The Corporate Partners Breakfast Series
Presented by Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  Thursday, January 24, 2002
7:00 a.m.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
1001 Bissonnet
Reservations are required
Please call Amy Purvis at (713) 639-7570 for more information

SPEAKER:
Henry Groppe
Founding Partner
Groppe, Long & Littell

Oil, U.S. Policy, and The Middle East

Henry Groppe is a partner and founder in 1955 of Groppe, Long & Littell, a
Houston based consulting form providing long term forecasting, planning and
development for the energy industry.  He has had 55 years of technical,
economic and management experience in the hydrocarbon and petrochemical
industries.  He was with Dow Chemical, Monsanto, Texaco, and Arabian
American Oil Company (in Saudi Arabia) before establishing his consulting
firm.

Mr. Groppe is a director of Tom Brown, Inc., a founder and chairman of
Antara Resources, Inc., a former director of Transco Energy Company, a
former director and founder of Space Industries, Inc., a founder of
Southwest Chemical and Plastics Company, and a former director of First City
Energy Finance Company.  He has served as a charter member of the Texas
Governor's Energy Advisory Council and a director of the United States
Energy Association (the U.S. Member Committee of the World Energy Council).

Mr. Groppe has served as Chairman of the University of Texas Engineering
Foundation Advisory Council and on the Board of Overseers of Sweet Briar
College.  He is board chairman of the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, a
founder and president of the Houston Council on Human Relations, a founder
and director of the Preventative Medicine Research Institute, and founder
and president of Southwest Health Technology Foundation.

Mr. Groppe is a distinguished graduate of the University of Texas College of
Engineering and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.