Martin L. Thalken

Unocal Corp. explores, develops, produces, and markets crude oil and natural gas. The firm also produces geothermal energy in Indonesia and the Philippines and makes petroleum coke, graphite's and silicon carbide materials. The company was founded on October 17, 1890 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

BP America, Inc. transports crude oil and petroleum products. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

UBS AG's (NYSE: UBS) New York City-based wealth management arm is known as UBS Private Banking (US). The firm provides a range of customized wealth management products and services for private clients.

Encore Energy Partners LP acquires and develops existing oil and natural gas properties. The firm operates through one business segment, the oil and natural gas exploration and production industry in the United States. The company was founded on February 13, 2007 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Moncrief Oil International, Inc. is an oil and natural gas company. The private company is based in Fort Worth, TX. The company was founded by Richard W. Moncrief. Richard W. Moncrief has been the CEO since incorporation.

Mid-Con Energy GP LLC is an oil and natural gas company that owns, operates, acquires, exploits, and develops producing properties in the United States. The private company's core areas of operation are located in southern, northeastern, and parts of western Oklahoma, as well as within Texas and Kansas. The company is based in Dallas, TX. Mid-Con Energy GP focuses on the mid-continent region of the United States. The company was founded by S. Craig George, Jeffrey Randy Olmstead, Charles Randy Olmstead. Sherry L. Morgan has been the CEO of the company since 2008.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Noble Corp. Plc, Maurer Engineering, Inc. is a company that provides petroleum manufacturing consulting and engineering services. The company is based in Houston, TX. Maurer Engineering was acquired by Noble Holding Corp. Plc on February 20, 2001.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Signa Engineering Corp. provides petroleum engineering consulting services. It provides full-cycle engineering solutions for all phases of upstream energy projects, which provides maximum efficiency across the board. The company was founded by Charles R. Stone in 1992 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

The Houston Museum of Natural Science operates a national museum. It consists of a planetarium, environmentally-controlled butterfly center, off-site observatory, advanced IMAX theatre and temporary and permanent exhibit halls. The museum features displays on subjects such as space science, energy, paleontology, chemistry, gems and minerals, ancient Egyptians, Native Americans and Texas wildlife. The company was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Nanospectra Biosciences, Inc. provides commercializing particle-based therapies the selective and precise thermal destruction of solid tumors. It develops AuroLase Therapy utilizing AuroShell Particles (also referred to as nanoshells) for the precise, particle-based thermal ablation of solid tumors. The company was founded by Naomi J. Halas, Jennifer L. West, and Daniel M. Watkins in 2002 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Cobalt’s business model is uniquely designed to create maximum value from the asset by doing more with less while competitively accessing, discovering and producing deepwater hydrocarbon resources on a scale similar to the super majors. It starts with its small core team – flexible, decisive and fast moving using Cobalt’s proprietary, state-of-the-art data and proven, leading-edge technology. Non-core activities are sourced to outside partners and specialty providers, leveraging relationships it has forged over many years in the industry to reduce costs and compress delivery time. Utilizing industry best practices, standardized designs and strong project management throughout, The company is able to move quickly through the E&P supply chain, maximizing value for its investors and its partners.

Society of Petroleum Engineers, Inc. provides petroleum engineering services. The non-profit company is based in Allen, TX and has subsidiaries in United States, India and Canada.

Sam Houston Area Council provides scouting programs for boys and young adults. It prepares young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Energy Trust Partners LLC (ETP) is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of Energy Spectrum LLC founded in 2002 by Alan Hsia, Leland B. White and Patrick H. Swearingen. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Williams Production Co. LLC explores and produces natural gas from tight-sands formations and coal bed methane reserves. The company is headquartered in Tulsa, OK.

Mercuria Energy Trading, Inc. provides oil well drilling services. The company was founded on May 7, 2007 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Vortus Investment Advisors (Vortus Investment) is a private equity firm founded in 2013 by Jeffrey W. Miller and Brian C. Crumley. The firm is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

Energy Ventures GOM LLC explores and develops crude oil and natural gas. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Enven Energy Corp. is an independent oil and natural gas company, which engages in the development, exploitation, exploration and acquisition of crude oil properties. Its projects include sidetracks, recompletions, and new drill wells that are located near its own production infrastructure. It focuses on deepwater region of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico fields. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.