Gastar Exploration Ltd (NYSE MKT LLC:GST)

Gastar Exploration Ltd. is an independent energy company, which is engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas and oil in the U.S. Its principal business activities include the identification, acquisition, and subsequent exploration and development of natural gas and oil properties with an emphasis on prospective deep structures identified through seismic and other analytical techniques, as well as unconventional natural gas reserves, such as shale resource plays. The company is pursuing natural gas exploration in the deep Bossier gas play in the Hilltop area of East Texas and the Marcellus Shale in the Appalachian area of West Virginia and central and Southwestern Pennsylvania. It also conducts limited coal bed methane development activities within the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.