The David Goodnight Scholarship is a $1,000 scholarship awarded to one applicant who is enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program. This educational award is provided by the Goodnight Group, located in Austin, Texas.
Starting out as a privately owned energy commodity trading company, the organization is now diversified across multiple areas, including real estate, energy, trading, logistics, EP&C, and Capital capabilities. The Goodnight Group highlights their current focus areas, which include oil field development, private and government aviation, early-stage capital, defense, midstream energy, and commercial real estate development.
The Goodnight Group was founded in 2001 by Austin Native, David Goodnight. Goodnight shares a strong historical connection to the area, through his relation to Charles Goodnight – one of the most renowned ranchers and Texas Rangers in US history. Read more about Charles Goodnight here.
The real estate division of The Goodnight Group has been intricately involved in all facets of the real estate industry; including the purchasing, sub-dividing, rehabilitation, ground-up construction, development and management of all projects.
Our energy operations are primarily focused on using unique and unconventional discovery and development techniques for all onshore natural gas and oil field operations within the United States, Asia, and South America.
The Goodnight Group’s Commodity division is an active participant
across a wide spectrum of global energy markets; including, crude oil and refined petroleum products, natural gas (including LNG), power, coal, biodiesel, vegetable oils and carbon emissions.
While still a small fraction of Goodnight Group operations, our logistics company is steadily growing. We do not broker logistic services, but we are pleased to refer trusted operators. All of our trucks run full time to committed lanes and are rarely available.
We have successfully connected governments, private corporations, state-owned contractors and financial institutions for more than 7 years.
The Goodnight Group Investment Division has provided start-up and growth capital to emerging companies for over a decade.
When acquiring your own aircraft or growing your commercial fleet there are many critical considerations to be made, most importantly is a careful evaluation of what the aircraft’s mission will be, as well as the budget requirements.
We are aggressively seeking all operating and future build midstream energy opportunities with a specific focus on pipelines, gathering, terminals, storage, and distribution.