Forum was founded when eleven companies came together to do a better job for the drilling and production industries. Forum Oilfield Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells its equipment to global customers consisting of onshore and offshore drilling contractors, drilling equipment rental companies, oilfield service companies, and assemblers of drilling and well servicing equipment. Drilling products include tubular handling equipment and drilling data management systems. Flow control products include expendable fluid end-components for mud and centrifugal pumps, valves, choke and kill manifolds, and pressure control equipment. Forum Oilfield Technologies, Inc. also repairs and refurbishes rig components.

Frank’s Casing Crew & Rental Tools, a leading provider of equipment and personnel for installing, threading, welding, driving and distributing oilfield tubulars, was established in 1938 by Mr. Frank Mosing. Frank's Casing Crew & Rental Tools, Inc. provides oil and gas equipment rentals and sales to exploration and production customers operating in states west of the Mississippi. Frank's Casing Crew also offers casing, cementing, well completion or abandonment, fabrication, and maintenance services. Frank's Casing Crew & Rental Tools, Inc. products include casing equipment, connectors, drill pipe tools, hammers, and pipe and fabrication equipment. President and CEO Donald Musing is the grandson of the company's founder.

Fred. Olsen Energy has its hold on drilling in the North Sea and in several other oil plays. Through its subsidiaries, Fred. Olsen Energy ASA provides offshore oil and gas drilling services. Through its Dolphin subsidiary, Fred. Olsen operates a fleet of nine semi-submersible rigs and one deepwater drillship used to support offshore drilling activities. Fred. Olsen also provides shipbuilding services through its Harland and Wolff subsidiary. Customers of the group have included Exxon Mobil, Kerr-McGee, Statoil, and Vaalco. Both Bonheur and Ganger Rolf hold about 27% of the company. Fred. Olsen Energy ASA focuses on rewarding long term customer relationships where innovative and integrated solutions are presented to the benefit of customers, shareholders and employees.

GCA is an international advisory firm focused on the provision of integrated technical and managerial services and independent advice to all sectors of the oil and gas industry. Gaffney, Cline & Associates provides technical, operational, management, and commercial consulting services to the global oil and gas industry. Gaffney, Cline & Associates Ltd. portfolio includes reservoir appraisal, advice about field development, and refining and marketing, as well as integrated technical and management services. Gaffney, Cline & Associates Ltd. also provides independent certifications of oil and gas reserves and expert witness services or arbitration services for projects that involve legal, technical, or contractual disputes. Gaffney, Cline & Associates Ltd. has offices throughout the world, and clients include global oil and gas companies, national oil companies, governments, and private investors. Executives Peter Gaffney and Ben Cline founded the firm in 1962.

Global Industries, Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides construction and subsea services to the offshore oil and gas industry. Global Industries, Ltd. services include pipeline construction, platform installation and removal, project management, construction support, diving services, diverless intervention, and marine support services. As of December 31, 2009, Global Industries, Ltd. fleet included eight derrick lay barges, one heavy lift ship, one pipelay barge, four multi-service vessels, three dive support vessels, one offshore supply vessel, and one cargo barge. Global Industries, Ltd. has operations in North America, Latin America, West Africa, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific/India regions. Global Industries, Ltd. customers include oil and gas producers, and pipeline companies. Global Industries, Ltd. was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Carlyss, Louisiana.

