FERC staff will issue an environmental assessment on January 8, 2027 for ETC Tiger's Franklin Farms Project, with a federal decision deadline of April 8, 2027. The project adds about 13.2 miles of 36-inch lateral and 1,000,000 dekatherms per day of capacity for a new AI data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana. Gas is now being piped straight to data center campuses, and the permit calendar sets the pace.
ANYbotics says ANYmal X, a legged inspection robot built to meet the ATEX and IECEx explosion-protection standards, is now shipping to oil, gas and chemical companies including Equinor and DSM-Firmenich. BP, Equinor, Shell, PETRONAS, Petrobras, BASF and SLB have tested it since 2023 through an early access program, and it carries thermal, visual, acoustic and gas sensors that log readings to each asset. Robot rounds in hazardous zones are moving from pilots to deliveries.
Xplore AI's new RWE-bench tested 11 AI models on 20 engineering tasks, including crankshaft design, DDR3 board routing and turbine vane CFD, each graded by a deterministic verifier with no human or AI judge. The top model, GPT-6 Astra, averaged a 37% pass rate. The hard design work is still mostly done by people.
Oil Co Intern posted a short video captioned 'Me and the boys using AI in the Oil and Gas industry' that drew about 497,000 views and 5,596 likes. It is a joke, and it reads as a mood check on how field crews see the AI pitch.
