Conoco Phillips

Occidental Petroleum Corporation, founded in 1920, is one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas in the United States. The company s areas of operation include oil recovery, exploration and oilfield acquisitions. It uses advanced technological equipment for its drilling activities. The company is also a producer of coal and chemical products, including sodium silicates, polyvinyl chloride, caustic soda, and natural gas odorants. It has a marketing division that offers distribution and risk management services to customers. The company provides financial assistance for community services and economic development. Ray R. Irani has been the chief executive officer for Occidental Petroleum for the more than 15 of the 23 years he has been with the company. Irani graduated from the American University Beirut Lebanon with a bachelor s degree and earned a doctorate from the University of Southern California. Occidental Petroleum Corporation has operations in the United States, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia, and is headquartered in Los Angeles.

Plains Marketing is a subsidiary of Plains All American Pipeline, a master limited partnership engaged in interstate and intrastate crude oil transportation. The company also gathers, markets and stores crude oil, as well as markets and stores liquefied petroleum gas and other petroleum products. Plains All American Pipeline has a 50 percent ownership in PAA/Vulcan Gas Storage, which develops and operates a variety of natural gas storage facilities. It is one of the largest independent midstream crude oil companies in North America. The company handles more than 3 million barrels per day of physical crude oil through a network of assets throughout the United States and Canada. Plains Marketing maintains a location in Houston.

With an estimated 2.3 billion barrels of proved reserves, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation is one of the largest independent oil exploration and production companies in the world. The company also markets approximately 3 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day throughout the United States and Canada. Anadarko s operational focus in North America extends from the Gulf of Mexico up through the Canadian Rockies and onto the north slope of Alaska. Its international operations are focused on major positions in Algeria, Venezuela and Qatar, as well as exploration or production operations in several other countries. James T. Hackett has been the chief executive officer of Anadarko Petroleum for more than two years. He has been with the petroleum and natural gas company for over two years. Hackett earned a BS degree from the University of Illinois, and a MBA from Harvard. Headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation employs approximately 3,400 people in locations throughout the world.