Riptide..acquistions and divestitures of oil & gas properties and drilling deals.

About Us

Rich Bosher: Over 30 years experience in upstream oil and gas.  18 years with Amoco business development, acquisitions and divstestirures, geophysicist, and explorationist.  4 years  with micro cap E & P publically traded oil and gas company. Past six years independent acquring producing assets and acreage in the Rockies and putting together and selling shallow oil drilling deals in the Mid Continent.  Bachelor and Master degrees in geology and geophysics. Recent track record includes purchasing 5 producing Rockies properties, putting together exploration project for unconventional Niobrara shale play in Southeast San Juan Basin and putting together and selling 6 shallow oil drilling deals in NW Kansas.
Van Leighton: Over 30 years in upstream exploration. During the last four years he has concentrated on unconventional shale plays including the Utica, Marcellus, Eagle Ford, Chattanooga, Niobrara and Mowry. His teams’ acreage purchase recommendation led to Eagle Ford acquisitions that appear in the early stages to be economic for not only the Eagle Ford, but the underlying Pearsall Shale as well. Prior to focusing on shale opportunities, he was a partner in a southwestern Kansas operating company that sold its assets for $45MM after building value through drilling.