FreedomFest 2024

Michael Shellenberger is a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” Green Book Award winner, and the best-selling author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities (HarperCollins 2021) and Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (HarperCollins 2020).Mic... Read More →

John Engel is the COO of Gulf Coast Western.  Gulf Coast Western, a Dallas-based company founded in 1970, is focused on the exploration, development, and acquisition of domestic oil and gas reserves in the Gulf Coast region, and has activities in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma... Read More →

RJ Burr, President. Mr. Burr, 47, was named President of Burrite in 2022, when his father stepped down from the position upon his retirement. Being a third-generation oilman, Mr. Burr has spent most of his life in the oil patch. In 1983, when 7, he was hooked on the industry when... Read More →

Mike Mauceli is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Reef Oil and Gas Companies. In his 26+ years as CEO, Mike has led the growth of the organization from a three full-time employee start-up company in 1987 to a much larger oil and gas production and property acquisition company... Read More →

Dan Sauer is the president and CEO of Vertical Petroleum Industries, in Ardmore, Oklahoma. Currently, he has partnered with multiple operators, geologists, and field engineers to ensure the success of over 10 projects in the last six years.

Gulf Coast Western specializes in the acquisition of domestic oil and gas reserves primarily in the DJ, Delaware, and Powder River Basins in the United States.

Panex is an oil production company drilling wells in Texas and Louisiana.We issue investment opportunities under Reg D 506(c) regulations which require all investors to be accredited.We currently control over 20 million barrels of oil reserves.

REI Energy, LLC (“REI”) is a privately owned oil and natural gas exploration and production company headquartered in Richardson, Texas. We specialize in the acquisition, development, and management of conventional and unconventional oil and gas properties.

Vertical Petroleum Industries was founded by a real estate and oil investor who was tired of being offered overpriced projects from people who had little to no control over major development decisions. He assembled a team with a trusted operator and geologist to acquire and develop... Read More →