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Founded in 1989, FBR Capital Markets & Co., formerly Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co., is a broker/dealer headquartered in Arlington, Virginia with additional offices throughout the US. The firm is a subsidiary of FBR Capital Markets Holdings, Inc.. and their ultimate parent is FBR & Co. (NASDAQ: FBRC). In 2007, FBR Capital Markets Corp. was spun out from FBR Group as an independent investment bank, of which FBR Group retained majority ownership. FBR Capital Markets is registered with the SEC and is a member of FINRA, Nasdaq and the SIPC. FBR Capital Markets' Equity Sales & Trading Group provides institutional sales and trading services to over 1300 institutional accounts in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia. Their clients include mutual funds, hedge funds, money managers, endowments, foundations, banks, insurance companies and pension and profit sharing plans. They actively trade on behalf of clients and make markets in almost 1000 stocks traded on the NYSE, listed and OTC markets and trade more than $100 billion of securities on a per annum basis. In 2009, FBR Capital Markets began making markets in selected stocks traded on the London Stock Exchange and Euronext. In addition to agency trading in listed securities markets, they act as market-maker in Nasdaq and other OTC securities. They are one of the largest distributors of the shares of small- and mid-cap companies in public and private securities offerings and have deep trading expertise in the vertical industry groups in which the firm's investment banking and research teams specialize. These sectors include: (1) consumer (2) diversified industrials (3) energy and natural resources (4) financial institutions (5) healthcare (6) insurance (7) real estate (8) Washington policy analysis and (0) technology, media and telecommunications. The firm's analytical coverage includes a large number of small- and mid-cap companies in addition to large companies. Research is provided by FBR Capital Markets' research department, which is independent from the firm's investment banking department and has the sole authority to determine which companies receive research coverage and the recommendation contained in the coverage.

FBR & Co. provides investment banking, merger and acquisition advisory, institutional brokerage and research services through its subsidiaries. The company operates through two segments: Capital Markets and Principal Investing. The Capital Markets segment includes investment banking, institutional brokerage and research. It also provides investment banking services, including capital raising and financial advisory services for its corporate issuer clients, and institutional brokerage services including sales, trading, research, and securities lending services to its institutional investor clients. The Principal Investing segment activities consist primarily of investments in merchant banking and other equity investments, investment funds and corporate debt investments. The company was founded in June 2006 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

National Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts is a Non-Profit organization, which engages in education of its members in their knowledge of the petroleum industry. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Concord, MA.

Society of Petroleum Engineers, Inc. provides petroleum engineering services. The non-profit company is based in Allen, TX and has subsidiaries in United States, India and Canada.

Madison Williams & Co. LLC The firm was founded as the result of a management buyout of the principal capital markets business of Sanders Morris Harris Group (NASDAQ: SMHG). Madison Williams & Co. provides investment banking, equity and fixed-income sales, trading and research services to institutional and corporate clients throughout the US. Their research efforts focus on the following sectors: oil & gas exploration and production, engineering and construction, business services, healthcare services and various master limited partnerships (MLPs). The company was founded in 2010 and was headquartered in New York, NY.

Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (RJA) is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF), a diversified holding company. RJA offers a full array of capital markets services, strategic advice and planning for institutional investors.