median 20% — gross profit as a share of total assets, each member's median across its readable years; read on 16 of 64 members
Capital intensity
median 17.3% — capital expenditure as a share of revenue, each member's median across its readable years; read on 57 of 64 members
Net cash
3 of the 62 members with a readable debt line hold more cash and short-term investments than total debt
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From the latest filings · data as of July 9, 2026.
An asset-light business: the value sits in intellectual property and people, not plant, so the question is how durable the advantage is, not how high the margin.
BKV Corporation is a forward-thinking, growth-driven energy company focused on creating long-term risk-adjusted stockholder value through the development of natural gas producing assets, the ownership and operation of natural gas-fired power generation assets, and selective accretive acquisitions.
Owner earnings 2022–2025$349M($65M)$18M($57M)
Retained capitalRetained $557M of earnings over 2022–2025; annual owner earnings fell $136M, $-0.24 per $1 retained.
Balance sheetModest net debt, $287M · buybacks at an average near $28.92
Chord Energy Corporation is an independent exploration and production company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of crude oil, NGL and natural gas primarily in the Williston Basin with limited non-operated interests in the Marcellus Shale.
CNX's Strategy and Corporate Values CNX's strategy is to use our substantial asset base, leading core operational competencies, technology development and innovation, and astute capital allocation methodologies to responsibly develop our resources and create long-term value for our shareholders.
ConocoPhillips finds crude oil and natural gas and pulls them out of the ground, then sells what it produces to whoever buys at the going market price. It is an explorer and producer — it does not refine the oil or sell it at the pump — with wells and projects spread across more than a dozen countries. The price it gets is set by world markets, not by the company, so what it keeps turns on holding its cost per barrel below that price.
We are a leading independent natural gas producer operating primarily in the Haynesville shale, a premier natural gas basin located in North Louisiana and East Texas with superior economics given its geographical proximity to the Gulf Coast natural gas markets.
On February 28, 2023, Cenovus closed the acquisition of the remaining 50 percent interest in the Toledo Refinery for net proceeds of US$378 million, providing Cenovus with full ownership and operatorship of the refinery and further integrating Cenovus's heavy oil production and refining capabilities.
We are engaged in the production, transportation, and marketing of natural gas, NGLs, and oil, managing a diversified portfolio of mature, long-life assets.
Dorchester Minerals Operating LP owns working interests and other properties underlying our Net Profits Interest, provides day-to-day operational and administrative services to us and our General Partner, and is the employer of all the employees who perform such services.
ENI is an Italian integrated oil and gas company. It explores for, produces, refines and sells crude oil and natural gas, and through its Plenitude arm it markets gas and electricity to retail customers. It makes money on the spread between what it costs to pull hydrocarbons from the ground and process them, and the price the market will pay for the barrel or the unit of energy.
Ecopetrol is Colombia's national oil company, controlled by the Colombian state. It finds and pumps crude oil and natural gas, refines them into fuels, moves them through its own pipelines, and sells the crude and products at home and abroad. It earns its money on the gap between what oil sells for and what it costs to lift the barrel out of the ground.
We are an independent energy company headquartered in Houston, Texas engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of crude oil, natural gas and NGLs.
EOG finds crude oil and natural gas in the ground, drills for it, and sells what comes out — almost entirely in the United States, with a small operation in Trinidad. The buyers are refiners, pipelines, and the other handlers of raw hydrocarbons, who pay the going market price. The work is to spend heavily up front on land and wells, then earn it back as the production sells.
Expand Energy is the largest independent natural gas producer in the U.S., based on net daily production, and is focused on responsibly developing an abundant supply of natural gas, oil and NGL to expand energy access for all.
Granite Ridge is a scaled energy company which aims to provide shareholders with exposure similar to energy private equity through operated partnerships and traditional non-operated assets.
We are a fee-based, growth-oriented, limited partnership that owns, operates, develops and acquires a diverse set of midstream assets and provides fee-based services to our Sponsor, its subsidiaries, and third-party customers.
We are an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development, production and acquisition of oil and natural gas resources in the United States, with an emphasis on oil and natural gas shale and other unconventional plays.
We are an independent energy company engaged as a non-operator in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas properties in the United States, primarily in the Williston Basin, the Permian Basin, the Appalachian Basin and the Uinta Basin.
Behind-the-meter and co-located power solutions—from natural-gas turbines and batteries to nuclear power purchase agreements, small modular reactors, geothermal, and large commercial and industrial rooftop solar plus storage—are rapidly advancing to bridge grid constraints and provide firm, flexible supply.
Owner earnings 2023–2025($3M)($6M)($13M)
Retained capitalnot read
Balance sheetNet debt against an operating loss, $49M
Occidental Petroleum Corporation is an international energy company recognized for its premier diversified assets, primarily situated in the United States, the Middle East and North Africa.
We operate in logistically complex, niche markets and, as such, each of our refineries has unique cost advantages and disadvantages as compared to their respective relevant market indices.
We are an independent oil and natural gas company, organized in 2006, with a principal focus on acquisition, development and production activities in the U.S.
Shell is one of the world's largest integrated oil and gas companies — it finds and produces hydrocarbons, ships and trades them, refines them into fuels and chemicals, and sells them through one of the biggest retail networks on earth, alongside a sizeable gas and lower-carbon arm. Its fortunes rise and fall with a price it does not set.
Sasol takes coal and natural gas and, using its own synthesis process, turns them into liquid fuels and chemicals. It sells motor fuel into the South African market and chemicals to industrial buyers abroad. The plants are large and burn coal — which also lets the company generate much of its own power — and the earnings track the price of oil and of the chemicals it ships.
Texas Pacific Land market Conditions Average West Texas Intermediate oil prices for the year ended December 31, 2025 were down approximately 15% compared to average WTI oil prices during the same period last year.
Owner earningsnot applied to a balance-sheet business
Retained capitalnot applied to a balance-sheet business
Balance sheeta balance-sheet business; the net-cash read is not applied · buybacks at an average near $1,151 · dividend paid 5 of 5 yrs, cut at least once
TETRA TETRA Technologies, Inc. is an energy services and solutions company with operations on six continents focused on developing environmentally conscious services and solutions that help make people's lives better.
Vermilion is a global gas producer that seeks to create value through the acquisition, exploration and development of liquids-rich natural gas in Canada and conventional natural gas in Europe while optimizing low-decline oil assets.
Retained capitalRetained $146M of earnings over 2016–2025; annual owner earnings fell $48M, $-0.33 per $1 retained.
Balance sheetNet debt against an operating loss, $759M · dividend paid 3 of 10 yrs, never cut
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