northeast British Columbia and focus on the development and expansion of its core natural gas and light oil producing areas and exploration of its large, undeveloped land source.

Gasco Energy, Inc. (GSX) is a swiftly growing independent oil and gas company focused on building unitholder value through the development of large natural gas deposits in the U.S. Rocky Mountain area. The company currently is currently active in the Uinta Basin in Utah and controls acreage in the Greater Green River Basin of Wyoming.

Gateway Energy Corporation (GNRG.OB) owns and operates natural gas gathering, transportation and distribution systems in Texas state, Texas waters and in federally-owned waters of the Gulf of Mexico near the Texas and Louisiana coastline. The company gathers wellhead natural gas production and liquid hydrocarbons and combines this production for processing and transport to other pipelines and end-users. Gateway also transports natural gas through its mainline systems for non-affiliated shippers, and distributes natural gas from company-owned facilities to end users.

GeoPetro Resources Company (GPR) is an independent natural gas and oil exploration company based in San Francisco, California. The company currently has projects in Canada, Indonesia, Australia and the United States, as well as developed producing properties in Texas.

GeoResources, Inc. (GEOI) is an independent oil and gas company involved in the acquisition and improvement of oil and gas reserves through an active and diversified program which includes purchases of reserves, re-engineering, development and surveying pursuits primarily centered in three areas – the Southwest, Gulf Coast and the Williston Basin.
Global Industries LTD (GLBL) is a leading provider of offshore construction, engineering, project management and support solutions, including pipeline construction, platform installation and removal, deepwater/SURF installations, IRM and diving into the oil and gas industry on a global scale.

Gold Point Energy Corp (GPE.V) is an emerging junior international oil and gas company focusing on Eastern Central Europe and the U.S. The company combines oil and gas business and technical professionals with the business development and financial insight of their financing partners.

Goodrich Petroleum Corporation (GDP) is an independent exploration and production company that drills for, acquires, develops and produces natural gas and crude oil primarily in the Cotton Valley Trend in East Texas and North Louisiana.

Grey Wolf, Inc. (GW) is a leading provider of turnkey and contract oil and gas land drilling services in the United States. The company serves major and independent oil and gas companies with a premium fleet of 121 rigs. Located in the nation’s most productive natural gas regions, they operate in South Texas, the Gulf Coast, the Ark-La-Tex, Mississippi/Alabama, Mid Continent and Rocky Mountain areas. About 95% of the wells Grey Wolf drills on a day work and turnkey basis are targeted to natural gas.

GulfMark Offshore, Inc. (GLF) is a leading global provider of marine transportation mainly to the upstream oil and gas industry. The company delivers value to their clients by providing safe, high-quality and reliable service using a fleet of modern and thoughtfully designed vessels operated by professional and highly trained mariners. GulfMark also offers the unique ability to manage third-party vessels that expand our services to clients while leveraging our operational expertise for the benefit of the industry. Activities are concentrated in three core geographic areas, the North Sea, Southeast Asia and the Americas, though they do operate in other remote areas.

Harken Energy Corporation (AMEX: HKN) Harken Energy Corporation is engaged in oil and gas exploration, development and production operations both domestically and internationally through its various ownership in companies.

Harvest Energy Trust (TSE:HTE.UN) is one of Canada’s largest energy trusts offering exposure to upstream oil and natural gas production and downstream refining and marketing operations. The company is focused on discovering opportunities to create and deliver value to shareholders through monthly distributions and unit price increase. With an active acquisition program and the technical approach taken to maximizing our assets, the company strives to grow cash flow per unit. Harvest’s crude oil and natural gas production business is weighted approximately 70% to crude oil and liquids and 30% to natural gas, and is complemented by our medium gravity, sour crude oil refinery.

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. (HP) is primarily involved in contract drilling of oil and gas wells for exploration and production companies. The contract drilling business accounts for almost all of H&P’s operating revenues, making it one of the major land and offshore platform drilling contractors in the world.

Highpine Oil & Gas LTD (TSE:HPX) is a public oil and gas exploration company involved in the exploration, acquisition, development and production of natural gas and crude oil in western Canada. Highpine engages in exploration, development and exploitation drilling, complemented with property and corporate acquisitions.

