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EnCap Investments

9651 Katy Fwy Sixth Floor, Houston, Texas, 77024, United States

Overview

EnCap Investments is a venture capital and private equity firm that specializes in seed, start-ups, emerging growth, and early venture investments. It invests in upstream and midstream oil and gas companies. Within midstream assets, it prefers to invest in natural gas pipelines, gathering, processing facilities, energy infrastructure, natural gas gathering, treating, compression, processing and storage operations; oil gathering, and transportation. EnCap Investments was founded by David B. Miller and Gary R Petersen in 1088; and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Total investments
2
Lead investments
1
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
5

Sector focus

  • Oil and Gas
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Pegasus Resources

    Led · Equity · Dec 2017

    Pegasus Resources is a Fort Worth, Texas–based mineral and royalty company focused on acquiring and managing properties in the Permian Basin. The firm is led by a management team with roughly 150 years of combined experience, including CEO George M. Young Jr., who has more than 35 years in the energy industry. Pegasus has partnered with Tilden Capital to enhance sourcing and execution of mineral and royalty acquisitions. The company says it has already seen significant deal flow and plans to assemble a portfolio of high-return properties during an advantageous point in the price cycle. Financially, Pegasus is backed by a $300 million equity commitment from EnCap Investments L.P.

  • Nuevo Midstream

    Participated · Equity · Apr 2011

    Nuevo Midstream, LLC is a newly formed Houston, Texas–based midstream company that develops and operates midstream infrastructure for natural gas producers. Its operations will focus on the Permian Basin, with specific emphasis on the Bone Springs and Wolfcamp formations and the Avalon Shale trend in southeast New Mexico and west Texas. Torch Energy Advisors will provide management services and contribute co-owned assets including the Ramsey gas gathering system — approximately 130 miles of natural gas gathering pipeline plus compressor and measurement stations, and processing, fractionation, storage and loading facilities in Reeves County, Texas. The company secured $65 million in equity commitments to support its formation. Management is led by Jay Lendrum, Torch Energy’s president and COO, with senior leadership including Randy Ziebarth, Chris Work (vice president and chief financial officer) and Dwight Serrett (vice president of engineering and construction).

Team

  • David B. Miller

    Co-Founder and Managing Partner

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  • Gary R Petersen

    Managing Partner/Co-Founder

  • Jim Hughes

    Managing Partner

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  • Brad Thieleman

    Partner