It's only natural that a company interested in providing value to consumers would be interested in natural gas.
CNBC (1/15/26) reports: "Mitsubishi Corporation said on Friday that it will acquire shale gas assets in the U.S. in a $7.53 billion deal, including debt, as the Japanese trading house looks to build on its presence in the country’s energy market. Mitsubishi is looking to capitalize on rising power needs from data centers, manufacturing, as well as LNG exports, by expanding in the the world’s largest gas market, citing domestic consumption, production, exports, and further demand growth. It will acquire the assets from Aethon Energy Management in Texas and Louisiana in a transaction that includes $5.2 billion in equity purchases and $2.33 billion in Aethon’s debt. Mitsubishi’s deal comes after Japan’s largest power generation company, JERA, announced a $1.5 billion investment in October in the Haynesville Shale basin on the Louisiana-Texas border, as part of Tokyo’s $550 billion investment pledge to the U.S. Last month, Japanese media outlet Nikkei reported that projects in the energy sector were likely candidates for Japan’s investment pledge, although it was not immediately clear if Mitsubishi’s deal counts toward the proposed investment."
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"The reality is that we have spent years building essentially worthless capacity, throwing away money and the backbone of our economy along with it. The failure by policymakers and grid planners has been so severe that serious energy policy proposals are increasingly centered on preventing energy-intensive industries from growing, rather than finding ways to support and integrate them."
– Mitch Rolling & Isaac Orr, Energy Bad Boys
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