Gulfport Energy Corporation (Gulfport) is an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company with its principal producing properties located along the Louisiana Gulf Coast in the West Cote Blanche Bay (WCBB), Hackberry fields, and in West Texas in the Permian Basin. The Company holds a significant acreage position in the Alberta oil sands in Canada, through its interest in Grizzly Oil Sands ULC (Grizzly), and in the Bakken Shale, and has interests in entities that operate in Southeast Asia, including the Phu Horm gas field in Thailand. As of December 31, 2008, Gulfport had 25.5 million barrels of oil equivalent. The Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Grizzly has approximately 511,000 acres under lease during 2008. Grizzly drilled an aggregate of 117 core holes, tested five separate lease blocks using up to four different rigs, and undertook a seismic program.