Imperial Oil LTD is one of Canada’s largest corporations and a leading member of the country’s petroleum industry. It is one of Canada’s largest producers of crude oil and natural gas, is the country’s largest petroleum refiner, and has a leading market share in petroleum products sold through a coast-to-coast supply network that includes close to 2,000 service stations.

Index Oil & Gas, Inc. (OTC:IXOG) is an active early-stage exploration and production company expanding on a medium- to high-impact portfolio of U.S. gas and oil prospects, carefully managed with a balanced range of risk. Currently a non-operating company, Index has a history of drilling success rates and significant year-on-year increases in key metrics of revenue, production and reserves. Activities are focused on the prolific petroleum system of the onshore Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana, as well as in mid continent Kansas.

International Sovereign Energy Corp (PINK:ISEYF) is a Canadian based publicly traded exploration and production company with offices in Calgary, Alberta and Islamabad, Pakistan and is active in the exploration and development of hydrocarbon reserves in Western Canada and internationally.

Iteration Energy LTD (TSE:ITX.TO), based in Alberta, Canada, is involved in exploration and exploitation of oil and natural gas in Western Canada.

Ivanhoe Energy, Inc. (IVAN) is an independent international heavy oil development and production company primarily focused on pursuing long-term growth in its reserves and production. Core operations are in Canada, the United States, China, and Ecuador, with business development opportunities worldwide.

JED Oil, Inc. (JDO) is a natural gas and oil development company, involved in operation of oil and natural gas assets predominantly in western Canada. Junex, Inc. (JNX.V) is a junior oil and gas company, primarily focused on exploration in the Appalachian basin in the Province of Quebec. The company is involved in multiple partnerships with other oil surveying companies to reduce exploration risks. Junex also owns about 9.4% of shares from Petrolia Inc. (CVE:PEA) and 1.1% of the issued and outstanding shares of Gastem, Inc. (CVE:GMR).

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Ellora Energy, Inc.< (OTC:ELENL) is an independent gas and oil exploration and development company of internal United States gas and oil properties. They mainly work in east Texas and neighboring areas in western Louisiana and the Hugoton field in Kansas.

Ember Resources, Inc.(TSE:EBR) is a specialized resource company dedicated to utilizing the significant potential of coal bed methane (CBM) in Alberta, Canada.

Enerplus Resources (TSE:ERF.UN) is one of North America’s largest conventional oil and gas income-based investment companies, involved in the gas and oil industry. They are committed to supplying investors with a superior return on their outlay and will continue to seek opportunities that create value and enhance the sustainability of our business over the long-term.

ENGlobal Corporation (ENG) is a multi-faceted organization, offering engineering, automation, construction and land and regulatory services to wide variety of industries. The company has been designated as one of the fastest growing engineering firms in the United States and Canada.

Enhanced Oil Resources, Inc. (EOR) is a development stage, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), company that controls approximately 235,000 acres of land within the St Johns Helium/CO2 field in AZ and NM where they are developing what is thought to be the largest undeveloped source of helium and carbon dioxide gases in North America. Independent engineering firms have projected that the St Johns field contains about 15 trillion cubic feet of in place resources, with a potential recoverable resource of 5 trillion cubic feet. Development of the project could result in the company becoming one of North America's largest Helium and CO2 suppliers and EOR producers. EOR’s strategic focus for CO2 delivery and production is the Permian Basin where considerable potential exists for improved oil retrieval from older, exhausted oil fields.

Ensco International Inc. (ESV) is a premier global offshore oil and gas drilling contractor, a service which is essential to oil companies in their worldwide exploration and development efforts. Ensco’s fleet of 52 rigs (including six ultra-deepwater rigs under construction) is strategically located in the most prolific domestic and international oil and gas markets and is managed through four major business units including Deepwater, Asia Pacific, Europe/Africa, and North & South America.

