Co-founder of Poolside Energy and principal of Cardinal OG Consulting. Oil and gas land, title, and mineral data, from Houston.
Co-Founder
Oil and gas mineral aggregator and AI solutions.
Poolside collects public regulatory filings, production records, and land data and uses AI tools to turn them into information a buyer can underwrite. We also invest in mineral and royalty interests, so the tools get used on real decisions.
Principal
Energy land and legal project consulting.
Cardinal takes on land and title projects for operators, investors, and mineral owners and sees them through to closing:
I have worked in oil and gas land and title since 2011. I started as a land and title analyst, went on to work as a title and contracts attorney, and have handled work in the Permian Basin, the Williston Basin, and offshore, along with Utah, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Ohio.
Most of my work sits where old records meet new data. In a single week that can mean reading an 1843 federal land patent against the original township plat, pulling a Texas well's full production history from the Railroad Commission, and building a valuation model a mineral owner can actually follow.
Before Poolside, I co-founded a mineral acquisition company, where I handled deal sourcing, title evaluation, and acquisitions. That experience is why Poolside builds tools for the questions a buyer has to answer before making an offer.
Outside of work, I coach youth basketball, baseball, and soccer in Houston.
A workflow that starts from a Texas API number, locates the well on the Railroad Commission's GIS viewer, pulls its complete monthly production from the RRC lease query, and checks the result against the Commission's own totals. The output feeds decline-curve forecasts and remaining-reserve estimates.
TexasAn interactive calculator for an oil and gas unit, with owners loaded from public filings and live inputs for net mineral acres, royalty rate, pricing, deducts, timing, and risk. It shows present value at several discount rates and an annual cash-flow chart, so an owner can see what an offer is measured against.
Ohio and UtahTraced a General Land Office patent for two lots in Natchitoches Parish against the original township survey plat. Image enhancement made a degraded photostat readable, and the analysis identified the field notes and state tract books needed to allocate acreage lot by lot.
LouisianaInteractive maps that plot Louisiana legal descriptions alongside production unit boundaries, so tract and unit overlaps can be checked by eye before they cause a title problem.
LouisianaProcessing of Texas and Louisiana unclaimed property records to identify likely oil and gas mineral and royalty owners, turning a public dataset into a list of people with interests worth a closer look.
Texas and LouisianaFor Poolside Energy, Cardinal OG Consulting, or anything else, email josh@poolside.energy.
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