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Key Oil

One sponsor team, 5 deal companies · Weston, WV

Grouped because: 1 shared person, same business address (5 issuers), similar issuer names (5) (automatic match from the filings) · not the same sponsor?

5deal companies
$231Kreported sold
2investors
5Form D filings
2012–2014active
0new, last 12 mo
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Data last updated Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET · Latest filing in this group Apr 21, 2014 · Courts (RECAP) last checked: Oct 24, 2026, 2:16 AM ET · SEC enforcement last checked: covered by the index scan as of Oct 24, 2026, 2:50 AM ET

The short version

Key Oil is a sponsor group of 5 issuers that PartnerFacts links to one sponsor (shared people, same business address, similar issuer names; automatic match from the filings), filing 5 Form D filings between Jul 2012 and Apr 2014.

What this means One team, 5 deal companies, about 2 years of track record in SEC filings. We link the companies because the same people or address appear on their forms — tap "Request a correction" if that is wrong.

Combined reported sold: $231K to 2 investors (latest filing per issuer). Industries as reported: Oil and Gas (5). Issuers are based in WV (5).

What this means $231K raised across the group, about $116K per investor. Amounts come from each company's latest Form D; they are what the sponsor reported, not audited figures.

Principal people: JAN E Chapman (5 issuers, executive officer and director) and E KEY OIL (1 issuer, promoter, entity).

What this means 5 deals for a two-person team on paper. The person on the most companies is usually the one running the show; their page lists every deal.

Activity: 0 new offerings in the last 12 months; latest filing Apr 21, 2014.

What this means No new raise filed in the past year.

Public records searched: federal courts (CourtListener / RECAP), SEC enforcement releases, state securities regulators (AZ, CA, DE, TX, WA), property records (NYC, FL, IL and TX counties) — 2 court cases matching the name, 7 bankruptcy cases matching the name listed in Key records below.

What this means 9 records came back. Each one is listed below with a link to the original document and a line saying why it matched. A name match is not proof it is the same person or company — read the why line and the document. Being sued or named in a release is an accusation, not a finding.

We compared 5 public filings for Key Oil and found 4 differences: Form D filed 55 days after the first sale; Form D filed 44 days after the first sale; and more below.

What this means These are differences between the sponsor's own SEC filings — both values, dates and sources are listed in Key records, section 4. Most have ordinary explanations; ask the sponsor.

What the community is saying

Community search for Key Oil has not run yet — it is joining a line of 6,025 names; searches run around the clock at the hosts' allowed rate. Searched so far: 27 names.

Community comments are quoted as written by their authors. Sources searched: BiggerPockets forums (via DuckDuckGo, Brave, Bing and BiggerPockets search) and Reddit (search feed + public archive).

Key records

Five things investors ask first. Items still in human review are counted, not shown.

1. Lawsuits

2 cases: 1 dismissed, 1 closed (disposition not in docket feed)

Cumpston v. Key Oil Company dismissed matched at sponsor-group level (Key Oil)
District Court, N.D. West Virginia · No. 1:14-cv-00093 · Filed Jun 3, 2014 · Closed Jun 20, 2014 · Nature of suit: 190 Other contract actions · Cause: 28:1332 Diversity-Contract Dispute
Role of Key Oil Company: Defendant · Outcome: Terminated 2014-06-20 — FJC Integrated Database disposition: Dismissed: settled Docket on CourtListener ↗
exact company name; court in the group's state (WV)
Western Reserve Oil & Gas Company, Ltd. v. Key Oil, Inc. closed matched at sponsor-group level (Key Oil)
District Court, S.D. West Virginia · No. 6:83-cv-00105 · Filed Aug 4, 1983 · Closed Aug 4, 1983
Role of Key Oil, Inc.: Defendant · Outcome: Terminated 1983-08-04 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗
exact company name; court in the group's state (WV); filed 1983, issuer incorporated 2012
What was searched

Sources searched: CourtListener bulk data (RECAP dockets as of 2026-09-30; recall-first rule 10-24) — federal district + bankruptcy courts State courts: not covered (one-tap state court links under Look further). PACER: not searched. · Last checked Oct 24, 2026, 2:16 AM ET.

Court records show docket facts only; we never restate allegations as facts. Outcome wording comes from the docket feed; where it does not state a disposition we say so.

