Okla-City-based Chesapeake Energy has announced a company name change following this year’s $7.4 billion merger with Southwestern Energy that’s expected to close next week. The combo creates the nation’s largest natural gas producer upsetting EQT’s number one position it’s held since 2017....

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....

We don’t need to tell you that Texas is a study of energy contrasts—producing more fossil fuels and renewables than any other state in the nation. The great white hope of the energy transition is to wean us off our dependence on oil and natural gas to construct a future that’s otherwise dependent exclusively on alternative energies to ensure lifestyles and economies keep rolling along without disruption. ...

Reese Energy Consulting today pays homage to a world-recognized icon of Okla’s oil and gas heritage. For the uninitiated or unvisited to Tulsa—once tapped the Oil Capital of the World—the Golden Driller stands as a proud symbol of the state’s abundant fossil fuels resources, and a testament to the oilfield workers from a bygone era as well as those who work them now. ...