- CEO
- James F. Newman
- Full Time Employees
- 2,800
- Sector
- Energy
- Industry
- Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
- Address
- 801 Cherry Street Fort Worth TX United States of America
- IPO Date
- Dec 9, 2005
- Business
- Basic Energy Services, Inc. (BASX) operates as a residual entity following its 2021 Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and subsequent asset sales, having previously provided integrated onshore oilfield services to oil and natural gas exploration and production companies across the United States. The company, founded in 1992 and formerly headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, offered core services including well servicing with mobile rigs; water logistics encompassing trucking, disposal, and treatment; completion and remedial services such as coiled tubing, pumping, pressure management, wireline logging, frac fluid blending, cementing, nitrogen pumping, acidizing, and environmental waste management; drilling fluids and solids control; and production maintenance. Its operations spanned major basins like the Permian, Eagle Ford, Bakken, Mid-Continent, and others in states including Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Louisiana, Wyoming, Colorado, Arkansas, and California, supported by a network of field locations, fluid facilities, and disposal wells. In recent major changes, Basic Energy Services entered bankruptcy in August 2021 amid COVID-19 challenges and market pressures, selling key assets including well servicing, fishing and rental tools, coiled tubing, and related properties in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and North Dakota to Ranger Energy Services for $36.65 million in September 2021; other assets went to Axis Energy Services, Berry Corporation, and Select Energy Services, resulting in significant job reductions and operational wind-down by late 2021. The ticker now trades nominally on OTC markets with minimal market cap, reflecting its post-liquidation status.