The group's principal activity is explore and develop oil and gas. The group targets high-potential oil and gas assets in the Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and other traditional oil producing states in the southwestern United States and Thailand. The group's operations are focused on exploration activities to find and evaluate prospective oil and gas properties and providing capital to participate in these projects. The group participates in projects directly, through consolidated subsidiaries and as equity participants in limited partnerships. On 26-Feb-2004 the group acquired nsnv inc.