Atlas Energy

Atlas America is an independent energy company that is engaged in the development, production and transportation of natural gas, and to a lesser degree, oil throughout the Appalachian Basin in the United States. The company aims to increase stockholder value through expanding its reserve base through developmental drilling that is funded by growth in its sponsorship of its drilling investment partnerships; increasing its fee-based revenue through the management of its drilling investments partnerships and the wells drilled for them; increasing its distributions from its general and limited partner interests and incentive distribution rights in Atlas Pipeline Partners. The company has been a participant in the energy industry since 1968. It began significant expansion of operations 30 years later with the acquisition of the The Atlas Group, an energy finance and production company in Pittsburgh. Atlas America maintains operations in Jackson Center, Pa.