First Reserve is an independently owned firm whose current management team, in place since 1983, collectively has more than 300 years of energy investment experience. The firm has invested $18 billion and made over 100 platform acquisitions, First Reserve is the oldest and largest buyout group to focus exclusively on a strategy of diversified energy investments. First Reserve invests in a broad range of segments within the energy industry including: (i) Oilfield Services, such as drilling service providers and wellhead equipment manufacturers; (ii) Energy Infrastructure and Power, such as firms that engineer LNG and natural gas processing facilities or produce power; and (iii) Energy Reserves, such as oil, natural gas, coal producers, as well as uranium, iron ore and other minerals. First Reserve's partnership, First Reserve Fund XI, closed with approximately $8 billion in July 2006. First Reserve funds have completed principal transactions with an aggregate total value of over $10 billion. First Reserve generally targets investments in global energy companies with enterprise values of up to $10 billion. First Reserve maintains additional offices in Houston and London.