Calcuta Resources is raising $10 million — alongside more than $7 million already committed by the sponsor — as the first tranche of a ~$100 million full-field program at the Squirrel Creek Cottage Grove Unit. The opening phase is a low-risk waterflood pilot across 6,400 contiguous acres in Dewey County, Oklahoma, with 32.5 million barrels of oil originally in place and an internationally recognized oilfield-services firm as technical partner.
Oklahoma classifies oil and gas mineral and working interests as real property eligible for 1031 exchange. The Anadarko Basin contains approximately 23 billion barrels of original oil in place and remains one of the most active conventional and unconventional plays in North America.
Dewey County sits in northwestern Oklahoma, approximately 100 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. The county is squarely within the Anadarko Basin's core producing fairway, with the basin's structural axis running through neighboring Custer County to the south.
The Squirrel Creek Cottage Grove Unit produces from conventional reservoirs at approximately 8,000 feet depth — 40° API oil with established pressure regimes. The geology is not unconventional shale: this is rock that has produced for decades and responds predictably to proven recovery techniques.
The unit was formally established by Oklahoma Corporation Commission Final Order 2023-002608, unitizing 6,400 contiguous acres. The Order is part of the deal data room and is verifiable through Oklahoma state public records.
For investors who think carefully about where their capital goes, SCCGU is built to be the most responsible way to own a producing barrel — and the tax code rewards it.
SCCGU drills no wildcat wells and disturbs no frontier land. The field has produced for decades, with 120 wellbores of production history on record. This program recovers more oil from a field already drilled and proven — the lowest-footprint barrel in the industry.
The CO₂-WAG technique injects carbon dioxide underground to drive oil recovery. That CO₂ stays sequestered in the reservoir, permanently. Over the project's life, we estimate 4 to 6 million tonnes of CO₂ stored — the annual carbon footprint of every one of New York City's 8.3 million residents, for more than a month. Or roughly one million passenger cars taken off the road for a year.†
Investors in SCCGU are not simply chasing an IRR. They are part of a project that makes a meaningful, measurable environmental contribution — carbon stored not as a marketing claim, but as a direct outcome of the recovery technique itself. And the implication runs further: a successful pilot here is a template. The Anadarko Basin alone holds dozens of mature waterflood units that could follow the same CO₂-WAG playbook. SCCGU's role is not only to store its own 4 to 6 million tonnes, but to prove out a model that can be replicated at scale across the basin — a catalyst for the next wave of carbon-storing oil recovery.
Global oil demand is measured in the tens of millions of barrels per day and is not disappearing on any near-term horizon. The responsible position is not to refuse the barrel — it is to make sure it is produced cleanly, by operators who care.
† Order-of-magnitude estimate based on industry-typical CO₂-WAG injection ratios (roughly 0.3 tonnes CO₂ per incremental barrel recovered) applied to the project's upside recovery case. A reservoir-engineered storage estimate will be provided in the independent reserve report. NYC and passenger-vehicle comparisons sourced from U.S. EIA and EPA published data.
Section 45Q of the Internal Revenue Code provides a federal tax credit of approximately $60 per tonne of CO₂ permanently sequestered. Applied to SCCGU's estimated 4 to 6 million tonnes of storage, that represents hundreds of millions in nominal credit value over the project's life. Because SCCGU's CO₂-WAG phase stores carbon as an inherent part of the recovery process, the project is positioned to capture this value — a structural tailwind that conventional oil projects simply do not have. These credits accrue to the project entity and are not modeled in the investor returns shown elsewhere on this page; they represent a separate, additive value stream that may be retained, monetized, or used to fund subsequent phases of development.
An Overriding Royalty Interest — in plain terms, you get paid off the top of revenue, before any costs. You are first in line on every dollar the wells produce.
Calcuta divests a slice of the unit to you at $4,000 per acre. You also fund your proportionate share of the $20M Phase 1 CAPEX, paid upfront at signing. In exchange you hold a direct working interest in the unit — and you participate proportionally in both upsides: land re-rating as the pilot proves up, and oil production cash flow as the wells produce.
