James R. Gibbs

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Frontier Oil Corp. is an energy company, which is engaged in crude oil refining and wholesale marketing of refined petroleum products. The company operates refineries in Cheyenne, Wyoming and El Dorado, Kansas. Frontier Oil purchases crude oil to be refined and markets the refined petroleum products produced, including various grades of gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, asphalt, chemicals and petroleum coke. The Cheyenne Refinery has a permitted crude oil capacity of 52,000 bpd and markets its refined products primarily in the Eastern slope of the Rocky Mountain region, which encompasses Eastern Colorado, Eastern Wyoming and Western Nebraska. It has a coking unit, which allows the refinery to process heavy crude oil for use as a feedstock. The El Dorado Refinery is in the Plains States and the Rocky Mountain region with crude oil capacity of 135,000 bpd. It markets gasoline and diesel in Denver and throughout the Plains States. Frontier Oil also owns Ethanol Management Co., a products terminal and blending facility located near Denver, Colorado. The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Smith International, Inc. provides premium products and services used for the drilling, completion and production phases of oil and natural gas development activities. It has three operating divisions, namely M-I SWACO, Smith Oilfield and Distribution. Company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

GSE Environmental, Inc. manufactures and markets geosynthetic lining products and services. Its products include geomembranes, geosynthetic clay liners, geogrids, and liner integrity monitoring system. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Veritas DGC, Inc. provided integrated geophysical, geological and reservoir technologies to the petroleum industry worldwide. The firm produced 4D surveys to record fluid movement in the reservoir by repeating specific 3D surveys over time. The company was headquartered in Houston, Texas.