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Platforms are labeling and banning AI-generated content, and workers are quietly rating colleagues who send AI output as less capable. The lesson for our industry isn't to avoid AI. It's to be honest about what it's for: getting people out of spreadsheets and back to the work only they can do.

Williams' $5.5 billion move for Momentum Midstream adds more than 4,000 miles of pipe and over a million dedicated acres in a single transaction. The pipe is the easy part to inventory. The land record underneath it is not.

and Google Earth's New Pricing Is Exactly Why We Never Will

The time to switch to a common operating picture is now

Right-of-way acquisition has always generated enormous volumes of documents. Natural language search is starting to change how land teams find what they need.

More than a trillion dollars in new midstream investment is coming over the next two decades. The constraint isn't capital anymore - it's execution capacity.

As pipeline projects grow longer and faster-moving, most now involve several ROW and construction contractors working the same corridor - and reconciling their data is its own project.

As midstream companies consolidate the entire NGL value chain under one roof, land and ROW teams are managing more asset types across longer, more complex corridors than ever before.

LNG exports get most of the headlines, but data center power demand is now an explicit driver behind several major 2026 pipeline projects.

With more than a dozen major pipeline projects moving at once, the Permian-to-Gulf Coast buildout is testing whether project management can scale as fast as capital.

Ethane and propane exports are growing faster than terminal capacity can absorb, triggering a fresh wave of feeder pipeline expansion between Mont Belvieu and the Gulf Coast.

FERC's May 2026 proposal to double blanket certificate cost thresholds could cut months off natural gas project approvals - shifting the real bottleneck from permitting to right-of-way acquisition.