The San Juan Basin extends 7,500 square miles across northwest N.M., and southwest Colo. Natural gas was first discovered here in 1921. Now a spry age of 104, it remains one of the nation’s oldest producing areas with sedimentary rock dating back to mid-Paleozoic times and a collision of supercontinents. ...

Back in September, the nation’s largest producer of clean, emissions-free energy shared some mighty big news. After purchasing the Pa., Three Mile Island Unit 1 in 1999, then retiring operations there in 2019 due to poor economics, Baltimore-based Constellation Energy landed a whale of a deal with Microsoft that would resuscitate the nuclear reactor to generate carbon-free electricity to power Microsoft’s Northeastern data centers...

In an interview back in October, Crescent Energy CEO David Rockecharlie quipped, “We feel like we’re the largest company nobody’s ever heard of.” Oh, but we do hear you. Loud and clear. With now a third Eagle Ford acquisition this year, Houston-based Crescent is a growth through acquisition E&P that looks to double the size of its company in the next five years. And it’s off to a rip-roaring start. ...