A major U.S. oil and gas basin spanning West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, encompassing the Midland and Delaware sub-basins.
Researchers modelling costs found photovoltaic-powered reverse osmosis is the cheapest solar option for brine from a Texas desalination plant. Whether that beats deep-well injection depends on disposal costs at each site.
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JLL says speed to power now drives US site selection, with grid connection waits in major markets topping four years. Parcels on old transmission corridors can now take tenants that identical land next door cannot, AI or otherwise.
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Chevron says Gov. Greg Abbott's moratorium on new data center permits could delay the investment decision on its nearly 3-gigawatt Kilby project until 2027. For one of the largest new US data center projects, the date now depends mainly on a state permit.
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Sapphire Technologies and Anax Power say a modular data center parked at a pipeline regulating station can take both electricity and cold fluid from the pressure drop, and the size of both depends on numbers the operator does not set.
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Tanager-1 logged 1,097 methane plumes across the Permian, Appalachian and Haynesville basins between January 2025 and June 2026, and researchers matched about a third of them to a named operator using public Carbon Mapper data.
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ONEOK's $4.42 billion for Brazos values Permian gas processing near $3.68 billion per Bcf/d, resting on a Department of Energy demand curve that compounds at only about 1.3% a year out to 2050.
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