Trellis is built around providing investors five years of returns. We acquire direct working interests in development wells across the U.S., diversified across basins and operators. By selling those assets, our funds return capital rather than holding indefinitely. Unlike traditional drilling funds, tax benefits are a feature of our structure, not the foundation of our strategy.
A Different Kind
of Energy Fund.
Invest Directly
in Wells.
Designed for the individual investor, our current fund targets a 2x return with a 5-year exit while still delivering oil and gas tax deductions.
Trellis acquires direct working interests in wells with near-term development plans, The fund invests alongside top-tier public and private operators across multiple basins creating a diversified investment with reduced operational and concentration risks,
Our funds begin distributions in Year 3, with a planned asset sale and full exit between 4 and 7 years. Trellis has made private equity style oil and gas investments more accessible with a $50,000 minimum investment.
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Done Before.
Done Well.
Before Trellis, Jake Bailey founded Split Rock Resources in 2019, a PE-backed non-operated fund that would go on to invest across 1,200-plus wells split between 20 operators and 3 major basins. Brayden Hudson joined the Split Rock team in 2021, bringing financial and operational depth to the fund's management. Split Rock returned over $300 million in distributions on $86 million of equity deployed, with production coming in within 1% of oil forecasts and 7% of gas actuals, both higher than underwritten.*
This is the foundation Trellis was built on.
*Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
Sell Assets,
Return Capital.
When an operator proposes a new drilling program, Trellis acquires a working interest in that program and participates proportionally in the revenue it generates. Over the first two to three years, production cash flows are recycled back into additional wells, building a larger and more diversified portfolio. Distributions start in year 3 with a full return of capital targeted within 24 months of the first distribution. The assets are sold around year 5 generating a return and full exit for investors.
Total returns are the goal. Tax benefits are built into the structure. And we do it all without taking on the operational risk ourselves.