With the launch of Mountain V Oil & Gas, President and CEO Mike Shaver was gifted with a prediction he’ll never forget from his business partner. The year was 1994. The place, the mountains of W.V. That business partner? Shaver’s dad who put these words into the universe, “If we can make it through the first three years, we got it made.” And, boy, did they.

Reese Energy Consulting today is following the latest from Mountain V, a leading conventional Appalachian oil and gas producer, operating more than 400,000 acres across seven states and 600+ miles of gathering systems primarily in W.V. The company recently expanded its Appalachia assets in Ky., and Tenn. Mountain V is vertically operated, which Shaver believes continues to play a huge role in its 31 years of success with direct involvement in multiple states of the drilling and extraction process. Great investors, mentors, and a sewn-up-tighter-than-a-button internal team have also led to Mountain V’s remarkable achievements. The company to date has drilled 600+ vertical and horizontal wells with 3,100+ in production.

While Mountain V may be cast as a strictly Appalachia producer, Shaver isn’t the kind to be fenced in, not while in a growth mode that maybe even dad couldn’t have predicted. Nope, Mountain V is on a quest to acquire capital and oil and gas assets in South Texas, La., Okla, and the Rockies.