Basin Ventures

With over 100 years of combined team experience, and more than $1.25B managed and deployed, Basin is a leader in American energy asset management.

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We are incredibly proud to announce the official close of Domestic Development Fund IV.

This milestone is our biggest yet, closing 60% larger than Fund III (our previous record).

This kind of growth doesn't happen in a vacuum. It is a direct reflection of the enduring relationships we’ve built over the years.

To the investors who continue to trust us with their capital, and to the operating partners who bring us exceptional projects: thank you. Your partnership is the foundation of our success.

Fund IV by the numbers:
✅ 14 high-caliber wells
✅ 3 distinct plays
✅ 4 premier operating partners
✅ 60/40 oil-to-gas weighting

What’s next?
Domestic Development Fund V is on deck and launches this August. We are hitting the ground running with 10 wells already identified across Oklahoma and Louisiana, with several more currently under review.

The momentum continues. We look forward to partnering with you on Fund V.

[Basin Ventures @BasinVentures]

"If the asset's great and the operator's bad, pass. Hard pass."

That quote from Ellipsis’ Matt Gentry at last month's Hart Energy Capital Conference perfectly captured the through-line of their non-operated investing (NOWI) panel. The conversation wasn't about tax treatment or passive income—it was entirely about operator selection.

Taking a working interest without the operating role means you aren't just buying acreage; you’re buying a specific operator's execution. Panelists stressed the importance of rigorous internal screening around basin-level technical work, well performance data, and economic modeling.

They were equally candid about the trade-offs:

• Non-op interests trade at a discount because you lack development control.
• Timing when wells come online is the hardest variable to model.
• The solution? Spread capital across multiple operators, wells, and basins rather than concentrating it.

As institutional capital returns to the sector and A&D activity climbs, NOWI is moving from the edges of upstream to the center.

At Basin, this discipline is our foundation. We’ve underwritten exactly this way since inception, investing heavily in the least visible parts of the process: basin-level technical screening, well-level modeling, and rigorous operator diligence before capital is committed. We only participate when we have reviewed an operator's development history and can document exactly how they allocate capital. That selectivity is the reason our results hold up across a range of price environments.

Tomorrow, Fund IV officially closes.

We are incredibly grateful to the partners who chose to come in with us. The development program behind that capital is already in motion with operators we have worked alongside for years, and we look forward to sharing progress as wells come online.

Fund V opens in August. We will share launch specifics in the coming weeks around this next opportunity to participate in a disciplined, operator-focused NOWI strategy.

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[Adam Butcher @TheTXOilMan]

@BasinVentures Domestic Development Fund IV closes Friday.

Three years ago we had no producing wells and no funds, working uphill in a space dominated by bad actors doing bad business.

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FreedomFest 2026 was one for the books! 🇺🇸

Serving as the exclusive oil & gas sponsor gave us 4 days, 3 packed sessions, and hundreds of meaningful conversations about direct ownership in American energy.

The real win? Those handshakes in Vegas have turned into lasting relationships and ongoing daily discussions.

Huge thanks to the FreedomFest team and everyone who connected with us. Here is a quick look back at the week.

#FreedomFest2026 #BasinVentures #AmericanEnergy #DirectOwnership #EnergyInvesting

[Basin Ventures @BasinVentures]

Our Q2 webinar replay is live!

This morning, we were honored to have @bofrench, Republican Nominee for the Texas Railroad Commission, join us as our opening guest for a lively discussion on the future of Texas energy.

From there, Adam Butcher and Tim Davis delivered a full quarterly review of fund performance, production, and the market environment that current and prospective investors will not want to miss.

We choose to share our quarterly investor reviews openly because we believe informed investors make the best partners. Transparency is not a talking point for us; it is how we operate.

Watch the full replay here: https://t.co/3Ub9byoMzD

#OilAndGasInvesting #AlternativeInvestments #AccreditedInvestors #TexasEnergy #EnergyIndependence

[Basin Ventures @BasinVentures]

Fund IV closes July 31.

In just a few weeks, Basin Ventures will close its largest Domestic Development Fund to date.

More important than its size is what it represents. Every fund we've launched has closed on schedule, been deployed into a defined development program, and built on the momentum of the one before it.

