Michael Gordon France

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

NFR Energy LLC engages in the acquisition, development, exploitation & exploration of natural gas and oil properties. Its core operating area is comprised of the Haynesville Shale formation and the Cotton Valley Sand formation in East Texas. The firm has operations in Colorado, Texas & Montana. The company was founded on July 2006 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Crestwood Midstream Partners LP is a midstream master limited partnership engaged in the business of gathering and processing natural gas produced primarily from the Barnett Shale formation in the Fort Worth Basin in north Texas. The firm expects organic growth in its gathering and processing will come from Crestwood's increased volume of product transported, or throughput, to the system. The company also expects to attract third-party volumes from the Fort Worth Basin, which it believes is one of the fastest growing natural gas fields in the United States.

A subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They provide global equity and fixed research. The equity research department covers more than 100 sectors. They use a fundamental, quantitative, strategic and tactical research approach. In addition to these Lehman has also developed special products, such as 10 uncommon values and 10 uncommon eurovalues.

Crestwood Midstream Partners LP owns, operates, acquires and develops midstream energy assets. It focuses on providing midstream infrastructure solutions for the substantial future development of North American shale and unconventional resource basins. Crestwood's operations include natural gas gathering, processing, treating and compression services for natural gas and natural gas liquids. Crestwood Midstream Partners LP owns, operates, acquires and develops midstream energy assets. It provides gathering, processing, treating and compression services for natural gas and natural gas liquids produced from some of the most prolific natural gas basins in North America including the Marcellus Shale, Granite Wash, Avalon Shale/Bone Spring, Barnett Shale, Fayetteville Shale, and Haynesville Shale. The company operates its business through following segments: Barnett, Fayetteville, Granite Wash and Marcellus. Crestwood Midstream Partners was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Cobalt International Energy, Inc. operates as an oil and gas exploration and production company. It focuses on the salt prospect inventory in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The company was founded by Samuel H. Gillespie on November 10, 2005 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Crestwood Equity Partners LP engages in investment and management of energy midstream assets. It operates through the following segments: Gathering and Processing, Storage and Transportation, and Marketing, Supply, and Logistics. The Gathering and Processing segment provides gathering and transportation services, processing, treating, and compression services, and disposal services to producers in unconventional shale plays and tight-gas plays. The Storage and Transportation segment includes COLT Hub and equity investments in three joint ventures. The Marketing, Supply, and Logistics segment consists of natural gas liquids, crude oil, and natural gas marketing and logistics operations. The company was founded in March 2001 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Inergy Midstream LLC develops, acquires, owns and operates midstream energy assets. The company conducts business through subsidiaries, which own and operate natural gas and natural gas liquid storage and transportation facilities and a salt production business located in the Northeast region of the United States. It operates through two segments: Storage & Transportation and Salt. The Storage & Transportation segment includes four natural gas storage, natural gas pipeline and an NGL storage facility. The Salt segment includes the assets and operations of its wholly-owned subsidiary, U.S. Salt LLC, a solution mining and salt production company. Inergy Midstream was founded in September 2004 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Part of Energy Transfer LP, Crestwood Equity GP LLC is a company that operates as a general partner. The company is based in Wilmington, DE. Robert G. Phillips has been the CEO of the company since 2013. Crestwood Equity GP was acquired by Crestwood Holdings LLC on June 19, 2013 for $80 million.