It’s mid-morning in Williston, N.D., and all of 2° with an expected high of 27°. In the Bakken, the nation’s third-largest oil basin, polar conditions this time of year are nothing more than life and business as usual, especially for oilfield workers used to spending Christmas on the job. Whiners need not apply. This is about as far from the Permian and its face-melting summer heat as one can get. ...

Seems there’s no going cold turkey this Thanksgiving week when it comes to making billion-dollar pipeline deals. For ONEOK and EQT, this means making more 4Q gravy to further execute their strategies whether they be expansion opportunities or shedding debt before the holiday season wraps up....