Here are some of Rigzone's top upstream stories during the last week, just in case you missed them... Here are some of Rigzone’s top upstream stories during the last week, just in case you missed them… $17B Shale Player to Emerge Later This Year Bloomberg announced that Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. and Cimarex Energy Co. had agreed to merge. The deal will create a new Houston-based shale driller with a value of about $17 billion, Bloomberg highlighted. Read full article here $7B+ Shale Driller Merger Baffles Analysts The merger of Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. and Cimarex Energy Co. confounded investors and analysts, leaving them to question the logic behind the tie-up, Bloomberg noted.