Investors in Oil and Gas Exploration

Goldman Sachs is a global financial services firm that provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. The company offers financial advisory services, underwriting services, and client execution services in various markets. They also engage in securities services, financing, and investing activities across a range of asset classes. Additionally, Goldman Sachs manages investment portfolios and mutual funds for institutions and individuals globally. The firm operates various segments, including Investment Banking, Institutional Client Services, Investing & Lending, and Investment Management. Founded in 1869 and headquartered in New York, Goldman Sachs aims to drive technology-based disruption and invest in late-stage venture capital and growth equity transactions to build revolutionary businesses worldwide.

Founded in 1998, TriWest is one of Canada’s leading private equity firms. Having raised over $775 million of committed capital, they are entrepreneurial, independent and based in Western Canada. TriWest provides more than just capital. The managing directors of TriWest have significant operational and transactional expertise, making us effective partners in creating shareholder value.

Credit Suisse Private Equity is the private equity arm of global private bank and wealth manager, Credit Suisse. The division invests in mezzanine, buyouts, secondaries, primarily in Europe and North America. The firm is based in London, United Kingdom.

The Stephens Group is a private, family-owned firm that invests its capital in private and public companies with exceptional management teams resulting in high returns on invested capital in growing industries. They invest in businesses across a broad range of industries, providing growth equity, recapitalization and leveraged buy-out financing to both private and public companies.

Founded in 1999, Enhanced Capital Partners is a national investment firm with over $400 million under management specializing in investments in small and mid-size companies. Enhanced Capital provides a range of investment options to promote the growth and expansion of businesses. Our flexibility and practical investment approach can make the difference in maximizing the growth potential for a company poised for rapid growth.

EnCap Investments is a venture capital and private equity firm that specializes in seed, start-ups, emerging growth, and early venture investments. It invests in upstream and midstream oil and gas companies. Within midstream assets, it prefers to invest in natural gas pipelines, gathering, processing facilities, energy infrastructure, natural gas gathering, treating, compression, processing and storage operations; oil gathering, and transportation. EnCap Investments was founded by David B. Miller and Gary R Petersen in 1088; and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Founded in 1992, Advantage Capital Partners is a venture capital firm specialised in equity and debt investments. The firm has worked with state and federal economic organisations to invest in small businesses and in low income areas.

Founded in 1924, Total is a corporate firm based in France. The firm operates as an integrated oil and gas company to their clients.

Wellington Management Company is a Boston based institutional investment advisor firm. The firm invests in global equity, fixed income, currency and commodity markets, multi-strategy, specialty and alternative investments. The firm offers separate accounts and a wide range of commingled vehicles that include both US and non-US domiciled portfolios. The company was founded in 1928.

Post Oak Energy Capital, LP is a private equity firm specializing in buyout investments, mid-market acquisitions, growth capital, mature, mezzanine, recapitalizations, development acceleration, and expansion capital investments. The firm seeks to make direct equity and equity-related debt investments in companies in the energy; exploration and production; oil and gas production; oilfield service primarily focusing on domestic companies that manufacture, distribute or provide products and equipment that are consumed in the exploitation of oil and natural gas reserves or are required to produce, process, and distribute these resources; power and energy; oilfield services and related infrastructure; midstream and related infrastructure assets; and upstream sector of the oil and gas industry. It seeks opportunities in the North America with a focus on United States and outside the United States. The firm aims to invest about 75 percent of its capital in traditional North American onshore oil and gas and the remaining 25 percent in services related to oil and gas production. It typically invest between is $25 million and $120 million. The firm makes majority, control, and minority investments and controlling interest of 85% to 90% in its portfolio companies. It seeks to invest from personal capital. Post Oak Energy Capital, LP was founded in 2006 and is based in Houston, Texas.