Wayne M. Newhouse

Canadian Oil Sands Trust is the definitive investment in the oil sands. With a 36.74% interest in the Syncrude Project, they are the only pure play on an asset that epitomizes the best attributes of an oil sands investment: high-quality leases, a track record of successful operations, a sustainable approach to the development of long-life resource and a product -high-quality, light, sweet crude oil - that is essential to the global economy. As an open-ended investment trust, Canadian Oil Sands has been generating income from its Syncrude interest for their investors since 1995. It is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. engages in the ownership of interest in the Syncrude project that involves mining and upgrading of bitumen from oil sands. The company was founded on October 5, 1995 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

E-T Energy Ltd. develops, operates, produces, and sells recoverable bitumen extraction from the oil sands. It uses the electro-thermal dynamic stripping process for the in situ production of bitumen from oil sands deposits, which is an electro-thermal process that couples electrical heating with heat transfer by convection and conduction, using a drilled grid of electrode and extraction wells. The company was founded by Bruce C.W. McGee and George T. Stapleton II on July 26, 2004 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Petrofund Energy Trust acquires and manages oil and gas companies and properties. The company is based in Calgary, Canada. The Canadian company was founded in 1988 by John Finbar Driscoll. Petrofund Energy Trust was acquired by Penn West Energy Trust on June 30, 2006 for $2,693.96 million.