It might’ve cost an arm and a leg—not to mention many billion bucks—for Houston-based Chevron to finally get the keys to its stake in Guyana following its acquisition of Hess in 2023. But after all the disputes, hair pulling, and lawyers growing fat, the world’s second-largest oil and gas operator behind ExxonMobil, Chevron finds itself in a most fascinating situation. ...

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. ...