Overview

We are an independent energy company engaged primarily in oil and gas exploration, exploitation, development and production activities.  In addition to our oil and gas operations, we engage in the active management of investments in energy industry securities and futures traded on domestic and international securities exchanges. We also seek to invest in additional energy-based growth opportunities. Our crude oil and natural gas operations consist of exploration, exploitation, development, production and acquisition efforts in the United States, principally in the onshore and offshore Gulf Coast regions of South Texas and Louisiana, as well as coal bed...