Chuck Howell

Pickering Energy Partners, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Houston, Texas. They provide energy investment ideas to institutional clients. The firm is a member of the NASD and the SIPC

Founded in 1989, Petrie Parkman & Co., Inc. is an investment bank headquartered in Denver, Colorado with additional offices in Houston and London. The offer investment banking services, equity research, sales and trading and underwriting in the capital markets area. Their research analysts focus on the energy sector. Their research coverage extends from small oil companies to large integrated major oils, pipeline, midstream and downstream companies. Petrie Parkman is a member of the NASD and the SIPC. They are a subsidiary of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER).

SMH Capital, Inc. (SMH) is the primary broker subsidiary of Sander Morris Harris Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMHG). The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas with additional offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. SMH provides a full range of asset and wealth management and investment banking services. The firm also offers institutional equity sales, trading, and research, as well as prime brokerage services for hedge funds and fixed-income securities sales and trading. SMH's research effort is attuned to the Southwest, yet takes a broad, global perspective. The analysts cover companies in six broad sectors, including business services, energy, entertainment and media, financial services, specialty retail-softlines, and technology. They look at industries in a bottom-up way, and get to know company managements in depth, to understand their growth philosophy and their views of how their company fits within their group. SMH's growth strategy is to expand asset management and fiduciary activities and related business by increasing assets under management through acquisitions, internal growth and better coordination between their subsidiaries.

Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities LLC (TPH) is a broker/dealer headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 2007 by Robert Tudor III. They are a subsidiary of Perella Weinberg Partners Group LP, which is ultimately owned by Perella Weinberg Partners (NASDAQ: PWP). TPH provides a full array of trading and execution services for their institutional and corporate clients in the energy sector. They focus on the upstream, midstream and oilfield service sectors.