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Apache Corporation is one of the largest independent oil and gas exploration and development businesses with operations in the United States, Canada, Egypt, Australia, the United Kingdom, China and Argentina. For more than 50 years, the company has grown through exploratory drilling and development activities, as well as strategic acquisitions. Apache s portfolio approach was developed to provide diversity in terms of hydrocarbon product, geologic risk and location. The company acquired the Forties Field from British Petroleum in 2003, the largest field ever discovered in the U.K. North Sea. Apache Corporation committed in 2004 to deliver 300 million cubic feet of gas daily through 2030. G. Steven Farris has been the chief executive officer of Apache for more than four years. He has been with the petroleum company for over 18 years. Farris attended Oklahoma State University. The company was established in 1954 and is headquartered in Houston.

CenterPoint Energy is a domestic energy delivery company that engages in electricity transmission and distribution, natural gas distribution and sales, and interstate pipeline and gathering operations. The company provides natural gas service to more than 2 million customers and both electricity and gas service to a combined customer base of more than 4 million. In addition to providing utilities for the Houston metropolitan area, the company serves customers located throughout the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas. The company s pipelines division owns and operates two interstate pipelines, gathers natural gas, provides maintenance and technical services to third-party clients and installs the company s remote wellhead monitoring and measuring product, ServiceStar. David M. McClanahan has been the chief executive officer of CenterPoint Energy for more than four years. He has been with the utility company for over 34 years. McClanahan earned a BS degree from the University of Texas-El Paso, and a MBA from the University of Houston. An employer of more than 9,000 people, CenterPoint Energy is headquartered in Houston.

Hess is engaged in the exploration for and production of crude oil and natural gas, as well as in refining and marketing refined petroleum products, natural gas and electricity.