Competitors

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EQT Corporation (EQT)

The other contender for 'largest U.S. natural gas producer' and Expand's most direct Appalachian rival: a vertically integrated Marcellus/Utica operator chasing the same power, data-center and LNG demand, and Expand's nearest comparison on scale, cost and marketing reach.

EQT's headline self-positioning — it claims to be the 'only large-scale, integrated' U.S. gas producer, the exact scale-and-integration ground Expand contests as the largest producer by volume, and names the same demand vectors (power, data centers, LNG).

As the only large-scale, integrated natural gas producer in the United States, we believe we are well positioned to excel during times of market volatility and to serve growing sources of demand, including power generation, industrial consumption, domestic data center development and LNG exports.

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On its Q4 2025 call EQT ranks itself the second-largest gas marketer in the U.S. 'ahead of all upstream and midstream peers' — a commercial/marketing-scale claim against the peer set that includes Expand.

[…] position as the second-largest marketer of natural gas in the U.S. ahead of all upstream and midstream peers, coupled with persistent price volatility means our marketing optimization efforts should have recurring positive impacts on financial performance going forward.

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EQT sizes the long-run international gas opportunity (+200 Bcf/d to 2050) and defines the moat it says gates access — low cost, decades of inventory, investment-grade balance sheet — the same qualifiers Expand's scale thesis rests on.

We expect natural gas demand outside the U.S. to rise by 200 Bcf per day between now and 2050, highlighting the tremendous opportunity for U.S. producers that can directly access international markets. However, that access will only be available to producers that have the combination of low-cost structure, multiple decades of quality inventory, an investment-grade balance sheet, and strong environmental attributes, all of which are hallmarks of the differentiated platform we have built at EQT.

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Antero Resources Corporation (AR)

A core Appalachian (Marcellus/Utica) gas-and-NGL producer overlapping Expand's Southwestern-legacy West Virginia acreage; Antero presses a low-cost, high-LNG/NGL-export book as the differentiated Appalachian model against which Expand's post-merger position is measured.

Antero's stated export leverage: it claims the highest LNG exposure among Appalachian producers (2.3 Bcf/d to the LNG fairway) and the top U.S. NGL-exporter position — the premium-market access Expand also targets from Appalachia and the Haynesville.

We have the highest LNG exposure among Appalachian producers, selling 2.3 Bcf per day of production to sales points along the LNG fairway. At the same time, we are the largest producer-exporter of NGLs in the U.S., selling the majority of our LPG, which includes propane and butane, into international markets.

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Antero's share claim in the basin it shares with Expand's Southwestern-legacy assets — it says it produces about half of West Virginia's natural gas across nearly a million acres, framing itself as the consolidator there.

We are the dominant energy producer in West Virginia. We produce about half of the natural gas in the state, have close to almost 1 million acres there, and decades’ worth of inventory. We are the West Virginia energy producer.

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Antero's own peer-relative cost claim — the lowest maintenance capital per Mcfe in its peer group at $0.53, 27% below the peer average — the capital-efficiency benchmark Expand's low-cost scale story is judged against.

Antero has the lowest maintenance cap per Mcfe of its peer group at just $0.53 per Mcfe. This is 27% below the peer average of $0.73 per Mcfe.

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Comstock Resources, Inc. (CRK)

The Haynesville pure-play that overlaps Expand's Louisiana/East-Texas Haynesville-Bossier business directly; majority-owned by Jerry Jones, Comstock is pioneering the Western Haynesville and locking Gulf-Coast LNG and data-center offtake in Expand's own supply corridor.

Comstock's framing of the Haynesville as 'the most important basin' for Gulf-Coast LNG and Texas/Louisiana data centers, with the Western Haynesville as the 'game changer' — the same basin thesis that underpins Expand's Haynesville-Bossier position.

The Haynesville shale is viewed, in our opinion, as the most important basin to supply natural gas to Gulf Coast LNG facilities and now the data centers being built in Texas and Louisiana. The arrival of the Western Haynesville is the game changer as the market looks into the future to where the needed natural gas will come from.

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Comstock's stated data-center supply win — a DOC-selected 5.2 GW gas-fired hub on its Western Haynesville acreage that it would supply with up to ~1 Bcf/d by 2031 — the kind of direct producer-to-load offtake Expand competes for in the same corridor.

On March 19, 2026, the United States Department of Commerce selected our Western Haynesville site to host a new 5.2 gigawatt natural gas fired power generation hub to be located in Anderson County, Texas […] Comstock Resources, Inc. will provide the natural gas supply for the facility, which could reach almost 1 billion cubic feet per day by 2031.

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Comstock quantifies its Western Haynesville inventory (3,331 gross / 2,546 net locations, ~76% WI, Bossier-weighted) — the drilling-runway scale claim in the play that overlaps Expand's Haynesville-Bossier acreage.

