Lou Lung Pai was CEO of what American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas?
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Lou Pai Lou Lung Pai () born in Nanjing, China in 1947, is a Chinese-American businessman and former Enron executive. He was CEO of Enron Energy Services from March 1997 until January 2001 and CEO of Enron Xcelerator, a venture capital division of Enron, from February 2001 until June 2001. He left Enron with over $280 million. Pai was the second largest land owner in Colorado after he purchased the 77500 acre Taylor Ranch for  million in 1999, though he sold the property in June 2004 for  million.
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Enron Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. It was founded in 1985 as the result of a merger between Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth, both relatively small regional companies. Before its bankruptcy on December 2, 2001, Enron employed approximately 20,000 staff and was one of the world's major electricity, natural gas, communications and pulp and paper companies, with claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion during 2000. "Fortune" named Enron "America's Most Innovative Company" for six consecutive years.
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Economy of Houston The economy of Houston is based primarily on the energy industry, particularly oil. However, health care, biomedical research, and aerospace also constitute large sectors. In 2012, the gross domestic product (GDP) of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was $449 billion, the fourth-largest of any metro area in the United States. The Houston metropolitan area comprises the largest concentration of petrochemical manufacturing in the world, including for synthetic rubber, insecticides, and fertilizers. It is the world's leading center for oilfield equipment construction, with the city of Houston home to more than 3,000 energy-related businesses, including many of the top oil and gas exploration and production firms and petroleum pipeline operators. As of 2011, 23 companies on the Fortune 500 list have their headquarters in, or around, Houston.
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Bill Lupien William A. Lupien (born October 6, 1941) is an American business executive in the financial industry. He traded actively in the financial markets throughout his career. He was a Specialist and later Exchange Governor on the Pacific Stock Exchange (PSE), a Nasdaq market maker, the Chairman and CEO of Instinet, the Chairman and CEO of OptiMark Corporation, and the Managing Director of the General Partner of a hedge fund, Kudu Partners LP. He helped develop the world's first electronic trading system. He also served on the Advisory Committee on the National Market System. In 1999 he was featured in a CNBC television series as one of five people who had changed the course of the securities industry in the 20th century.
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Blacksands Pacific The Blacksands Pacific Group is an international oil and gas exploration and production and trading company headquartered in Los Angeles and Houston, with assets in North America, Asia and Africa. The company also transports, stores, purchases and markets crude oil and natural gas. The Chairman and CEO of Blacksands Pacific is Raheem J. Brennerman.
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StarTex Power StarTex Power is a Texas-based retail electricity provider headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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XTO Energy XTO Energy Inc. is an American energy company, principally operating in America, specializing in the drilling and production of unconventional oil and natural gas assets, typically from shale rock through a process known as hydraulic fracturing. It is a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation.
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Houston Houston ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth-most populous city in the United States. With a census-estimated 2016 population of 2.303 million within an area of 667 sqmi , it is also the largest city in the southern United States and the seat of Harris County. Located in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of Mexico, it is the principal city of the Greater Houston metro area, which is the fifth-most populated MSA in the United States.
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Excon Worldwide, Inc. Excon Worldwide, Inc. is a Canadian energy, commodities, equities, and services company based in Toronto with other offices worldwide. Its main location is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The group comprises many specialized international offices and subsidiaries. Excon Worldwide has more than seven thousand employees around North America and participates in markets around the world, including Canada, the United States, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and the Middle East. Excon Worldwide has offices around the world including Toronto, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New Yor City, Houston, Texas and Hong Kong.
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Energy Institute High School Energy Institute High School is a magnet high school in East Downtown in Houston, Texas. It is a part of the Houston Independent School District and is the first high school in the United States that focusses on the energy industry.
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Alcoa Power Generating Inc. Alcoa Power Generating, Inc. is a subsidiary of Alcoa Inc., headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Its three divisions were independent subsidiaries before being consolidated into Alcoa Power Generating, Inc. (APGI). These three projects have produced hydroelectric power and manage impoundments which also provide flood control; recreation, residential and business opportunities; and wildlife habitat.
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Houston Center Houston Center is a retail and office complex in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. It is owned and operated by subsidiaries of Crescent Real Estate Equities Co. (NYSE: CEI).
