This article showcases our top picks for the best Texas based Oil and Gas companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Oil and Gas industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Texas Oil and Gas Startups
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Imubit
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AI process optimization platform for process manufacturing
Data Gumbo
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The smart contract network company trusted by global industrial enterprises
ExxonMobil
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ExxonMobil is an international oil and gas company, providing energy that helps underpin growing economies.
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Navitas Midstream Partners is a producer-focused midstream company.
Boardwalk Pipeline
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Boardwalk Pipeline provides transportation, storage, gathering and processing of natural gas and liquids for its customers.
Tellurian
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Tellurian is a builder of natural gas business.
Birch Resources
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Birch Resources is an energy company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development, production, and marketing of oil and natural gas.
WaterBridge Resources
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A midstream development company focused on developing, acquiring and operating flowback and produced water infrastructure
Enchanted Rock
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Enchanted Rock LLC is a utility company providing physical and financial risk management tools.
Ambyint
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Ambyint provides artificial intelligence-based technologies that automates the process of companies in oil and gas industry.
Talos Energy
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Talos Energy is a technically driven, independent oil and gas exploration and production company.
Velocys
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Velocys is the company at the forefront of smaller scale gas-to-liquids (GTL).
IES
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IES is an independent rating, analytics, and certification company that focuses on the energy industry.
CenterPoint Energy
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CenterPoint Energy, Inc. is a domestic energy delivery company.
Petro-Victory Energy
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A premier Brazil focused independent exploration and production company.
Atlas Sand
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Founded by long-time E&P operators with significant experience in the Permian Basin alongside the best talent in the sand mining industry.
HighPeak Energy
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HighPeak Energy is an independent oil and natural gas company focused on the development of unconventional oil and natural gas reserves.
WellAware
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The industry’s first full-stack solution for oilfield intelligence, from data collection to decision analytics
AEGIS Hedging Solutions
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AEGIS Hedging Solutions is the recognized global leader for hedging technology and expertise.
Indigo Natural Resources
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Indigo Natural Resources is an energy and gas production company.
Goodnight Midstream
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Goodnight Midstream is a provider of water handling and salt water disposal services to the oil and gas industry.
SeekOps
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SeekOps provides end-to-end gas emissions inspection operations to oil and gas customers.
Pioneer Energy Services
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Pioneer Energy Services is operating a modern fleet of top-performing drilling rigs throughout onshore oil and gas production.
Moda Midstream
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Moda Midstream provides terminal, storage, and distribution solutions to bulk liquid producers.
MorningStar Partners
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MorningStar Partners focuses on the acquisition, development, and exploration of oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquid reserves.
Milestone Environmental Services
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Milestone is a national provider of oilfield waste solutions with an engineered waste disposal process that is environmentally focused.
Clayton Williams Energy
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Clayton Williams Energy, Inc. is an independent oil and gas company.
EP Energy Corporation
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EP Energy produces natural oils and gases which help enrich people’s lives.
Star Oil and Gas
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Star Oil and Gas is an oil and gas exploration company that provides natural oil and gas services.
NextDecade
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NextDecade is an LNG development company focusing on LNG export projects and associated pipelines.
Seismos
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Seismos is a technology provider for the oil & gas industry offering real-time, frac treatment and frac performance evaluation.
Lucid Energy Group
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Lucid Energy Group is a startup midstream company that provides oil and natural gas producers with a range of midstream services.
Colgate Energy
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A Midland, Texas-based oil and gas E&P company focused on the Permain Basin
Mewbourne Oil Company
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Mewbourne Oil Company is an oil and energy company that provides oil and gas exploration services.
Plains All American Pipeline
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Plains All American Pipeline is engaged in the transportation, storage, terminalling and marketing of crude oil.
Rubicon Oilfield International
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Rubicon Oilfield International designs, manufactures and sells and/or rents oilfield products in every major oilfield market.
EnVen Energy Corporation
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EnVen engages in exploration, development, extraction and production of oil and gas.
Baker Hughes
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Baker Hughes works with the global oil and gas industry to provide high-performance drilling, evaluation and production technology.
Midcoast Energy
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Midcoast Energy is an Enbridge Energy Partners-backed limited partnership that owns natural gas transportation and delivery assets,
Crescent Pass Energy
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Crescent Pass Energy is an oil and gas company based in Houston, Texas.
ConocoPhillips
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ConocoPhillips is an oil and gas exploration and production company in the energy industry that promotes health and environmental safety.
Carbic
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Carbic builds sensor technology to monitor flow behavior in fluid systems.
Ameredev
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An Austin, Texas-based oil and gas exploration and production company.
Teal Natural Resources
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A newly formed oil and natural gas exploration company pursuing primarily unconventional resource play opportunities in Texas
Verdun Oil Company
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Verdun Oil Company is an oil and gas company that focuses on acquiring and developing oil and gas assets.
NuStar Energy
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NuStar Energy is a independent liquids terminal and pipeline operators in the nation.
SitePro
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SitePro is a digital oilfield water management company that specializes in automation and software development.
Mettle Midstream
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Mettle Midstream Partners is a Dallas-based independent midstream company serving producers operating in unconventional shale plays.
