Post Oak Energy Capital
Post Oak Energy Capital, LP is a private equity firm specializing in buyout investments, mid-market acquisitions, growth capital, mature, mezzanine, recapitalizations, development acceleration, and expansion capital investments. The firm seeks to make direct equity and equity-related debt investments in companies in the energy; exploration and production; oil and gas production; oilfield service primarily focusing on domestic companies that manufacture, distribute or provide products and equipment that are consumed in the exploitation of oil and natural gas reserves or are required to produce, process, and distribute these resources; power and energy; oilfield services and related infrastructure; midstream and related infrastructure assets; and upstream sector of the oil and gas industry. It seeks opportunities in the North America with a focus on United States and outside the United States. The firm aims to invest about 75 percent of its capital in traditional North American onshore oil and gas and the remaining 25 percent in services related to oil and gas production. It typically invest between is $25 million and $120 million. The firm makes majority, control, and minority investments and controlling interest of 85% to 90% in its portfolio companies. It seeks to invest from personal capital. Post Oak Energy Capital, LP was founded in 2006 and is based in Houston, Texas.
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39 past transactions
Crown Oil Partners
Private Equity Round in 2011
Crown Oil Partners is an oil and gas company acquiring and managing various types of oil and natural gas properties. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Midland, TX.
Moriah Henry Partners
Private Equity Round in 2016
Moriah Henry Partners LLC is a Midland-based exploration and production company focused on the acquisition and development of oil and gas properties in the Midland Basin of West Texas. The Company is a collaboration among Post Oak Energy Capital, Henry Energy, LP and Moriah Energy Investments, LLC.
PetroEdge Energy III, LLC
Private Equity Round in 2015
PetroEdge Energy III, LLC, an independent energy company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and exploitation of unconventional natural gas and crude oil properties. Its activities are focused on the lower Eagleford in Brazos and Burleson Counties, Texas. The company is also developing an inventory of opportunities in the Cretaceous Shelf Margin. PetroEdge Energy III, LLC was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Houston, Texas.
Layne Water Midstream Holdings, LLC
Private Equity Round in 2018
Layne Water Midstream Holdings, LLC provides water collection and recycling services to upstream oil and gas companies. It offers water solutions, which includes produced water gathering and disposal, source water delivery, produced water redelivery, and water treatment and recycling services. The company provides its services in the Delaware and Midland basins. Layne Water Midstream Holdings, LLC was founded in 2016 and is based in The Woodlands, Texas.
CPX Piceance
Private Equity Round in 2014
CPX Piceance is a natural resource development company focused on the operations of oil and gas assets. The company maintains a significant portfolio of non-operated oil & gas interests in the DJ and Powder River Basins.
CPX Piceance was founded in 2014 and is based in Houston, Texas.
RAM Energy Resources
Private Equity Round in 2007
RAM Energy Resources is an oil and gas company focused on the development and acquisition of oil and natural gas properties. The company focused its efforts in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma where it managed and developed oil and gas properties while seeking acquisition opportunities, since 1987.
Rimrock Resource Operating
Private Equity Round in 2015
Rimrock Resource Operating is an oil and energy company focused on the development, acquisition, and exploration of the oil and gas industry. The company provides services including oil transportation, well site management, water transportation, crude oil marketing, contract pumping, service and repair, roustabout, and other small services.
Rimrock Resource Operating was formed in 2015 in Tulsa, OK.
Refinery Specialties, Inc.
Private Equity Round in 2012
Refinery Specialties is an oilfield service company that formulates, manufactures, and provides technical service for the use of process and production treating chemicals for the oilfield, industrial, and water industries, including production, pipeline, refinery, and gas plants. The company strives to provide cost-effective treating programs with comprehensive monthly monitoring and reporting to identify problem areas, ensure correct chemical dosage and justify the cost of the chemical program.
Mavros Minerals
Private Equity Round in 2016
Mavros Minerals is an oil and gas company focused on mineral energy assets. The company's focus lies in the acquisition of mineral and royalty interests and acting as local operators to source, analyze and execute on acquisition opportunities.
Black Oak Resources
Private Equity Round in 2008
Black Oak Resources is an exploration and production company focused on oil and natural gas properties. The company pursued upstream acquisition and development opportunities in the Permain Basin and Mid-Continent areas.
Black Oak Resources was formed in 2008 in Austin, TX.
Core Appalachia
Private Equity Round in 2012
Core Appalachia is a privately held, independent producer and processor of natural gas in the Devonian region in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia.
Headquartered in Charleston, West Virginia, Core’s 5,600 conventional wells are strategically positioned throughout 1.2 million acres of the southwestern Appalachian Basin to meet the growing regional demand for natural gas.
Sierra Resources
Private Equity Round in 2017
Sierra Resources is a private oil and gas exploration and production company. It has extensive experience operating in many onshore basins, but most recently the company has focused on acquiring and developing unconventional assets.
