SAN JUAN BASIN · NEW MEXICO
Gallup Oilfield
A mature, fully delineated oil block in the Four Corners region — with proven conventional reserves and a deep unconventional resource still untouched.
Acres Leased
1000
BBL recoverable
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MM
PV10 @ $60/BBL
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MM
Wells drilled
0
LOCATION
Where the field sits
San Juan County, northwestern New Mexico, in the Four Corners region. The lease covers four blocks across two areas — Horseshoe and Many Rocks in the south, Mesa and Many Rocks North in the north.
35.528° N, 108.742° W
THE FOUR BLOCKS
Horseshoe Gallup
2,567 acres · 860–1,150 ft
Geological 21.78 MMbbl · RF 25%
Many Rocks Gallup
1,139 acres · 1,190–1,658 ft
Geological 7.58 MMbbl · RF 17%
Mesa Gallup
1,231 acres · 1,163–1,762 ft
Geological 7.60 MMbbl · RF 17%
Many Rocks North
2,093 acres · 1,385–1,794 ft
Geological 15.62 MMbbl · RF 15%
Why this land is valuable
Think of it as a building with three floors
Most oil leases have one layer of oil. This one has three, stacked on top of each other underground — so the same piece of land can earn money three separate ways.
Top floor
Mancos Shale
A shallow layer near the surface. Not tapped yet — held in reserve.
300 – 800 ft down
Middle floor
earning now
Gallup Formation
This is where the oil is being produced today. Light, high-quality crude that sells at a premium.
850 – 1,450 ft down
Bottom floor
the big one
Paradox Formation
The deepest and largest layer. Untouched so far — and it holds about three times the oil of the floor above.
~8,500 ft down
We're already earning from the middle floor, while the top and bottom floors are value we haven't even started on yet.
Is it real?
Yes — and here's how you can tell
This isn't a plan on paper. It's physical land with real equipment, a real address, and a 70-year track record you can look up.
You can find it on a map
San Juan County, New Mexico. Coordinates 35.528° N, 108.742° W. Pump jacks and wellheads are on site right now.
128 wells already drilled
Every well is a hole in the ground that has already been paid for and produces data. 34 are pumping oil today.
It has produced for 70 years
Discovered in 1956. Over 6 million barrels of oil have already come out of this ground and been sold.
Valued by an independent geologist
A Ph.D. petroleum geologist evaluated and signed off on the reserves and valuation — not the company itself.
Reservoir Characteristics
Stratum: Mainly Cretaceous Gallup formation, simple nose and anticline structures.
Lithology: Sandstone and argillaceous sandstone.
Properties: Porosity 3.5%–27% (avg. 14.7%),
permeability 0.01–1389 mD (avg. 178.7 mD).
Crude Oil: API 36–42, classified as light crude oil.
Reservoir Depth: 860–1794 ft, thickness 9–30 ft.
What's still in the ground
Enough oil left to matter
After 70 years, only a fraction of the oil has been taken out. Here's what independent estimates say is still recoverable — split between the floor we produce from now, and the deep floor we haven't started.
Middle floor · producing now
10.4
million barrels
Still recoverable from the Gallup layer. This is the proven, lower-risk oil we produce from today.
Bottom floor · not yet started
31.4
million barrels
Estimated recoverable from the deep Paradox layer — the biggest opportunity, and the reason this lease is worth more than a typical field.
In oil terms: "recoverable reserves" means the oil that can realistically be brought to the surface and sold — not every drop underground, but the portion that pays.
What it's worth today
$525M
The independent, present-day value of the oil this field is expected to produce — in today's dollars, after costs.
Middle floor (Gallup)
$174M
Bottom floor (Paradox)
$351M
Total value
$525M
The industry term for this is PV10 — the standard way U.S. oil companies report the present-day cash value of a field's future production, discounted at 10% per year. Calculated at $60 per barrel, after operating costs. Roughly $56,000 of value per acre of land.
How we develop it
Drilling Plan
Drill the proven layer
New horizontal wells in the Gallup layer we already produce from. We know the oil is there — this is about producing it faster.
Strategy
The oil layer here is thin, and large amounts of oil still sit untapped between the old wells. So we drill horizontally — running 2,000 feet sideways through the layer to reach far more oil from a single well, including the oil the old wells missed.
Technology
Each well drills straight down to the oil layer, then curves and runs sideways through it, guided by live sensor data that keeps it inside the layer, before fracturing the rock to release the oil. These are proven, standard U.S. oilfield methods — nearby horizontal wells produce 780–1,120 barrels a day, versus about 80 for an old vertical well.
