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Top 25 Natural gas exploration and production companies based in Houston, United States

RevenueBase identified 127 natural gas exploration and production companies headquartered in Houston, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 86,056 professional contacts across them, including 22,790 with verified work emails. Houston is the largest hub.

This list covers natural gas exploration and production companies headquartered in Houston, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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The 25 largest natural gas exploration and production companies based in Houston, United States

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 127 natural gas exploration and production companies based in Houston, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to natural gas exploration and production companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202610001+53,380 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We collaborate and engineer solutions to maximize asset value for our customers.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
2Strong evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026n/a5,489 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are an independent oil and natural gas acquisition, exploitation and exploration company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3Indirect evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 20261,001-5,0004,346 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“EOG Resources, Inc.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4Strong evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026n/a3,514 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Murphy Oil Corporation is a global independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5Partial evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 20261,001-5,0002,755 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Key Energy Services provides a wide array of leading edge energy production solutions and services.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6Strong evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202610001+2,317 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Patterson-UTI is a leading provider of drilling and completion services to oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the United States and other select…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7Indirect evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 20261,001-5,0001,803 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Hilcorp Energy Company was founded in 1989 with the vision of being the premier independent energy company in America.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8Strong evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 20261,001-5,0001,262 contacts →

Strong evidence

“FET (Forum Energy Technologies, Inc.) is a global company, serving the crude oil, natural gas, and renewable energy industries.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
9Indirect evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 20261,001-5,0001,155 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“WE ARE NOBLE.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10Strong evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026201-500424 contacts →

Strong evidence

“EnerVest is a top-tier, low-cost oil and natural gas operating company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11Indirect evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026501-1,000353 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Crescent is a differentiated energy company committed to delivering value through a disciplined, returns-driven growth through acquisition strategy and consistent return of…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
12Strong evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-200318 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Vaalco Energy is a Houston-based independent energy company principally engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13Indirect evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-200199 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Energy XXI Gulf Coast, Inc.(EGC) Fortifying and Enhancing Our Position in the U.S.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14Indirect evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026501-1,000191 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Getting it done right.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
15Strong evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-200145 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Mitsui E&P USA LLC (MEPUSA), a subsidiary of Mitsui & Co, Ltd, is an oil and gas exploration and production company based in Houston, Texas.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16Strong evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026201-500143 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are an independent oil and gas company based in Houston, Texas that is engaged in the exploration, development and exploitation of onshore energy resources in the United States.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
17Strong evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026201-500120 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Halcón Resources Corporation is an independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, production, exploration and development of onshore oil and natural gas properties in the…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
18Strong evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-200105 contacts →

Strong evidence

“WildFire Energy is an independent energy company focused on the acquisition, exploitation, and production of oil and natural gas properties in the United States through the…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
19Indirect evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5092 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
20Strong evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20091 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Ranger Oil Corporation is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the development and production of oil, NGLs and natural gas primarily in the Eagle Ford Shale in South…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
21Indirect evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20085 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Terra Energy Partners LLC is an independent U.S.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
22Strong evidenceHouston, PA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026201-50084 contacts →

Strong evidence

“ShalePro Energy Services is headquartered in the metro-Pittsburgh area, and is proud to provide best-in-class services to the production, midstream, and power-generation/bio-gas…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
23Strong evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20079 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Trinity Operating is an independent oil and natural gas company headquartered in Houston, with operations in Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
24Partial evidenceHouston, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5057 contacts →

Partial evidence

“PO & G acquires conventional and unconventional oil and gas properties and increases their value by improving operations such as artificial lift, water flood optimization, and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
25Indirect evidenceHouston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20051 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“eCORP International LLC is a Houston, Texas based multifaceted energy company which, through its subsidiaries, affiliates and related entities, is engaged in the development and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026

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Natural gas exploration and production companies based in Houston, United States at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026
26.5%Verified-email coverage
677.6Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
100.0%Largest-city concentration · Houston
Sep 20, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
36
11-50
33
51-200
30
201-500
12
501-1,000
3
1,001-5,000
8
5,001-10,000
1
10001+
3

Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Houston, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Houston, over 127 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among natural gas exploration and production companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in Houston, United States whose own description of what they do matches “natural gas exploration and production companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names natural gas exploration and production companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among natural gas exploration and production companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Houston are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 22,790 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Natural gas exploration and production companies by metro in the United States

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names natural gas exploration and production companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many natural gas exploration and production companies are there based in Houston, United States?

RevenueBase identified 127 natural gas exploration and production companies headquartered in Houston, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Halliburton, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most natural gas exploration and production companies?

Houston leads with 127 headquartered companies, followed by Dallas (46) and Denver (35).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 22,790 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 127 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.