Nerd Gas Company

Nerd Gas Company is dedicated to the efficient and responsible exploration and production of hydrocarbons while utilizing innovative technology.  Nerd desires to provide our communities, state and nation with the energy and associated tax base necessary to remain financially strong and independent.  With direct and indirect investments in energy, aviation, equipment rental, vessel fabrication and commercial banking, Nerd has built companies whose employees have long-standing commitments to Wyoming and desire to be a part of Wyoming’s future success.

Founded by Mick McMurry in 1996, Nerd Gas Company, LLC is a private, Wyoming-based energy investment company whose primary focus is on the efficient and responsible exploration of hydrocarbons in Wyoming and the northern Rocky Mountain region. Nerd Gas Company is one of Wyoming’s leading entrepreneurs in energy projects in a state recognized for the depth and breadth of its extensive mineral resources.  At the time of its founding, Nerd Gas Company was a successful working interest partner in the discovery and nine-year development of both the prolific Jonah and Pinedale Anticline Fields in Sublette County, Wyoming. These fields presented geological challenges which required new drilling and hydraulic fracturing technology in order to successfully extract natural gas in these areas. Jonah Field was sold to Alberta Energy (later changed its name to Encana) in June 2000, and the Anticline Field was sold in November 2001 to Shell.  Nerd’s energy resource development efforts did not end at the Jonah Field. Nerd is currently involved in conventional oil and gas exploration projects in the Wyoming-Utah Overthrust Belt and the Rocky Mountain region. Zones of interest are primarily traditional oil or gas-bearing Cretaceous sand reservoirs, traditional carbonate reservoirs and both structural and stratigraphic traps. Nerd is also currently invested in other BTU-potential projects in Wyoming, including a pure play uranium exploration project in the Powder River Basin.  Nerd Gas Company is proud of its talented group of professionals on staff that have spent the majority of their careers focusing on Rocky Mountain reservoirs and solving energy production challenges. Professional expertise includes land management, drilling and extraction, completions and production, and in-house energy financial analysis. The combination of strong capital, seasoned professionals and our owner’s entrepreneurial spirit allows Nerd Gas to take advantage of rapidly developing opportunities. In 2007, Nerd Gas Company was awarded the Torch Award for Business Ethics by the Rocky Mountain Region Better Business Bureau as Wyoming’s first-ever recipient of the award.  In 2008, Nerd Gas Company contracted with the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to conduct a feasibility study investigating the technical and economic viability of locating a natural gas-to-liquids facility in the state of Wyoming. Initial feedback delivered by INL suggested Nerd continue to advance the project. Nerd has been working with technology providers and the state of Wyoming in a proposed modular designed GTL project located in central Wyoming.  In 2011, Nerd Gas, along with three local partners possessing significant geologic and exploration expertise, formed Stakeholder Energy, LLC. Stakeholder was formed to pursue large-scale uranium exploration in Converse County, Wyoming. Stakeholder has leased significant acreage ideally positioned between Cameco’s Highland Ranch processing facility and the Irrigary and Christensen Uranium mine sites.