Karl Kurz

Vastar Resources, Inc. is one of the largest independent oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the United States. The company is active in approximately 80 fields in some of the nation's most prolific producing areas, including the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf Coast, the Oklahoma/Arklatex and the Rockies/Hugoton regions. In addition, the company's drilling rigs are exploring for new reserves both onshore and in the promising shelf and deepwater Gulf of Mexico drilling plays, the latter the site of rising industry activity and excitement.

Part of Arco Alaska, Inc., Arco Oil & Gas Co. is a company that produces and sells oil and gas. The company is based in Plano, TX.

Global Geophysical Services, Inc. engages in the provision of seismic data solutions to the global oil and gas industry. Its seismic data solutions primarily consists of seismic data acquisition, microseismic monitoring, processing, and interpretation services. The company also owns and markets a growing seismic data library and licenses this data to clients on a non-exclusive basis. The company was founded by Richard A. Degner and Craig A. Lindberg on June 18, 2003 and is headquartered in Missouri City, TX.

Western Midstream Operating LP engages in the owning, operating, acquiring, and developing of midstream energy assets. It involves in the gathering, processing, compressing, treating, and transporting natural gas, condensate, natural gas liquids, and crude oil. The company was founded in August 2007 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, TX.

American Petroleum Institute (API) is the only national trade association that represents all aspects of America's oil and natural gas industry. Its more than 400 corporate members, from the largest major oil company to the smallest of independents, come from all segments of the industry. They are producers, refiners, suppliers, pipeline operators and marine transporters, as well as service and supply companies that support all segments of the industry.

The Natural Gas Supply Association produce and market natural gas. The firm encourages the use of natural gas within a balanced national energy policy, and promotes the benefits of competitive markets to ensure transportation and delivery of natural gas and to the supply of natural gas to US customers. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Chaparral Energy LLC produces oil and natural gas. It specializes in enhanced oil recovery and has an inventory of carbon dioxide tertiary recovery projects in the Mid-Continent and Permian Basin. The company was founded by Mark A. Fischer and Charles A. Fischer, Jr. in April 1988 and is headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK.

Kingsland Baptist Church is a religious organization based in Katy, TX.

Siluria Technologies, Inc. develops and manufactures a direct chemical process for plastics and fuels from natural gas. Its second process technology can convert ethylene to liquid fuels such as gasoline, diesel or jet fuel. The firm’s revolutionary catalyst technologies uniquely combine nanomaterials, biotechnology and chemical engineering, to convert an abundant, ubiquitous, and inexpensive feedstock into high value, drop-in fuels and chemicals using processes that can be seamlessly integrated into existing industry infrastructure. The company was founded by Clinton Whitewood Bybee and Alexander Tkachenko in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The Independent Petroleum Association of America manufactures oil and natural gas. The non-profit company is based in Washington. Barry Russell has been the CEO of the American company since 1980.

WPX Energy, Inc. engages in the exploration and production of oil and natural gas. It focuses on exploiting, developing and growing its oil positions in the Delaware Basin in Texas and New Mexico, and the Williston Basin in North Dakota. The company was founded on April 19, 2011 and is headquartered in Tulsa, OK.

The National Association of Corporate Directors is a non-profit organization that provides essential resources to help directors strengthen board leadership. The American company was founded by Maryann Bruce and the CEO is Peter R. Gleason.

RTS Services provides real estate services. The private company is based in Fontana, CA.

Epic Midstream Holdings LP builds, owns and operates midstream infrastructure. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

Ares Capital Corp., a traded fund, seeks investment opportunities in companies located in the United States and Canada with an EBITDA between $10 and $250 million. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of health care services, software & services, consumer durables & apparel, energy, food & beverage and retail. It provides financing in the form of debt and equity for mezzanine, buyouts, acquisitions, recapitalizations, restructurings, rescue financing, growth capital and general refinancing with an investment size ranging from $10 to $500 million. The fund acquires controlling Interest. It acts as lead investor and takes a seat on the board of directors.