01 / Subsurface
Seismic & geology
3D seismic, vintage well logs, and offset production tied to one question: where does the rock actually hold hydrocarbons?
Full cycle
Onshore Gulf Coast
Operated, not assigned
One team owns the whole well.
Most operators hand a well from geologist to driller to completion engineer to production. We don't. The same team scopes the subsurface, sets the plan, watches the rig, and answers for the barrel six years later.
That model narrows what we buy. We look for mature fields with long production histories, existing infrastructure, and a clear reason the last operator left production behind — a mechanical failure repeated too long, a waterflood that was never tuned, a set of logs nobody reinterpreted.
Then we do the unglamorous work: rework the lift, repair the battery, re-perforate, and keep the lease staffed. Production is won in the details, not the deck.
Four disciplines
01 — 04 / Onshore
From the rock
to the tank.
Each discipline has a named owner and a written handoff. No work moves forward without the next team signing the assumptions it inherits.
Operating standards02 / Drilling6 rigs
Drilling
Directional plans built around the completion, not the other way around. One drilling supervisor on every well, start to finish.
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 / Production24 / 7
Production
Daily pre-job meetings, a stop-work standard every crew owns, and our own supervisors on the lease — no call center.
0.00TRIR — our crews, our record
Fig. 02 — Wellhead / X-tree
API 6A
Well lifecycle
Screening to first barrel / 9–14 months
Slow to buy.
Fast to first oil.
We would rather pass on ten deals than carry one we cannot operate. Once we sign, the schedule is short and the handoffs are named.
- 01
Screen & acquire
Production history, title, wellbore condition, and a field visit before an offer. We underwrite the base production, not the upside case.
- 02
Plan the well
Reservoir, drilling, and completions sit in the same room. The plan is written around takeaway, water disposal, and the lift method we will run for the next decade.
- 03
Drill
One supervisor per well, daily cost and progress reporting, and a stop-work standard that applies to every contractor on location.
- 04
Complete
Disciplined stage design, measured break-down, and a flowback plan sized to the battery and sales line already in place.
- 05
Operate
Our field team takes the well at handover and keeps it. Optimization is routine maintenance done on schedule, not a project that starts after a failure.
The operating standard
Safety / Integrity / Uptime
Standards are what we do on a bad day.
Anyone on a Highside lease can stop the job. That authority is written into every contractor orientation and repeated at the daily pre-job meeting.
TRIR / 12 monthsTotal recordable incident rate across operated properties0.00
ResponseAverage field supervisor arrival after a reported event42 min
UptimeWells online, trailing twelve months96%
CoverageSupervisors living in the counties they operate14
For a leak, spill, or well-control event, call the field line at +1 (702) 349-0905. It is answered by a supervisor, any hour.
Bring us a field.
Send the location, the production history, and what you think is broken. We will tell you honestly whether it fits.