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Blackbeard Data and Blue Marble Geographics are teaming up

Blackbeard Data and Blue Marble Geographics are teaming up to bring oilfield data to Global Mapper! Global Mapper is

Links for Past Annual Petro-Wealth Reports

Want to see Blackbeard’s Annual Petro-Wealth reports from years past? You can download the pdf versions of each report by clicking on their respective links below. 2025 Petro Wealth report 2024 Petro Wealth report 2023 Petro Wealth report 2022 Petro

Petro-Wealth Ownership Report for Texas, 2014

For the full annual 2014 Texas Petro-Wealth report in pdf click on the following link 2014 Petro-Wealth report Produced by Blackbeard Data to outline the demographics of Texas oil and gas ownership. Executive Summary Texas contains $140 billion worth of petro-wealth in

Arkansas counties now available!

Blackbeard Data Services is having an exciting summer season. In addition to the 2010 Texas counties data we have already acquired, we now have the ability to acquire Arkansas data and are pleased to assist your business with their

Blackbeard Data Launches “Royalty Buying 101”

Blackbeard Data Services, LLC has begun a 101 royalty buying education module on their website. We want to help educate investors on how to buy oil and gas mineral rights. This module will include multiple media sources, cover interviews, how-tos,

Private Equity Is Circling Utilities as AI Reshapes the Grid August 23, 2026
While it seems that Democrats and Republicans can’t agree on much of anything these days, there’s at least one common enemy that’s bringing both sides of the aisle together: data centers. Representatives on both sides of the aisle are increasingly pushing back against hyperscalers who are developing massive data center campuses on local energy grids, […]
Underwater Volcanoes Are Geothermal Energy’s Next Frontier August 23, 2026
A Seattle startup is seeking to revolutionize geothermal energy by tapping into undersea volcanoes. In September, a 100-kilowatt geothermal generator will be deployed to the seafloor off Oregon’s coast, where a hydrothermal vent emits temperatures of up to 750 degrees Fahrenheit. The pilot project – the fifth of its kind – will continue to test […]
Europe Dodges a Rhine Crisis for the Worst Possible Reason August 22, 2026
The Rhine has slightly risen from its mid-August record low (when Kaub’s water level gauge – at the river’s decisive chokepoint – was below 10 cm), but the relief is mostly optical. Barges still cannot carry normal loads through it, leaving the industrial corridor from Rotterdam and Antwerp to southern Germany, eastern France and Switzerland […]
The Gas Turbine Shortage Just Became AI’s Biggest Constraint August 22, 2026
Order a heavy-duty gas turbine from GE Vernova today and it won’t arrive until 2031. That’s the company’s actual production schedule, confirmed on its July 22 earnings call, and it’s the fact sitting underneath every AI data center power plan announced in the last two years. It comes up far less often than the announcements […]