Wheeler Resource Recovery gives accredited investors direct access to producing oil and gas projects operated by Wheeler Operating Corporation, a Texas operator with roots dating back to 1932. We aren’t a broker-dealer or a capital-raising firm handing the fieldwork to someone else. Every project we bring to our investors is developed and operated by the same team that’s been doing this work, hands-on, for more than 90 years.

In 1932, W. Ridley Wheeler began building what became a long-standing independent oil and gas operation in Texas, the roots of what is known today as Wheeler Operating Corporation. Over the decades that followed, the Wheeler organization built deep, hands-on experience in drilling, production, reservoir management, and secondary recovery.

In 1974, the company evolved into Wheeler Operating Corporation and sharpened its focus on secondary recovery: waterflooding proven fields rather than chasing speculative exploration. That focus has paid off: over the decades, Wheeler has recovered more than 29 million additional barrels of oil from fields other operators had already written off.

In 2008, the Wheeler family sold the operating company to George Jackson, its longtime Head Petroleum Engineer, ensuring the operation’s leadership and philosophy carried forward rather than starting over under new ownership. George had already been part of the Wheeler team since 1976, and today he continues to lead field development with the same hands-on approach that’s defined the company since its earliest years.

Wheeler Resource Recovery, LLC was formed in 2014 to open that operating experience up to accredited investors. Rather than raising capital for projects run by someone else, WRR gives investors a direct line to projects operated by Wheeler Operating: the same team, the same fields, and the same track record, now available as an investment.

Many investment sponsors raise money and hand the actual fieldwork to a third-party operator. Wheeler Resource Recovery doesn’t work that way. Every project we bring to investors is developed and operated by Wheeler Operating Corporation, giving investors direct access to decades of reservoir engineering, secondary recovery expertise, and hands-on field management, not a layer of management standing between them and the work.

We focus on developing proven, already-producing fields through secondary recovery rather than higher-risk exploratory drilling, and we invest our own capital in every project alongside our investors. If we’re not willing to put our own money into a project, we won’t ask anyone else to either.
Our current projects apply a proven five-spot waterflood pattern to recover oil that primary drilling leaves behind. You can find the full breakdown of how that process works on our Why Invest page.

George Jackson is a registered professional petroleum engineer who joined the Wheeler organization in 1976 and has spent nearly five decades in the field ever since. During his tenure, Wheeler has drilled approximately 450 producing and injection wells and recovered more than 29 million barrels of oil through secondary recovery projects, including the Leeper-Glorieta Field (roughly 13 million barrels produced), the D-L-S San Andres Field (roughly 6.8 million barrels of reserves added), and the Suniland Field (roughly 2 million barrels of reserves added). In 2008, George took ownership of Wheeler Operating Corporation, carrying the company’s operating philosophy forward as both engineer and owner.