{"id":2962,"date":"2026-06-25T23:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:12:40","slug":"spacex-plans-to-build-starpipe-natural-gas-pipeline-to-fuel-starship-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2962","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX plans to build &#8216;Starpipe&#8217; natural gas pipeline to fuel Starship rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><li>Companies<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) &#8211; SpaceX (SPCX.O)<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span> plans to begin next month building an eight\u2011mile (13-km) natural gas pipeline called &#8220;Starpipe&#8221; to its Texas launch facilities, according to county filings, as Elon \u200bMusk\u2019s company seeks to ramp up launches of its next\u2011generation Starship rocket.<\/div><div>Starpipe, which will end at SpaceX\u2019s Texas company town of Starbase, is \u200cexpected to be in service by January 26, according to a document filed last month with the Texas Railroad Commission by SpaceX affiliate Lone Star Mineral Development and reviewed by Reuters.<\/div><div>The pipeline plan, previously reported by Rio Grande Valley Business Journal, signals Musk&#8217;s intent to accelerate Starship&#8217;s development and lay the groundwork for a faster flight rate. The 40\u2011story rocket is central to SpaceX\u2019s \u200bpush to expand its Starlink broadband network, deploy orbital AI data center satellites, and eventually carry astronauts to the moon and Mars.<\/div><div>Designed to be fully \u200breusable, Starship uses about 630,000 gallons (2.4 million liters) of liquid methane per launch, currently delivered by hundreds of tanker trucks in \u2060an hours-long process incompatible with Musk&#8217;s expansion plans. Starship has completed 12 test launches since 2023, but Musk aims to ramp up to dozens, hundreds and eventually \u200bthousands of launches a year.<\/div><div>SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment.<\/div><h2>SPACEX&#8217;S BIG GAS PLANS<\/h2><div>Though it is unusual for a space company to build its own natural \u200bgas pipeline for launchpad fuel, Starpipe might only be an initial step in a longer-term plan for SpaceX, which has spent years exploring its own drilling operations near Starbase and throughout Texas, according to a Reuters review of Cameron County land records.<\/div><div>SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell told CNBC on June 12, when the company went public, that the company planned to build pipelines and process \u200bits own propellant, and was looking into drilling its own natural gas.<\/div><div>Extracting natural gas would be a challenging pursuit for a company with no oil and gas \u200bexperience, said Stan Lindsey, an oil and gas consultant in Texas.<\/div><div>\u201cI\u2019m not saying it&#8217;s beyond the realm of possibility \u2026 it\u2019s possible they got a really nice prospect,&#8221; Lindsey said. But if \u200cthose drilling \u2060plans fall short, he added, \u201cthey\u2019ve got a fallback position\u201d with Starpipe.<\/div><div>SpaceX has signed over 100 paid-up oil and gas leases with Texas property owners since 2023, the land records show.<\/div><div>Starpipe would begin on an 83-acre (34-hectare) piece of land at the Port of Brownsville that SpaceX is in talks to lease from the city for 50 years, a port official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity because the negotiations are private.<\/div><div>Engineering plans SpaceX filed with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, included in a \u200bpublic notice issued last August, show SpaceX \u200bwants to build a liquefaction facility \u2060at Starbase to process the piped-in natural gas into liquid methane.<\/div><div>&#8220;Certainly that would make the most efficient sense,&#8221; said William Farrar, a longtime oil and gas lawyer in Texas and geoscientist.<\/div><div>The company could tap into Enbridge&#8217;s Valley Crossing Pipeline expansion project that \u200bwould run close to Starpipe&#8217;s start point, Lindsey said.<\/div><div>Enbridge did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/div><h2>SPACEX WANTS TO \u200bOWN SUPPLY CHAIN<\/h2><div>SpaceX&#8217;s move \u2060into gas infrastructure, typically the domain of energy and pipeline firms, underscores its longstanding strategy of controlling as much of its supply chain as possible, a capital\u2011intensive approach that has helped the company outpace rivals in rocket and spacecraft development.<\/div><div>The effort positions SpaceX to manage an unusually broad chain of resources, stretching from natural gas deep beneath Earth&#8217;s surface \u2060to the \u200bmoon, where Musk wants to use lunar material for AI\u2011focused satellite production, an ambitious and untested \u200bgoal.<\/div><div>The pipeline\u2019s 16\u2011inch (406-mm) diameter suggests fuel demand exceeding what Starship would require for 25 launches, the annual cadence currently approved by the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/div><div>SpaceX ultimately aims to deploy thousands of solar\u2011powered, AI\u2011focused satellites whose \u200bcombined energy output could approach one-fifth of the U.S. power grid, according to its initial public offering prospectus.<\/div><div><address><div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Joey Roulette\" class=\"wp-image-9\" src=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a8d647782541686b4c9068dd2dfa6f30.avif\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div><div>Joey Roulette<\/div><\/div><div><ul><li><span><div><svg><title>Email<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/address><\/div><\/div><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2960\">Trading Day: Tech outlook is cloudy<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2958\">US bond market expects rate hikes the Fed may never deliver<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2956\">King Charles will not live at Buckingham Palace after refit, officials say<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX plans to begin next month building an eight\u2011mile (13-km) natural gas pipeline called &#8220;Starpipe&#8221; 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