What Uplift Energy Strategy does

Uplift Energy Strategy (UES) is a Denver-based producer services firm that delivers physical energy marketing, hedge execution, regional fundamentals analytics, and consulting to exploration and production companies. The firm operates with a small, senior team of approximately ten practitioners and provides daily operational management of production volumes from wellhead to point of sale, including gas control, scheduling, imbalance management, invoicing, and short- and long-term sales strategy across natural gas, oil, NGL, and power markets. Its core technology is a proprietary in-house supply, demand, and infrastructure model focused on the operating regions of its clients, paired with custom risk management reporting systems and a suite of back-office tools built in-house to support producer-side gas marketing workflows.

UES is co-founded by Brian Day (Co-Founder & President, former SVP Marketing & Midstream at Jonah Energy) and Josh Kugizaki (Co-Founder & Vice President, former Manager of Fundamentals and Trading at Jonah Energy), with senior strategists and marketers drawn from Ovintiv (formerly Encana), IHS CERA, S&P Global Platts, RBN Energy, Gas South, Freepoint Commodities, Société Générale, RBS Sempra, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The firm is registered as a Commodity Trading Advisor with the CFTC and is a member of the NFA.

The business model is sales-led and relationship-driven: UES sells directly to enterprise E&P producers through engagement- or retainer-based services, conducting a synchronized commodity-exposure discovery and collaborative risk mitigation road map at onboarding, then delivering tailored fundamentals analysis, physical marketing, and hedge execution on an ongoing basis. The firm has disclosed Jonah Energy LLC as a flagship enterprise client (with a public CEO testimonial), and no pricing, revenue figures, or external funding rounds are publicly available.

Name

Uplift Energy Strategy

Legal name

Uplift Energy Strategy

Website

https://upliftenergystrategy.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Uplift Energy Strategy is a Denver-based producer services firm providing physical energy marketing, hedge execution, regional fundamentals analytics, and consulting to enterprise exploration and production companies across natural gas, oil, NGL, and power markets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Energy Producer Services

SIC

Oil & Gas Field Services, Nec (1389)

akta.pro primary industry

Risk Reporting & Performance Management (BI, KPIs, Attribution) (EUAGAJAL)

Keywords

• Energy producer services
• Physical energy marketing
• Hedge execution
• Commodities risk management
• Fundamentals analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Denver

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Producer Services Revenue: Ongoing professional services revenue from providing physical marketing, midstream strategy, hedge execution, and fundamentals analysis to energy producers. Services appear to be delivered through retainer or engagement-based arrangements with dedicated client support.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Uplift Energy Strategy provides outsourced physical energy marketing, hedge execution, midstream strategy support, and proprietary regional fundamentals analytics to energy exploration and production companies. Services span daily operational management of production volumes (scheduling, imbalance management, invoicing) from wellhead to point of sale, plus tailored risk management road maps that translate macro and regional supply/demand analysis into actionable physical and financial recommendations.

Product overview

Uplift Energy Strategy is a producer services firm offering a unified suite of energy marketing and risk management services. The core offerings comprise Physical Marketing & Optimization (handling daily operations of production volumes from wellhead to sale), Hedge Strategy & Execution (financial risk management and hedge execution), Fundamentals Analytics (proprietary regional market analysis driving recommendations), and Consulting & Project Services (ad hoc analysis and midstream contract support). These services work together as an integrated 'in-house' level offering, with fundamentals analysis informing hedge and physical marketing recommendations, and all tied together through collaborative risk management road maps developed for each client.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Physical Marketing & Optimization Daily operational management of energy production volumes from wellhead to point of sale, including gas control, scheduling, imbalance management, and short- and long-term sales strategy optimization across natural gas, oil, and NGL. Delivered as a dedicated service to energy exploration and production companies seeking outsourced, in-house level marketing operations.
• Hedge Strategy & Execution Financial market risk management service for energy producers covering hedge recommendations based on exposure profiles and risk appetite, counterparty onboarding, confirms management, and hedge exposure reporting to protect cash flows and maintain operational consistency.
• Fundamentals Analytics Proprietary regional supply, demand, and infrastructure analysis for energy markets that generates client-specific risk management road maps and actionable hedge and physical sales recommendations, supported by an in-house supply model and risk management reporting systems.
• Consulting & Project Services Ad hoc market analysis, fundamental deep-dives, midstream contract evaluation and negotiation, and acquisition/divestiture evaluation from a market perspective, delivered to energy producers and other energy value chain clients.

Quantifiable outcome

• Created long-term value supporting and supplementing core operating business for Jonah Energy LLC

Named customers1 record

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 indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Energy Aspects: Independent energy market research firm focused on fundamentals and price forecasting for oil, natural gas and NGLs; competes with UES for producer-side fundamentals budgets at a similar specialty scale.

Broad incumbents

• Vitol: Largest independent energy commodity trader with deep North American producer services across crude, gas and NGLs; serves as a scale benchmark for what UES could become with significant growth.
• Mercuria Energy Trading: Global commodity trader with integrated producer services across crude, NGLs and natural gas; offers comparable physical marketing and risk management at substantially larger scale than UES.
• Tenaska: Privately-held energy company with a marketing/trading arm serving producers and large energy users; competes in the same physical marketing and hedge execution niche as UES, but from a much larger asset base.
• Wood Mackenzie: Large-scale energy research and consulting firm serving E&P clients with regional fundamentals, supply/demand and price forecasting; competes most directly with UES' Fundamentals Analytics, but as part of a much wider research portfolio.
• S&P Global Commodity Insights: Major commodity data and analytics provider (including legacy Platts) where UES Senior Strategist Jeff Campbell previously consulted; offers overlapping regional supply/demand and benchmark pricing analytics for producers worldwide.
• IHS Markit (now part of S&P Global): Legacy energy research and consulting franchise (incorporating IHS CERA where Jeff Campbell worked) offering E&P-focused fundamentals and strategic consulting; competes with UES at the high end of analytics and consulting engagements.

Direct peers

• Freepoint Commodities: Independent physical and financial commodities marketer with deep producer services exposure; Brian Day previously held leadership positions at Freepoint, making it one of the closest analog firms for UES' integrated model.
• RBN Energy: Boutique energy market fundamentals and analytics firm publishing production forecasts and regional deep-dives; UES' John Zanner led crude oil fundamentals at RBN, making it a strong analog on the analytics side of the business.
• Castleton Commodities International: Mid-sized integrated physical and financial commodity merchant with significant North American natural gas and NGL producer services; closely comparable to UES in target market and integrated offering.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/uplift_energy
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/upliftenergystrategy

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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