ESS

What ESS does

Energy Staffing Services LLC (ESS) is a privately held environmental services contractor founded in approximately 2003 and headquartered in Hobbs, New Mexico. The company delivers a turnkey suite of environmental, construction, and site-maintenance services to oil and gas exploration and production operators across Southeast New Mexico and West Texas (the Permian Basin). Its service portfolio spans primary and secondary containment construction and repair, soil remediation and reclamation (including Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments, groundwater investigations, and stormwater and erosion control), dirt work (well pads, battery pads, lease roads), facility services spanning construction through decommissioning, hydrovac and cleaning services, and 24/7 emergency spill response. ESS also offers supplemental equipment rentals (forklifts, manlifts) and material hauling.

Operationally, ESS is a project-based, quote-priced services firm that deploys company-owned equipment and personnel directly to client sites. Its core technology is field-service execution capability rather than software: certified containment professionals, hydro excavation equipment, and dirt work machinery applied within multi-agency regulatory frameworks (NMOCD, BLM, TRRC, TCEQ). The company handles end-to-end regulatory paperwork submission on behalf of clients, positioning compliance navigation as a central value proposition. Its go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven, relying on direct outreach to oil and gas operators, long-term client relationships, and word-of-mouth referrals within the regional market. The business is closely held by the Denney family (Mike Denney, Owner/CEO; Colton Denney, Head of Finance) with extended leadership (Natalie Gladden, Director/COO; Steve Owens, Sales Manager and Project Manager). No external institutional investors, M&A activity, certifications, or formal partnerships are disclosed.

Name

ESS

Legal name

Energy Staffing Services LLC

Website

https://energystaffingservicesllc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Energy Staffing Services LLC (ESS) is a Hobbs, New Mexico-based environmental services contractor delivering turnkey environmental remediation, containment construction, dirt work, hydrovac, and 24/7 emergency spill response to oil and gas operators across Southeast New Mexico and West Texas.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Services for Oil and Gas

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (541620)

SIC

Oil & Gas Field Services, Nec (1389)

akta.pro primary industry

Energy & Sustainability Management (Energy Audits/Optimization/Carbon & ESG Programs) (IMAIAAAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Emissions Controls & Environmental Retrofit Services (SCR/FGD/ESP, CEMS) (EUAEALAL), ESG Strategy & Materiality Assessment (EUAHAJAA)

Keywords

• Environmental remediation services
• Soil remediation oilfield
• Containment construction oil gas
• Dirt work oilfield
• Hydrovac excavation services

Headquarters

HQ city

Hobbs

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Environmental and Remediation Services: Project-based environmental consulting and field services including soil remediation, delineation, site assessments, and regulatory compliance support for oil and gas operators
2. Construction and Dirt Work Services: Site development services including well pads, battery pads, lease roads, location pad repairs and construction
3. Containment Construction and Repair: Design, build, and repair of containment systems for fluid management in oil and gas operations
4. Hydrovac and Cleaning Services: Pressure washing, debris removal, and hydro excavation services for site maintenance and environmental safety
5. Equipment Rentals and Material Services: Forklift and manlift rentals, material hauling, hot shot services

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Energy Staffing Services LLC (ESS) provides turnkey environmental services, dirt work, and containment construction and repair for oil and gas operators in Southeast New Mexico and West Texas. Offerings span soil remediation, soil reclamation, primary and secondary containment systems, hydrovac excavation, facility services from construction through decommissioning, and 24/7 emergency spill response.

Product overview

Energy Staffing Services LLC (ESS) is an environmental services company offering a unified suite of integrated services for the oil and gas industry. The core offerings include Containments (primary and secondary containment systems), Soil Remediation, Soil Reclamation, Dirt Work (well pads, battery pads, roads), Facility Services, Hydrovac & Cleaning Services, Emergency Spill Response, and Additional Services (wellhead cage installation, location pad repairs). These services work together as turnkey environmental and remediation solutions, providing end-to-end support from site assessment through regulatory closure, serving Southeast New Mexico and West Texas.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Containments

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Republic Services: Republic Services (which acquired US Ecology) provides environmental, waste, and industrial services nationwide including to oil and gas customers, with capabilities in spill response, remediation, and waste handling that overlap with ESS's environmental services.
• Arcosa: Arcosa provides infrastructure-related products and services to energy, transportation, and construction markets, including well pad and site development work that overlaps with ESS's dirt work and facility services for oil and gas.
• Clean Harbors: Clean Harbors is the largest North American provider of environmental and industrial services, including spill response, waste management, and remediation for oil and gas. It overlaps with ESS across nearly every service line but operates at vastly greater scale and geographic reach.
• Tetra Tech: Tetra Tech is a global engineering and environmental consulting firm that performs site assessments, remediation design, and water/environmental work for energy clients. It represents a much larger, more diversified version of ESS's environmental and regulatory services.

Direct peers

• Vertex Resource Services: Vertex provides environmental, regulatory, and field services to upstream oil and gas operators across North America, with overlapping capabilities in site assessment, remediation, and reclamation that closely match ESS's service portfolio.
• TRC Companies: TRC delivers environmental consulting, remediation, and engineering services to energy and industrial clients, with comparable work in site assessments, soil/groundwater remediation, and regulatory compliance support for oil and gas operators.
• Montrose Environmental Group: Montrose provides environmental advisory, testing, and remediation services to oil and gas, industrial, and commercial clients, closely mirroring ESS's soil remediation, site assessment, and regulatory compliance offerings. It serves as a more scaled public-market proxy for ESS's environmental services business.
• Badger Daylighting: Badger is the leading North American hydrovac excavation services provider, directly comparable to ESS's Hydrovac & Cleaning Services line for oil and gas and industrial sites. Both serve similar customers with non-destructive excavation and field service crews.

Regional players

• Select Water Solutions: Select Water Solutions provides water-related and environmental infrastructure services to oil and gas operators concentrated in the Permian Basin and other U.S. shale plays, sharing ESS's regional focus and upstream customer base.

Others

• ProPetro Holding: ProPetro is a Permian-focused oilfield services company providing completions and related services; it is a useful regional peer for understanding Permian basin dynamics and customer base even though its service lines (pressure pumping) differ from ESS's environmental focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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