You could say father and son Steve and Caleb Weatherl are Permian bit. With the nation’s most prolific oil basin fortuitously situated in their own backyard, the executive chairman and CEO team of newly minted, Midland-based Garrison Energy don’t have to look far for their next command performance as savvy Permian producers. ...

We all know the U.S. is beyond rich in natural resources. Witness the shale revolution that has unlocked more crude oil and natural gas than we as a nation can even consume. We also happen to be sitting on top of one of the world’s largest deposits of lithium—which, ironically, we must import to the tune of 3,600 metric tons last year. Reese Energy Consulting today is following the latest on lithium here at home and those who are reawakening an industry we literally exported out of the country in the 70s. Okla. City-based Galvanic Energy has announced the $100 million sale of its drilling rights across 120,000 acres in the brine-rich Smackover Formation in Ark., to ExxonMobil. Seems Exxon aspires to become a major lithium supplier to the U.S. electric vehicle market—something it calls “Drilling for electric cars.”   At the same time, same formation, Ark.-based Standard Lithium has drilled...

Houston-based Crestwood Equity Partners last year made two strategic moves that saw the company exit its gathering and processing operations in the Marcellus and muscle up its midstream presence in the Permian’s Delaware and the Bakken. Both have paid off handsomely. ...