Epus Global Energy

CEO and Founder Jeff Johnson leads the firm, as stated on Epus's website. The firm does not publicly list an independent investment committee or additional deal-team principals, suggesting Johnson functions as the key investment decision-maker. No external investment partners are disclosed.

Epus does not publicly detail its deal-sourcing methodology. The firm's marketing focuses on the fundamental thesis — that produced-water volumes in basins like the Permian require expanding disposal capacity — but names no specific landowner relationships, operators, or proprietary origination networks. Sourcing appears to rely on Johnson's industry relationships in Texas.

Epus Global Energy operates as a private equity manager, not a family office. It raises capital externally from individual accredited investors and registered investment advisors through its EGE Preferred Fund, with a $25,000 minimum investment. There is no public indication of a single-family balance sheet behind the firm.

Epus targets operational water infrastructure through preferred equity, specifically saltwater disposal wells that are already in service and generating cash flow. The firm markets a three- to five-year exit horizon and targets 8-10% annual distributions (with a stated potential up to 14% APR). The preferred-equity structure sits above common equity in the capital stack, offering downside protection alongside the SWD asset's fee-for-service revenue.

Epus's public materials emphasize the Permian Basin in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, citing Permian rig counts as a key indicator for produced-water volumes. The firm has not disclosed holdings in other basins such as the Eagle Ford, Bakken, or DJ Basin, though its investment thesis applies broadly to any region with active hydraulic fracturing and rising water cuts.

Epus currently offers its own preferred-equity fund, the EGE Preferred Fund, which pools investor capital for water infrastructure assets. The firm has not disclosed any commitments to external private equity funds, hedge funds, or other GP structures, indicating that investor capital is deployed into direct or co-investment-style water-infrastructure positions rather than through a fund-of-funds model.

Epus structures its thesis around saltwater disposal wells, which earn revenue from disposal fees per barrel of produced water — a service tied to drilling and completion activity rather than oil price. The firm claims its assets are not correlated to the stock market. However, a sustained drop in Permian drilling would likely reduce produced-water volumes and thus SWD utilization, creating indirect commodity-cycle exposure that the firm does not fully quantify publicly.