# Operational Chaos or House Money? Inside the Permian’s High-Stakes Waha Turnaround

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Podcast: [NGI’s Hub & Flow](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ngi-s-hub-flow-116681)
Published: 2026-07-09T13:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

For most of 2026, the story at the Waha hub in West Texas was a grim one of negative pricing, with Permian producers paying offtakers to clear out their natural gas. The narrative flipped in mid-June when Kinder Morgan’s Gulf Coast Express Pipeline expansion came online, propelling prices back to positive territory. As the market balances the first in what is expected to be a massive wave of pipeline capacity additions against an evolving, gassier production mix, the big question remains: Has the notorious Permian boom-and-bust cycle finally met its match? In this episode of Hub & Flow, NGI sits down with East Daley Analytics Senior Director Jack Weixel to unpack the structural shifts redefining West Texas energy infrastructure. The conversation covers how systems, such as the Blackcomb and Matterhorn Express pipelines, are extending Waha's fuse, why skyrocketing data center demand and LNG expansions mean producers are suddenly “playing with house money,” and how a lack of storage infrastructure could still trigger regional operational chaos during a major Gulf Coast storm.

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