Gulf Coast Oil & Gas Co. is an oil and natural gas company, founded by Howell Spear in the early 1970s and incorporated in 1980. Based in Midland, TX, the Company engages in the exploration, development, and acquisition of domestic oil and gas reserves in the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford shale, and Austin Chalk areas of Southeast Texas. It also operates throughout the Gulf of Mexico, providing comprehensive gathering, transportation, compression, storage, fractionation, and marketing