Enterprise Product Partners, L.P. (NYSE: EPD) is one of the largest publicly traded energy corporations, with an development rate over $14 billion, and is a leading North American provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs and crude oil. The company transports natural gas, NGLs, crude oil and petrochemical products through 32,500 miles of onshore and offshore pipelines and is a leader in the development of midstream transportation in the deepwater trend of the Gulf of Mexico. Support includes natural gas transportation, gathering, processing and storage; NGL fractionation (or separation), transportation, and storage; crude oil shipping and offshore production platform services.

Enterra Energy Trust (NYSE:ENT) holds a balanced production portfolio comprised of about 60 percent natural gas and 40 percent crude oil and natural gas liquids. The trust also maintains portfolio balance through geographical diversification with production and assets split relatively evenly between the United States and Canada. Enterra has the financial and operational flexibility for both internal growth through the drill bit and increased external growth targeted through prudent and timely asset acquisitions.

Eog Resources, Inc.(NYSE: EOG) is one of the largest independent (non-integrated) oil and natural gas companies in the United States with proved reserves in the United States, Canada, Trinidad, the United Kingdom North Sea and China.

Excelsior Energy Limited (ELE.V) is an early-stage oil sands exploration and development company with emphasis on situ deposits in the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta, Canada. The company also holds a 75% working interest in the UK North Sea. The method of Excelsior Energy is to detain oil and gas appraisal and advancement prospects where they may leverage the administration’s diverse international knowledge and field development expertise.

Exterran Holdings, Inc. (EXH) is the global market leader in full service natural gas compression. They have combined strengths with the Hanover Compressor Company and Universal Compression Holdings to provide sales, operations, maintenance, fabrication, service and equipment for oil and gas production, processing and transporting applications. Expertise includes compression technology, gas treatment, critical process equipment, production equipment, power generation, fabrication and parts and services.

Exxon Mobil CP (NYSE: XOM) possesses the largest resource location in Canada through its wholly-owned affiliate, Exxon Mobile Canada, and its majority-owned affiliate, Imperial Oil. They are also one of the largest crude oil producers in Canada, as well as a global-leading natural gas developer.

Fairwest Energy Corporation (TSE:FEC) is a Calgary, Alberta-based company, formed as a result of an amalgamation of Fairstar Explorations Inc. and Western Energy Corporation. The company has oil and gas interests in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. The company combines traditional oil and gas exploitation with leading edge technology, developed through joint ventures with service partners, to create resource value.

Ferrellgas Partners (NYSE: FGP) presently fulfills more than one million propane customers throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Canada, through its affiliate, Ferrellgas, L.P. Its employees expansively hold almost 18 million units of Ferrellgas Partners through an employee stock tenure program.

First Calgary Petroleums, Ltd. (LON:FPL) is an oil and gas surveying company vigorously involved in overseas exploration and development endeavors in Algeria.

Flair Petroleum Corporation (OTCPK:FPMC) is a gas and oil development corporation, which has over 150 years experience involving financial, technical, commercial and industry-specific projects, with a successful track record in investment and financial advisory.

Flotek Industries Inc. (FTK) is a publicly traded company engaged in development and marketing of modern specialty chemicals, downhole drilling and manufacturing equipment, as well as supervision of automated bulk material handling and loading. The company serves major and independent businesses in global oilfield services.

Forest Gate Resources, Inc. (CVE:FGT) is a Canadian-based oil & gas exploration and production company that seeks to create shareholder value through the exploration and exploitation of high-impact projects worldwide. They are currently pursuing Canadian hydrocarbon production to generate cash flow while seeking to develop international assets.

Fort Chicago Energy Partners (TSE:FCE.UN) is a publicly traded limited partnership based in Calgary, Alberta, that owns and operates energy infrastructure assets across North America. The company is engaged in three principal industries: Pipeline, Natural Gas Liquids and Power. Fort Chicago and its businesses are also actively developing a number of Greenfield Investment opportunities that will be a key source of future growth, including LNG and pipeline facilities on the U.S. west coast (Jordan Cove and Pacific Connector), Alberta-based ethane and natural gas liquid extraction facilities, repowering and expansion opportunities at the California power facilities and a Nova Scotia-based underground natural gas storage (Alton Gas Storage) and related pipeline facilities.

