Gene Shepherd is packing a punch in the Permian’s southern Delaware hood, where drilling rigs and pumpjacks operated by neighbors like Diamondback Energy, Continental Resources, and XTO, mechanically hum their tunes in cadences that can either lullaby a producer to sleep or keep him mercilessly awake at night....

Australia’s Woodside Energy in July tossed a $1.2 billion life raft to the proposed but painfully troubled Driftwood LNG plant then in pre-FID Phase I construction on the La., Gulf Coast. Houston-based Tellurian initially announced the 27.6 mtpa project in 2017, one year after Cheniere Energy waved sail-on-sailor to its inaugural LNG export cargo....

Following its analysis through the end of August, our friends at Rystad today reports U.S. oil and gas M&A this year could surpass the $155 billion chalked up in 2023. With $100 billion already on the books in 2024, and another $46 billion in assets currently up for sale, buyers and sellers still have one-third of a year to make their final selections and bring them to the checkout counter....