Four days now into a new Administration and a whirlwind of Executive Orders, the nation’s oil and gas industry—in a great exhalation—is charged up with serious horsepower. Especially for natural gas, where the U.S. sits as chairman of the board of world production and exports as global demand is expected to rise with historic volumes....

Yesterday’s inauguration has officially put the sizzle back into American oil and gas. After four long years, the atmosphere today is feeling positively electric for producers, midstream operators, LNG developers, and their plans and developments. We know it has for our colleagues and clients with projects in the queue....

A few weeks ago, Reese Energy Consulting shared news on a nonbinding open season to gauge interest in the proposed 375-mile Bakken East Pipeline project—an idea coddled for 10 years—which would flow natural gas east to near Fargo, N.D. Since our post, we’ve followed the latest from the Williston Basin, where Kinder Morgan, the deeper middle Three Forks formation, and CO2 enhanced oil recovery are making lots of noise worth a listen. ...

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. ...