Waco Oil & Gas

Waco Oil and Gas is one of the leading oil and gas production companies located in West Virginia. Waco was incorporated in 1975 by I.L. ("Ike") Morris and is still headquartered in Glenville, West Virginia. Waco maintains a highly skilled staff of approximately 200 employees, broken down into the following departments; land, technology and mapping, accounting, drilling, production, and field service and swabbing. Many of these employees have been with Waco for over 20 years, which provides Waco with some of the most experienced oil & gas personnel working in the Appalachian Basin. Waco's team completes all the work necessary to operate a successful production company. Waco's land department concentrates its efforts on the acquisition of mineral interests and the permitting of drilling locations. The shop and field personnel build the well locations, drill and complete every well and manage the production of every well in a manner that maximizes production. Waco also offers a complete line service work to the oil and gas industry with state of the art service rigs, swabbing rigs and field equipment. Waco constantly strives to achieve and maintain the highest levels of oil and gas production possible. Waco recently completed construction of a thirty mile gathering system in Harrison and Marion Counties, West Virginia. Waco is currently constructing a new gathering system in Doddridge County, West Virginia. Waco is concentrating its efforts on drilling Marcellus wells and increasing production. Waco essentially drills one Marcellus well every two weeks in the Appalachian Basin. During the past thirty two years, Waco has successfully drilled over 1,000 producing wells in West Virginia.