It goes without saying, there’s no fast, easy, or cheap way to get a new LNG export plant off the ground. These are humongous, crazy-expensive projects to send volumes of prolific U.S. natural gas to world destinations hungry for them, and they require a whole lotta tap-dancing to ever see the light of day....

If there’s a soul alive in the shale business who hasn’t heard of Harold Hamm, well, God bless your heart. The CEO of Okla. City-based Continental Resources is not only legend among American wildcatters who bet big and won big, he could also well be the GOAT of modern times....