GulfMark Offshore, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides offshore marine services primarily to companies involved in the offshore exploration and production of oil and natural gas. GulfMark Offshore, Inc. fleet includes anchor handling, towing, and support vessels; platform support vessels; fast supply or crew vessels; specialty vessels; standby rescue vessels; construction support vessels; and utility vessels. GulfMark Offshore, Inc. vessels provide services that support the construction, positioning, and ongoing operation of offshore oil and natural gas drilling rigs and platforms, and related infrastructure. GulfMark Offshore, Inc. vessels also transport materials, supplies, and personnel to offshore facilities, and to move and position drilling structures. The company also provides management services to other vessel owners. As of December 31, 2009, GulfMark Offshore, Inc. operated a fleet of 88 offshore support vessels comprising 38 vessels in the North Sea, 13 vessels offshore Southeast Asia, and 37 vessels offshore in the Americas. GulfMark Offshore, Inc. serves integrated oil and natural gas companies, and independent oil and natural gas exploration and production companies working in international markets; and foreign government-owned or controlled oil and natural gas companies, as well as companies that provide logistics, construction, and other services to oil and natural gas companies and foreign government organizations. GulfMark Offshore, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Halliburton Company provides various products and services to the energy industry for the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas worldwide. Halliburton Company operates in two segments, Completion and Production, and Drilling and Evaluation. The Completion and Production segment provides production enhancement services, completion tools and services, and cementing services. Its production enhancement services include stimulation, pipeline process, sand control, and well intervention services; completion tools and services comprise subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment, surface safety systems, packers and specialty completion equipment, intelligent completion systems, expandable liner hanger systems, sand control systems, well servicing tools, and reservoir performance services; and cementing services consist of bonding the well and well casing, while isolating fluid zones and maximizing wellbore stability, and casing equipment. The Drilling and Evaluation segment provides field and reservoir modeling, drilling, evaluation, and well construction solutions that enable customers to model, measure, and optimize their well placement and reservoir evaluation activities. Halliburton Company serves national, integrated, and independent oil and gas companies. Halliburton Company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. operates as an offshore energy company. Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. provides development solutions and various other contracting services to the energy market, as well as to its oil and gas properties. Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. provides a range of contracting services primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, the Asia Pacific, and West Africa regions primarily in deepwater. Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. offers development services comprising installation of subsea pipelines, flowlines, control umbilicals, manifolds, and risers; pipelay and burial; installation and tie-in of riser and manifold assembly; commissioning, testing, and inspection services; and cable and umbilical lay and connection. Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. also provides various production services, including inspection, repair, and maintenance of production structures, risers, pipelines, and subsea equipment; well intervention; life of field support; and intervention engineering. In addition, Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. offers decommissioning and remediation services; plugging and abandonment services; platform salvage and removal services; pipeline abandonment services; and site inspections. Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. offers its products and services to independent oil and gas producers and suppliers, pipeline transmission companies, and offshore engineering and construction firms. Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. was formerly known as Cal Dive International, Inc. and changed its name to Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. in March 2006. Helix Energy Solutions Group was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Hiland Partners, LP is a midstream energy partnership engaged in purchasing, gathering, compressing, dehydrating, treating, processing and marketing of natural gas and the fractionating, or separating, and marketing of natural gas liquids, or NGLs. Hiland Partners also provides air compression and water injection services to Continental Resources, Inc. ("CLR"), a publicly traded exploration and production company, for use in its oil and gas secondary recovery operations. Hiland Partners' operations are primarily located in the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States. In the Partnership's midstream segment, Hiland Holdings GP, LP connects the wells of natural gas and crude oil producers in its operating areas to its gathering systems, treats natural gas to remove impurities, processes natural gas for the removal of NGLs, fractionates NGLs into NGL products and provides an aggregate supply of natural gas and NGL products to a variety of transmission pipelines and markets.

Hiland Partners is looking for the higher ground of increased profits. Hiland Partners, LP was formed through the combination of Hiland Partners LLC and Continental Gas, a former subsidiary of Continental Resources. Hiland provides natural gas gathering and processing services to customers in the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions of the US through 14 gas gathering systems with 2,024 miles of pipeline, five natural gas processing plants, seven natural gas treating facilities, and three NGL fractionation plants. Hiland Partners, LP also provides air compression and water injection services for oil and gas recovery operations in North Dakota. Chairman Harold Hamm owns 61% of the company, but has made a bid for total ownership.

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