Jim Houck

Western Oil Sands Inc. designs, constructs and operates the principal facilities needed to mine, extract, transport, and upgrade the recoverable bitumen reserves found in certain oil sands deposits in northeastern Alberta

WesternZagros Resources ULC operated as an international oil and gas company. The firm focused on acquiring, exploring and developing crude oil and natural gas in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The company was founded by M. Simon Hatfield on August 22, 2007 and was headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Texaco, Inc. explores and produces oil and natural gas. It engages in the worldwide exploration, production and marketing of crude oil, natural gas, and petroleum products. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers operates as the voice of Canada''s upstream oil and natural gas industry. The company was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

ARC Energy Trust invests in all types of energy business-related assets, including petroleum and natural gas-related assets, gathering, processing and transportation assets. The operations of the Trust include acquisition, development, exploitation and disposition of these assets and the distribution of the net cash proceeds from these activities. ARC Energy Trust is an actively managed royalty trust formed to provide investors with indirect ownership in cash generating energy assets, which currently consist of oil and gas assets but in the future may include other related energy assets. ARC Energy Trust was founded on May 7, 1996 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.