Occupy Howard Weil began the long wind-down March 28 as most of the 600 institutional investors started the journey home, or stayed in bed a little longer to facilitate dissipation of the numbing fog that sets in from long days of presentations and management one-on-ones sandwiched between two hard nights of eating, imbibing, and energy-focused jocularity.

Occupy Howard Weil?

The 40th edition of the legendary New Orleans energy conference vaguely resembled a variation on the youth occupy movement—if youth had gray hair and a preference for Jos. A Banks garb. ...