Fortress Energy Inc. (FEI.TO) is an Alberta-incorporated company whose focus is exploration, development and production of natural gas reserves in Western Canada. The company’s portfolio includes 160,464 gross acres (123,413 net acres) of land in the broader Ladyfern Area and at Buick Creek in Northeast British Columbia and the Square Creek, Chigwell, Bashaw, Halverson and Mearon areas of Alberta. Of this, 118,638 gross acres (92,905 net acres) are undeveloped. Fortress Energy’s production base is about 1,400 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d), which is 100 percent weighted to natural gas. Fortress’ strategy is to acquire assets that are under-exploited with stable base line reserves and production and to generate internal high-impact exploration prospects. During the year ended December 2008, the company participated in the drilling of four gross development wells, two gross exploration wells and constructed a major processing facility as well as a 41-kilometer gas pipeline at Square Creek. This program added a net 444 boe/d of new production from its start up in April 2008 through year-end.

Fox Petroleum Inc. (FXPT) is a publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company, located in London, England. The company has joined many major oil and gas industry players exploring America’s energy reserves in Alaska’s North Slope and Cook Inlet areas, as well as Texas and Kansas. Fox also has projects throughout the U.K., both onshore and with new affiliates in the U.K.’s North Sea.

Freehold Royalty Trust (FRU) is a publicly traded oil and gas trust, chiefly focused on gas and oil royalties. The company owns a large number of royalty-producing properties and working interest properties which supplies income from crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids and potash. About 80% of assembly comes from royalty interests. Freehold is managed by Rife Resources Management, Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rife Resources, Ltd., both of which are 100% owned by the CN Pension Trust Funds (the pension funds for employees of Canadian National Railway Company).

Frontier Oil Corporation (NYSE: FTO), located in Houston, Texas, is an independent oil refining and marketing company with intricate factories located in Wyoming and Kansas. The company has a 52,000 bpd (barrels per day) facility in Cheyenne, Wyoming and a 130,000 bpd refinery in Kansas.

Fx Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq:FXEN) is an independent oil and gas company centered on Poland. Poland’s hydrocarbon producing areas are vastly underexplored because the country was closed to competition from foreign exploration companies for many decades. The company has accrued a large land position in productive areas, compiled a sophisticated technical team, and generated a number of desirable gas prospects. FX Energy has announced a $23 million capital budget for 2009.

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Cabot Oil Gas CP (NYSE: COG) is a top private natural gas producer, based in Texas, with significant interests in the Gulf Coast, which includes plots in Texas and Louisiana; the West, near the Rocky Mountains and Mid-Continent; and the East with development projects in Canada.

Calfrac Well Services Ltd. (TSE:CFW) is a primary provider of dedicated oil field maintenance, including fracturing, coiled tubing, cementing and other well dispatch services. The company’s oilfield services unite advanced technology and techniques with equipment innovations, which are designed to increase hydrocarbon production.

Callon Petroleum Company (CPE) is involved in the research, improvement, procurement and production of oil and gas properties in the U.S; resources are located mainly in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore in Louisiana and Alabama.

Canadian Natural Resources (NYSE:CNQ) is a senior oil and natural gas production company, with ongoing business ventures in its primary resource areas located in the U.K, Western Canada, and offshore in West Africa.

Canadian Oil Sands Trust (TSE:COS.UN) offers investment prospects in Alberta’s oil sands via its 36.74% interest in the Syncrude project. Syncrude manages the oil mines and an upgrading facility that manufactures a light crude oil. Canadian Oil Sands is an unrestricted investment group, supervised by Canadian Oil Sands Limited.

CanArgo Energy (CNR) is an independent oil and gas exploration and manufacturing group with oil and gas procurement plants located in the Republic of Georgia and the Caspian vicinity.

Caspian Energy Inc. (TSE:CEK) is a gas and oil research company based in Kazakhstan, where it has many potential development projects. The company maintains a private license which allows oil and gas exploration/development in certain areas throughout the Kazakhstan’s “North Block”, measuring about 3,458 square kilometers.

Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK), the self-proclaimed “American Champion of Natural Gas”, is currently the second chief private producer in the United States. The company’s business concentration is based on the exploration and advancement of drilling and property attainment throughout the Permian Basin, South Texas, Texas Gulf, Barnett Shale, Ark-La-Tex, Appalachian Basin and the Mid-Continent in the U.S.

ChevronTexaco (NYSE: CVX) handles business in the United States and about 180 other nations. It is involved in financial and managerial support to the United States and overseas subsidiaries employed in wholly incorporated petroleum processes, chemicals, coal mining, energy and power services.

CCNOOC Limited (CEO), founded in Hong Kong in 1982, is involved in the development and production of natural gas and crude oil throughout the People’s Republic of China. As of December of 2004, the company projected 2,230.0 million barrels of oil net reserves.

Comstock Resources (NYSE:CRK), located in Texas, is an emergent private energy company involved in gas and oil attainment, discovery and advancement throughout Texas, Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico.

ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is an incorporated petroleum company with global business pursuits.

Constellation Energy Group, Inc. (CEG) is the country’s main viable provider of electricity to sizable commercial and industrial customers and is the largest wholesale power seller nationwide. The FORTUNE 200 company also controls energy and fuel services for energy concentrated commerce and owns a fleet of more than 100 production units in the U.S, equaling about 12,500 megawatts of generating capacity. Constellation additionally distributes natural gas and electricity through the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) and, in 2004, the conglomerates mutual income totaled $12.5 billion.

Core Laboratories NV (CLB) is a primary supplier of patented reservoir production and organization services utilized to improve petroleum reservoir operation. They have more than 70 departments in more than 50 nations and are involved in every major-oil producing territory in the world.

Credo Petroleum Corporation (CRED), based in Denver, is an openly operated independent energy company involved in surveying and attainment, as well as utilization and advertising of natural gas and crude oil with its original Calliope Gas Recovery System. The company owns interests in almost 1,500 wells and is updated daily in the NASDAQ Global Market section of the Wall Street Journal.

Crew Energy, Inc. (TSE:CR) is a growth-oriented junior gas and oil development company, concentrated in the central Alberta and northeast British Columbia areas.

Daylight Resources Trust (TSE:DAY.UN) is a mid-sized royalty trust, based in Calgary, Alberta, with involvement in natural gas and oil development. The company was founded as a merger between Daylight Energy Trust and Sequoi Oil and Gas Trust in 2006, and is expecting to generate between 22,000-23,000 barrels of oil equivalent daily.

The Dawson Geophysical Company (NASDAQ:DWSN) is America’s leading provider of onshore seismic data acquisition services. The company obtains and develops 2-D, 3-D and multi-component seismic data for its clients, varying from major oil and gas companies to autonomous gas and oil workers, as well as suppliers of multi-client data libraries.

Delta Natural Gas Co, Inc. (DGAS) distributes, stores, gathers and produces natural gas for about 40,000 customers in central and southeastern Kentucky. The company also ships natural gas for its local producers and customers not on its distribution system. Subsidiary companies buy and sell gas, as well as operate the production properties.

Denbury Resources, Inc. (NYSE:DNR) is a growing independent oil and gas company. The company is the largest oil and natural gas operator in Mississippi, owns the largest reserves of CO2 used for tertiary oil recovery east of the Mississippi River, along with significant operating acreage in the Barnett Shale play near Fort Worth, Texas, and also holds properties in Southeast Texas. The Company’s goal is to increase the value of acquired properties through a combination of exploitation, drilling and proven engineering extraction practices, with its most significant emphasis relating to tertiary recovery operations.

Devon Energy (NYSE:DVN) is one of the globe’s leading independent oil and gas exploration and production companies. The company’s operations are focused primarily in the U.S. and Canada; however, Devon also explores for and produces oil and natural gas in select international areas. They also own natural gas pipelines and treatment facilities in many producing areas, making them one of the continent’s larger processors of natural gas liquids.