Acreage Participation has two return streams. Production cash flow during the hold is one. The other is land re-rating: you enter at $4,000 per acre while the field is unproven, and as the pilot proves recovery, reserve engineers re-classify the acreage from speculative to bankable PUD — and de-risked Anadarko acreage trades at a multiple of the entry price. The bridge below anchors scale against real transactions; it is not a forecast.
| Valuation stage | Comparable transaction | $ / acre | vs. entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your entry — today, pre-pilot | SCCGU unitized acreage, Anadarko Basin (2026) | $4,000 | 1.0× |
| Non-producing acreage benchmark | Delaware Basin (BLM) → Devon — undeveloped & non-producing, contiguous; ~$2.6B / 16,300 acres, largest buy in a record $4B federal auction (2026) | ~$161,500 | 40× |
| Mature waterflood comp | Ring Energy → Wishbone, Permian mature asset (2019) | ~$8,000 | 2.0× |
| De-risked Anadarko comp | Felix I → Devon, Anadarko / STACK, OK (2016) | ~$23,750 | 5.9× |
| Direct waterflood-unit analog | Linn waterflood unit — same 6,400-acre scale, priced on PUD + waterflood upside (2013) | ~$84,000 | 21.0× |
Drawn from ten public-record oil & gas acreage transactions, 2005–2026 (SEC filings, Hart Energy, Reuters, S&P Global, Enverus). The Delaware Basin line is a market benchmark for what a major paid for non-producing, undeveloped acreage — included to show the $4,000 entry is conservative for undrilled land, not a re-rating target for SCCGU. Comps differ from SCCGU in basin, formation, production status, and market timing — the bridge is a way to anchor scale, not a forecast. Actual re-rating depends on pilot performance, reserve-engineer findings, and market conditions at exit. Full comparable transaction analysis is provided in the data room following NDA.
The pilot proves recovery. Independent reserve engineers re-classify the unimproved acreage from speculative to Proved Undeveloped. PUDs are bankable — E&P lenders advance against them.
Once the recovery factor moves from roughly 6% toward 40% on the pilot, the engineer extrapolates that uplift across the connected acreage. Booked reserves on the same dirt jump multiples — without drilling another well.
De-risked Anadarko acreage with proven recovery response is what consolidators pay premiums for. There is a known, active, liquid buyer market for mature waterflood-style units at re-rating.
Outputs based on the Calcuta Resources financial model and Term ORRI coverage analysis. Acreage IRR assumes hold to strategic exit at the indicated exit acreage price plus proportional production cash flow over the hold; see the appreciation framework above for comp anchors. Even the bull case is conservatively anchored — upside scenarios at higher per-acre exit prices, including the full Linn 2013 waterflood-unit analog at $84,000 per acre, are modeled in the data room financial model, available under NDA. The Acreage IRR figures also exclude 45Q tax-credit value, which accrues to the project entity and represents additional, separately-financed upside not in the investor return stream. Indicative only — not a guarantee of return.
Two operators with complementary expertise — one technical, one commercial. Both with capital at risk on this asset.
Led geophysics across Chesapeake's $30B+ unconventional acreage portfolio at peak — covering every major U.S. shale play including the Anadarko Basin. Founder of Integrated Subsurface Technology and Hyena Oil & Gas LLC. Master of Science, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Oklahoma State University.
Two decades operating and investing in energy businesses across Mexico and the United States. Currently CEO of Blue Energy, a top-10 Mexican electricity provider, and Chairman of EIM Capital. Track record of building energy platforms with backing from globally recognized institutional and strategic investors. At Deutsche Bank IB, worked on landmark Mexican IPOs (Aeroméxico, Ienova, Santander México) and M&A exceeding US$5B in transaction value. Partners with best-in-class operators, including an internationally recognized oilfield-services firm, for world-class execution. University of Pennsylvania.
The full investment memorandum, financial model, Term ORRI coverage analysis, comparable transaction analysis, OCC unitization order, and term sheets are released following execution of the mutual NDA.
Franco Hamdan · fhamdan@calcutaresources.com · +52 55 4356 3947
Mark Falk · mark@calcutaresources.com