Natural gas takes center stage today with news from Enterprise Products, Haynesville pure player Comstock Resources, and BP setting the record straight about adding more U.S. shale gas assets following October’s mega mergers. ...

Less than three years ago, Kan-based Tallgrass Energy accepted a $4 billion investor buyout led by Blackstone that took the midstream company private. A name change to simply “Tallgrass,” and appointment of a new CEO quickly followed, along with a fresh strategy to diversify the business from an oil-and-gas pipeline transporter and processor, to an infrastructure company with an eye on new-energy frontiers. ...

Let’s say you’re the UK’s largest oil and gas producer recording 208 MBOED in global volumes of which 90% is from the North Sea. Last year you posted $2.4 billion in profits. But along came a new windfall tax and, suddenly, that $2.4 billion in profits just became $8 million. ...