Texas Independent Exploration
Oil and GasTexas, United States11-50 Employees
Texas Independent Exploration, Ltd. (TIE) is a private oil and gas company based in Houston, Texas. The firm advances its own drill assets while holding substantial non-operated working interests, leaseholds, minerals, and surface rights across several major U.S. basins. Its geographic footprint covers the Delaware Basin in Texas and New Mexico, the Powder River and DJ Basins in Wyoming and Colorado, and the Appalachian Basin in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, with an emphasis on prolific Marcellus and Utica formations. In the Delaware Basin, TIE holds non-operated interests up to 50% in about 110 horizontal wells and more than 560 proven or future locations, with production from Wolfcamp and Bone Springs fields in New Mexico and Texas. In the Powder River and DJ Basins, the company controls 60,000 net acres via XPR Wyoming LLC, with 96 horizontal wells and 692 proven or future locations across Wyoming and Colorado, tapping Niobrara, Mowry, Frontier-Turner, Teapot, Shannon, Parkman, and related plays. In the Appalachian Basin, TIE manages roughly 32,000 net acres through XPR Resources and Penn Natural Resources, supported by two offices in southwestern Pennsylvania, 153 producing wells and about 300 proven or future locations, and 1.1 TCF in net reserves; the assets span Washington, Westmoreland, Armstrong, Clearfield, and Centre counties, and the company owns and operates midstream and gathering systems via RW Gathering LLC.