HudBay Minerals, Inc. (TSE:HBM) (NYSE:HBM) is a copper-focused mining company with three long-life operations and a world-class pipeline of copper growth projects in tier-one mining-friendly jurisdictions of Canada, Peru and the United States.
BP p.l.c. (BP) is an oil company, operating through its subsidiaries. With effect from January 1, 2008, it operated in two business segments: Exploration and Production, and Refining and Marketing. A separate business, Alternative Energy, reported in other businesses and corporate, handles its low-carbon businesses. Exploration and Production’s activities include oil and natural gas exploration, development and production (upstream activities), together with related pipeline, transportation and processing activities (midstream activities), as well as the marketing and trading of natural gas (including liquefied natural gas), power and natural gas liquids. The activities of Refining and Marketing include the refining, manufacturing, supply and trading, marketing and transportation of crude oil, petroleum and petrochemicals products and related services. In April 2008, BP registered in Russia its subsidiary, BP Exploration Services.
APA Group (ASX:APA), formerly Australian Pipeline Trust Limited, owns gas transmission pipelines located throughout Australia and a gas distribution network in south east Queensland and northern New South Wales. The Company undertakes the sale of transportation and related services to the producers, consumers and aggregators of gas through these gas transmission and distribution pipelines. In addition, APA owns two coal seam gas (CSG) processing plants, a gas-fired power station, gas storage facilities and two high voltage direct current interconnection systems, including underground transmission cables. APA owns over 12,000 kilometers of gas transmission pipelines and over 21,400 kilometers of gas distribution networks throughout Australia. In February 2007, the Company acquired the DirectLink electricity transmission assets linking the New South Wales and Queensland power grids. In July 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of the Origin Energy Networks assets.
Piedmont Lithium is an emerging lithium chemicals company focused on the development of its 100%-owned Piedmont Lithium Project in North Carolina, with the goal of becoming a strategic domestic supplier of battery-grade lithium hydroxide and other chemicals to the growing electric vehicle and battery storage markets in the United States.