​​​    Riverford Exploration, LLC is an Oil & Gas Exploration and Production Company and Oil &

Gas Consulting Business with offices in Denton and Dallas, Texas. 

​  Riverford Exploration, LLC was founded in 2003 and has producing oil & gas assets in Elm Coulee,

   Bakken Field, Montana; Williston Basin, North Dakota; Oklahoma Scoop/Stack/Merg; Permian,

   Midland, Delaware; and Illinois Basins.  Riverford's co-founder was involved in the majority of

   U.S. resource plays before the resource revolution.  He is credited with placing his company in Elm

   Coulee, Bakken Field prior to its discovery. Elm Coulee Field is the largest onshore U.S. discovery

   in 56 years. 

   Bill is also credited with the economic discovery of the WolfBone play in the Delaware Basin. The 

   WolfBone discovery brought Reeves County, Texas, production from less than 3,000 BOPD to over

   100,000 BOPD in less than five years and is the primary resource play being exploited by major and 

   Independent Oil & Gas companies in the southern Delaware Basin (see publications list, Fairhurst,

   2021; and Fairhurst et al., 2021). He and his innovative teams have also discovered dozens of new

   fields in conventional plays throughout the United States. 

   Bill has taught courses in multiple subject areas at universities and for professional societies. These 

   include petroleum geology, engineering, and land, creativity, strategy, entrepreneurship, finance, and

   economics.

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   Riverford's history dates back to a land grant in Ohio as payment to a Connecticut soldier for service

   during the War of 1812.  That property, Riverford Farms, remained in the Co-Founder's family until the

   late 20th Century. That history and heritage is the inspiration for the naming of Riverford Exploration, LLC.