Okla-City-based Chesapeake Energy has announced a company name change following this year’s $7.4 billion merger with Southwestern Energy that’s expected to close next week. The combo creates the nation’s largest natural gas producer upsetting EQT’s number one position it’s held since 2017....

Gene Shepherd is packing a punch in the Permian’s southern Delaware hood, where drilling rigs and pumpjacks operated by neighbors like Diamondback Energy, Continental Resources, and XTO, mechanically hum their tunes in cadences that can either lullaby a producer to sleep or keep him mercilessly awake at night....