The U.S. is about to churn out much more natural gas to power AI or export, and it’s triggering a slew of multibillion-dollar acquisitions | Fortune0

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• September 2, 2026

It’s shopping season for America’s pipeline giants. As they prepare for a wave of new U.S. natural gas production to power AI data centers or to be exported overseas, the top pipeline players are quickly buying up their smaller private competitors to consolidate the industry and build out scale. This week, Tulsa, Oklahoma-based ONEOK bought