You keep the minerals.
We handle everything
that comes with them.
Oak Energy manages mineral and royalty interests for owners who’d rather not run them. The operators, the division orders, the stack of statements, and the checking to make sure you’re paid what your lease says you’re owed. We never buy minerals and we never take title. Your name stays on the deed.
Who this is for
Three people call us. You are probably one of them.
You inherited an interest you never asked for
The mail keeps coming — division orders, lease offers, letters from operators — and none of it explains itself. You are not sure whether you have signed the wrong thing.
You are ready to stop working
But not ready to sell what your family spent decades building. The paperwork is the only reason selling has ever crossed your mind.
You hold this passively
And you cannot tell at a glance whether you are being shorted. Checking the checker is its own job, and nobody wants it.
Before anything else
We don’t buy minerals. We never take title. Your name stays on the deed.
We manage what you keep. There is no version of this where we end up owning what your family owns.
We don’t make the decisions. You do.
When something lands on your desk we tell you in plain terms what it means, and give you our honest read. Then you decide.
Your records are yours.
If you ever stop working with us, everything we have built comes with you.
How this goes
Four steps, and you can stop after any one of them.
We talk
Thirty minutes on the phone. Patrick asks what you own, what has been confusing, and what you would like this to look like in two years. No account numbers, no documents, nothing signed. Afterward you get a short written summary of what he heard and what he would do first. That is yours to keep either way.
A look at what you actually have
A review of your holdings: what you own, what it is producing and what is owed. Oak Energy Solutions shows you what it found in plain English. You do not hand anything over and you do not sign a management agreement to do it. In every review we have run so far, we have found something worth your attention.
You decide
Sometimes the answer is that you do not need us. If you have one interest and one steady check, Patrick will tell you so and show you how to handle it yourself.
We handle the paperwork. You keep the minerals.
The operators, the division orders, the statements, the mail. All of it comes to Oak Energy Solutions, and one clear report goes to you.
What we do
The administration, handled.
Six things, in plain English. A division order is the document an operator sends to confirm your ownership share before it pays you. Suspense is money an operator is holding because it cannot pay you. A JIB is the monthly bill a working interest owner gets for their share of well costs.
Full administration
The day-to-day paperwork on mineral and working interests. JIB review, accounting and year-end reporting. One clear report replaces the stack of statements.
Payment and expense verification
Reviewing division orders, checking every payment against what your lease entitles you to, and every expense against what the operator is allowed to charge.
Economic review of wells
Whether a well’s production covers what it costs you — and which ones only drain money.
Dealing with operators
Oak Energy Solutions contacts operators, negotiates and resolves disputes, so you don’t have to.
Recovery of amounts owed
Tracking down suspended revenue and doing the title work and paperwork to get it released to you.
Engineering, land and legal support
One coordinated team instead of several separate firms billing on top of each other.
What that has looked like
Two owners, anonymized.
The letter offering to buy minerals he didn’t know he owned
A relative had passed and left him an interest in West Texas. He had no idea what it was worth or whether the offer was fair. Oak Energy Solutions looked at what the wells were actually doing, called the operator, and found money sitting in suspense that belonged to him. Oak did the title work to get it released. He declined the offer, kept the asset, and the checks come to him now.
Sixty old wells that had cost him money for years
Almost nothing was coming back. Oak Energy Solutions read the operating agreements, found the operator charging costs outside what it was allowed, and negotiated the wells back to that operator while the owner kept the surrounding leasehold. The outstanding balance and the plugging liability went with them. It was the first real step anyone had taken since his father passed.
Who you would be working with
Like you, we’ve sat on the owner’s side of the table.
Patrick Bass took over a family oil and gas holding that was run entirely by hand, with no system behind it. He found what was buried in the paperwork and built the operation himself. Oak Energy Solutions is that same job, done for other families.
He is one person you can call, not a platform you log into.
Patrick BassFounder, Oak Energy Solutions · Tulsa, OklahomaThe honest one
“Should I just sell it and be done with it?”
Sometimes yes. If the interest is a small share of one steady check, or minerals are a large enough part of what you own that the concentration itself is the problem, selling can be the right answer — and Oak Energy Solutions will say so.
But most people who sell are not selling because the asset is bad. They are selling because the paperwork wore them down. That is a reason to fix the paperwork, not to part with what your family spent decades building.
Questions people ask about Oak Energy Solutions
What does Oak Energy Solutions do?
Oak Energy Solutions administers mineral, royalty and non-operated working interests on behalf of the people who own them. That covers reviewing joint interest bills, verifying that payments match the lease, dealing with operators, recovering revenue held in suspense, and producing one consolidated report.
The owner keeps the interests throughout. Oak Energy Solutions never takes title.
Does Oak Energy Solutions buy mineral rights?
No. Oak Energy Solutions never buys minerals and never takes title, and your name stays on the deed.
This matters because many companies contacting mineral owners are buyers. Oak Energy Solutions is not one, and has no financial position in whether an owner keeps or sells.
How is a mineral manager different from a mineral buyer?
A buyer wants to purchase your interest, so its offer is worth more to it than the price it pays. A manager is paid to administer an interest you keep, and is not on the other side of a transaction from you.
Oak Energy Solutions is a manager. It holds no ownership in what its clients own and is not on the other side of a transaction from them.
Where does Oak Energy Solutions work?
Oak Energy Solutions is based at 4154 South Harvard Ave, Suite H-1 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and works with owners, heirs and trustees across the United States.
Mineral administration runs through county records, state regulators and operator owner-relations departments, so it does not require anyone to be nearby.
Who is Oak Energy Solutions for?
Three groups mainly: heirs and trustees who inherited an interest they never asked for, owners ready to retire who do not want to sell what the family built, and passive investors and family offices who want verification without building a department for it.
If your holdings are simple enough that you do not need help, Oak Energy Solutions will say so on the first call.
Thirty minutes on the phone. Nothing signed.
Patrick will ask what you own, what has been confusing and what you want this to look like in two years. You will get a short written summary afterward whether or not you ever work with us.
Send this to your spouse. Send it to your kids. Send it to your CPA. If your attorney wants to talk to Patrick directly before you do, he will take that call.