What a year it’s been less than two months into 2026 for oil and gas mergers, asset divestitures, and acquisitions. While buyer demand remains strong for shale opportunities, especially in the luxe-priced Permian, it’s driven more producers to seek out opportunities in other basins, including explorations of new frontiers outside the U.S. ...

It was already a tough road back in 2018 for Dallas-based Navigator Energy Services and project partner Tulsa-based Magellan Midstream when they launched, then extended, an open season to attract transportation commitments for their proposed Voyager pipeline. Call it bad timing....

In a 2017 Forbes article, writer Robert Rapier escorted the magazine’s audience on a fascinating tour of “How the Shale Boom Turned the World Upside Down”. If you recall, the nation’s oil and gas production had long ago peaked with conventional drilling and by 2005, we were in a full-blown energy crisis highly dependent on Venezuela and Saudi Arabia oil imports. And natural gas? Well, the only solution here with certainty according to one energy investor was “to pray.” ...

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. ...