Several years ago, Stratas Advisors developed three long-term energy scenarios. A scenario depicting greater market volatility in an increasingly unstable world is appearing more likely.

Prairie Operating Co. will purchase about 24,000 net acres from Bayswater Exploration & Production, which will still retain assets in Colorado and continue development of its northern Midland Basin assets.

Avant Natural Resources buys small, sells big and is loving every minute of it.

Following its $22.5 billion deal to buy Marathon Oil, ConocoPhillips is targeting $2 billion in asset sales— a goal a company executive said would largely be achieved this year.

Harold Hamm, U.S. energy policy influencer and founder of wildcatter Continental Resources, said his top choices of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and newly confirmed Energy Secretary Chris Wright will be a “dream team of unimaginable proportions.”