Back in 2019 when it seemed everyone and their dog looked to partner up to build an LNG export facility on the Gulf Coast, Dallas-based Energy Transfer caught a meaty bone. A bone in the form of a framework agreement with Shell to share the estimated cost of $10.9 billion to $13.2 billion to build the 16.5 MTPA Lake Charles LNG terminal project where ET already owned the existing regasification facility in Lake Charles, La., originally built in 1982. ...

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. ...