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First Reserve Management LP (First Reserve) is a private equity firm founded in 1983. The firm is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

Credit Agricole Securities (USA), Inc. (Credit Agricole Securities USA) is a full service broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and formerly known as Calyon Securities USA, Inc. and Credit Lyonnais Securities, Inc. They are a subsidiary of Crédit Agricole Global Partners, Inc., which is owned by Rue la Boétie SAS’s Credit Agricole SA (EPA: ACA) in France. Credit Agricole Securities USA provides investors’ customized solutions to ensure they achieve their execution objectives in the tradition of service excellence and product innovation.

EnCap Investments LP (EnCap Investments) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Gary Peterson and Robert Zorich and The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Sanders Morris Harris LLC (SMH) is an SEC-registered broker-dealer and member FINRA, SIPC, located in Houston, Texas. The firm is also an SEC-registered investment advisor. SMH was formed in January 2000 as the result of a merger between Sanders Morris Mundy, Inc. and Harris Webb & Garrison, Inc. The firm is now wholly-owned by Summer Wealth Management LLC. The ultimate principal owners of Summer Wealth Management, LLC are Lee Equity Partners LLC and The Edelman Financial Center, Inc. through intermediaries. SMH provides provides brokerage, asset management and similar services to individuals, high net-worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, trusts, estates, and corporations and other business entities.

U.S. Capital Advisors LLC provides financial services. Its capital markets division includes equity research, institutional client, investment and merchant banking, institutional and municipal clients, public finance businesses, and advises corporate. The company was founded by David Michael King and Patrick Michael Mendenhall in 2010 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP (KKR) is a private equity subsidiary of KKR & Co. Inc founded in 1976 by Henry Kravis, George Roberts and Jerome Kohlberg. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Oppenheimer-Broker) is the global full-service brokerage division of Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., an investment boutique headquartered in New York City with additional offices nationwide. Founded in 1975, the firm is owned directly by Viner Finance Inc., an indirect subsidiary of Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. (NYSE: OPY). Oppenheimer-Broker offers a full array of brokerage services to retail, institutional, and corporate clients.

University of Miami (Florida) is a private research university with students from around the world that is focused on teaching and learning, the discovery of new knowledge, and service to the South Florida region and beyond. The university was founded in 1925 and it is headquartered in Coral Gables, FL.

Hilcorp Energy Co. operates as a oil and natural gas exploration and production company. Its operating areas include the Gulf coast of Texas and Louisiana, the Northeast United States, and Alaska's Cook Inlet and North Slope. The company was founded by Jeffery D. Hildebrand in 1989 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

VEDCO Holdings, Inc. operates as a holding company with interests in providing outsourced drilling and blasting services. It specializes in drilling and blasting, from regulatory issues to safety procedures and blast design. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Vasant, VA.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service North American financial services provider headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. BMO Capital Markets offers corporate, institutional and government clients access to a variety of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading.

Eclipse Resources Operating LLC provides oil and gas services. The company explores, acquires and produces oils, natural gas and natural gas liquids. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in State College, PA.

EIV Capital LLC (EIV Capital) is a private equity firm co-founded by Anthony Annunziato and Patricia B. Melcher in 2009. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Endless Mountain Energy Partners LLC explores and produces natural gas. The company was founded in November 2010 and is headquartered in Olyphant, PA.

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP (Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors) is a private equity subsidiary of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP founded in 1991. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Modern Resources, Inc. operates as an oil and gas company. It offers petroleum products. The company was founded by Christopher P. Slubicki in 2012 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

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.

Eclipse Resources I LP explores and develops oil and gas properties. It engages in the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas. The company was founded by Benjamin W. Hulburt and Christopher K. Hulburt and is headquartered in State College, PA.

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Rod & Tubing Services LLC provides oilfield production services. It offers sucker rod inspection, tubing inspection, well-site electromagnetic inspection, well-site hydrostatic testing, and artificial lift advisory services. The firm’s products include new sucker rods, inspected sucker rods, and tubular goods. It also offers inventory management and in-house trucking services. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

GEODynamics, Inc. manufactures perforating equipment. Its offers GTEC which provides services such as charge development and optimization, charge performance benchmarking, perforating system development, customer specific tests and gun collapse testing, software simulation and technik services. The company was founded by David S. Wesson in 2004 and is headquartered in Millsap, TX.

Axis Energy Services LLC provides energy services. Its services include completion, pressure, pumping, nitrogen, and chemical services. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Longview, TX.

Silvertip Completion Services Operating LLC operates as an oilfield service company. It offers cased-hole wireline solutions including perforating, pumpdown, and logging. The company is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

SDI Gas LLC provides oilfield services. It operates through the following divisions: MEC and HDD. The MEC offers engineering, construction, and repair of natural gas compression stations. The HDD provides directional drilling of gas pipelines under obstructions. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Mt. Morris, PA.

The Center for Hearing & Speech operates as a full-service resource in Houston to teach deaf children to listen and speak without the use of sign language. Its services include early intervention, speech clinic, family support and community outreach. The company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

JDH Capital Co (JDH Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2017 by Jeffery D. Hildebrand. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Era Helicopters LLC provides helicopter transport services. It offers offshore oil and gas support, fire fighting operations, mining, technical services, flightseeing tours in Alaska, environmental support, search and rescue, and emergency medical services. The company was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Lake Charles, LA.