Okla-City-based Chesapeake Energy has announced a company name change following this year’s $7.4 billion merger with Southwestern Energy that’s expected to close next week. The combo creates the nation’s largest natural gas producer upsetting EQT’s number one position it’s held since 2017....

Gene Shepherd is packing a punch in the Permian’s southern Delaware hood, where drilling rigs and pumpjacks operated by neighbors like Diamondback Energy, Continental Resources, and XTO, mechanically hum their tunes in cadences that can either lullaby a producer to sleep or keep him mercilessly awake at night....

Australia’s Woodside Energy in July tossed a $1.2 billion life raft to the proposed but painfully troubled Driftwood LNG plant then in pre-FID Phase I construction on the La., Gulf Coast. Houston-based Tellurian initially announced the 27.6 mtpa project in 2017, one year after Cheniere Energy waved sail-on-sailor to its inaugural LNG export cargo....

Back in 2011, Ohio’s then-state geologist Larry Wickstrom had never been more optimistic about the future of his state. Marcellus operators had begun to try their luck with horizontal drilling in the Buckeye slice of the Utica Basin. ...