SK Group, one of South Korea's top five "chaebol" (industrial conglomerates), covers a broad spectrum of businesses through its affiliates. The company has about 40 affiliated companies, with operations ranging from energy, telecommunications, finance, and construction. Its energy and chemical arm, SK Energy, is Korea's largest petroleum refiner. Like other "chaebol" under government orders to reorganize in the wake of the Korean financial collapse of the late-1990s, SK Group has pared down its affiliates. The slimmer SK Group is focusing on three core businesses: information and telecommunications (through SK Telecom), energy and chemicals (through SK Energy), and trading and services (SK Networks).

SmartestEnergy is licensed as an electricity supplier, a natural gas supplier and a natural gas shipper. The company began trading in October 2001, primarily to enable smaller embedded generators of primarily renewable energy to gain access to the deregulated energy market in the UK. SmartestEnergy relies on its quick-wittedness to survive in the highly competitive UK energy trading sector. The company, a subsidiary of leading Japanese trading company Marubeni, primarily markets electricity in the deregulated UK market through partnerships with independent power producers, including its sister company Marubeni Europower. SmartestEnergy also trades natural gas and other energy commodities, provides market analysis and risk management services, and provides retail energy supply services to commercial and industrial customers.

Sonatrach seeks to stay on track as one of the world's top energy players. State-owned Sonatrach oversees Algeria's oil and gas exploration, production, and marketing activities. In addition to its exploration, refining, and pipeline operations, the company also invests in electrical power and in desalination projects. The company also has exploration and production activities in other countries, including Libya, Mali, Niger, and Peru. Sonatrach has proved reserves globally of 225 million tons of oil equivalent, and operates a gas station network of more than 1,950 outlets.

Check the stats. Oil. Hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil, gasoline, and more. Statoil Marketing & Trading is a wholesaler of oil and petroleum products. The company is the US trading arm of Statoil, a leading Scandinavian oil and gas enterprise. Statoil Marketing & Trading delivers about 600,000 barrels a day in the form of crude oil, gasoline, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), propane, and butane to the North American market. In addition to supplying Norwegian crude, the company trades crude oil from Africa, South America, and North America. Founded in 1987, Statoil Marketing & Trading handles more than 25% of all the petroleum liquids sold by StatoiHydro. In just a few years Statoil has positioned itself as a significant player in the exploration and development of oil and gas deposits in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM).We are currently positioned as one of the largest license holders in deepwater GoM, which presents our attractive portfolio and strong commitment to this area.

Winner of the US Department of Energy 2007 Renewable Energy Marketer of the Year award, Sterling Planet is a sustainability pioneer and innovative supplier of renewable energy, energy efficiency and low-carbon solutions.Sterling Planet offers comprehensive carbon neutral solutions for businesses, universities and organizations of all types, bringing together supply and demand side solutions in a rapidly emerging environmental market. The company currently is developing next-generation solar and bioenergy projects to produce ‘green power’ and verified carbon offsets and is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Climate Leaders partner, committed to net zero greenhouse gas emissions from its business operations. Since 2001, sales of renewable energy to 928 business clients, 43 colleges and universities, 136 government agencies, 52 utilities and thousands of residential customers have avoided 25 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, which compares to taking 2 million cars off the road for a year.

SulphCo, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, was founded in 1999. The original patents relating to our technology resulted from the research efforts of several scientists at the University of Southern California. Their novel work utilized high power ultrasound to enhance the oxidation of sulfur compounds in diesel fuel. Since the inception of the Company, we have continuously improved our Sonocracking™ technology by redesigning the ultrasound probe, systematically documenting the chemical reactions that occur during the Sonocracking™ process, and identifying efficient and cost effective catalyst and oxidant systems. Commercially, a variety of potential customers ranging from small independent “transmix” processors to major integrated oil companies are in various stages of evaluating the Sonocracking™ technology for their specific applications.

The Sunoco® brand has stood for quality products and services for over 120 years. While we are proud of our excellent and long-standing reputation, we continue to grow to meet the needs of consumers in today’s fast-paced environment. Sunoco’s Retail Marketing business is comprised of approximately 4,700 retail gasoline outlets in 26 states, which are primarily supplied by four high-efficiency refineries. With over 5 billion gallons of gasoline sold and $700 million of merchandise sales per year, Sunoco is a major retailer and recognized brand in the sale of gasoline and convenience store items. Sunoco’s retail outlets are primarily located along the east coast of the United States, especially the I-95 corridor. Sunoco APlus® convenience stores are located along the east coast from Massachusetts to Florida and west into upstate New York and Ohio. Our 700 APlus stores carry national brand-named products, including: snacks, beverages, cigarettes, hot and cold lunches, and fresh-brewed Gulliver’s® coffee. Most of our stores are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days of the year.

Syntroleum Corporation has come a long way since its founding in 1984 by Kenneth L. Agee. The company’s synthetic fuel technologies make it a recognized force in the renewable fuels, biomass-to-liquids (BTL), gas-to-liquids (GTL), and coal-to-liquids (CTL) industries, and is one of the most vocal about introducing the possibilities of these technologies to the world. Syntroleum’s recent announcement regarding its renewable synthetic fuels venture with Tyson Foods is the latest example of its leadership in the industry. Together with Tyson, Syntroleum will construct the world’s first renewable synthetic fuels plant utilizing its Bio-synfining™ technology and Tyson sourced agricultural feedstock. With an investment of over $150 million and the creation of over 300 jobs, the initial 75 million gallon per year plant will not only have a positive impact on the local economy where the plant is located, but will contribute much needed incremental clean and environmentally friendly fuel to our nation’s transportation fuel supply.

Tauber Oil Company has earned it's reputation for reliable performance and untarnished character. Far more than a speculative trading company, Tauber is a service oriented marketing company where you can expect and receive the expertise of a specialist. No petrochemical product is taboo for oil refiner and marketer Tauber Oil. The company markets refined petroleum products, natural gas, carbon black feedstocks, liquefied petroleum gases, chemicals, and petrochemicals (including benzene, styrene monomer, and methanol). It buys and sells about 225,000 barrels of petroleum products a day. Tauber Oil is one of the US's leading suppliers of feedstocks for reforming and olefin cracking. Subsidiary Tauber Petrochemical was created in 1997 to beef up the company's international petrochemical business. Tauber Oil, which is owned by David and Richard Tauber, maintains a fleet of more than 500 rail cars to supply its customers.

Tesoro Corporation, a Fortune 100 company, is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products. Tesoro, through its subsidiaries, operates seven refineries in the western United States with a combined capacity of approximately 665,000 barrels per day. Tesoro's retail-marketing system includes over 870 branded retail stations, of which over 380 are company operated under the Tesoro®, Shell®, Mirastar® and USA Gasoline™ brands. A pioneer of oil refining in Alaska, Tesoro Alaska is a regional oil refinery and refined petroleum products marketing unit of Tesoro Corporation. The unit manages Tesoro Corporation's and Alaska's first oil refinery, at Kenai. The 72,000 barrels-a-day refinery produces gasoline, liquefied petroleum gas, heavy oils, bunker fuels, and liquid asphalt, as well as distillates (jet fuel, diesel fuel, and heating oil). The plant's primary product is jet fuel for Anchorage International Airport, located 70 miles from the refinery. A 40,000-barrels-per-day pipeline connects the refinery with the airport. The Kenai refinery also supplies gasoline and diesel to about 90 Tesoro-branded retail outlets in Alaska.

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