State courts: not covered (one-tap state court links under Look further). No state offers a lawful automated statewide source PartnerFacts can use today. Texas (re:SearchTX) terms prohibit storing results in a database open to third parties; New York (WebCivil) and Massachusetts (MassCourts) require a browser check that blocks scripted queries; California has no statewide index (58 county portals; Rule of Court 2.503 grants name-based access case by case); Florida, Utah and Illinois offer paid or partial access whose terms for automated use are unverified. Washington (dw.courts.wa.gov; bulk index reports under a JISC data-dissemination agreement), Delaware (CourtConnect; Court of Chancery not included) and Arizona (apps.azcourts.gov/publicaccess, which has an official channel to request high-volume access) are the candidates; PartnerFacts will request written permission before any automated search. Federal courts are searched through CourtListener / RECAP.

2. Regulatory actions

None found in sources searched — SEC enforcement releases (index scan as of Oct 24, 2026, 2:50 AM ET) · state securities regulators: AZ, CA, DE, TX, WA (crawled Oct 23, 2026)

What was searched

SEC enforcement searched: SEC litigation releases and administrative proceedings — respondent names in the sec.gov index titles (30,205 releases, 1995-09-19 to 2026-10-23); release text is read only to confirm a candidate. Names that appear only in the body of a release are not found. — Searched SEC litigation releases and administrative proceedings (1995→ / 2007→) (30,205 records as of Oct 24, 2026, 2:50 AM ET) — nothing matched Key Oil..

State securities regulators searched: AZ (Corporation Commission Securities Division), CA (DFPI — 16 of 12,159 DFPI respondent pages read so far; sponsor-name matches are read first), DE (DOJ Investor Protection Unit), TX (State Securities Board), WA (DFI) — last crawled Oct 23, 2026, 9:57 PM ET. Other states are not covered.

3. Bankruptcies

7 cases: 7 closed (disposition not in docket feed)

Eugene I. Davis, as Litigation Trustee for the Que v. Keystops, LLC dba Key Oil Company, Inc. closed matched at sponsor-group level (Key Oil)
United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. New York · No. 10-01089 · Filed Jan 11, 2010 · Closed Aug 23, 2011
Role of Eugene I. Davis, as Litigation Trustee for the Que v. Keystops, LLC dba Key Oil Company, Inc.: Party · Outcome: Case closed 2011-08-23 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗
company name words appear in the caption; court in NY (not the issuer's state)
Alamo Rent A Car LLC, National Car Rental Systems v. Key Oil Co. A division of Keystops, Inc. closed
United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Delaware · No. 03-57601 · Filed Nov 5, 2003 · Closed Sep 10, 2004
Role of Alamo Rent A Car LLC, National Car Rental Systems v. Key Oil Co. A division of Keystops, Inc.: Party · Outcome: Case closed 2004-09-10 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗
company name words appear in the caption; court in DE (not the issuer's state)
Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors on Behal v. Keystops, LLC, d/b/a Key Oil Company closed matched at sponsor-group level (Key Oil)
United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · No. 03-02625 · Filed Sep 15, 2003 · Closed Dec 10, 2003
Role of Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors on Behal v. Keystops, LLC, d/b/a Key Oil Company: Party · Outcome: Case closed 2003-12-10 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗
company name words appear in the caption; court in PA (not the issuer's state)
OFFICIAL COMMITTEE OF UNSECURED CREDITORS v. KEY OIL CO. closed
United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Arizona · No. 2:01-ap-00269 · Filed Apr 17, 2001 · Closed Aug 16, 2001
Role of KEY OIL CO.: Defendant · Outcome: Case closed 2001-08-16 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗
exact company name; court in AR (not the issuer's state)
Key Oil Company v. Edwards closed
United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Kentucky · No. 97-04022 · Filed Mar 27, 1997 · Closed Jul 31, 1997
Role of Key Oil Company: Plaintiff · Outcome: Case closed 1997-07-31 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗
exact company name; court in KY (not the issuer's state)
Schilling v. Key Oil Company closed matched at sponsor-group level (Key Oil)
United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Kentucky · No. 93-03115 · Filed Sep 8, 1993 · Closed Jul 21, 1994
Role of Key Oil Company: Defendant · Outcome: Case closed 1994-07-21 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗
exact company name; court in KY (not the issuer's state); filed 1993, issuer incorporated 2012
Jones Truck Lines, Inc. v. Key Oil-Nashville closed matched at sponsor-group level (Key Oil)
United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Arkansas · No. 5:92-ap-08547 · Filed Jun 11, 1992 · Closed Oct 21, 1992
Role of Jones Truck Lines, Inc. v. Key Oil-Nashville: Party · Outcome: Case closed 1992-10-21 (disposition not included in the bulk docket feed — see docket) Docket on CourtListener ↗
company name words appear in the caption; court in AR (not the issuer's state)
What was searched

Sources searched: Federal bankruptcy courts via CourtListener / RECAP archive (federal district courts, federal bankruptcy courts). State courts: not covered (one-tap state court links under Look further). PACER: not searched (RECAP only). · Last checked Oct 24, 2026, 2:16 AM ET.