That execution is already underway. Capital has been deployed into assets we've carefully evaluated over the past several months, with two wells entering flowback, five currently being drilled, and four more scheduled to be drilled and completed in the coming months. We continue to evaluate and acquire additional opportunities as the remaining capital is committed, expanding the portfolio with the same disciplined approach that has defined every Basin fund.

To the accredited investors, advisors, and partners who have placed their trust in us: thank you. Your confidence is what allows us to continue building this platform.

For those already working with our Investor Relations team, July 31 is the final opportunity to participate in Fund IV. If you've been considering an allocation, now is the time to finalize it.

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At Basin Ventures, our investor relations team is built on people who understand both sides of the table. Eric Priamo is a clear example.

Before joining Basin, Eric founded Juniper Equity, leading middle-market capital raises and M&A transactions. Over a 15+ year career, he has guided corporate finance at a boutique merchant bank and conducted valuations on companies worth up to $500M+.

Why does that background matter for our investors?

Because when you talk to Eric, you aren't talking to a salesperson. You are talking to someone who has spent his career evaluating opportunities the way sophisticated capital does. He has structured the deals, valued the companies, and advised owners through their most critical financial decisions.

That’s the standard we hold at Basin, and Eric embodies it. We're proud to have him on the team.

[Basin Ventures @BasinVentures]

What a start to @TheFreedomFest 2026!

We came to Las Vegas expecting good conversations, and the room has more than delivered. The questions at our booth have been sharp and genuinely curious: how direct ownership actually works, what it means to hold a real interest in producing wells, and why this kind of access sat inside institutional channels for so long.

The people here understand something powerful, that owning a real piece of American energy on your own terms is its own kind of freedom. That is exactly the conversation this event was built for.

Our main stage keynote, Own the Well, was a highlight. Making the case for everyday ownership of American energy in front of a room of free-market thinkers was exhilarating, and that energy carried right back to our booth.

We are just getting started, with more sessions still to come. If you are in Las Vegas, come find us.

#FreedomFest2026 #BasinVentures #AmericanEnergy #DirectOwnership #ThinkIndependent #OilAndGas #EnergyInvesting #Freedom250

[Basin Ventures @BasinVentures]

Tomorrow we are in Las Vegas for FreedomFest 2026.

As the nation marks 250 years of independence, Basin Ventures is proud to serve as the exclusive oil and gas sponsor of the world's largest gathering of free minds. For us, the timing is not a coincidence. For most of its history, owning a real piece of American energy was reserved for institutions. We built Basin Ventures so accredited investors could own it directly, and there is no better room to make that case than one built on independence and ownership.

Our whole team will be on the ground all week. Come find us at Booth 606, join one of our three sessions, or schedule time to talk about what direct ownership in domestic energy actually looks like. Our portfolio keeps growing through 2026, and we are only building momentum from here.

We are posting all week from the show. Follow along, and if you are in Las Vegas, come say hello!

#FreedomFest2026 #BasinVentures #AmericanEnergy #ThinkIndependent #OilAndGas #DirectOwnership #EnergyInvesting #Freedom250 #LasVegas

[Basin Ventures @BasinVentures]

Basin Ventures is proud to serve as the exclusive oil and gas sponsor of FreedomFest 2026. As the nation marks 250 years of independence, there is no better place to talk about American energy than among more than 2,500 free minds gathered in Las Vegas for the world's largest celebration of liberty.

This is our first year at FreedomFest, and we are showing up accordingly: Adam and Tim will be taking the stage three times to talk about what makes direct ownership in American oil and gas different from anything else in the space. Whether you join one of our sessions, catch us on a panel, or stop by the booth for a conversation, our investor relations team would be glad to connect.

Come see why a growing number of accredited investors are claiming a real seat at the table in domestic energy.

FreedomFest 2026
🗓️ July 8-11
Caesars Forum Conference Center, Las Vegas, NV

Where to find us on stage:
✅ Thursday, July 9 | 10:25 to 10:40 AM | Main Stage
Own the Well: How Everyday Investors Get a Real Piece of American Energy

✅ Thursday, July 9 | 1:00 to 1:45 PM | Salon
Inside Basin Ventures: A Closer Look at Owning American Oil and Gas

✅ Saturday, July 11 | 4:00 to 4:45 PM | Breakout Keynote
The Non-Operator Advantage: Building Wealth Through Direct Ownership in U.S. Shale

We are looking forward to an outstanding few days in Las Vegas next month. See you there!

