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T. W. Phillips Gas and Oil Company is a natural gas provider that was founded in 1896. Now the company serves more than 57,500 customers throughout a nine county area in western Pennsylvania. T.W. Phillips Gas and Oil Company offers its customers online meter reading and automated bill paying capabilities through its Web site, as well as offering pre-digging and excavation information in regards to natural gas pipelines. The firm is the only natural gas supplier in its service area. T.W. Phillips Gas and Oil Company is certified by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.

Snyder Associated Companies, formed in 1976 in Kittanning, Pa., was founded when Elmer A. Snyder and Charles H. Snyder Sr. formed a small construction company in June 1941. They branched out into the coal mining business in 1945, purchased Glacial Sand & Gravel in 1948 and Highway Equipment and Supply in Orlando, Fla., in 1951. The brothers opened the Quality Inn Royle Motel in 1951 in West Kittanning, Pa. Allegheny Mineral Corporation was created in 1953 to quarry limestone and has plant locations in Slippery Rock and Harrisville, Pa. The Snyders purchased the Bauer Block Company in 1974, with acquisitions of Logan Candy Company in 1984 and Armstrong Cement & Supply in 1988. They also entered the natural gas and oil exploration and production sector in several counties in Pennsylvania.

Atlas America is an independent energy company engaged in the development, production and transportation of natural gas and, to a lesser extent, oil in the Appalachian Basin. The company is the owner of 100 percent of the general partner of Atlas Pipeline Partners. Pipeline Partners owns and operates more than 4,600 miles of natural gas gathering pipelines in Oklahoma, Texas, Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio. In addition, the partnership owns and operates a gas processing facility in Velma, Okla. Atlas America started operations in 1968 and has headquarters in Moon Township, Pa.