Might Texas-born Bob Simpson be looking to build back the Williston Basin powerhouse he created more than a decade ago? Back in 2010, the company Simpson founded in 1986—XTO Energy—merged with Exxon in a $41 billion all-stock deal pronounced one of the largest transactions in history for an independent oil and gas company. ...

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....