Paul D. Ching

The Meridian Resource Corp. is an independent oil and natural gas company that explores or, acquires and develops oil and natural gas properties utilizing the latest in completion and 3-D seismic technology. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Ingrain, Inc. provides digital rock physics laboratory services. The firm offers unconventional reservoirs, complex conventional reservoirs, joint industry project, and digital core library. The company was founded by Amos Nur, Jack P. Dvorkin, William Bosl, and Henrique Tono in 2007 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

NanoDynamics, Inc. develops and manufactures nano-material products. Its products include solid oxide fuel cells for use in portable, residential, distributed power generation, cell-pore water filters, nano-sized metal and ceramic powders, carbon nano-tubes, nano-structured steel, and process intensification technologies that reduce energy consumption, decrease use of hazardous chemicals and solvents. The company was founded by Allan P. Rothstein in 2002 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Part of Shell Plc, Shell International Exploration & Production BV is an oil and Dutch gas company. The company is based in Rijswijk, Netherlands.

Shell Oil Co. manufactures petrochemicals and distributes gas and oil products. The company was founded in 1912 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

vMonitor is recognized as the global technology leader for wireless solutions in the Oil and Gas industry. Offering reliable low cost alternatives to traditional cabled systems, it delivers the latest technology enabling the Digital Oilfield in remote operations around the world. vMonitor capabilities include individual products as well as turn-key monitoring and control systems covering a broad range of applications include Flowing Oil and Gas Wells, Pipelines, Artificial Lift Applications (Beam Pumps, Water Injection, Gas Lift, and ESP), Refinery Facilities, and Tank Farms. vMonitor offers an array of services and products for end to end monitoring solutions and automation. It is a subsidiary of CAE and its Headquarters are in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The company has offices in the United States, India, Oman and Kuwait, as well as a significant presence in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Some of its clients are Petroleum Development of Oman (PDO), Kuwait Oil Company, Shell, PEMEX, Chevron, and Petronas Carigali. vMonitor is an ISO 9001company. vMonitor got its start in 2000 after seeing a need for technology that could help oil companies manage their remote assets without the need for cabling or a dedicated power source. This gave birth to their popular vMBus series RTUs and Gateway, and the Total Access software that managed and displayed the data collected from them. The company first generation of wireless RTUs and Gateway solved the problems of cabling by using radios instead of cables to communicate, and the technology permitted the use of batteries or solar energy as the main power source.

Oilsands Quest, Inc. is engaged in the oil and gas exploration in Western Canada with an emphasis on the oil sands. It is exploring and developing oil sands permits and licenses, located in Saskatchewan and Alberta. The company was founded by Christopher H. Hopkins on April 3, 1998 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.