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| WTI (Jun) $94.81 ▼0.28% · NG (Jun) $2.769 ▲1.43% · RIGS 547 ▲3 · S&P 7,337.11 ▼0.38% · XOP $166.06 ▼1.93% | |
| May 7 close · Gas = Henry Hub Jun 2026 · Rigs = Baker Hughes (week ending May 1, 2026) |
| 271 GW |
| Oncor’s data-center queue goes parabolic |

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| Lead Story |
| Oncor’s data-center queue goes parabolic |
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• Oncor’s active transmission LC&I queue ended Q1 with 697 requests, including roughly 271 GW from data centers and 18 GW industrial; ERCOT 2026 RTP filings added 122 GW of large-load forecasts through 2036, with Oncor holding $4.0B of customer collateral against active POI requests as of May 6. |
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• Matching the queue with steel: $9.0B 2026 capex (+25% YoY), 565 active generation POIs behind the meter (47% storage, 40% solar, 8% wind, 5% gas), and the 765 kV Permian import-path moving from CCN filings to a Q2 switching-station groundbreaking. |
| The Headlines |
| Power & Digital Infrastructure |
| Hut 8 turns Beacon Point into a $9.8B AI lease |
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• Hut 8 commercialized the first phase of its 1 GW Beacon Point AI campus with a 15-year, 352 MW IT lease worth $9.8B of base-term value and up to $25.1B with renewals. |
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• The deal takes contracted AI capacity to 597 MW and aggregate base-term value to ~$16.8B — built on NVIDIA’s DSX reference architecture with AEP, Vertiv and Jacobs in the delivery stack. |
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| Midstream |
| Western Midstream buys Brazos Delaware for $1.6B |
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• WES agreed to buy Brazos Delaware II for ~$1.6B ($800M cash + $800M units), adding ~470,000 dedicated acres, 900 miles of pipe and 460 MMcf/d of gas processing at the Comanche complex. |
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• Pro forma, WES grows Delaware acreage +49% to 1.4M acres and processing capacity +20% to ~2.75 Bcf/d, with long-term fixed-fee contracts (WAR > 9 years) priced at ~8.0x 2027E EBITDA, stepping to ~7.5x post-synergies. |
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| E&P / M&A |
| Diversified and Carlyle buy Camino’s Anadarko PDPs for $1.175B |
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• Diversified and Carlyle agreed to buy Camino’s Oklahoma Anadarko assets for $1.175B, adding ~300 MMcfepd, 101,000 net acres, 100+ drill-ready locations and 1,478 Bcfe of proved reserves. |
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• The producing PDPs sit in an ABS-backed SPV owned ~60% Carlyle / 40% Diversified — the latest read on PE re-entering mature gas via securitized cash-flow structures rather than balance-sheet equity. |
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| LNG |
| Cheniere raises guidance after record LNG quarter |
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• Cheniere exported a quarterly record 187 LNG cargoes in Q1, generating $5.87B revenue, $2.33B adjusted EBITDA and $1.67B DCF (GAAP net loss of $3.50B was non-cash IPM derivative mark). |
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• The company lifted 2026 adjusted EBITDA guidance to $7.25B–$7.75B and DCF to $4.75B–$5.25B, deployed ~$1.2B in Q1 (including $537M of buybacks), and flagged Train 6 first LNG as “imminent.” |
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