Dominion Resources Black Warrior Trust (NYSE:DOM) was formed as a Delaware business trust and holds specific overriding royalty interests in natural gas properties in the Pottsville coal formation of the Black Warrior basin in Alabama. The Royalty Interests are the only assets of the company other than cash and temporary investments being held for the payment of expenses and liabilities and for distribution to the shareholders.

Dorchester Minerals LP (DMLP), a Dallas-established possessor of both producing and non-producing natural gas mineral and crude oil wells.

Duke Energy Gas Transmission(NYSE:DUK) is based in Houston, Texas and is a principal developer of natural gas energy, bringing major natural gas supply sources to emergent markets. The company’s assets and endeavors contain more than 17,000 miles of transmission pipeline and 250 billion cubic feet of storage ability. In addition, Duke Energy has substantial assembly, processing, delivery and natural gas liquids operations which are among the largest in Canada.

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Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (ABD:TAQA) is a United Arab Emirates-based wholly-owned subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority, headquartered in Abu Dhabi. The purpose of the company is to own and invest in businesses who are engaged in power production, water desalination and development, production and storage of oil and gas, in addition to other investments as considered appropriate to meet its objectives. TAQA has reserves in over 60 companies worldwide; other firms include Emirates Power Company PJSC, Union Power Holding Company PJSC, Gulf Power Company PJSC, Al Shuweihat Power Company PJSC, Taweelah United Power Company PJSC, Arabian United Power Company PJSC, TAQA Bratani Limited, TAQA Bratani LNS Limited, TAQA Energy B.V., TAQA North Ltd. and Takoradi International Company.

Adams Resources And Energy (AMEX: AE) is involved in the selling of crude oil, natural gas and petroleum; tank truck transportation of liquid chemicals, and oil and gas exploration and production. The Company’s subsidiary, Gulfmark Energy, Inc., purchases crude oil and arranges sales and deliveries to refiners and other customers. Another subsidiary, Service Transport Company (STC), transports liquid chemicals on a for hire basis throughout the continental United States and Canada. Another contributory firm, Adams Resources Exploration Corporation, explores and develops domestic oil and gas estates along the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast.

Alberta Clipper Energy, Inc. (TSE:ACN) is a Canadian junior oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, advancement, and manufacturing of natural gas and light oil reserves in the territories of Alberta and British Columbia. Alberta Clipper Energy, under the trading symbol CAN, began trading on July 12, 2005.

Amerigas Partners LP (NYSE: APU) is a retail propane vendor in the U.S. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004 (fiscal 2004), the company served over 1 million suburban, mercantile, industrial, rural and motor gas customers from about 650 locations in 46 states. The company conducts its business through its subsidiary, AmeriGas Propane, L.P. (AmeriGas OLP) and its subsidiary, AmeriGas Eagle Propane, L.P. (Eagle OLP and, together with AmeriGas OLP, the Operating Partnership).

Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) is involved in oil and gas exploration and generation mainly in the United States; searching in areas such as Texas, Louisiana, the mid-continent region and the western states, Alaska, in the shallow and deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and Canada and Algeria. The company also has production plants in Venezuela and Qatar. It actively markets natural gas, oil and liquid natural gas and owns and operates gas-gathering systems in its core producing areas. Additionally, the company is involved with hard minerals through joint ventures and royalty arrangements in several coal, natural soda ash and industrial mineral mines located on lands within and adjacent to its Land Grant holdings. The Land Grant is an eight-million-acre strip running through portions of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah where the Company owns most of its fee mineral rights.

Anderson Energy LTD (TSE:AXL) is a publicly traded oil and gas company involved in the exploration, development and production of natural gas and oil in Western Canada. Anderson Energy’s main properties are Sylvan Lake, Chinchaga, Sierra, Peace River Arch and Eastern Alberta. The company was established as a private business in January of 2002. In June of 2005, the company announced the purchase of Aquest Energy Ltd. through a plan subject to shareholders and court approval. This approval was obtained on August 31, 2005 and the deal was effective September 01, 2005. The company commenced trading on the TSX exchange (TSX: AXL) on September 07, 2005.

Antrim Energy Inc (LSE: AEY) is involved in exploration, production and sale of oil and gas assets.

