Cameron P. Croft

Founder and CEO

Mr. Croft graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology and holds a Master of Science in Technology Project Management with a black belt in Lean Six Sigma. Since 2006, Mr. Croft has served as the founder/CEO of several other natural gas processing companies including Croft Production Systems and Croft Supply. In 2019, Mr. Croft established the Surplus Energy Equipment with a team of engineers that have been in the oil and natural gas industry for over 10 years. He designed this platform to allow clients to see a full line of equipment without having to make phone calls to vendors or spend time searching for quality equipment. His focus now is building relationships with partners and expanding on CROFT's product lines.

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Purring Compressors with FCS

By Cameron P. Croft / March 2, 2017 / 0 Comments

Croft has just installed a Fuel-gas Conditioning System (FCS) for a new client in the Eagleford and is already showing excellent results. The unit, our FCS-500, takes the high pressure/high temperature gas from the discharge of the compressor and cools, separates, dehydrates, reduces the BTU, and reduces the pressure to the required fuel system PSI. The reduction […]

Oil prices explained: Brent vs. WTI

By Cameron P. Croft / January 4, 2017 / 0 Comments

How many of you are guilty of looking up the oil prices at any point this year?  I will gladly say that I have looked up the prices not once or twice, but many times. Sometimes it was out of curiosity and sometimes, it was hope that I would wake up one morning and the price would […]

A Look Back on Oil Industry Crashes

By Cameron P. Croft / December 27, 2016 / 0 Comments

As I have said in many of my previous blogs, I am still pretty new to the Oil & Gas industry. Even though I have been at CROFT a little over two years,  I didn’t get to enjoy much of the industry before it took a turn downhill. Nowadays, it seems most conversations I have […]

Don’t Let the Fear of Low Oil Prices Stop You from Production

By Cameron P. Croft / December 15, 2016 / 0 Comments

In previous blogs, I wrote explaining at what point drilling for oil becomes unprofitable for oil and gas companies, also how companies are optimizing well sites, and in what ways companies have strive to remain as profitable as possible. Despite my pessimistic attitude about the current oil economy, there are some positives and an upside. […]

Solar Energy Plants

By Cameron P. Croft / December 7, 2016 / 0 Comments

I have made this statement before, but will state it again:  Most intelligent people understand that renewable energy, green energy, clean energy or whatever buzzword is current, is a must.  Yes, I agree we need to supplement the power grid in the United States with wind, water, and solar energy.  But, we need it to be […]

New Policies to Cut Emissions

By Cameron P. Croft / November 29, 2016 / 0 Comments

When you were a child, it may have seemed like there were so many rules to follow. Well, because there were! Sometimes (most of the time) those rules just didn’t make sense to you or why your parents had those rules in place. Fast forward to adult life and there are still rules to follow! […]

What is Fracking?

By Cameron P. Croft / November 1, 2016 / 0 Comments

Understanding Hydraulic Fracturing: Demystifying Concerns As we delve deeper into the intricacies of the energy industry, it’s sometimes essential to return to fundamental concepts. While discussions often revolve around regulations, pipeline logistics, and post-wellhead gas treatment, a prevalent inquiry remains centered around hydraulic fracturing, colloquially known as “fracking.” This piece aims to elucidate the process, […]

What are VOCs?

By Cameron P. Croft / October 26, 2016 / 0 Comments

What are VOCs? Anyone? Anyone?  I am sure you have heard that term in some shape or form at some point in your life. Or I am sure you have at least heard of VOCs recently due to all the talk of the new proposal to cut emissions by 45% by 2025! But I am not going […]

Anti Oil & Gas Protesters Supporting Oil

By Cameron P. Croft / September 19, 2016 / 0 Comments

Even though I am new to the oil & gas industry, I have been around it my whole life. I was born and raised in Houston so naturally, oil & gas terminology is nothing that is new to me. It is a HUGE part of Houston and it seems every other person you ask about […]

