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.

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