01 / Ownership
Name the owner.
Every well, battery, and project has one accountable person. If two names are on it, nobody owns it.
Est. 2009
Houston, Texas
1,240 wells / 14 counties
A field company first.
Highside started in Wharton County with a small set of stripper wells and a supervisor who knew every valve on the route. The company grew by buying fields other operators had stopped paying attention to — and then paying attention.
Today we operate 1,240 wells across 14 Texas counties from an office in Houston Heights. The scale is larger. The logic is the same: keep the subsurface, the rig, and the lease under one roof, and put the people who plan the work on the lease where it happens.
We are deliberately private and deliberately concentrated. We would rather be the best operator in four core counties than a minor participant in forty.
1,240Wells online
68,400Gross acres
96%Operated production
0.00TRIR / 12 months
The mark
Highside Oil and Gas, LLCDrawn from the derrick floor.
The Highside mark is built from the same three lines as a mast: structure, load, and the angle that keeps it standing. The wordmark is set in a heavy italic — closer to stenciled equipment than a corporate signature.
Houston, Texas
History
2009 — 2026
Seventeen years
of the same idea.
No pivots, no platforms, no new logos for new strategies. We bought wells, fixed them, and kept them online.
- 2009
Founded in Wharton County
Highside takes over its first 46 stripper wells and a field route that still runs today.
- 2012
First operated field
The company hires its first full-time field supervisors and brings compression and saltwater disposal in-house.
- 2016
500 wells
Expansion into Jackson and Matagorda counties, with the first multi-well pad drilled on the Gulf Coast leasehold.
- 2019
Houston headquarters
Land, engineering, and accounting consolidate in Houston Heights. Field offices stay in the counties.
- 2023
1,000 wells online
Brazoria County added as a fourth core area. The operating standard is written down for the first time.
- 2026
1,240 wells / 18-well program
Six rigs running the Wharton County development, with first production scheduled for Q4.
How we work
Four rules / No exceptions
The operating
standard.
These are not values on a wall. They are the reasons a well gets shut in, a contractor gets removed, or a deal does not close.
02 / Safety
Stop the job.
Anyone on a Highside lease can stop work without asking. The field supervisor's job is to back that call.
03 / Detail
Fix the small thing.
A leaking packing gland is a data point, not a nuisance. Small failures are how wells go offline for a month.
04 / Patience
Operate for year ten.
We size equipment and staff for the long run, not for the quarter the deal closes.
Read the people behind it.
The team is small by design. The people who make the calls are the people you will meet.