The American Enterprise Association (AEA) arrived in Washington in 1943, in the thick of World War II. In Congress there was talk of making wartime price and production controls permanent to prevent another Depression when peace finally arrived. The tiny AEA, a business group formed in New York City in 1938, was horrified; it resolved to open a Washington office to advocate rapid postwar economic demobilization and, more generally, to improve Congress's understanding of the economic consequences of its actions. The new AEA office, which eventually became headquarters and graduated from "association" to "institute," was the avant-garde of two momentous developments of the decades to come, both responding to the growing size and power of the federal government: the migration of business and trade associations from commercial centers to the nation's capital and the emergence of the policy "think tank."

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. was founded in 1920 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. engages in the contract drilling of oil and gas wells in the United States and internationally. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. provides drilling rigs, equipment, personnel, and camps on a contract basis to explore for and develop oil and gas from onshore areas and from fixed platforms, tension-leg platforms, and spars in offshore areas. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. conducts domestic land drilling primarily in Oklahoma, California, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Utah, Arkansas, New Mexico, and North Dakota; and offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, offshore of California, Trinidad, and Equatorial Guinea. As of September 30, 2009, Helmerich & Payne, Inc. had 201 land drilling rigs in the United States; 9 offshore platform rigs; and international land rigs, including 1 in Venezuela, 6 in Colombia, 4 in Ecuador, 9 in Argentina, 1 in Tunisia, and 6 rigs in Mexico. In addition, Helmerich & Payne engages in the ownership, development, and operation of commercial real estate properties, as well as the research and development of rotary steerable technology.

Center Oil's core business is peddling petroleum. The company is one of the largest private wholesale distributors of gasoline and other petroleum products to customers primarily in the eastern region of the US. Center Oil owns a dozen storage terminals capable of storing 2.8 million barrels of petroleum products. It also has access to 36 terminals in 10 states, as well as access to the Magellan, Texas Eastern, Kinder Morgan Chicago, and Kaneb pipeline systems. Its products are also distributed through a fleet of ships, barges, and trucks.

MRPL, located in a beautiful hilly terrain north of Mangalore city, is a State of Art Grassroot Refinery at Mangalore and is a subsidiary of ONGC. The Refinery has got a versatile design with high flexibility to process Crudes of various API and with high degree of Automation. MRPL has a design capacity to process 9.69 million metric tonnes per annum and is the only Refinery in India to have 2 Hydrocrackers producing Premium Diesel (High Cetane). It is also the only Refinery in India to have 2 CCRs producing Unleaded Petrol of High Octane.MRPL has high standards in refining and environment protection matched by its commitments to society. MRPL has also developed a Green Belt around the entire Refinery with plant species specially selected to blend with the local flora.

Shell Trading supports the Shell businesses, in particular Oil Products, Gas & Power and Chemicals, by trading natural gas, electrical power, crude oil, refined products, chemical feedstocks and environmental products. We also manage one of the world's largest fleets of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) carriers and oil tankers. Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Limited (STASCO) has two jobs to perform for its parent company Royal Dutch Shell. STASCO trades and manages the commodity portfolios across the Royal Dutch Shell Group, and it also manages the shipments of the company's crude oil, gas, and other cargoes across the globe. These twin functions create a network that is responsible for trading about 5 million barrels of crude and shipping cargoes on some 140 deep-sea tankers and gas carriers around the world every day. STASCO was founded in 1995, when Royal Dutch Shell merged its Shell International Trading Company and Shell International Shipping Limited divisions.

Petro Star built their first refinery in a matter of months and strategically positioned it along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline at North Pole. Here PSI could obtain crude oil directly from the pipeline and still enjoy all the commercial and transportation advantages available in Fairbanks.PSI soon acquired fuel distribution companies, including Sourdough Fuel in 1986, and began to distribute its products throughout Interior Alaska and the Arctic Slope, including Prudhoe Bay. Petro Star is an oil refining and fuel marketing shining star that brings heating fuel and energy (diesel, gasoline, and aviation and marine fuel)s to the citizens of the communities in the vast, cold, and lonely expanses of the US' largest state, Alaska. It operates refineries at North Pole and Valdez and distributes fuels and lubricants throughout Interior Alaska, Dutch Harbor, Kodiak, and Valdez. Started in 1984 by a group of petroleum industry veterans, the company built its first refinery operations along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline at North Pole, Alaska. Petro Star is a subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional Corp..

Energy Corporation of America is an exploration and production independent focused on gas exploration in the Appalachian Basin, in Texas, and in New Zealand. One of the largest natural gas operators in the Appalachian Basin, ECA holds stakes in about 5,000 wells. Natural gas is the America-based energy that fuels the financial engine of Energy Corporation of America (ECA). Energy Corporation of America has proved natural gas reserves of nearly 400 billion cu. ft. equivalent. Energy Corporation of America pipeline system includes more than 50 compressor stations. Energy Corporation of America, which formed the Appalachian Gas Royalty Trust in 2005, is led by John Mork.

Nabors Industries Ltd. was founded in 1968 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda. Nabors Industries Ltd. operates as a land drilling contractor worldwide. Nabors Industries Ltd. conducts oil, gas, and geothermal land drilling operations in the United States, Alaska, Canada, South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, the Middle East, the Far East, the Russian Federation, and Africa. Nabors Industries Ltd. also operates as a land well-servicing and workover contractor in the United States and Canada. In addition, Nabors Industries provides offshore platform workover and drilling rigs that offer well-servicing, workover, and drilling services. Further, Nabors Industries Ltd. offers a range of ancillary well-site services, including engineering, construction, maintenance, well logging, directional drilling, rig instrumentation, data collection, and other support services; and logistics services for onshore drilling in Canada using helicopters and fixed-winged aircraft. Additionally, Nabors Industries Ltd. manufactures and leases or sells top drives for a range of drilling applications, directional drilling systems, rig instrumentation and data collection equipment, pipeline handling equipment, and rig reporting software.

Halliburton Company provides various products and services to the energy industry for the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas worldwide. Halliburton Company operates in two segments, Completion and Production, and Drilling and Evaluation. The Completion and Production segment provides production enhancement services, completion tools and services, and cementing services. Its production enhancement services include stimulation, pipeline process, sand control, and well intervention services; completion tools and services comprise subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment, surface safety systems, packers and specialty completion equipment, intelligent completion systems, expandable liner hanger systems, sand control systems, well servicing tools, and reservoir performance services; and cementing services consist of bonding the well and well casing, while isolating fluid zones and maximizing wellbore stability, and casing equipment. The Drilling and Evaluation segment provides field and reservoir modeling, drilling, evaluation, and well construction solutions that enable customers to model, measure, and optimize their well placement and reservoir evaluation activities. Halliburton Company serves national, integrated, and independent oil and gas companies. Halliburton Company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Union Drilling, Inc. provides contract land drilling services and equipment primarily to onshore oil and natural gas producers in Arkansas, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia, the United States. Union Drilling, Inc. offers drilling rigs, as well as the drilling crews and ancillary equipment to operate its drilling rigs. Union Drilling, Inc. rigs operate in unconventional natural gas producing areas, which are characterized by formations with very low permeability rock, such as shales, tight sands, and coal bed methane that require specialized drilling techniques to develop the natural gas resources. Union Drilling focuses on providing its services in the Appalachian and Arkoma basins, as well as the Barnett Shale formation. Union Drilling, Inc. offers drilling services also to customers engaged in developing unconventional natural gas formations. As of December 31, 2008, Union Drilling, Inc. owned and operated a fleet of 71 land drilling rigs. Union Drilling, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas.

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