A roughly $2 billion deal between two Denver-based oil and natural gas companies closed this week, part of a larger pair of transactions worth a total of $4.3 billion.

RBN Energy Executive Chairman Rusty Braziel spoke with CNBC's Jim Cramer about the impact of the president's energy agenda.

Despite deregulation efforts and calls for increased production, U.S. oil drilling activity has fallen to near post-pandemic ...