Paul B. Loyd

Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. engaged in the exploration, development, and production of natural gas and oil. Its operations included Delaware Basin and Eagle Ford Shale. The company was founded by Sylvester P. Johnson IV and Steven Alan Webster in December 1993 and was headquartered in Houston, TX.

Frontier Oil Corp. is an energy company, which is engaged in crude oil refining and wholesale marketing of refined petroleum products. The company operates refineries in Cheyenne, Wyoming and El Dorado, Kansas. Frontier Oil purchases crude oil to be refined and markets the refined petroleum products produced, including various grades of gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, asphalt, chemicals and petroleum coke. The Cheyenne Refinery has a permitted crude oil capacity of 52,000 bpd and markets its refined products primarily in the Eastern slope of the Rocky Mountain region, which encompasses Eastern Colorado, Eastern Wyoming and Western Nebraska. It has a coking unit, which allows the refinery to process heavy crude oil for use as a feedstock. The El Dorado Refinery is in the Plains States and the Rocky Mountain region with crude oil capacity of 135,000 bpd. It markets gasoline and diesel in Denver and throughout the Plains States. Frontier Oil also owns Ethanol Management Co., a products terminal and blending facility located near Denver, Colorado. The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Transocean, Inc. provides offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells. The company also provides integrated services. It operates through two segments, Transocean Drilling and TODCO. The Transocean Drilling segment consists of floaters, jackups and other rigs used in support of offshore drilling activities and offshore support services. The TODCO segment consisted of its interest in TODCO, which conducts jackup, drilling barge, land rig, submersible and other operations in the United States. Transocean, Inc. is based in Houston, Texas.

Vetco International Ltd. is a private group led by Candover, 3i and JPMorgan Partners.

Chiles Offshore Corp. owns and operates offshore drilling rigs. It also provides offshore contract drilling and well workover services for the major and independent oil & gas companies. The company was founded by William E. Chiles in 1987 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.