Talos Energy is an independent oil and gas company formed in 2012. Our expertise is exploring and producing offshore hydrocarbons in the US Gulf of Mexico region as well as offshore Mexico. Talos was formed in partnership with Apollo Global Management and Riverstone Holdings for the purposes of buying assets in the Gulf Coast and Gulf of Mexico regions with emphasis on asset optimization, exploitation, and exploration in and around our assets. Talos also engages in business development activities that include JV's and farm-in's where we utilize our 10.2 million acres of seismic inventory to optimize the economics of a transaction. Talos Energy's management team has built and sold two previous private equity backed companies - Phoenix Exploration and Gryphon Exploration - and in each instance delivered significant returns to their investors. As a cohesive group working together for over a decade, the management team has a track record of enhancing mature fields by using innovative techniques to develop a valuable portfolio of investment opportunities that results in a significant exploration and production company.

Hi-Crush Proppants (“Hi-Crush”) is a leading producer of premium monocrystalline sand, a specialized mineral that is used as a proppant (“frac sand”) to enhance the recovery rates of hydrocarbons from oil and natural gas wells. Hi-Crush owns, operates, acquires and develops frac sand reserves and related processing and transportation facilities. Our reserves consist of Northern White sand, predominately found in Wisconsin and limited portions of the upper Midwest region of the United States, and is highly valued as a preferred proppant due to its favorable physical characteristics.