It must’ve been a tough pill to swallow for Nick Dell’Osso last February. Three months ago, the CEO of Okla. City-based Expand Energy, who led the company to become the nation’s largest natural gas producer, faced a board decision to relocate headquarter operations and top-level executives to Houston. After 17 years with Expand (previously Chesapeake Energy) and less than six years in the pilot seat where he navigated the merger of Chesapeake and Southwestern Energy, Dell’Osso decided to wave goodbye. ...

With the launch of Mountain V Oil & Gas, President and CEO Mike Shaver was gifted with a prediction he’ll never forget from his business partner. The year was 1994. The place, the mountains of W.V. That business partner? Shaver’s dad who put these words into the universe, “If we can make it through the first three years, we got it made.” And, boy, did they. ...

If you were a human little kid “back in the day,” there was no better snack than Cracker Jacks. Aside from its caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts, every box contained a prize. For Midland, Texas-based Permian Resources (PR), this year’s 1Q offered up the company’s latest batch of popcorn and peanut goodness in the form of Permian hydrocarbons, along with a prize in the form of a strategic acquisition that adds to their envious Delaware position....