Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas and Oil E-F:

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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