What All Marcellus Oil and Gas Companies Want

By Cameron P. Croft / August 12, 2016 / 0 Comments

For the past few blogs, I have been drawn towards writing about the Marcellus Shale. I just cannot get enough of this ever increasing natural gas producing shale play!  Well, guess what folks? I got the chance to visit Pennsylvania last week to see what all the hype is about and of course visit some of […]

Presidential Candidate’s Take on Oil

By Cameron P. Croft / July 8, 2016 / 0 Comments

If you have read my blogs before, you know where I stand on my feelings toward the oil and gas industry. Shoot, even if you haven’t read my blogs…I WORK in the industry. It doesn’t take much to figure out how I feel about it. But enough about me!  Today, as I sit and think […]

What is Drilling Mud?

By Cameron P. Croft / June 3, 2016 / 0 Comments

I have done a previous blog before on the fun terms that are used in the oil & gas industry. Some of the terms I knew just by working in the industry but some of them were pretty entertaining and new to me.  Writing about these terms was a fun blog!  One of those terms happened to […]

Moving Oilfield Equipment

By Cameron P. Croft / May 20, 2016 / 0 Comments

In my line of work it is pretty often that some sort of heavy machinery is needed.  Well to be honest, I am not really the one using these big hunks of machinery…I just make sure we have them available. You see…we have some pretty big pieces of equipment and some small. But unless you are Superman, […]

Steps to Drill a Well

By Cameron P. Croft / May 13, 2016 / 0 Comments

For those of you who don’t know, our office is located in a small town outside of Houston. So you can imagine that when anything out of the ordinary happens around here, the whole town knows about it. Something popped up recently that is pretty hard to miss…a drilling rig!  I have been driving past it […]

Who Needs Control?

By Cameron P. Croft / May 9, 2016 / 0 Comments

This week our Guest Blogger is Jacob Jennings, the Business Development Manager at Kimray, Inc. !  Let’s talk about traffic for a minute. In any city, cars, trucks, and buses ebb and flow, stop and start, honk and purr. City governments must use several tools to control the flow of traffic through their street—primarily driving lanes, traffic lights, […]

What Impacts the Price of Natural Gas?

By Cameron P. Croft / April 22, 2016 / 0 Comments

For this week’s blog, I thought I would start off addressing the most talked about topic that seems to be buzzing around lately…GAS PRICES! As a consumer, how awesome has the cheap gas prices been?!  Just yesterday, I filled up my entire tank in my car for only $23. I couldn’t help but smile as […]

Offshore Drilling Off the Table, Again.

By Cameron P. Croft / April 8, 2016 / 0 Comments

Sadly the oil and gas industry took another kick while down this week. The Obama Administration has decided to not open up Atlantic Ocean waters to off shore drilling in 2017.   I read a lot of different things, some dating back to 2005.  Where offshore drilling money goes and how it gets there is very convoluted. […]

Pennsylvania’s $84.5M CNG Contract

By Cameron P. Croft / April 6, 2016 / 0 Comments

Compressed Natural Gas…have you heard of it?  You may have seen it while driving past a gas station that supplied it. We have written blogs before about converting cars to natural gas. This blog, in particular, does a great job explaining what CNG is and how it ties into natural gas cars.  In a short definition, CNG is […]

What is a Plunger Lift?

By Cameron P. Croft / March 29, 2016 / 0 Comments

A plunger lift is an artificial list method of deliquifying a natural gas well. A plunger is used to remove contaminants from productive natural gas wells, such as water, sand, oil, and wax.  The basics of the plunger is to open and close the well shutoff valve at the optimum times, to bring up the plunger and […]

Tax Revenue Deficit from Oil & Gas, Unfortunately Everything is Bigger in Texas

By Cameron P. Croft / March 18, 2016 / 0 Comments

I’m not going to lie to you and say that I haven’t enjoyed the low gas prices.   It has also been nice filling up my Husband’s lifted up  Ford F150 for under 50 bucks.  However, knowing how many friends are without jobs because of the downturn in oil and gas makes my money savings bitter […]

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