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Austin Energy Austin Energy is a publicly owned utility providing electrical power to the city of Austin, Texas and surrounding areas. Established in 1895, the utility is a department of the City of Austin and returns its profits to the city's general fund to finance other city services. Austin Energy is the United States' 8th largest public utility, serving more than 440,000 customers and more than one million residents (as of 2015) within a service area of approximately 437 sqmi , including Austin, Travis County and a small portion of Williamson County.
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Atlas Energy Atlas America, Inc. is a natural gas and oil extraction company based in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States. The corporation is also involved in the transportation of resources and features a pipeline division. The base of operations for the company is in the Appalachian shale deposits, as well as in similar ones in the Midwest. Natural gas is processed by the company in facilities in Oklahoma and Texas.
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Simmons &amp; Company International Simmons & Company International is one of the largest independent investment banks specializing in the energy industry, offering M&A advisory, capital markets execution and investment research. Simmons & Company International has offices in Houston, Aberdeen, London and Dubai. Simmons & Company International was founded in 1974 by Matthew R. Simmons with the focus of providing financial advisory services to a growing energy service sector. In 2009, Matt Simmons retired to become "Emeritus Chairman". As of June 16, 2010, Matt Simmons retired from the company.
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Penn Virginia Penn Virginia Corporation is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, development and production of oil, NGLs and natural gas in various domestic onshore regions of the United States, with a primary focus in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas. Penn Virginia recently relocated its corporate headquarters from Radnor, Pennsylvania to Houston, Texas and continues district operations facilities at various locations in Texas.
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Houston Cellular Houston Cellular was a Houston-based cell phone company which provided AMPS and D-AMPS (TDMA) service in the Greater Houston area. It was formed in 1983 and was operated as a partnership between LIN Broadcasting Corp., Mobile Communication Corp. of America and BellSouth Co. Its headquarters were located in Houston, Texas.
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Gordon Quan Gordon Quan (Traditional Chinese: 關振鵬, Simplified Chinese: 关振鹏, Pinyin: "Guān Zhènpéng", Jyutping: "Gwaan1 Zan3 Paang4") is a Chinese American immigration lawyer, and former Houston City Council member. He was the second Asian American ever elected to Houston City Council. He was the first Asian American to ever be elected to an at-large position in the Houston City Council. Quan also once served as the Houston Mayor Pro Tem.
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Louis Hsieh Louis Tung-jung Hsieh (, born 1965) is a Chinese businessman and lawyer and currently holds the position of Chief Financial Officer at NIO (or NextEV), a global startup based in China which designs and develops premium, smart electric vehicles and autonomous driving vehicles. He also serves as a Senior Advisor and a Board Director of New Oriental Education and Technology Group (NYSE: EDU), China’s largest private educational services provider. He was the company's president from May 2009 to January 2016. He is also the Independent Director and Audit Chairman for each of JD.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: JD), China's largest direct sales Internet company, YUM China Holdings (NYSE: YUMC), the restaurant owner in China operating KFC, Pizza Hut, Little Sheep Hot Pot and Taco Bell, and Nord Anglia Education, Inc. (NYSE: NORD), a global schools organization. He is also a board member at United Information Technologies, a Chinese storage solutions company.
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TECO Energy TECO Energy Inc. is an energy-related holding company based in Tampa, Florida, providing electricity to the greater Tampa area and central Florida, and natural gas throughout the state of Florida through its subsidiaries Tampa Electric Company and Peoples Gas Company respectively. Another subsidiary, TECO Services, Inc., provides IT, HR, legal, facilities, and other common services to Tampa Electric, Peoples Gas, and former TECO subsidiary New Mexico Gas Company. On September 4, 2015, Emera, a utility holding company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, announced the pending acquisition of TECO Energy. That purchase closed on July 1, 2016, and TECO Energy, Inc. is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Emera, Inc.
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ProEnergy Services ProEnergy Services is an American, Missouri based energy company that provides third party services for energy and manufacturing firms, including construction, management, operations, maintenance, and repair services for energy generation facilities, and equipment in several industries. ProEnergy offers over 200 energy and industrial related services with clients in forty nations around the world, including Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, Panama, Pakistan and Angola.
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Apache Corporation Apache Corporation is an American petroleum and natural gas exploration and production company headquartered in Houston, Texas.