About Us
Leveraging decades of expertise to revolutionize oil & gas investing through tokenization.
A New Approach to Oil & Gas Investing
Tokenized Energy’s Expertise in Upstream Oil & Gas
Tokenized Energy consists of a multi-disciplinary team with a substantial amount of experience in sourcing, evaluating, financing (from both an equity and debt perspective), acquiring, managing and selling “upstream” oil and gas assets. We have served as asset managers performing such services for several private equity funds and others over the last 20 years in multiple United States oil & gas basins. Upstream oil & gas assets consist of all asset classes relating to the drilling and production of oil & gas wells, as opposed to the “midstream” business which is focused on the delivery of produced oil and gas and related products from the sites where they are produced to storage facilities and processing plants and the “downstream” business where those products are refined, treated and converted into other saleable products.
Understanding Upstream Oil & Gas Assets
Upstream oil and gas assets include the following: minerals (the subsurface where various reservoirs contain hydrocarbons), oil & gas leases which grant rights to lessees to explore for and produce oil and gas, royalties paid on hydrocarbons and non-operated working interests in oil and gas wells (Tokenized Energy prefers to invest alongside experienced operators for a variety of reasons and does not itself serve as operator).
We believe in the tokenization of “real world assets” and that in the future we will see an increasing amount of such assets being digitized or brought “on-chain” (meaning that the owners or managers of those assets will use a blockchain in its capacity as a distributed ledger to register ownership and track transfers thereof).
How We Tokenize and Manage Upstream Oil & Gas Assets
Sourcing and Offering Upstream Oil & Gas Assets for Investment
Our team uses its extensive industry network to source unique, typically un-marketed investment opportunities and to make them available on the Tokenized Energy platform.
Asset Ownership Structured in LLCs or LPs for Management
Ownership of the underlying oil and gas assets is placed into tax-efficient LLCs or LPs, which are managed by a Tokenized Energy affiliate.
Investment Process: Approval, Due Diligence, and Token Issuance
Our management affiliate and its advisors evaluate the opportunities and make due diligence materials available in data rooms for each investment to facilitate your own investment decision-making.
Ongoing Management, Distributions, and Future Sales of Investments
Tokenized Energy’s management affiliate manages the acquired investments for you, makes distributions from cash flows (subject to reserves) and manages exits.
Compliance with SEC Regulations and Security Token Issuance
Our offerings of investment opportunities are done in compliance with SEC regulations, including in reliance on an appropriate exemption from registration. The digital tokens you receive represent your investment in the entity which owns the underlying assets and are securities, hence are sometimes called security tokens.
Meet Our Team
Tokenized Energy’s co-founders have a substantial amount of experience in all aspects of sourcing, vetting, acquiring and managing upstream oil and gas assets. Our co-founders have also worked together for over 10 years in different capacities, including the last few years as partners at Titanium Exploration Partners, and during that time worked side-by-side on several hundred million dollars of acquisitions and divestitures in multiple US oil and gas basins.
Chip Simmons
· Co-Founder
- Chip managed the construction of Tokenized Energy’s platform and is responsible for developing and managing key strategic relationships with industry partners, investment platforms, technology partners and investors.
- Chip is the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Desert Gold Oil & Gas, LLC, a serial acquirer of minerals and non-operated working interests in multiple U.S. oil and gas basins and shale plays, including the Utica, Bakken, Permian and Haynesville Shale.
- He also serves as CEO of Titanium Exploration Partners, LLC, with responsibility for managing its remaining Mid-Continent assets. Titanium deployed approx. $600mm+ for two private equity funds (each with $15B+ of AUM) in the Eagle Ford Shale play in South Texas, the Scoop/Stack plays in the Mid-Continent and the Delaware Basin over a 10 year period.
- Prior to Titanium, Chip served as Managing Director of Clear Creek Capital, a Dallas, TX-based oil and gas investment firm, which originated and managed investments in AB Resources (Appalachian Basin), Kerns Petroleum (Permian Basin/Eagle Ford Shale/Granite Wash), AleAnna Resources (Italy) and Torch Resources, for a New York City-based private equity fund. He served on the Boards of AB Resources and Kerns Petroleum.