Our Western Haynesville inventory currently consists of 3,331 gross locations and 2,546 net locations, which equates to an average working interest of approximately 76%. The number of our net locations is estimated since much of our Western Haynesville acreage has not yet been unitized. Our Western Haynesville inventory is more weighted to the Bossier formation with nearly two-thirds of the inventory in the Bossier shale and one-third of the inventory in the Haynesville shale.

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Range Resources Corporation (RRC)

An original Marcellus operator and low-decline Appalachian gas-and-NGL producer; Range is the one peer that names Expand Energy directly — slotting it among the six 'dry gas' companies it benchmarks itself against.

Range names Expand Energy directly — both in its 13-company self-constructed peer index and again among the six highest-dry-gas-reserve peers weighted double — an explicit statement that it benchmarks itself against Expand.

The 2025 Self-Constructed Peer Group includes the SPDR S&P Midcap 400 and the SPDR S&P Oil and Gas E&P ETF and the following thirteen companies: Antero Resources Corporation, Civitas Resources, Inc., Chord Energy Corporation, CNX Resources Corporation, Comstock Resources, Inc., Coterra Energy, Inc., EQT Corporation, Expand Energy Corporation, Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation, Matador Resources, Murphy Oil, Ovintiv Inc. and SM Energy Company. The 2025 Self-Constructed Peer Group is a market capitalization-weighted index in which each of the six Compensation Peer Group companies with the highest percentage of dry gas reserves are included twice. The six companies included twice are Antero Resources Corporation, CNX Resources Corporation, Comstock Resources, Inc., Coterra Energy Inc., EQT Corporation and Expand Energy Corporation.

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Range's read of the gas macro in its 10-K — rising LNG exports plus supply-side constraints (infrastructure limits, moderated reinvestment, core-inventory exhaustion) — the demand/supply backdrop Expand's equity story also invokes.

natural gas prices increased primarily due to increased exports from new U.S. LNG export facilities. Longer term natural gas futures prices remain constructive based on market expectations that associated gas-related activity in oil basins and dry gas basin activity will show modest rates of growth due to infrastructure constraints, moderated reinvestment rates and core inventory exhaustion. In addition, the global energy shortage experienced in recent years further highlighted the need for affordable and reliable fuel sources, supporting continued strong structural demand growth for United States LNG exports, as well as domestic electricity generation.

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Range's inventory-depth claim — an estimated 27 million lateral feet of Marcellus drilling inventory — the runway metric on which Appalachian scale, including Expand's, competes.

Currently, we have an estimated 27 million lateral feet of drilling inventory remaining in the Marcellus Shale, both proved and unproved.

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Coterra Energy Inc. (CTRA)

A diversified Permian-oil plus Marcellus-gas producer that runs its Marcellus as a swing asset — curtailing and adding gas volumes with price. That discretionary supply, plus a low well-cost structure, makes Coterra a source of the Appalachian volume Expand must sell into.

Coterra's Marcellus cost claim — a record $800-per-foot structure driven by 60%-longer laterals — the well-cost benchmark that lets it compete on Appalachian gas economics with Expand.

The teams delivered by providing us with a highly efficient plan in 2025 that is anchored by a record low-cost structure of $800 per foot. This dramatic reduction in cost structure is anchored by structural changes and includes the reengineering of upcoming projects, which increased our average lateral length by 60% compared to the prior plans.

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Coterra describes its Marcellus as a price-responsive swing asset — adding activity and capital as gas fundamentals improve, with flexibility to raise investment mid-year — the discretionary Appalachian supply that competes with Expand's volumes.

At the same time, we've added activity and capital in the Marcellus, reflecting improved natural gas fundamentals and a lower cost structure. We have the flexibility, if warranted, to increase our investment later in the year while staying within our guidance range.

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Gulfport Energy Corporation (GPOR)

A leaner Utica/Marcellus (and SCOOP) gas producer in Expand's Appalachian backyard; several of its executives are ex-Chesapeake. Gulfport frames a low-breakeven, inventory-deep organic model as the disciplined alternative to Expand-scale consolidation.

Gulfport's inventory-and-economics claim — ~700 gross locations, ~15 years of net inventory and 'peer-leading' sub-$2.50/MMBtu breakevens — the low-cost Appalachian position it sets against larger peers like Expand.

Collectively, these initiatives have increased our gross undeveloped inventory by more than 40% since year-end 2022, and we now estimate Gulfport holds approximately 700 gross locations across our asset base. […] our total net inventory to roughly 15 years, with peer-leading breakevens below $2.50 per MMBtu.

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Gulfport's response to Appalachian consolidation — acknowledging 'recent developments in Appalachia' while defending its disciplined organic strategy — a direct read on the M&A wave that produced Expand.

You're likely aware of some recent developments in Appalachia. We've maintained a disciplined approach in recent years, and our strategy has proven effective. I expect this will continue.

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Competitors

EQT Corporation (EQT)

Antero Resources Corporation (AR)

Comstock Resources, Inc. (CRK)

Range Resources Corporation (RRC)

Coterra Energy Inc. (CTRA)

Gulfport Energy Corporation (GPOR)

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