Kirk P. Kinnear

Continental Resources, Inc. is an independent oil producer engaged in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas. The firm's operations include horizontal drilling and protecting groundwater. The company was founded by Harold G. Hamm in 1967 and is headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK.

Phibro LLC provides commodities trading services. It focuses on physical trading, asset acquisition and development, optimization and structuring. The company was founded by Julius Philipp and Oscar Philipp in 1901 and is headquartered in Stanford, CT.

RBS Sempra Commodities is a family of commodity trading companies transacting in the global commodity markets. The RBS Sempra Commodities companies combine financial risk-management techniques with physical expertise to provide innovative solutions for customers in natural gas, natural gas liquids, power, petroleum and petroleum products, coal, emissions, ethanol and base metals.

Hartree Partners LP (Investment Management) (Hartree Partners-IM) is the investment management division of Hartree Partners LP, a global merchant commodities firm headquartered in New York City. It was originally founded as Hess Energy Trading Co. (HETCO) in 1997 by Guy Merison, Stephen Semlitz and Stephen Hendel. In 2014, it was announced that funds controlled by Oaktree Capital would be acquiring Hess Corp.’s interests in HETCO with the new company taking the name Hartree Partners LP. The firm is owned by the founding partners, senior staff, and certain funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management LP. Hartree Partners-IM provides a wide range of investment services to a substantial and diversified customer base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals.