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Emerging Plays
Range Resources IPs 19.7 MMcf/d Utica Test Northeast of Pittsburgh

Range Resources’ Drape James 18118 #4H well, with a roughly 2-mile lateral, produced 0.8 Bcf its first 43 days online.

Trends
Matador’s $1.48B Delaware Deals Test the Price of Inventory
Financing
Data Center Demand, Customer Costs Expected to Set the Tone for Utility 2Q Earnings
Oilfield Services (OFS)
Liberty Sees Gradual Frac Recovery, Tech Demand Grows
Energy Market Transactions
Liberty Energy, PowerBridge Launch JV to Advance West Texas Data Center
Crude Oil
Brent Oil Climbs Above $100/bbl on Houthi Attacks in Red Sea, Supply Risk
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
Matador Doles Out $1.475 Billion for Two Delaware Acquisitions
Subsea
SLB OneSubsea CEO Mads Hjelmeland: Offshore’s Next Challenge is Execution
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Amentum to Lead 1‑GW Data Center at DOE’s South Carolina Site
Natural Gas
Power! It’s a Generation Thing: Solve the Puzzle of the Week
People
Energy Vault Taps BlackRock Veteran as CFO for AI Infrastructure Push
Alternative Energies
Air Products Scraps Louisiana Clean Energy Complex Amid Trend of Clean Energy Rollbacks
Bioenergy
Strategic Biofuels Wins Key Louisiana Permit for Electricity Generation Project
Power Generation
Biggest US Power Grid—PJM Interconnection—Faces Possible Breakup as FERC Weighs Fate
ESG
Texas Upstream Job Growth Reflects State’s Role in Filling in Global Supply Gaps
Crude Oil
Futures WTI Strip is Missing the Fundamentals, Says Ring Energy’s McKinney