Oil and gas expertise, from the wellhead to the business behind it.
Through Crawford County Oil, our Illinois Basin operating company, we bring hands-on experience across the full lifecycle of oil and gas operations — drilling, production, facilities, gas gathering and treatment, regulatory and environmental requirements, permitting, field operations, vendor management, commercial strategy, and the back-office functions required to run an energy business. We lead projects from concept through execution, including wells, production facilities, gas infrastructure, power generation, and on-site compute applications where energy and infrastructure converge.
Consulting services
Drilling & Completions
Well planning, AFE development, vendor selection, and on-site supervision.
Production & Workovers
Artificial lift, chemical programs, route optimization, and workover planning.
Facilities & Gas Handling
Tank batteries, compression, gas treatment, and stranded-gas strategy.
Oilfield Services Network
Acid work, water hauling, fracing, drilling, disposal, and other oilfield services, coordinated through our network of vetted providers.
Regulatory & Environmental
State and federal reporting, permitting, and emissions compliance.
Accounting, Land & IT
Revenue distribution, joint-interest billing, lease administration, and IT and cybersecurity support.
BOS & Six Sigma for Producers
Root-cause process improvement, scorecards, and quarterly priorities.
Oil & Gas projects we lead
One call provides one accountable team. We manage the project in-house and staff it with our own specialists or licensed partners from our network, through to a fully operational asset.
New Wells & Workovers
From permitting and site preparation through first production.
Production Facilities
Tank batteries, separation, compression, and water handling.
Gas Treatment & Power Generation
Conditioning gas to specification and converting it to power.
On-Site Data Centers
Converting stranded gas into a reliable revenue stream.
Cutting well failures by more than 92 percent
Crawford County Oil operates a century-old stripper field of more than 2,000 wells, acquired out of bankruptcy with a failure rate of 2.2 failures per well per year, among the highest in the region and far above the industry benchmark of 0.4. Like every process at Crawford County Oil, well management was rebuilt using Six Sigma.
“The failure rate dropped not because the wells changed, but because the process around them did.”
Ryan Clark, President
Monetizing stranded gas
Gas without pipeline takeaway is often flared, vented, or shut in, creating regulatory exposure and constraining the drilling program. We identify the root cause, evaluate three commercial paths, and lead execution of the most viable option:
Crawford County Oil
An independent oil producer in the Illinois Basin. Every process at Crawford County Oil was built using Six Sigma, the same approach we bring to clients.
Stranded gas: one question, three answers.
The same method, applied to gas with no route to market. We work back to a single root-cause question, then price out the three answers that actually pay.
Federal Quad O and state regulatory exposure
A drilling program that keeps shrinking
Gas with no home
Flare it, vent it, or shut the well in. None of those pay.
Clean it and sell it
To a buyer other than a pipeline.
Generate power and sell it
Through a grid interconnect, or to an on-site host.
Generate power and use it
An on-site data center, hosting compute or owning it.
The same approach applies to coal bed methane, stranded wind, and other resources with no route to market.
Work with us however fits your operation
Let us help
Straight consulting on one thing — a workover plan, a permitting package, an AFE that needs a second set of eyes. No commitment beyond the engagement.
Let us build it
We build the process or system — a chemical program, a lease-record clean-up, a stranded-gas commercial plan — teaching your team how to build the Six Sigma processes underneath it, and hand it back to run.
Let us run it
We operate the function for you on an ongoing basis — land and revenue administration, route optimization, or field operations — run day to day by our people, on Six Sigma processes we build and maintain.
Let's team up and integrate
The deepest tier: running alongside your team on the same operating system and Six Sigma discipline — your people building the processes where they're ready to, ours building them where they're not — the way we run Crawford County Oil today.
Any of these four can also include implementing BOS and Six Sigma across the rest of the operation, if you want it. That is a separate decision from which tier fits the work in front of you today.
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