Rusty Hutson isn’t your typical gas producer. As the founder and CEO of Ala.-based Diversified Energy, he walks his own path—even one he didn’t expect to find again....

Houston-based Kinder Morgan, which has muscled up its pipeline operations in the Eagle Ford with last month’s $1.8 billion acquisition of NextEra Energy Partners’ South Texas assets, has natural gas and LNG on the noggin in a big and differentiating way. ...