WELDING INDUSTRY NEWS

Profiled Company:

Energy Partners Ltd.
New Orleans, LA

We are an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company. Our current operations are concentrated in the shallow to moderate depth waters in the Gulf of Mexico focusing on the areas offshore Louisiana as well as the deepwater Gulf of Mexico in depths less than 5,000 feet. Our management team has extensive energy industry experience, many with large energy companies. We have assembled a team of geoscientists and management professionals with considerable region-specific geological, geophysical, technical and operational experience. We were incorporated in January, 1998, and are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol EPL.

Website:

www.eplweb.com

Profiled Company:

WEC Welding and Machining
Lake Bluff, IL

WEC Welding and Machining LLC, offers you the knowledge, highly skilled professionals, and equipment required to maintain your power systems more efficiently and cost-effectively. We support the fossil, hydropower and nuclear energy sources of today and our visionary leadership is pioneering the power systems of tomorrow.

Part of Westinghouse Electric Company, WEC Welding and Machining is composed of separate affiliates, each of which has a special expertise in serving the utility industry.

Website:

http://www.wecwam.com