Quintana Energy Services
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Quintana Energy provide a wide range of completion, production and drilling services to land-based exploration and production customers.
Sourcewater
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Sourcewater offers the largest online water source, reuse, and disposal database in the upstream energy industry.
Rio Energy international Inc
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Purchases, stores, blends, transports, and sells crude oil and refined petroleum products globally.
Easton Energy
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Easton Energy provides transportation, storage, and processing options for natural gas liquids, refined products, and petrochemicals.
EnergyFunders
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EnergyFunders offers the first-of-its-kind platform to deliver direct access cash flow returns from oil and gas projects.
Primexx Energy Partners
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Primexx Energy Partners is an oil-and-gas exploration and production (E&P) company.
Erin Energy
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Erin Energy is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company focused on energy resources in Africa.
Acumera
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Acumera builds and manages PCI compliant networks for multi-location retailers and restauraunts.
Western LNG
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Western LNG is an oil and energy company engaged in the development of liquefied natural gas export projects.
Admiral Permian Resources
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Admiral is a Midland, Texas-based oil and gas company.
Apex International Energy
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Apex International Energy is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company.
Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure
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Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure manufactures and provides its mobile proppant management systems.
Citla Energy
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Citla Energy is a Mexican independent exploration and production company
Sabinal Energy
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Sabinal is a privately held oil and natural gas exploration and production company.
Spectrum Geo
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The Spectrum Group of companies provides Seismic Data Processing, Multi-Client and Offshore Acquisition services from offices located in
Zenith Energy Management
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Zenith Energy Management is an international liquids and bulk terminaling company.
Vanguard Natural Resources
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We are a publicly traded limited liability company focused on the acquisition and development of mature, long-lived oil and natural gas
Rebellion Photonics
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Rebellion Photonics is commercializing technologies and products for real-time snapshot hyperspectral imaging.
Endeavor Energy
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Endeavor Energy is an independent power project company developing and investing in power generation facilities.
Willbros Group Inc
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Willbros Group provides project management, engineering, material procurement, maintenance, and life-cycle extension services.
Nuevo Midstream
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Nuevo Midstream is a start-up midstream company with operations in the Permian Basin of west Texas and southeast New Mexico.
Blue Racer Midstream
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Blue Racer Midstream develops and delivers midstream infrastructure and services.
SilverBow Resources
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SilverBow Resources is an independent oil and natural gas company engaged in the development, exploration, acquisition and operation,
Stronghold Energy II
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Stronghold Energy II is an oil and gas exploration and production company focused on the Central Basin Platform of the Permian Basin.
Blackbuck Resources
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Blackbuck Resources (BBR) Designs, Builds, and Operates Water Infrastructure and Provides Services for the oil and gas industry.
Discovery Midstream
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Discovery Midstream is a provider of oil and natural gas gathering and natural gas processing services.
Regency Energy Partners
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Regency Energy Partners is a growth-oriented, midstream energy partnership engaged in the gathering, contract compression, processing
Tug Hill Operating
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Tug Hill Operating is an oil and gas exploration company that focuses on producing oil and clean-burning natural gas.
Titus Industrial
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Titus Industrial is a modern supply chain for industrial components.
Key Energy Services
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Key Energy Services is an American oilfield services company, offering an array of onshore energy production services and solutions.
Hart Energy
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Hart Energy provides data, text and direct commentary about energy markets and technologies from sources worldwide.
Firefly Energy Solutions
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Firefly Energy Solutions offers load forecasting, pricing, risk management, portfolio valuation, and consulting services.
m1neral
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M1neral is building the first all-in-one transaction management platform for oil & gas minerals and royalties.
Producers Midstream
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A Dallas-based provider of midstream infrastructure solutions to upstream energy operators.
Monarch Resource Partners
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Monarch Resource Partners provides contract operations services on natural gas compressors and compressor facilities.
TransAtlantic Petroleum
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TransAtlantic Petroleum specializes in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas.
Pegasus Resources
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A mineral and royalty company based in Fort Worth, Texas.
Parsley Energy
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Parsley Energy is an oil and gas company based in Midland, Texas.
Stakeholder Midstream
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Stakeholder Midstream is an oil and gas company that produces crude oil gathering, natural gas processing and trunkline pipeline systems.
Ryno Energy Partners
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Ryno Energy Partners is a growth-oriented, independent midstream company
Harvest Natural Resources
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Harvest Natural Resources is a company primarily focused on the exploration for and the acquisition and development of oil and gas.
Contango Oil & Gas Co.
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Contango Oil & Gas Co. is an independent oil and natural gas company.
Tall City Exploration
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A Denham Capital-backed exploration and production oil and gas company headquartered in Midland, Texas.
Silverback Exploration
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Silverback Exploration is an oil & gas exploration and production company that seeks leasing and drilling opportunities.
Hi Crush
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Hi Crush Inc is an oil & energy company that specializes in Midstream Distribution Management, Proppant Supply, and logistics solutions.
AI Driller
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Integrated solutions for remote operations and autonomous control.
Crescent Energy
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Crescent Energy Company is a U.S. independent energy company with a portfolio of assets in basins across the lower 48 states.
Tatanka Midstream
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Tatanka Midstream is an oil & energy company that focuses on acquiring and building midstream assets.