What a year it’s been less than two months into 2026 for oil and gas mergers, asset divestitures, and acquisitions. While buyer demand remains strong for shale opportunities, especially in the luxe-priced Permian, it’s driven more producers to seek out opportunities in other basins, including explorations of new frontiers outside the U.S. ...

Flush with a $400 million expanded credit facility last December, Dallas-based Producers Midstream wasted little time completing Phase I of a new gathering, treating, and processing system this year in Lea County, N.M. This, while jumpstarting growth projects that relocate or repurpose its existing assets. ...