David Rich Smith

BJ Services Co. LLC engages in the provision of pressure pumping, cementing, stimulation, and coiled tubing services. The company was founded on May 30, 1990 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Landmark Graphics Corp. provides software and consulting services for the oil and gas industry. The Company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Newpark Drilling Fluids LLC provides field drilling fluid systems. The firm's products include DeepDrill, CyberDrill, and FlexDrill systems. It offers products for the subsea oil and gas industry. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Brentwood, TN.

Ameresco Select, Inc. engages in the provision of energy services for businesses and organizations. The company was founded by David S. Dayton in 1982 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

Innicor Subsurface Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures oil and gas field tools and equipments. It offers perforating guns; flow control equipment; wireline work string equipment; and completion equipment, including service tools, retrievable packers, seal bore packers, open hole packers, tubing anchors, bridge plugs and retainers, coiled tubing equipment, and linear equipment. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Superior Well Services, Inc. provides wellsite solutions to oil and natural gas companies, primarily technical pumping services and down-hole surveying services. The company was founded in March 2005 and is Headquartered in Indiana, PA.

Diamondback Energy Services, Inc. provides oil and natural gas exploration services. Its services include drilling, stimulation and pumping, fluid logistics, well completion, and production. The company's clients include Chesapeake Energy, EOG Resources, and Devon Energy. Diamondback Energy Services was founded in December 2005 and is headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK.

Torqued-Up Energy Services, Inc. provides coiled tubing and pressure pumping services. It offers fracturing and wrenching and testing services. The firm applications include frac stacks, flow lines and flowback rig ups. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Tyler, TX.

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.

Edgen Murray Corp. manufactures and distributes steel products. It offers global vendor network, pipe and tube, piling solutions, valves, fabricated components, project management, cutting and coating and finishing services. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Balfour Beatty Construction, Inc. (BBCI), the North American civil engineering arm of UK-based Balfour Beatty plc, provides heavy construction and civil engineering services. One of the top bridge and highway contractors in the US, it works primarily in California, Texas and the eastern US. The company has worked on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge in California and is involved in cleaning Narragansett Bay by upgrading sewer systems in Rhode Island. Founded in 1990, the firm is located in Atlanta, GA.

American Petroleum Institute (API) is the only national trade association that represents all aspects of America's oil and natural gas industry. Its more than 400 corporate members, from the largest major oil company to the smallest of independents, come from all segments of the industry. They are producers, refiners, suppliers, pipeline operators and marine transporters, as well as service and supply companies that support all segments of the industry.

Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, Inc. is the rodeo and livestock show. It supports education and promotes better breeding and marketing of livestock. It judges nearly 32,000 livestock entries and awards prizes in six categories and also funds agricultural and research scholarships as well as education endowments in support of groups like Future Farmers of America and 4H. Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo events are held at the Reliant Stadium. The company was founded in 1931 and is located in Houston, TX.

Society of Petroleum Engineers, Inc. provides petroleum engineering services. The non-profit company is based in Allen, TX and has subsidiaries in United States, India and Canada.

National Society of Professional Engineers operates as a national organization committed to addressing the professional concerns of licensed PEs across all disciplines. The company was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Alexandria, VA.

U.S.-Russia Business Council operates as a trade association. It provides business development, dispute resolution, government relations, and market intelligence services to its American and Russian member companies. The company represents the interests of 300 member companies operating in the Russian market. U.S.-Russia Business Council was founded in 2000 and is located in Washington, DC.

The Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind is based in Talladega, AL. The institute provides services to over 30,000 people per year through five campuses and a statewide network of regional centers. The institute was founded in 1858 and is known as America's most comprehensive education, rehabilitation, and service program for individuals who are blind, deaf, deafblind, or multidisabled.

Offshore Technology Conference operates conferences of energy professionals for exchanging of ideas about scientific and technical for offshore resources and environmental matters. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.

Kellogg Brown & Root LLC engages in the provision of engineering, military contracting, and construction services. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.