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Post Oak Energy Capital, LP (“Post Oak”), through investment partnerships it manages, today announced that it led a $100 million equity commitment to Nadel and Gussman NV, LLC (the “Company” or “NGNV”). Affiliates of Nadel and Gussman, LLC and the management team will co-invest alongside Post Oak.

NGNV is a Tulsa-based exploration and production company with an initial focus on the acquisition and development of oil and gas properties in the Haynesville Shale. NGNV is also evaluating additional resource shale plays throughout the United States. The NGNV team is led by industry veterans Jim Adelson and Stephen Heyman and includes Kevin DeLay, COO; Shelley Nichols, CFO; Jim Bucci, VP – Geoscience and Perry Phipps, VP – Land & General Counsel. The NGNV team has extensive experience in all phases of the oil and gas business and has a long and successful track record of acquiring and developing oil and gas assets.

“Post Oak is excited to again partner with Nadel and Gussman following on the heels of our successful venture in the Permian Basin,” said Post Oak Managing Director Frost Cochran. “Nadel and Gussman has a long history of successfully investing in the oil and gas business across the country and provides the ideal partner for Post Oak and its investors.”

Jim Adelson, President of Nadel and Gussman, LLC and CEO of NGNV said, “I am thrilled to team up with Post Oak in this exciting new venture. Nadel and Gussman, LLC’s 75-years of operational excellence, the NGNV management team’s proven capabilities of value creation, and Post Oak’s financial and strategic strengths provide a formidable combination.”

About Post Oak Energy: Post Oak, which was established in 2006, is an energy-focused private investor based in Houston, Texas. Its management team has executive management experience and a broad network in the energy business as well as significant expertise in equity investments, operations, development, finance, acquisitions and divestitures. The firm pursues private investments primarily in the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry in North America and, to a lesser extent, in oilfield service and related infrastructure. Post Oak works in close partnership with operating management teams to build businesses, accelerate growth and enhance shareholder value. www.postoakenergy.com.

About Nadel and Gussman, LLC: Nadel and Gussman, LLC was established in 1940 by Herb Gussman and Isadore Nadel. Mssrs. Nadel and Gussman would go on to build one of the largest independent oil producers in Kansas and the prolific Osage County, Oklahoma. Stephen Heyman and Jim Adelson joined the company in 1965 and 1986, respectively, and through their leadership, Nadel and Gussman, LLC has built successful positions in oil and gas plays throughout the United States, including Louisiana, Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, North Dakota and Oklahoma. www.nadelgussman.com

Michele leaves tutor notes in her student’s folder. Prepared lesson plans make tutoring sessions easy.

In Oklahoma, 4 out of 5 fourth graders from low-income families cannot read at grade level.  This sobering statistic was a call to action for the Nadel and Gussman team to embrace Reading Partners, a national education nonprofit that works with Title I elementary schools to support students who are reading six months to two and a half years below grade level.  Reading Partners uses a one on one tutoring model that enables community volunteers to help students master basic reading skills and grow to be successful learners.

Danita Cockrell with her student at Hawthorne Elementary.

With nearly a third of our Tulsa staff  volunteering an hour or more per week to work with students at Academy Central and Hawthorne Elementary, we are determined to make a difference with our student partners. Last year, 90% of students in the program gained the skills needed to read at grade level during the school year.

You can also be a part of positively changing the trajectory of a child’s life by committing just an hour a each week.  For information on how you can become a Reading Partner, visit http://readingpartners.org/location/tulsa/

Nadel and Gussman is pleased to welcome Jim Bucci and Kevin DeLay to the management team.

Jim Bucci joins us as Vice President, Geosciences.  Jim brings 32 years of industry experience across multiple basins both domestically and internationally.  Prior to joining Nadel and Gussman, Jim served in various technical and leadership positions at Marathon Oil, EOG Resources, Cimarex Energy, Continental Resources and most recently American Energy Partners.  In his new role, Jim will focus on existing and emerging resource shales and associated conventional plays.

Kevin DeLay joins us as Senior Reservoir Engineering Manager.  Kevin brings experience in multitude of basins and plays across North America.  Prior to joining Nadel and Gussman, Kevin held progressive technical and management roles at Devon Energy and most recently was the Director of Engineering at American Energy Partners.  He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Oklahoma and a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.  In his new role, Kevin will focus on growth ventures as well as maximizing current asset potential.

