ABOUT US
Kevin Chennault has worked in the oil and gas industry since January 1982. He began with Galleria Energy Corporation in Dallas where he helped finance multiple projects—one early Rice Field program produced two oil wells out of four drilled—and later played a central role as Galleria and its subsidiaries drilled more than 60 consecutive natural-gas wells across Ritchie, Wirt and Wood counties in the Appalachian Basin.
In late 1984 Mr. Chennault formed Tex-Oil Drilling & Exploration, bringing former Galleria partners on board. Tex-Oil continued Appalachian operations, provided field services for regional operators, and achieved a roughly 75% success rate in the Electra/Wichita Falls area before its leadership sold their interests and relocated operations to Louisville, Kentucky to pursue broader Appalachian and Mid-Continent opportunities.
In 1986 he formed North Dallas Energy Company (NDEC), which recorded 100% success in its Wichita Falls drilling program and later initiated the CITE (Crack in the Earth) project in Eastland County—then the deepest well in the county—which yielded evidence supporting theories of sub-basement sedimentation and attracted national attention. NDEC also negotiated participation from American Petrofina (FINA) for deepening and geophysical services. In January 1992 NDEC became Mesa Resources, Inc., carrying forward a legacy of technical rigor, field success, and strategic partnerships.
Mesa Resources, Inc. was formed to build on decades of oil & gas experience while expanding into consulting, technical evaluation, and finance for both industry and non-industry clients. We combine hands-on drilling expertise with subsurface science and pragmatic deal structuring to advance exploration and development opportunities.
In 1999, while consulting for a public company, Kevin Chennault helped acquire the 5,000-acre Hood 5000 lease in Hood County, Texas. Mesa drilled an exploratory well south of Tolar to just below 5,000 feet, encountering multiple formations including the Barnett Shale. With no nearby producing Barnett wells at the time, the well was conservatively completed in the shallower Atoka formation while the Barnett interval underwent further evaluation.
Mesa negotiated a farm-out to test the Barnett and subsequently drilled and completed four Barnett Shale wells. Those results attracted additional operators, extended the Newark East Field more than 30 miles to the south, and helped establish Barnett prospects across Hood, Parker, Tarrant and Wise counties—part of what has been widely reported as one of the largest unconventional gas plays developed in the U.S.
Today Mesa continues to evaluate and participate in selective drilling prospects in Texas and Oklahoma, applying disciplined technical analysis, strategic partnerships, and commercial rigor to every project.