Michigan Oil And Gas Association

What Michigan Oil And Gas Association does

Michigan Oil and Gas Association (MOGA) is a private nonprofit trade association founded in 1934 (per firmographics) / 1935 (per company history) and headquartered at 124 W Allegan St., Ste 1610, Lansing, Michigan. It represents Michigan's petroleum industry across the full value chain — exploration, drilling, production, transportation, processing, and storage of crude oil and natural gas — serving oil and gas producers, drilling and well-servicing contractors, refiners, processors, transporters, geologists, geophysicists, petroleum engineers, landmen, and environmental service companies operating in the state.

The association's core products are membership services, the Michigan Oil & Gas News (MOGN) magazine — published twice monthly in print since January 2022 with digital drilling-activity updates — the annual MOGA Petroleum Directory, and the paid electronic reference 'Michigan's Oil & Gas Story: County by County.' It also operates advocacy infrastructure including MOGA-PAC, state and federal issue tracking (including the Inflation Reduction Act), scholarship and education endowment programs, and an industry events calendar. Technology footprint is a standard association website with a member portal powered by memberclicks; no public API or proprietary platform is documented.

MOGA generates revenue through annual membership dues (recurring, terms undisclosed), MOGN print and digital subscriptions and advertising (recurring), and one-time electronic publication sales (e.g., $25 perpetual PDF license for the County by County volume). Go-to-market is sales-led via advocacy, events, and publications targeting enterprise members within a single-state, single-vertical footprint.

Name

Michigan Oil And Gas Association

Legal name

Michigan Oil and Gas Association

Website

https://michiganoilandgas.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1935

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Michigan Oil and Gas Association (MOGA) is a Lansing-based nonprofit trade association founded in 1934 that represents Michigan's petroleum industry — producers, contractors, refiners, and service companies — through membership dues, advocacy, events, and the Michigan Oil & Gas News publication.

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Headquarters

HQ city

Lansing

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Fees: Annual membership dues from oil and gas producers, service companies, contractors, and other industry stakeholders in Michigan.
2. Publications and Advertising: Revenue from Michigan Oil & Gas News (MOGN) magazine subscriptions and advertisements, reaching producers, service companies, and decision-makers in print and digital formats.
3. Publications Sales: Sale of the Michigan Oil & Gas Story: County by County historical publication ($25 electronic license) and Petroleum Directory.

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Core offering

Michigan Oil and Gas Association (MOGA) is a nonprofit trade association that represents Michigan's petroleum industry across exploration, drilling, production, transportation, processing, and storage of crude oil and natural gas. It delivers collective advocacy at the state and federal level, industry education, scholarships, networking events, and information services, and sells industry publications including the Michigan Oil & Gas News (MOGN) twice-monthly magazine (with digital drilling updates), the annual MOGA Petroleum Directory, and the historical reference 'Michigan's Oil & Gas Story: County by County.' Membership is open to producers, service companies, drilling contractors, refiners, geologists, petroleum engineers, landmen, and environmental service companies operating in Michigan.

Product overview

Michigan Oil and Gas Association offers a portfolio of membership-based services and industry publications centered on advocacy and information sharing for Michigan's petroleum sector. The core offerings include the Michigan Oil & Gas News (MOGN) publication (a twice-monthly print and digital magazine), the annual MOGA Membership Directory (Petroleum Directory) listing industry members, and the specialized historical reference 'Michigan's Oil & Gas Story: County by County' PDF publication. These products are complemented by membership services encompassing advocacy, educational resources, scholarships, and industry events.

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Brands

• Michigan Oil & Gas News (MOGN): Official publication of MOGA, serving Michigan's oil and gas industry for over 90 years. Published twice monthly in print format with digital drilling activity updates.

Products and services

• MOGA Membership Services Annual association membership for Michigan's petroleum industry, providing access to advocacy at the state and federal level, industry events, educational resources, scholarships (Education Endowment, Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund), fact sheets, MOGA-PAC, networking, and member communications. Open to oil and gas producers, service companies, drilling contractors, refiners, geologists, petroleum engineers, landmen, and environmental service companies operating in Michigan.
• Michigan Oil & Gas News (MOGN) The official publication of MOGA, serving Michigan's oil and gas industry for over 90 years. Published twice a month in print, with digital drilling activity updates between issues. Offers print and digital subscriptions and advertising slots targeting producers, service companies, contractors, and decision-makers in the Michigan petroleum sector.
• MOGA Petroleum Directory (Membership Directory) Annual directory listing MOGA members across the Michigan petroleum industry, including oil and gas producers, drilling contractors, service companies, refiners, geologists, petroleum engineers, landmen, and environmental service companies. Includes a Michigan Oil and Gas regulations appendix.
• Michigan's Oil & Gas Story: County by County (PDF publication) A 248-page electronic (PDF, ~372 MB) volume chronicling the century-old search for oil and gas in Michigan, organized alphabetically by county, with each Michigan county petroleum history profile, decade-by-decade historical narrative, production graphs, and maps. Available as a one-time electronic license at $25 per copy, purchased online or via mail-order check.

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Recent moves5 records

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Direct peers

• Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA): National trade association for independent U.S. oil and gas producers. Provides the federal-level advocacy complement to state associations like MOGA; overlapping membership and parallel PAC, publications, and education programs.
• Kentucky Oil and Gas Association: Kentucky state-level oil and gas trade association with the same producer/contractor membership model and advocacy mission. Closest direct structural peer in another Appalachian-adjacent state.
• Ohio Oil and Gas Association: Ohio-based state trade association serving oil and gas producers and service companies with advocacy, education, and networking. Nearly identical member mix and value proposition to MOGA in an adjacent state.
• Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Association (PIOGA): State-level independent oil and gas trade association representing Pennsylvania producers, drillers, and service companies. Same operating model — advocacy, publications, PAC, events — applied to a different state's upstream constituency.
• Texas Oil & Gas Association (TXOGA): Texas state oil and gas association — the largest state-level trade body in the U.S. upstream sector. Same advocacy + publications model, scaled to a much larger industry footprint, useful for benchmarking MOGA's structural ceiling.

Broad incumbents

• American Petroleum Institute (API): The largest and most established U.S. oil and gas trade association. Operates the same advocacy-plus-publications-plus-standards model at national scale, competing for the same member attention and dues dollars.

Regional players

• Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP): Canadian national upstream trade association. Same advocacy + publications + member-services operating model as MOGA, but at national scale and across a different regulatory jurisdiction.
• Western Energy Alliance: Regional trade association representing upstream operators in the U.S. Western states. Comparable advocacy and publications chassis, but focused on a different geographic basin and member base than MOGA.

Others

• Michigan Chamber of Commerce: Broad-based Michigan state business association. Not a direct competitor on oil and gas advocacy, but competes for the same Michigan C-suite dues dollars and lobbying attention from MOGA's overlapping member companies.
• National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA): National trade association for the offshore oil and gas industry. Adjacent upstream advocacy model — not a direct competitor because Michigan is onshore — but a useful peer for understanding broader industry-association operating mechanics.

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Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

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Investors

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