Cogentrix Energy serves up a power treat for customers, albeit a small one, through its electric generating facilities.Cogentrix Energy develops, owns, and operates a handful of independent power plants, located primarily in the US. Cogentrix Energy once had a net operational generating capacity of about 4,900 MW from its stakes in 27 coal- and gas-fired facilities, but sold most of these after New York-based investment firm Goldman Sachs Group acquired the company in 2007. The investment firm has Cogentrix Energy looking for new energy opportunities beyond the US power plant industry.

Green Energy (UK) likes tree-hugging customers. The company provides an environmentally friendly option for retail customers seeking to switch providers in the deregulated UK power market. Green Energy purchases electricity from renewable generation facilities (wind, solar, biomass, hydro, and other) and passes it on to customers at equal or slightly higher rates than traditional suppliers through its Green Energy programs. Customers also have the option of receiving paid-up shares in Green Energy. The company plans to invest up to half of their profits back into UK renewable electricity generation projects.

From the tanker to the main, Enagás keeps gas moving. Enagás is engaged in the construction and operation of Spain's natural gas distribution pipeline infrastructure and the transportation and storage of natural gas to distributors and transporters in the region. It operates more than 4,750 miles of high-pressure gas pipeline, and a network of regulation and measurement stations, compression stations, regasification plants, and storage facilities. About 37% of the company's natural gas comes from sources in Algeria; 24% from Nigeria. Enagás, founded in 1972, has restructured its debt and reorganized its management structure in an effort to modernize its business.

Exxon Mobil Corporation is the world's leading publicly-owned energy company and operates facilities or markets products in most of the world's countries. It is the parent company of the Esso, Mobil and ExxonMobil companies that operate in the United Kingdom.ExxonMobil has supplied the UK market with gas for over 30 years and is responsible for approximately 10 per cent of the UK's total oil and gas production. We have an interest in nearly 50 producing offshore fields. We operate the largest refinery in the UK, serve one million retail customers every day and produce world-leading motor oils. ExxonMobil Chemical is one of the country's top 10 chemical companies in terms of turnover. Our roots in the UK go back some 120 years. Find out about the history of Esso and Mobil companies in the UK.

Apache was formed in 1954 with $250,000 of investor capital with the simple concept of becoming a significant and profitable oil company. Today, Apache Corporation is one of the world's top independent oil and gas exploration and production companies. Apache North Sea manages exploration and production activities in the Forties field for its parent Apache Corporation. Apache North Sea began drilling in the field in 2004. A core production area for Apache (averaging 70,000 barrels per day, up from 40,000 a day in 2003), the Forties field has estimated proved reserves of 189 million barrels of oil equivalent. In 2008 Apache North Sea's production of 21.9 million barrels of oil equivalent, accounted for approximately 11% of Apache's total production. In 2009 Apache North Sea Limited boosted output by bringing some seven development wells into production.

Peninsula Petroleum Ltd is a major physical bunker and lubricant supplier at the ports of Gibraltar, Ceuta, Canary Islands and Panama and is active as a worldwide trader with annual sales in excess of 5,000,000 metric tonnes. Peninsula Petroleum guarantees high quality products and first-class customer care. From our offices in London, Gibraltar, Geneva, Tønsberg, Athens, Dubai, Singapore, Shanghai and Montevideo our staff bring the benefits of their experience and expertise to provide clients with a professional, cost-effective means of meeting their fuel requirements on a global basis.

Newfield Exploration Company was founded in 1988 and is based in Houston, Texas. Newfield Exploration Company, an independent oil and gas company, engages in the exploration, development, and acquisition of natural gas and crude oil properties. As of December 31, 2008, it owned working interests in approximately 750,000 gross acres and 2,000 gross producing wells in Anadarko and Arkoma Basins; an interest in approximately 1.2 million gross acres and approximately 1,950 gross producing wells in the Rocky Mountains; interests in approximately 400,000 gross acres and approximately 1,000 gross producing wells in onshore Texas; and interests in 76 leases in deepwater with approximately 438,000 gross acres and 26 leases on the shelf. Newfield Exploration Company also had proved reserves of approximately 2.95 trillion cubic feet equivalent. In addition, Newfield Exploration Company has operations in Malaysia and the People's Republic of China.

The Reliance Group, founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002), is India's largest private sector enterprise, with businesses in the energy and materials value chain. Group's annual revenues are in excess of US$ 28 billion. The flagship company, Reliance Industries Limited, is a Fortune Global 500 company and is the largest private sector company in India. Backward vertical integration has been the cornerstone of the evolution and growth of Reliance. Starting with textiles in the late seventies, Reliance pursued a strategy of backward vertical integration - in polyester, fibre intermediates, plastics, petrochemicals, petroleum refining and oil and gas exploration and production - to be fully integrated along the materials and energy value chain.

Although it carries the ancient Sanskrit name for India (Bharat), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is a modern refining and distribution company. It vies with Hindustan Petroleum for the #2 slot behind Indian Oil. The company processes petroleum and petroleum products; its refinery in Mumbai processes 260,000 barrels of crude per day. It also controls refineries in Kochi and Numaligarh. BPCL sells engine oils and gasolines, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and kerosene. It has more than 6,550 gas stations, more than 1,000 kerosene dealers, and a national network of LPG distributors. The Indian government owns 55% of the firm, although it plans to sell this stake as part of industrywide deregulation.

NuVista Energy is the new view of Bonavista Petroleum, which reorganized in 2003 to form an income trust company (Bonavista Energy Trust) and an oil and natural gas exploration company. NuVista focuses on oil and natural gas exploration, development, and production in east-central Alberta and west-central Saskatchewan. Operating in the Oyen, Provost, and Pembina areas, NuVista Energy Ltd. has proved plus probable reserves of 82.2 million barrels of oil equivalent. The group's strategy is to concentrate on its core natural gas-prone areas, drilling medium-risk prospects, and to invest 10% of its capital on higher-risk properties. In 2009 NuVista Energy Ltd. acquired assets in British Columbia and Northwest Alberta for $174 million.

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