It must’ve been a tough pill to swallow for Nick Dell’Osso last February. Three months ago, the CEO of Okla. City-based Expand Energy, who led the company to become the nation’s largest natural gas producer, faced a board decision to relocate headquarter operations and top-level executives to Houston. After 17 years with Expand (previously Chesapeake Energy) and less than six years in the pilot seat where he navigated the merger of Chesapeake and Southwestern Energy, Dell’Osso decided to wave goodbye. ...

Hunters and gatherers might have aptly described Brazos Midstream upon its founding back in 2014. That would have meant hunters of infrastructure assets to gather, treat, and process crude oil and natural gas in the Permian basin....

Remember in the early 80s when Microsoft and Apple crept into offices overnight and laid down the law as to how People on Planet Earth would be working from that moment forward? We knew then how technology could reset how the world works. Now, some 40 odd years later, a new tech era has reset strategies by natural gas producers, midstreamers, and newcomers—all hungry for a foothold in the power gen and data center world. Old basins are new again when natural gas becomes an electron hero. Such are those in the Midcontinent. ...