Flush with a $400 million expanded credit facility last December, Dallas-based Producers Midstream wasted little time completing Phase I of a new gathering, treating, and processing system this year in Lea County, N.M. This, while jumpstarting growth projects that relocate or repurpose its existing assets. ...

Somewhere, Tom Ward has a divining rod and it’s not the kind that leads to water. Since the launch of Okla. City-based MACH Natural Resources in 2017, Ward has stuck to his intuition to find wealth in under-performing plays in the Mid-continent. Over time, it’s become his signature to snap up lagging or bankruptcy assets in the Anadarko, Southern Kans., and the Texas Panhandle and turn that business around. ...

If you were a human little kid “back in the day,” there was no better snack than Cracker Jacks. Aside from its caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts, every box contained a prize. For Midland, Texas-based Permian Resources (PR), this year’s 1Q offered up the company’s latest batch of popcorn and peanut goodness in the form of Permian hydrocarbons, along with a prize in the form of a strategic acquisition that adds to their envious Delaware position....

Wyoming’s Wamsutter Field sprawls 2,000 square miles across two counties on the eastern side of the Green River Basin. Discovered in the late 50s, the Wamsutter is a natural gas giant, attracting some of the nation’s largest midstreamers over the years to gather, process, and transport abundant production. Tulsa-based Williams is one of them. You can now add upstream to their repertoire. ...

The wildly successful Double Eagle Energy last May set tongues wagging on news it was exploring a sale of its Permian assets that could potentially fetch $6.5 billion. Three years into its iteration as Double Eagle IV, co-founders and co-CEOs Cody Campbell and John Sellers had built one of the most coveted, privately held positions in the Midland. This, after selling Double Eagle III in 2021 to Pioneer Natural Resources for $6.4 billion. ...

Midstream steals the show again this week with news of a triple-whammy in the pipeline acquisitions department, and the secret negotiations playing out on a massive pipeline LNG project that’s been considered all but frozen to death. ...