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Alternative capital and operations solutions for the energy industry 

Founded by Jeff Bartlett, Pontem Energy and its affiliates ("Pontem") invests in and operates upstream and midstream energy assets in the US.  Primarily backed by capital from family offices, Pontem provides its partners with principal preservation while reaping the benefits of capital appreciation for both operated and non-operated energy assets.

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220

Years

Experience

125

Years

Operating oil & gas assets 

$64bn

Transactions closed by

Pontem team members

$1bn

Investments deployed by

Pontem and affiliates

ABOUT US

Pontem is focused on upstream and midstream oil and gas assets.  We take principal ownership and operational management of energy assets through our comingled team of investment and operations professionals.  Our team is unique in its deep and cross-disciplinary reservoir engineering, operations engineering and investment analysis skills. All but one of our investment professionals is a degreed engineer with practical industry experience. 

Pontem’s team aggregates best practices from leading asset operators and investment organizations such as Apache, Apollo, Credit Suisse, Halliburton, HPS, RBC Capital Markets, Trinity Operating and UBS.  We retain specialized and local geological, geophysical, geoscience and land experts for specific tasks at hand.

Our investment opportunities are sourced through an extensive network that is both international and hyper-local to ensure the proper relationship is brought to bear.

OUR VALUES

  • Continuing to build long-term, trusted relationships

  • Ethical stewardship of Pontem’s financial, human and environmental resources along with transparent and timely stakeholder communications

  • Building a culture and brand that balances innovation, conservative capital management and uncompromising business ethics that attracts top quality partners and team members to generate long-term, sustainable alpha

TC Energy Center | 700 Louisiana Street, Suite 3850 | Houston, TX 77002

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