Court records show docket facts only; we never restate allegations as facts. Outcome wording comes from the docket feed; where it does not state a disposition we say so.

State courts: not covered (one-tap state court links under Look further). No state offers a lawful automated statewide source PartnerFacts can use today. Texas (re:SearchTX) terms prohibit storing results in a database open to third parties; New York (WebCivil) and Massachusetts (MassCourts) require a browser check that blocks scripted queries; California has no statewide index (58 county portals; Rule of Court 2.503 grants name-based access case by case); Florida, Utah and Illinois offer paid or partial access whose terms for automated use are unverified. Washington (dw.courts.wa.gov; bulk index reports under a JISC data-dissemination agreement), Delaware (CourtConnect; Court of Chancery not included) and Arizona (apps.azcourts.gov/publicaccess, which has an official channel to request high-volume access) are the candidates; PartnerFacts will request written permission before any automated search. Federal courts are searched through CourtListener / RECAP.

4. Differences between public sources

No comparisons published

What is compared

No public statement by this sponsor group has been collected yet, so there is nothing to compare. Sources compared: the sponsor's own website (known from the issuer's own filings — Form C issuer website, EDGAR company profile — an approved profile claim or Form ADV Item 1.I of its matched adviser) · SEC Form D · SEC Form ADV (IAPD) · Internet Archive · No website is on file for this sponsor group yet.

4 differences found between the filings for Key Oil (compared 5 filings on Oct 24, 2026)

Note · May 23, 2012 – Jul 17, 2012

Form D filed 55 days after the first sale — KEY OIL CO 2012-1A JOINT VENTURE

The filing says the first sale was May 23, 2012. The Form D was filed Jul 17, 2012 — 55 days later. The rule: a Form D is generally due within 15 days after the first sale, so this one is 40 days past that.

What this means A late notice is common and carries no penalty by itself. It is worth asking the sponsor why the paperwork lagged.

Form D · Jul 17, 2012 ↗KEY OIL CO 2012-1A JOINT VENTURE — PartnerFacts page ↗
Sources
Note · May 23, 2012 – Jul 6, 2012

Form D filed 44 days after the first sale — KEY OIL Co

The filing says the first sale was May 23, 2012. The Form D was filed Jul 6, 2012 — 44 days later. The rule: a Form D is generally due within 15 days after the first sale, so this one is 29 days past that.

What this means A late notice is common and carries no penalty by itself. It is worth asking the sponsor why the paperwork lagged.

Form D · Jul 6, 2012 ↗KEY OIL Co — PartnerFacts page ↗
Sources
Note · May 23, 2012 – Jul 17, 2012

No amendment in the last 12 months on an offering that may still be open — KEY OIL CO 2012-1A JOINT VENTURE (latest filing Jul 17, 2012)

The latest filing for this offering is dated Jul 17, 2012 (first sale May 23, 2012). It reports $210,000 sold of $2,100,000 offered. No later amendment is in our index as of Oct 24, 2026.

What this means SEC rules expect a yearly amendment while an offering is still going. The raise may simply have ended — a Form D does not say when it closed. Ask the sponsor whether the offering closed, when, and at what amount.

Form D · Jul 17, 2012 ↗KEY OIL CO 2012-1A JOINT VENTURE — PartnerFacts page ↗
Sources
Note · May 23, 2012 – Jul 6, 2012

No amendment in the last 12 months on an offering that may still be open — KEY OIL Co (latest filing Jul 6, 2012)

The latest filing for this offering is dated Jul 6, 2012 (first sale May 23, 2012). It reports $21,000 sold of $2,100,000 offered. No later amendment is in our index as of Oct 24, 2026.

What this means SEC rules expect a yearly amendment while an offering is still going. The raise may simply have ended — a Form D does not say when it closed. Ask the sponsor whether the offering closed, when, and at what amount.

Form D · Jul 6, 2012 ↗KEY OIL Co — PartnerFacts page ↗
Sources
What is compared

What is compared: every Form D and D/A we hold for this subject, side by side — filing dates vs. first-sale dates (the 15-day rule), amendment timing on open offerings (the yearly-amendment expectation), amounts sold, investor counts, offering amounts and minimums across amendments, industry and size bands, addresses, how each person's name and role is written, paid sellers' CRD numbers, and (for groups) where the member companies were formed and sit. Everything is as filed by the issuer; the SEC does not check it. Differences are common and usually have ordinary explanations — we show both values, the dates, and the source so you can ask. As of Oct 24, 2026.

