W&T Offshore, Inc. is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Houston, Texas. It has operated since 1983 and went public in 2005 under the ticker WTI.
The company’s operations are focused in the Gulf of America (i.e. the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and adjacent shelf waters). It holds working interests in many offshore fields (both shelf and deepwater) and leases hundreds of thousands of gross acres (split between conventional shelf and deeper blocks). W&T often acts as operator on many of its offshore leases and develops stacked pay zones, recompletions, and new prospects as part of its technical execution strategy.
W&T is notable for maintaining a high drilling success rate and evaluating a large pipeline of leads, applying probabilistic and economic evaluation frameworks to select projects. Over its history, W&T has grown via acquisitions—adding shallow and deepwater assets—and by converting non-operatorship interests into operatorship in key fields. Its asset base includes both well-established producing fields and undeveloped potential in deeper zones, with the company leveraging its Gulf technical expertise and infrastructure footprint to optimize value.