A land drilling rig on a coastal Texas lease in bright morning light, with a pumpjack and tank battery in the distance.
Highside Oil and Gas, LLC
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Independent operator / Texas Gulf Coast Houston, Texas — N 29.80° W 95.40°

Highside — independent oil and gas operator on the Texas Gulf Coast

Highside is an independent operator on the Texas Gulf Coast. We find it, buy it, drill it, and keep it online — with our own field crew on the lease, around the clock.

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Operating footprint 14 Texas counties / 68,400 gross acres
Wharton Jackson Matagorda Brazoria Fort Bend All 14 counties
About us Independent since 2009
Houston, Texas

We operate the wells other companies overlook.

Highside is an independent oil and gas operator working the onshore Gulf Coast. We buy mature fields, apply modern subsurface work, and run them with our own crews — because production is won in the details, not the deck.

Our approach
Portfolio / Q4 2026 1,240 wells online across the Gulf Coast WHARTON TEXAS GULF COAST GULF OF MEXICO See operating areas
The operating standard

We solve the hard problems in onshore production — safely, at scale, and for the long run.

How we operate
Highside field supervisor Marcus Hale in hi-vis coveralls and a hard hat at a coastal wellhead.
Our people 22 yrs
Marcus Hale Field supervisor — Wharton County
A tank battery and pumpjack on a coastal lease at dawn.
Live 24 / 7

Field response

Our own supervisors, across 14 counties. No call center, no handoff.

Avg. response — 42 min
Our operations Full cycle / Onshore

From seismic line
to first barrel.

Four disciplines, one operating standard. We keep the subsurface, the rig, and the lease under one roof — so the people who plan the well are the people accountable for it.

Operating standards
01 / Subsurface

Seismic & geology

3D seismic, well logs, and offset production tied to one question — where does the rock actually hold hydrocarbons?

02 / Drilling2026

We don't hand off the well after the rig leaves. The same team plans it, drills it, and runs it.

96%of production operated by Highside
03 / Completions

Pad development

Multi-well pads and disciplined completions, sized to cash flow and planned with water and takeaway in mind.

04 / Production12 mo

Daily pre-job meetings, a stop-work standard every crew owns, and our own supervisors on the lease.

0.00TRIR — our crews, our record
Fig. 02 — Wellhead / X-tree API 6A
CHOKE PRESSURE GAUGE MASTER VALVE TUBING HEAD SURFACE CASING 7,200 mm WELLHEAD ASSEMBLY 10,000 PSI / WHARTON COUNTY
10,000 psi · 5-1/2" casing Rev. 04 / 2026
Operating areas Wharton / Jackson / Matagorda / Brazoria

Built to perform,
proven to last.

We concentrate where we can operate best: shallow-water Gulf Coast fields with long production histories, existing infrastructure, and room to improve recovery.

Talk to our land team
Wharton County640 wells · 8 rigs 52% of production Jackson County320 wells · 3 rigs 26% of production Matagorda County180 wells · 2 rigs 14% of production Brazoria County100 wells · 1 rig 8% of production
1,240 wells / 14 counties Request the full list
2026 development program Active

Wharton County development

18wells
6 rigsRunning now
Q4 2026First production
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2027 exploration program — 3 prospects, 12,000 gross acres under review

Two Highside field hands at a drilling rig at dusk, one pointing toward the pumpjack.
Field notes 02 / 04 — Wharton County

The work doesn't clock out.

At 2 a.m. the lease doesn't care about the market. Our supervisors live in the counties they operate, and the crew that drills the well is accountable for it afterward.

Meet the field team Wharton County · 18:40 · 35mm
Landowner relations

We're on the lease for the long run.

Clear communication, honest production reporting, and a field team that answers the phone. That's the whole strategy.

Highside's crew knows our land as well as we do. They call before they move a truck, and they leave the gate the way they found it.
Sarah KendrickLandowner — Wharton County
SK
The first operator to send us a real production report every month — not a statement we have to decode.
Daniel AlvarezMineral owner — Jackson County
DA
When a line failed at two in the morning, their supervisor was on our porch by three. That's the difference.
Ruth GainesLandowner — Matagorda County
RG
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