Upcurve Energy
Private Equity Round in 2015
Upcurve Energy LLC, an oil and gas company, focuses on the exploitation of mature unconventional plays. It focuses on acquiring acreage and existing wells and optimizing production through a combination of recompletions, new development, and infill development. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Refinery Specialties, Inc.
Private Equity Round in 2013
Refinery Specialties is an oilfield service company that formulates, manufactures, and provides technical service for the use of process and production treating chemicals for the oilfield, industrial, and water industries, including production, pipeline, refinery, and gas plants. The company strives to provide cost-effective treating programs with comprehensive monthly monitoring and reporting to identify problem areas, ensure correct chemical dosage and justify the cost of the chemical program.
PetroEdge Energy III, LLC
Private Equity Round in 2013
PetroEdge Energy III, LLC, an independent energy company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and exploitation of unconventional natural gas and crude oil properties. Its activities are focused on the lower Eagleford in Brazos and Burleson Counties, Texas. The company is also developing an inventory of opportunities in the Cretaceous Shelf Margin. PetroEdge Energy III, LLC was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Houston, Texas.
Balcones Energy
Private Equity Round in 2006
Balcones Energy is a development company designed to invest in the oilfield service and equipment sector with a particular focus on compression and artificial lift. The company's initial investment was in Precision Compression Services, which develops and produces compressor packages geared towards later life, low pressure, and/or low volume wells with an objective of lowering costs and improving well performance.
National Specialty Alloys
Private Equity Round in 2007
National Specialty Alloys a specialty alloy processor and distributor of premium stainless steel and nickel alloy bars and shapes.
Atlas Energy Group, LLC
Private Equity Round in 2007
Atlas Energy Group, LLC, through its subsidiaries, develops and produces natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas liquids in the United States. The company has interests in the Eagle Ford Shale in southern Texas; the Marble Falls play in the Fort Worth Basin in northern Texas; and the Mississippi Lime play in northwestern Oklahoma. It also focuses on investing in master limited partnership qualifying energy-related businesses and assets. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas.
SandRidge Energy, Inc.
Acquisition in 2006
SandRidge Energy focuses on drilling low-risk, conventional, high rate-of-return oil wells in shallow carbonate reservoirs. Based in Oklahoma City, SandRidge Energy is the primary developer of the Mississippian Oil Play, with valuable assets in the Permian Basin. Their focus extends beyond energy production and into their communities, where they dedicate their time, talents and resources to the places they call home.
###SandRidge Energy files for bankruptcy protection on May 22, 2016###
Cornerstone Petroleum Petroleum
Private Equity Round in 2013
CPR is an exploration and production company that focuses on the drilling and development of oil-prone shale plays. It also focuses on the development of shale oil resources via joint ventures, farm-ins, and organic leasing opportunities with existing acreage owners and operators.
Linn Energy, Inc.
Private Equity Round in 2006
LINN Energy’s mission is to acquire, develop and maximize cash flow from a growing portfolio of long-life oil and natural gas assets.
Thanks to the steadfast commitment of their employees, LINN Energy has grown from a handful of natural gas wells in 2003 to a top-15 independent U.S. E&P Company with approximately 6.4 Tcfe of proved reserves in producing U.S. basins as of December 31, 2013.
Breitburn Energy Partners
Private Equity Round in 2007
Breitburn Energy Partners is an oil and gas company that explores and develops oil and gas producing properties. The company's current assets consist primarily of producing and non producing crude oil reserves located in the Los Angeles Basin in California, the Wind River and Big Horn Basins in central Wyoming, the Sunniland Trend in Florida, the Permian Basin in West Texas and Michigan.
Breitburn’s goal is to provide unitholders with stable and growing cash distributions.
Chaparral Energy, Inc.
Private Equity Round in 2008
Chaparral Energy, Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, production, and operation of oil and natural gas properties primarily in Oklahoma, the United States. The company sells crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids primarily to refineries and gas processing plant. Its 210,000 net surface acres are located in the Mid-Continent region, approximately 122,000 net acres are located in the STACK play primarily in Canadian, Kingfisher, and Garfield counties. As of December 31, 2019, the company’s estimated proved oil and natural gas reserves were 96.6 million barrels of crude oil equivalent; and had an interest in 2,782 gross producing wells, including 866 gross company operated wells. Chaparral Energy, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Mavros Minerals
Private Equity Round in 2017
Mavros Minerals is an oil and gas company focused on mineral energy assets. The company's focus lies in the acquisition of mineral and royalty interests and acting as local operators to source, analyze and execute on acquisition opportunities.
Richland-Stryker Generation
Private Equity Round in 2011
Richland-Stryker Generation is a power generation company that operates gas and oil-fired peaking power generation facilities. These facilities serve PJM, a regional transmission organization which coordinates the movement of electricity in all or parts of 13 Northeast and Midwestern states and the District of Columbia.