Apache Corporation (NYSE: APA) is a private energy company that surveys, develops and produces natural gas, crude oil and liquid natural gas. The exploration and production interests are focused in the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf Coast, the Permian Basin, the Anadarko Basin and the Western Sedimentary Basin of Canada. The company has interests in seven countries: the United States, Canada, Egypt, Australia, the United Kingdom, China and Argentina. Its subdivisions are the U.S., Canada, Egypt, Australia, North Sea and additional international locations. In August of 2004, the company signed an agreement to purchase all of Anadarko’s Gulf of Mexico-Outer Continental Shelf properties (excluding some deepwater properties). During the end of 2004, they participated in drilling almost 2,000 wells, with 1,735 (90.7%) accomplished as manufacturers.

Arawak Energy Corp (TSE:ABG.TO) is an independent oil and gas company with exploration, development and production assets in Kazakhstan, Russia and Azerbaijan. The companies’ goal is to grow geographically and deliver value through persistent and growing production from oil and gas assets in several locations in the Former Soviet Union.

Arc Energy Trust Units (TSE:AET.UN) is an actively managed payment trust began to provide investors with indirect ownership in cash generating energy assets, which currently consist of oil and gas assets but in the future may include other related energy assets. The supplied cash flow to shareholders is based on the production and sale of crude oil, natural gas liquids and natural gas.

Arc Resources, LTD. (TSE:ARX) success is based on the companies’ property assets. Before purchase, properties must meet specific requirements to guarantee a strong fit within the trust’s asset portfolio. Once acquired, the company’s technical teams begin work on adaption of a property – applying technical skill to improve production, strengthen reserves through low risk development activities and decrease costs. The outcome is a group of strong focus areas characterized by stable production, a portfolio of long-life reserves balanced between oil and gas with low operating costs and high netbacks.

ATP Oil & Gas Corporation (ATPG) is implicated in the attainment, development and production of natural gas and oil properties, mostly in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea. In December of 2003, the company had leasehold and other interests in 50 offshore blocks, 26 platforms and 62 wells, including six subsea wells, in the Gulf of Mexico. ATP operates 50 of these 62 wells, including all of the subsea wells, and 85% of its offshore platforms. They also held interests in eight blocks and one company-operated subsea well located in the North Sea. ATP’s average working interest in its properties at the end of 2003 was approximately 82% and had leasehold interests located in the Gulf of Mexico and North Sea covering almost 270,000 acres.

Austral Pacific Energy, Ltd. (AUSPF.PK) is mostly involved in the acquisition, exploration, and development of oil and gas properties in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Australia. The company also engages in the exploration for commercial quantities of hydrocarbons and also the development and production of hydrocarbons.

Aztec Oil & Gas Inc. (OTC:AZGS) is an oil and gas exploration and production company focusing on numerous areas of the United States. It owns a minority interest in a 29 well oil and natural gas program in Pennsylvania, with all of the wells currently churning into pipelines. The company also owns a marginal interest in two Deep Lake wells in Louisiana ranging from 13,600-14,300 feet in depth with both wells producing and selling commercial quantities of natural gas. They also own a minority interest in one well in Texas which is currently producing and selling oil and natural gas; and one well located in Wise County, Texas which had good initial oil and gas shows, is producing, but is experiencing mechanical issues. Aztec has a minority interest in two producing gas wells in Oklahoma of which one is a conventional well, and the second is a horizontal, Coal Bed Methane (CBM) well. Additional wells and drilling are presently being analyzed. In 2007, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Aztec Energy, LLC, the company completed a successful four-well drilling program in West Virginia which is currently producing into sales pipeline and tanks. Aztec Energy, LLC also manages a second Aztec drilling partnership focused in Tyler County, West Virginia in which it owns a 30% interest, plus the third drilling partnership, Aztec 2007A.

Bankers Petroleum, LTD. (TSE:BNK) Bankers Petroleum Ltd. is a Canadian-based oil and gas exploration and production company, attentive to opportunities in unconventional petroleum assets. Bankers hold interests in 4 prospects in the Northern and Central regions of the U.S., where it is currently exploring shale gas. It also operates in the Patos-Marinza oilfield in Albania, which produces extreme oil. Bankers’ shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the AIM Market in London, England under the ticker symbol BNK.

