Fired Expand CEO Nick Dell’Osso Becomes CEO of Gulfport Energy
In early February, Expand Energy announced it is moving its corporate headquarters from Oklahoma City, OK, to Houston, TX. That was the headline and lead in the announcement. And oh, by the way, the company’s very successful CEO, the guy who guided the merger of Chesapeake Energy with Southwestern Energy and has made the resulting Expand Energy *the largest* natural gas producer in the country, Nick Dell’Osso, had “stepped down” effective immediately (see Earthquake at Expand Energy: CEO Nick Dell’Osso Fired by the Board). Old Saint Nick landed on his feet. Gulfport Energy announced yesterday that Nick has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Gulfport, effective May 28, 2026. Read More “Fired Expand CEO Nick Dell’Osso Becomes CEO of Gulfport Energy”
DT Midstream (DTM) is an owner, operator, and developer of natural gas interstate and intrastate pipelines, storage and gathering systems, compression, treatment, and surface facilities, including major assets that are in (or flow molecules from) the Marcellus/Utica. Last week, the company issued its first quarter 2026 update. CEO David Slater announced two new projects to expand pipelines that carry Marcellus/Utica molecules. He also announced a project to build a new lateral to an Indiana power plant and a new interconnect that flows more M-U molecules into the NEXUS pipeline. Great things are happening at DTM! 
Three weeks ago, the Trump Department of Energy announced it is moving forward with funding for five of the original seven Biden-awarded hydrogen hub projects, spending $5 billion of the originally allotted $7 billion (see 
We had to do a double-take when we spotted an editorial, written by the editors of the liberal Bloomberg News service, running under the title, “Data Centers Aren’t the Enemy — They’re the Future.” Bloomberg’s editorial board argues that proposed restrictions or moratoriums on data centers would be a major mistake, given their growing importance to cloud computing, AI, and the broader economy. Do you like using Facebook? Do you search Google? Do you have an Amazon Alexa in your home that you use with voice commands? Do you talk to your cell phone with voice commands? That all comes from data centers (some of it AI). If you block data centers, you block the internet. It’s that simple. 
NATIONAL: U.S. natural gas futures give back gains; U.S. LNG feedgas drops dramatically during spring maintenance season; INTERNATIONAL: Oil falls as ceasefire holds; Trump broke OPEC – he may regret it; War puts LNG future in the spotlight; Norway to reopen gas fields that were shut down; EU energy ministers to discuss domestic gas drilling, document says.