#FreedomFest2026 #BasinVentures #AmericanEnergy #OilAndGas #DirectOwnership #EnergyInvesting #LasVegas

[Basin Ventures @BasinVentures]

Team Spotlight: Mike Buquoi, EVP of Investor Relations

Mike Buquoi serves as Executive Vice President of Investor Relations at Basin Ventures, where he leads the investor relations team of directors and associates and works directly with the investors who partner with the firm.

Mike brings more than twenty years of experience in venture capital, investor relations, and energy and real estate strategies. He began his career in 2001 at one of the nation's largest oil and gas securities firms, where he focused on venture capital management and investor education. In the years since, he has guided investors through energy, drilling, production, and real estate projects, taking part in more than 50 private offerings and raising over $150 million across the energy and real estate sectors.

Outside of work, Mike is a devoted family man and a loyal supporter of the Dallas Cowboys and the Lovejoy Leopards.

Mike's experience and the genuine care he brings to every investor relationship have made him a steady hand for our investors and a valued leader on the Basin team.

#TeamBasin #InvestorRelations #SmartCapital #BasinVentures

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Team Spotlight: Bennett Walsh, Director of Investor Relations

Bennett Walsh serves as Director of Investor Relations at Basin Ventures, where he leads capital formation efforts and works directly with the investors who partner with the firm.

Over his career, Bennett has raised more than $30 million in capital for drilling, production, and energy infrastructure projects. He pairs sharp financial acumen with deep market insight, and he has built a reputation for forming lasting relationships with high-net-worth investors and institutions across the energy space.

Since joining Basin, Bennett has been a steady presence on the investor relations team, helping investors evaluate direct ownership in domestic oil and gas production through Basin's disciplined, non-operated working interest model and the capital-efficient access to top operators it provides.

We're glad to have Bennett on the team and proud of the trust he continues to earn within our investor community.

#TeamBasin #InvestorRelations #SmartCapital #BasinVentures

[Basin Ventures @BasinVentures]

This weekend a deal reopened the Strait of Hormuz, and WTI fell more than 5% to roughly $80, its lowest level since March. The premium that built over three months of conflict came out of the price in a matter of hours.

Our latest post looks beneath that headline and asks a simpler question: what actually changed this weekend?

A signature reopens a shipping lane. It does not refill a drained reserve, restore the barrels the world burned through, or rebuild damaged infrastructure. The price moved. The barrels did not.

Using 35 years of weekly EIA data, we measured the relationship between the U.S. physical supply position and the real price of crude. Across more than 1,800 weekly observations, the two barely move together on any horizon a trader cares about. Markets trade headlines, but barrels move on a different clock.

Read the full analysis: https://t.co/Sy2qzVNyrD

[Basin Ventures @BasinVentures]

Behind the history-making point totals and the state titles, there were 5:00 AM alarms, grueling practices, and endless hours of unseen effort.

Today, our community is celebrating two massive milestones: winning our 10th UIL Lone Star Cup title with the highest point total in Class 6A history, alongside earning the inaugural Class 6A THSADA Texas Cup! But these incredible accomplishments didn't happen overnight. They were built on the sweat of student-athletes who pushed through every whistle, coaches who spent late nights mentoring and drawing up game plans, and the trainers, staff, and parents who kept the entire engine running behind the scenes.

Every single sport, campus, and program poured everything they had into this year.

As the Title Sponsor of the Carroll Athletics Program, we at Basin Ventures are incredibly proud to support this relentless standard of excellence year after year.

Congratulations, Dragons! 🐉

#WeAreDragons #DragonPride
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Team Spotlight: Matt Krause, EVP of Institutional Relations

Matt Krause serves as Executive Vice President of Institutional Relations at Basin Ventures, where he leads the firm's institutional outreach, limited-partner relationships, and coordination for its institutional Horizon Fund initiatives.

Matt brings a career built on public service and relationship leadership. He served five terms in the Texas House of Representatives and currently serves as a Tarrant County Commissioner, roles that have shaped his reputation for principled, long-term stewardship. At Basin, he applies that same discipline to the institutional relationships that support the firm's continued growth.