Barnwell Industries (AMEX: BRN) is involved in oil and natural gas exploration, development, production and sales chiefly in Canada; investment in leasehold land in Hawaii, and well drilling, contract labor servicing for geothermal well drilling and workovers, and water pumping system installation and repair in Hawaii. About 61% of the company’s income in fiscal 2004 was accredited to its oil and natural gas endeavors. Barnwell’s land investment segment revenues accounted for 27% and contract drilling activities comprised of 10% of company’s revenue during fiscal 2004.

Bayou City Exploration, Inc. (OTC: BYCX) engages in the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas properties primarily in the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana, East Texas, Kentucky, New Mexico, and West Virginia. As of March 31, 2005, it participated, either directly or indirectly through its sponsored limited partnerships, in 108 wells. The company has proved and developed reserves of 14,855 barrels of oil and 197,780 mcf of natural gas.

Baytex Energy Trust (BTE-UN) is a conventional oil and gas income trust primarily involved in sustaining its production and assets through internal property development and delivering consistent returns to its shareholders.

The Beard Co’s (OTC:BRCO) operations involve mainly coal reclamation, carbon dioxide (CO2) gas production, oil and gas production, and the company’s e-commerce activities are aimed at developing business opportunities to leverage starpay(TM)’s lucid property portfolio of internet payment processes and security technologies.

Big Cat Energy Corporation (OTCBB: BCTE) has advanced a patented technology named the ARID (Aquifer Recharge Injection Device) Tool, a pioneering method of water handling that provides coal bed methane wells with the ability to redistribute produced water. This revolutionary new coal bed methane production technology will allow coal bed methane operators to process produced water at a fraction of the cost of current technology.

Black Hills Corporation (BKH) is an incorporated energy company. Utilities include Black Hills Power, an electric utility serving western South Dakota, northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana; and Cheyenne Light, Fuel & Power, an electric and gas distribution utility serving the Cheyenne, Wyoming area. Black Hills Energy, the non-regulated energy business unit, generates electricity, produces natural gas, oil and coal, and promotes energy.

Blue Dolphin Energy (BDCO) is a holding company that does business wholly through its subsidiaries. They are involved in two different divisions: oil and gas exploration and production, which includes the exploration, acquisition, development, operation and disposition of oil and gas properties and pipeline operations, which includes improvement projects. Its subsidiaries and associates are Blue Dolphin Petroleum Company, Blue Dolphin Pipe Line Company, Blue Dolphin Exploration Company, Blue Dolphin Services Co., Petroport, Inc., New Avoca Gas Storage, LLC, in which it owns a 25% interest, Drillmar, Inc., in which it owns a 12.8% interest and American Resources Offshore, Inc. In November 2004, the Company and WBI Pipeline & Storage Group, Inc. (WBI) closed the sale of New Avoca Gas Storage, LLC. to SemGas, L.P., a subdivision of SemGroup, L.P.

BP plcc (NYSE: BP) is an oil company with three main businesses: Exploration and Generation; Gas, Power and Renewable Energy, and Refining and Marketing. Exploration and Production includes oil and natural gas exploration and field development and production, together with pipeline transportation and natural gas processing. Gas, Power and Renewables include marketing and trading of natural gas, natural gas liquid, new market development, liquefied natural gas and solar and renewable fuel. The pursuit of Refining and Marketing include oil supply and trading, as well as refining and marketing. In September 2003, BP merged its Russian assets into those of Tyumen Oil Co. (TNK), creating TNK-BP, a joint venture between the Company and the Alfa Group and Access-Renova (collectively, AAR). The company also intends to incorporate AAR’s 50% interest in OAO Slavneft, a Russian oil company, into TNK-BP.

Brigham Exploration Company (BEXP) is a leading independent exploration and production company that applies 3-D seismic imaging and other advanced technologies to systematically explore for and develop onshore domestic oil and natural gas reserves.

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