Crown Oil Partners
Private Equity Round in 2014
Crown Oil Partners is an oil and gas company acquiring and managing various types of oil and natural gas properties. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Midland, TX.
Maverick Brothers Energy
Private Equity Round in 2013
Maverick Brothers Energy produces and explores oil and natural gas properties. The company focused on the horizontal development of oil and natural gas properties located in western Oklahoma. Maverick Brothers will use proceeds from the investment to accelerate the development of its existing leasehold and to acquire additional oil and gas assets.
It was founded in 1998 and is based in Enid, OK.
Oryx Midstream Services, LLC
Private Equity Round in 2014
Oryx Midstream Services, LLC operates as a midstream company that focuses on developing, acquiring, owning, and operating midstream assets in the Permian Basin region. The company offers midstream services (via crude oil gathering and rich gas gathering pipelines) in the areas of natural gas gathering, compression, treating, and processing aspects; crude oil gathering, handling, and transportation aspects; and natural gas liquids transportation aspects. It serves oil and gas producers in the United States. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Midland, Texas.
Prime Downhole Manufacturing
Private Equity Round in 2019
Prime Downhole Manufacturing is an engineering company that provides machining, fabrication, and services to the oil, gas, and aerospace industries. The company offers machine maintenance and calibration programs with in-house or field repair services.
Prime Downhole Manufacturing was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.
Double Eagle Development
Private Equity Round in 2015
Double Eagle Energy Holdings (together with its affiliates and subsidiaries, “Double Eagle,”) principal business is crude oil and natural gas exploration, development and production through horizontal and vertical operations in the Midland Basin of West Texas. The company also focuses on acquiring oil and gas leases, working interest, mineral rights, and royalty interests throughout the Permian Basin.
Double Eagle is one of the largest, if not the largest, organic acquirers of acreage in the Permian Basin in West Texas, and has historically been active across the United States in South Texas (Eagle Ford), the Mid-Continent (Mississippian, SCOOP, Penn Shales) and the Rockies (DJ Basin, Powder River Basin).
Since forming Double Eagle in 2008, the Company has executed on over 10,000 individual lease transactions, totaling more than 1 million acres and more than $4.5 billion in transaction value. The company is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, with an additional office in Midland, Texas.
Tri-C Resources Inc.
Private Equity Round in 2017
Tri-C Resources Inc., an oil and gas exploration company, engages in the exploration, development, and acquisition of domestic and foreign energy properties. It offers its exploration services in the tertiary of the Texas Gulf Coast. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Houston, Texas.
Crown Oil Partners
Private Equity Round in 2016
Crown Oil Partners is an oil and gas company acquiring and managing various types of oil and natural gas properties. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Midland, TX.
Oryx Midstream Services, LLC
Private Equity Round in 2017
Oryx Midstream Services, LLC operates as a midstream company that focuses on developing, acquiring, owning, and operating midstream assets in the Permian Basin region. The company offers midstream services (via crude oil gathering and rich gas gathering pipelines) in the areas of natural gas gathering, compression, treating, and processing aspects; crude oil gathering, handling, and transportation aspects; and natural gas liquids transportation aspects. It serves oil and gas producers in the United States. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Midland, Texas.
Layne Water Midstream Holdings, LLC
Private Equity Round in 2019
Layne Water Midstream Holdings, LLC provides water collection and recycling services to upstream oil and gas companies. It offers water solutions, which includes produced water gathering and disposal, source water delivery, produced water redelivery, and water treatment and recycling services. The company provides its services in the Delaware and Midland basins. Layne Water Midstream Holdings, LLC was founded in 2016 and is based in The Woodlands, Texas.
Moriah Henry Partners
Private Equity Round in 2017
Moriah Henry Partners LLC is a Midland-based exploration and production company focused on the acquisition and development of oil and gas properties in the Midland Basin of West Texas. The Company is a collaboration among Post Oak Energy Capital, Henry Energy, LP and Moriah Energy Investments, LLC.
Saxet III Minerals
Private Equity Round in 2018
Saxet III Minerals is a privately held oil and gas company.
Nadel and Gussman
Private Equity Round in 2017
For over 70 years, Nadel and Gussman has focused on family, ethical transactions, and modern oil innovations. We are a fourth generation family-owned, independent oil and gas production and exploration company headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Isadore Nadel came to Oklahoma in 1919 to open a grocery store and join his extended family. He began investing in shallow oil in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1935, Herb Gussman, Nadel’s son-in-law, joined the company. Gussman would later go on to lead one of the largest oil producing companies in both Osage, Oklahoma and Kansas and make significant contributions to the modern oil industry and community in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Stephen Heyman and Jim Adelson joined the leadership team in 1965 and 1986, respectively, and still guide Nadel and Gussman today. Under their leadership, Nadel and Gussman grew aggressively into other basins in the United States.
