Meeting the current and future energy needs of America

Creating value for our stakeholders by revitalizing mature conventional oil properties through the application of the fundamentals of oil and gas operation.

About Us

Revitalize Resources is a privately-held oil company headquartered in Evansville, Indiana with operated assets in the Illinois Basin in southeastern Illinois, southwestern Indiana and western Kentucky. 

Business Strategies

Acquire existing production on reasonable economic terms

Decrease operating expenses

Optimize production operations

Pursue low-capital development and value-accretive abandonment opportunities

Business Strengths

  • Experienced management team that has executed on its strategies since founding.

  • Focused on mature conventional basins with less competition than shale basins.

  • Management combines fundamentals of oil and gas operation with technology to optimize production, decrease expenses and identify development and abandonment opportunities.

  • Management has significant skin in the game and controls Revitalize Resources.

Operations

  • Operations focused in the Illinois Basin in southeastern Illinois, southwestern Indiana, and western Kentucky, and characterized by mature conventional stripper oil wells.

  • Mature basin with established production history and productive reservoirs at relatively shallow depths.

  • Relatively simple production operation and less service intense wells.

  • Favorable marketing environment with low severance tax rates.

Bert Ferrara

President and Chief Executive Officer

  • Bert has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Revitalize Resources since its founding in 2022.

  • Previously, Bert was the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Legacy Reserves Inc., a NASDAQ-listed oil and gas company based in Midland, Texas where he was a member of the executive team and primarily responsible for the management and direction of the company's legal affairs.  During his time at Legacy, Bert helped lead the transition of the company from a master limited partnership focused on operating conventional mature oil production to a corporation engaged in the development drilling of unconventional shale reservoirs.  As part of the transformation of Legacy, Bert led or managed various strategic and commercial transactions, including one of the first "Drillco" financing structures that facilitated the drilling of unconventional wells in the MLP structure, public and private capital markets activity, proxy contests and corporate restructurings.

  • Prior to law school, Bert was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in their Global Energy Group in Houston, Texas, focusing primarily on midstream master-limited partnership securities and offerings and mergers and acquisitions throughout the oil and natural gas industry. 

  • Bert received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University (2007) and J.D. from the University of Oklahoma (2013).

  • Bert is a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Oil and Gas Association, Indiana Oil and Gas Association and Kentucky Oil and Gas Association.

Trey Nash

Chief Operating Officer

  • Trey has been Chief Operating Officer of Revitalize Resources since its founding in 2022.

  • Previously, Trey was the VP - Corporate Planning and  Reserves of Legacy Reserves Inc., a NASDAQ-listed oil and gas company.

  • Prior to his time at Legacy, Trey worked for various public and private companies, with most of his experience being with Shell where he worked for 16 years.  His career began in New Orleans and centered around deepwater development and production engineering roles.  During his four-year stint in the Hague, NL, Trey was a global strategy advisor to executive leadership and engineering advisor to the EVP of international exploration.  Upon returning to the US, Trey worked in Houston to lead engineering & economics support for Deepwater Exploration Americas.  His final job at Shell was Development Manager for the Ultra Deepwater Perdido Spar.  After leaving Shell, Trey transitioned to onshore growth areas for 11 years.

  • Trey received his B.S. in Petroleum Engineering (1996) from Louisiana State University and his M.B.A. from Tulane University (2007).