5. Money to insiders

None reported on 5 offerings — no sales commissions, finder's fees or proceeds to insiders

Per-offering detail
Offering (latest filing)Sales commissionsFinder's feesTo insidersPaid to sell itSource
Apr 21, 2014 D
KEY OIL CO 2014-1A DRILLING PROGRAM
File 021-215938
$0 (est.)$0$0None listed on this filingEDGAR ↗
Apr 25, 2013 D
KEY OIL CO 2013-1A DRILLING PROGRAM
File 021-195540
$0$0$0None listed on this filingEDGAR ↗
Aug 9, 2012 D
KEY OIL CO 2012-2A JOINT VENTURE DRILLING PROGRAM
File 021-182473
$0$0$0None listed on this filingEDGAR ↗
Jul 17, 2012 D
KEY OIL CO 2012-1A JOINT VENTURE
File 021-181368
$0$0$0None listed on this filingEDGAR ↗
Jul 6, 2012 D
KEY OIL Co
File 021-180806
$0$0$0None listed on this filingEDGAR ↗

Counts come from Form D Items 12–15 on the filings in our index (latest filing per offering; one offering = one SEC file number; an amendment updates its offering rather than adding one). "To insiders" = gross proceeds used for payments to executive officers, directors or promoters. "—" = not reported on that filing. Amounts marked (est.) were reported as estimates. "Paid to sell it" = sales compensation recipients named on that filing (Item 12), each linked to FINRA BrokerCheck when a CRD number is reported.

Counted across all 5 issuers in this group — every filing in our index, latest filing per offering (SEC file number).

Property records 0 documents · 0 ownership records · last checked Oct 23, 2026, 8:59 PM ET · NYC and Cook County lookup still to run

0 recorded documents and 0 ownership records matched to Key Oil in the sources searched.

Not found in sources searched as of Oct 23, 2026, 8:59 PM ET: Hillsborough County FL Clerk of Court Official Records daily index (publicrec.hillsclerk.com D/P/M files), 2 daily files (Oct 14, 2026 to Oct 15, 2026) — loaded Oct 23, 2026, 8:59 PM ET; Florida DOR NAL roll (Hillsborough 39) roll year 2026 — loaded Oct 23, 2026, 8:54 PM ET; Florida DOR NAL roll (Dade 23) roll year 2026 — loaded Oct 23, 2026, 8:58 PM ET; Harris County Appraisal District real_acct.txt roll year 2026 — loaded Oct 23, 2026, 8:58 PM ET; Dallas Central Appraisal District ACCOUNT_INFO.CSV roll year 2026 — loaded Oct 23, 2026, 8:58 PM ET. Still to be looked up for this group: NYC ACRIS via NYC Open Data (Real Property Parties 636b-3b5g, Master bnx9-e6tj, Legals 8h5j-fqxa, Document Control Codes 7isb-wh4c) · NYC PLUTO ownership via NYC Open Data (64uk-42ks) · Cook County IL Assessor via Cook County Open Data (Parcel Sales wvhk-k5uv; Parcel Addresses 3723-97qp). Records in other counties, and recorder indexes we do not yet cover, were not searched.

Property records coverage: New York City (ACRIS recorded documents and PLUTO ownership, looked up per issuer when its page is viewed; re-checked when the page is viewed again more than 30 days after the last check); Hillsborough County FL (recorded documents from Oct 14, 2026 forward; ownership from FL DOR roll 2026); Cook County IL (assessor ownership and deed/sale records, looked up per issuer when its page is viewed); Harris County TX and Dallas County TX (assessor ownership rolls only, 2026 roll; no deed, mortgage or sale records); Miami-Dade County FL (ownership from FL DOR roll only; Clerk recorded documents not covered). Recorder indexes for TX, AZ, IL and WA counties, mortgages and liens outside NYC and FL, lis pendens and foreclosure notices everywhere, Miami-Dade County FL recorded documents, Maricopa County AZ, King County WA, Salt Lake County UT, and all other counties are not covered — not searched. Last refresh by source: Hillsborough County FL Clerk daily index Oct 23, 2026, 8:59 PM ET; Dallas Central Appraisal District ACCOUNT_INFO.CSV Oct 23, 2026, 8:58 PM ET; Harris County Appraisal District real_acct.txt Oct 23, 2026, 8:58 PM ET; Florida DOR NAL roll (Dade 23) Oct 23, 2026, 8:58 PM ET; Florida DOR NAL roll (Hillsborough 39) Oct 23, 2026, 8:54 PM ET. NYC and Cook County are looked up per issuer when its page is viewed; the most recent such lookup on this site finished Oct 24, 2026, 3:30 AM ET. Parties are named as the recorder's index names them (role suffixes as recorded); no address, account number or trust date is shown for an individual, and individual owners of record (home ownership) are not matched or shown. Items still in human review are not shown.