His work comes at a pivotal moment for Basin. As the platform matures, the firm is expanding beyond its retail funds into institutional investment vehicles through its Horizon Fund initiative. Matt is helping lead that effort, bringing the same rigor and transparency that define Basin's retail investor relationships to a new and growing institutional audience. It marks a meaningful step in the firm's evolution, and one we look forward to sharing more about in the months ahead.

Matt's leadership arrives at an important moment for Basin, and his judgment, relationships, and integrity will help shape the institutional chapter ahead.

#TeamBasin #InstitutionalInvesting #InvestorRelations #BasinVentures

[Basin Ventures @BasinVentures]

Non-operated working interests are no longer a niche corner of upstream.

A recent Hart Energy report from its 2026 Energy Capital Conference described capital moving into the strategy fast enough to reshape it from a specialist play into a core way institutional investors gain exposure to U.S. oil and gas. Fund formation is up, institutional money is returning, and the largest publicly traded non-operated owner in the country just expanded north of the border.

That influx has a catch the panel was candid about. Firms are seeing more opportunities every week than their teams can work through. One partner described his engineers as "running ragged" trying to keep up; another noted that with more capital chasing the same basins, "it's harder to get these deals done." At that volume, the constraint is no longer finding deals but having the discipline to triage quickly and put resources behind the few that fit.

The panel was equally direct about the operator. A great asset in the hands of the wrong one is not a near-miss to be salvaged. As one managing director put it, "if the asset's great and the operator's bad, pass, hard pass."

This is how Basin Ventures has worked from the start. Much of our deal flow is relationship-driven, surfacing through operators and industry partners we have worked alongside for decades rather than broad marketing channels. From there, we screen operators before assets, hold to a conservative base case, and diversify across operators, wells, and basins so that no single development schedule defines the fund.

If you are an accredited investor thinking through where non-op fits in your portfolio, our investor relations team is glad to walk you through how we approach it.

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[Basin Ventures @BasinVentures]

There is a quiet but important distinction inside private oil and gas investing that most accredited investors never have explained to them.

On one side sits exploratory drilling: wildcat prospects in unproven areas, where the geology, the operator, and the economics are all being tested at once. The deduction is real. The asset, often, is not.

On the other side sits development-stage drilling: infill locations inside production-held units, with offset wells already validating the rock, alongside operators who have drilled the same formation many times before. The geology is known. The operator is proven. The economics are modeled to a conservative base case before a dollar moves.

Basin Ventures participates only in the second category, on a non-operated basis, alongside established U.S. operators across basins such as the Anadarko, Eagle Ford, Haynesville, and many others. The structural choice matters more than most investors realize. It is the difference between underwriting a well and underwriting a hope. It is also the reason the investment is built to stand on its own economics, with the tax benefits as a meaningful but secondary component of return.

Our Fund IV is currently open to accredited investors, with limited allocations remaining. To request the materials, reach out to our Investor Relations team here: https://t.co/37quCzJdTJ

[Basin Ventures @BasinVentures]

A few snapshots from the field across active Basin Ventures projects: drilling underway, completions in progress, new pads being built, and wells coming online.

Behind these images are top-tier domestic operators executing the day-to-day field work, alongside the Basin Ventures team that sourced, underwrote, and structured these opportunities from the start.

It’s always rewarding to see projects move from planning and development into active operations, and we’re proud of the progress taking place across our portfolio.

We’ll continue sharing updates as these projects advance from pad to production.

#BasinVentures #DomesticEnergy #OilAndGas #EnergyInvesting #WorkingInterest

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Today we honor and remember the men and women who gave their lives in service to our country.

Their sacrifice made possible the freedoms, opportunities, and way of life we often take for granted, including the ability to build, work, invest, and create here at home.

At Basin Ventures, we’re especially grateful for those who served and for the families who carry that sacrifice with them every day.

Wishing everyone a meaningful and reflective Memorial Day. 🇺🇸

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We are incredibly proud to congratulate our Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Tim Davis, on being named one of Fort Worth Magazine’s 500 Most Influential People for 2026!

This recognition highlights Tim’s exceptional legal practice, but his impact extends even further. As Chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party, he leads one of the nation's most influential conservative counties.

Anyone who knows Basin knows that this same leadership, integrity, and strategic vision are the driving forces behind everything we do here. We are grateful for the way Tim leads our firm, and for his dedication to our team, our investors, and our community.

Congratulations, Tim. Well deserved. 👏