- Chip graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a double major in Economics & Political Science, then received a JD from the University of Virginia.
Adrian Macias
· Co-Founder
- Adrian is responsible for Tokenized Energy’s sourcing of investment opportunities, investment strategies, relationship management with our key industry partners and investment decision-making.
- Adrian currently serves as the Co-Chief Executive Officer and was a founding partner of Desert Gold Oil & Gas, LLC which has acquired minerals and non-operated working interests in the Utica, Bakken, Permian, and Haynesville shale plays.
- Prior to co-founding Tokenized Energy and Desert Gold Oil & Gas, Adrian served as the Executive Vice President of Land & Business Development for Titanium Exploration Partners, LLC which managed minerals and non-operated working interests in the Permian, Scoop/Stack, and Eagle Ford shale plays. Adrian oversaw the divestment of tens of millions of dollars of assets on behalf of two global private equity investors.
- Adrian started his career in oil and gas as a partner at Purple Land Management (a Fort Worth, TX based land and technology consulting company). Adrian, as Vice President of Corporate Development, was integral in scaling the business to over $50mm a year in revenue and the development of a patented, GIS-based oil and gas asset management platform (Overdrive). Adrian led the sale of PLM to a Dallas, TX, based private equity firm in 2018 and joined Titanium Exploration partners shortly thereafter.
- Adrian is a graduate of the Texas Tech University School of Law and holds a B.A. degree in Government from the University of Texas at Austin.
Aaron McCamant
· Co-Founder
- Aaron is responsible for sourcing new investment opportunities and for managing all of Tokenized Energy’s land-related matters, including evaluating and negotiating all land-related documents (including JOAs, oil and gas leases, etc.), coordinated title reviews with outside land firms of our acquisition targets, conducting our closings, performing asset management services post-acquisition and coordinating our exits, including assembling data rooms and managing our outside relationships with investment bankers and investors. In addition to daily land/asset management items, he focuses on identifying opportunities to extract more value from the asset base through acreage trades and other opportunistic development opportunities.
- Aaron currently serves as President and was a founding partner of Desert Gold Oil & Gas, LLC, where he also performs the services described above.
- Prior to Tokenized Energy, Aaron served as Vice President of Land at Titanium Exploration Partners, where he ran its acquisition and divestiture programs from a land perspective.
- Prior to joining Titanium, he was the Director of Client Acquisitions at Purple Land Management in Fort Worth, TX where he managed due diligence projects for approximately $20 billion of A&D and financing transactions across the Midland Basin, Delaware Basin, Eagle Ford, Oklahoma, and Rockies.
- Aaron is a graduate of Texas Christian University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics.
Ali Safri
· Chief Technology Officer
Ali is the Chief Technology Officer of Tokenized Energy and was instrumental in the construction and deployment of the Tokenized Energy platform. Ali is skilled in all aspects of blockchain-related and software coding and development and developed the Fragments Tokenization Platform for Avanza Innovations, which has now been deployed for multiple tokenization applications.
Logan Simmons
· Landman
- Logan is a landman for both Tokenized Energy and Desert Gold Oil & Gas, and is responsible for sourcing and pursuing oil and gas leases, mineral acquisitions and acquisitions of non-operated working interests directly with landowners and other asset owners, some of which may be posted as investment opportunities on Tokenized Energy, and participates in the management of those assets following their acquisition.
- Logan contributed to the construction of Tokenized Energy’s technology and platform and played a role in managing the relationship with our technology partner Avanza USA.
- Logan has been a blockchain technology enthusiast/investor since 2020 focusing on the development of decentralized finance and the tokenization of real-world assets.
- Logan also manages and provides some of the content for Tokenized Energy’s social media outreach.
- He is a graduate of the University of Arkansas.
Technology Partner
Tokenized Energy worked closely with Avanza USA to develop our technology and platform. Avanza USA is engaged in the business of blockchain technology and Web 3.0-based tokenization technology and has substantial experience in developing and deploying tokenization platforms, and specifically with integrating blockchain-based technology solutions with oil & gas companies. Avanza provides ongoing technical management and support services to the Tokenized Energy platform and its users and investors.