In an interview back in October, Crescent Energy CEO David Rockecharlie quipped, “We feel like we’re the largest company nobody’s ever heard of.” Oh, but we do hear you. Loud and clear. With now a third Eagle Ford acquisition this year, Houston-based Crescent is a growth through acquisition E&P that looks to double the size of its company in the next five years. And it’s off to a rip-roaring start. ...

Meet Orville Mertins, Cliff Stover, and Philip Lawrence. Three intrepid engineers right at home in the trenches no matter which basin calls them there. With a combined 123 years of midstream field experience in gas measurement, sampling, and commissioning natural gas assets just for starters, these are the hound dogs that producers want on an auditing project to sniff out areas where they could be losing revenues....