Thomas A. Fry

Freeport-McMoran Oil & Gas, Inc. engages in acquiring, exploring for, developing and producing oil and gas properties. Its portfolio includes U.S. oil and natural gas assets in the Deepwater GOM, onshore and offshore California and in the Haynesville natural gas shale. The company was founded on June 11, 2015 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

PXP Producing Co. LLC provides exploration, development, acquisition and production of oil and gas properties. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages land on behalf of the US government. The agency additionally manages nearly 300 million acres of subsurface mineral resources and provides wildfire management and suppression for 388 million acres. BLM is tasked with managing energy, minerals, timber, forage, wild horse and burro populations, fish and wildlife habitat and wilderness areas. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Plains Exploration & Production Co. was an independent energy company, which was engaged in the activities of acquiring, developing, exploring and producing oil and gas properties. It was owned oil and gas properties in onshore and offshore areas of California, the Gulf Coast Region, including Haynesville Shale, Eagle Ford Shale and South and East Texas, the Mid-Continent Region and the Rocky Mountains. The company was founded on September 28, 1990 and was headquartered in Houston, TX.