Annie Green, Shreveport employee, was scheduled to travel to Baton Rouge to pull historical data for Nadel and Gussman from the Louisiana Office of Conservation on August 26^th, but she went down a day early to help feed roughly 250 flood victims from St. Martin Parish in south central Louisiana.  Her family had helped organize the event.

Stacy Green grilling for flood victims.

Annie packaging meals in Parc Hardy.

Nadel and Gussman had planned to donate 40 pounds of linked sausage from Baudin’s, a local sausage kitchen, for the cookout.  When Annie’s husband, called to place the order, Baudin’s wouldn’t accept payment and donated the sausage for the event.

Thanks to Baudin’s, Annie was able to use Nadel and Gussman’s donated funds to assemble 10 cleaning care packages for flood victims, which were delivered by the local volunteer fire department.  The kits contained much-needed bleach, ant poison, laundry detergent, dishwashing liquid, all-purpose cleaner, paper towels and scrub pads.

NG donated cleaning supplies for ten families.

The spirit and compassion of those people left a lasting impression on Annie and her family members.  Even though they had lost so much, they still wore smiles and expressed gratitude for any kind of assistance they were offered, no matter how big or how small.

In a prior article, we relayed the story of an abandoned bobcat kitten, Nadel, who appeared at one of the company’s wells in Claiborne Parish on June 30^th.  Nadel was relocated to the Louisiana Bobcat Refuge in Eunice, which was also hard hit by flooding in August.  Ruston employee, Ricky Hurst, who originally found little Nadel, volunteered his time at the Refuge to help them recover from the flood.

NG Ruston pumper Ricky Hurst

It isn’t uncommon for our field staff to spot wildlife while making their daily checks at our well sites. It is rather unusual, however, for an animal to approach someone and affectionately begin playing as if they were long time companions.

Ruston pumper Ricky Hurst was working at a well in Claiborne Parish on June 30th when a kitten approached him and began to play. After a short time, he noticed that the kitten had a very short tail and Ricky realized he wasn’t your average domestic kitten, but was instead a baby bobcat. Hoping the bobcat would reunite with his family, Ricky finished his job and left the well for the evening.

The next morning when Ricky returned to check the well, the bobcat was still alone at the site, greeted him again and started to play. Concerned for the abandoned kitten’s survival, Ricky called into our Ruston office where our staff contacted the Louisiana Bobcat Refuge in Eunice, LA for guidance.

As a 501c3 nonprofit charity registered with the state of Louisiana, the Louisiana Bobcat Refuge is the only species specific bobcat rehabilitation center in the southeastern US that offers long-term rehabilitation. LBR specializes in singlet bobcat rehabilitation with their Abandoned Bobcat Kitten Surrogacy Program, featuring zoo retired, pet surrendered or non-releasable bobcats, Canada lynx or smaller approved exotic felids.

Joe Anderson with Nadel at the Ruston Office

Joe and Candee Anderson deliver Nadel to WERL in Shreveport

Under the instruction of the Refuge, Ricky brought the kitten to the office where he was dubbed ‘Nadel’. Joe and Candee Anderson further transported Nadel to Shreveport to deliver him to Dr. Gia Morgan at Wildlife Education & Rehabilitation of Louisiana for safe travels to the Refuge in Eunice.

Nadel is currently estimated to be 7 to 8 weeks old. While he is in the care of the Refuge, we look forward to updates on his progress from Executive Director Pamela Connery. The Refuge will keep Nadel approximately a year until he is ready for his documented release in the same area he was found.

Tulsa based E & P company Sanguine Gas Exploration has acquired $45 million of dry-gas properties in Oklahoma’s eastern Anadarko Basin in partnership with fellow Tulsa E & P Nadel and Gussman and Houston-based LeFrak Energy. The acquisition includes 25,000 net acres primarily in Caddo and Grady counties with net production of 13 MMcfe/d (97% gas) from more than 400 vertical wellbores, of which 130 are operated. Sanguine will assume operatorship on behalf of the buyers, increasing its existing portfolio of 165 operated Midcontinent wells by nearly 80%.

Nadel and Gussman formed a joint development partnership with BC Operating in the Permian Basin. Combining acreage, Nadel and Gussman and BC Operating have a combined footprint of approximately 50,000 net acres under this new joint venture. BC Operating will assume operations over the combined acreage, including existing and future wells. Read the rest of the story here.