Less than a month ago, Dallas-based San Mateo Midstream, a joint venture between Matador Resources (51%) and Five Point Infrastructure (49%), inked a $752 million deal to make Cardinal Midstream Partners its own. A slick move indeed for Matador, which happens to be the anchor customer of San Mateo and—at the time—also happened to have other Delaware plans in store....

It’s already a beautiful week in the neighborhood with news of fresh midstream acquisitions and an announced plan to build a pipeline dedicated to flowing fuel to power rocket ships. ...

Among the largest privately held oil and gas companies today, few can claim witness to the Dust Bowl, fatal undoing of Bonnie and Clyde, and peak of the Great Depression. The year was 1934 when H.L. Hunt founded Hunt Oil after major discoveries in East Texas. ...

The name of the book is Game Changer: Our Fifty-Year Mission to Secure America’s Energy Independence. The author, a rags-to-riches phenom and pioneer of the shale revolution who’s made an art out of unlocking tight rock with a combination of fracking and horizontal drilling. ...