Issuers in this group

Why each issuer is here is stated in the "Linked by" column. Low-confidence links are never shown — they wait for human review.

SourceIssuerLinked byLocationIndustryFilingsSold (max)InvestorsMin. investment (latest filing)Active
EDGAR ↗KO KEY OIL Coshared people, same business address, similar issuer namesWESTON, WVOil and Gas1$21,0001$21,0002012–2012
EDGAR ↗KO KEY OIL CO 2012-1A JOINT VENTUREshared people, same business address, similar issuer namesWESTON, WVOil and Gas1$210,0001$21,0002012–2012
EDGAR ↗KO KEY OIL CO 2012-2A JOINT VENTURE DRILLING PROGRAMshared people, same business address, similar issuer namesWESTON, WVOil and Gas1$00$21,0002012–2012
EDGAR ↗KO KEY OIL CO 2013-1A DRILLING PROGRAMshared people, same business address, similar issuer namesWESTON, WVOil and Gas1$00$25,0002013–2013
EDGAR ↗KO KEY OIL CO 2014-1A DRILLING PROGRAMshared people, same business address, similar issuer namesWESTON, WVOil and Gas1$0
offering $2,620,000 · similar: $1,050,000–$13,125,000
0
similar: 3–19
$26,200
similar: $11,000–$62,888
2014–2014

"Similar" = offerings in the same industry claiming the same exemption, filed in the last 5 years: Oil and Gas / 506(b) (1,000 filings); ranges are the middle half (25th–75th percentile). Computed by PartnerFacts from SEC EDGAR Form D data as of Oct 23, 2026, 5:45 PM ET. Rows without a range: fewer than 30 comparable filings, or not a Rule 506 offering. No ranking or score.

Timeline of offerings

SourceFiledIssuerFormIndustryOfferedSold
EDGAR ↗Apr 21, 2014KEY OIL CO 2014-1A DRILLING PROGRAMDOil and Gas$2,620,000$0
EDGAR ↗Apr 25, 2013KEY OIL CO 2013-1A DRILLING PROGRAMDOil and Gas$2,500,000$0
EDGAR ↗Aug 9, 2012KEY OIL CO 2012-2A JOINT VENTURE DRILLING PROGRAMDOil and Gas$2,100,000$0
EDGAR ↗Jul 17, 2012KEY OIL CO 2012-1A JOINT VENTUREDOil and Gas$2,100,000$210,000
EDGAR ↗Jul 6, 2012KEY OIL CoDOil and Gas$2,100,000$21,000

Activity: 0 new offerings in the last 12 months across all issuers in this group (new offering = a Form D that is not an amendment, D/A) · most recent filing Apr 21, 2014. Industry history, as reported on each offering's latest filing: All 5 offerings reported: Oil and Gas (2012–2014).

People across the group

NameRolesIssuers hereFirst → last listed
JC JAN E CHAPMANExecutive Officer, Director5Jul 6, 2012 → Apr 21, 2014
EK E KEY OIL entityPromoter1Aug 9, 2012 → Aug 9, 2012

Adviser registration (Form ADV)

Searched SEC Form ADV bulk data (registered + exempt reporting advisers) (24,962 records as of Oct 2, 2026, 8:00 AM ET) — nothing matched Key Oil.

Meta advertising

No Meta Pixel ids or Facebook / Instagram page links on file for Key Oil as of Oct 24, 2026 — the sponsor website is read for them once it is on file (runs automatically). Meta Ad Library: not searched by PartnerFacts (no API access); a one-tap Ad Library search is under Look further.

Other offering types (Regulation A and Regulation Crowdfunding)

Searched SEC Regulation A Data Sets (Forms 1-A, 1-K, 1-Z; 2015 Q2 → 2026 Q3); SEC Crowdfunding Offerings Data Sets (Form C family; 2016 Q2 → 2026 Q3); EDGAR form index for 2026 Q3 → 2026 Q4 (51,358 records as of Oct 23, 2026, 8:41 PM ET) — nothing matched this name.

Public profiles and social

No website or social profile named in Key Oil's SEC filings (Form C, Reg A, Form ADV; checked Oct 24, 2026). Web search for this name: #340,286 of 374,652 in line (14 issuers searched so far). One-tap searches: Look further ↓

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