About Orthwein Energy
150 Years of Oil & Gas Success
The Orthwein Team
Orthwein Energy has been a family business since W.C. McBride founded the company 150 years ago. Even through shifts in ownership, we have always been a family-owned company. Today, our team is small but nimble.
We’re here to partner with you – whether it’s to lease our open acreage or sell your mineral rights to us.
Rick Orthwein
President
Joe Orthwein
Vice President of Land
Nancy Dodson
Landman
Katie Robertson
Controller
Orthwein Energy Timeline
1874
William Cullen McBride founds W.C. McBride, Inc. with the purchase of his first oil and gas interest at the age of 16.
1907
W.C. McBride, Inc. purchases the Braden Oil Co., expanding its operations into Oklahoma and the Illinois Basin.
1908
W.C. McBride, Inc. moves headquarters from Washington, PA to St. Louis, MO.
1909
W.C. McBride makes one of the first discoveries in what becomes the Cushing Field in and around Cushing, OK.
1913
Through a joint venture with J.C. Cullinan and the Texas Company (Texaco), W.C. McBride, Inc. is granted a concession to drill in Tampico, Mexico.
W.C. McBride, Inc. builds a 1.5 Million Barrel storage facility in Osage county to weather an oversupplied market as prices plunge to $0.25/Bbl.
1917
W.C. McBride passes away, leaving behind a company considered to be one of the largest independent oil producers in the country.
1936
W.C. McBride, Inc. takes first leases in what would become the Carthage Field in Panola County, TX.
1938
W.C. McBride, Inc. merges with the Silurian Oil Company and changes its name to the McBride-Silurian Oil Co.
1958
The company drills its first wells in Canada.
1979
W.C. McBride sells its operated properties, retaining its non-operated working interest and minerals.
1990
Rick Orthwein consolidates the ownership of McBride-Silurian Oil Co., becoming sole owner of all the company’s remaining non-operating interests, renaming the company Orthwein Petroleum, Inc.
2005
Orthwein Petroleum, Inc. becomes Orthwein Energy, L.P., shifting focus to mineral and royalty acquisitions.
2024
Orthwein Energy holds interest in 11 states, with 50k net royalty acres and more than 1800 wells and over 100 different payors.
Partnership Over Ownership
At Orthwein, we’re much more than a land company.
Our history is proof that we’re in this for the long haul – and that we do business with integrity and honesty. To that end, we focus on partnership rather than ownership.
Family Owned
150-Year History
Buy & Hold
No Flips
No Middlemen
Self-Funded
150+ Years
of Oil and Gas Performance Since 1874
