Donald Burris

Pride International, Inc. operates as an offshore drilling contractors. The firm provides contract drilling and related services to oil and gas companies. It offers services through the use of mobile offshore drilling rigs and rig management services on various rigs, including technical drilling assistance, personnel, repair and maintenance, and drilling operation management services. The company was founded in on June 24, 1988 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Marine Technology Society is an organization that advocates for, raises awareness of, and advances the application of marine technology. The non-profit company is based in Columbia, MD.

Ryder Scott Co. LP is an oil and gas engineering and geological consulting company based in Houston, TX with subsidiaries in the United States. The private company performs enhanced recovery studies, feasibility reports, fluid injection project designs, horizontal drilling studies, and evaluates oil and gas properties. The company also provides expert witness testimony and technical research & analysis to assist in the preparation of legal cases. Ryder Scott's mission is to provide independent and expert guidance to their clients with the utmost professionalism and integrity, while their vision is to be the preferred oil and gas engineering and geological consultants, known worldwide for quality, reliability, and integrity.

Society for Mining, Metallurgy, & Exploration, Inc. operates as a professional society corporation representing all professionals serving the minerals industry in more than 85 countries. Its members are engineers, geologists, metallurgists, educators, students and researchers. The company was founded in 1871 and is headquartered in Englewood, CO.

Center for Houston's Future, Inc. engages in the development of a culture and practice of long-range regional planning, opportunity and issue identification, broad diverse community input and consensus building. The company was founded by James D. Calaway and Eugene Vaughan in 1992 and is headquartered in Houston, 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.

Greater Houston Partnership operates as a place for community-minded business leaders who want to be involved in Houston''s positive growth and influence the direction. The company was founded in 1840 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

C & C Technologies, Inc. provides survey and mapping services for the land and offshore oil and gas industry, the telecommunications industry, and government organizations. It offers marine construction surveys, land and transition zone surveys, geotechnical, geoscience, autonomous underwater vehicle surveys, shallow water geophysical surveys, and C-Nav worldwide GNSS positioning services. The company was founded by James A. Chance and Thomas S. Chance in 1992 and is headquartered in Lafayette, LA.

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.

The National Petroleum Council operates as a council for national petroleum. The private company is based in Washington.

Part of Baker Hughes Co., Western Atlas, Inc. provides seismic surveys and well logging for exploration. The company is based in Houston, TX.

Baker Hughes Holdings LLC supplies oilfield services, products, technology, and systems to the worldwide oil and natural gas industry. It provides products and services for other businesses including downstream chemicals, and process and pipeline services. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

University of Nevada functions as a college and university. It provides education, research, scholarship, creative activities, and clinical services. The company was founded on September 10, 1957 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, NV.