Chevron flies to Midland the week its JETI power plant clears final hurdle

Chevron landed a Boeing Business Jet (N884GL) at Midland International Air and Space Port on June 4, 2026, a 44-minute hop from KMAF after an earlier leg from Houston. The flight touched down at an airstrip near Carlsbad, New Mexico, minutes from the Permian Basin's western edge.

The same week, per reporting from the Lone Star Left and confirmed by the Texas Comptroller's public docket, Chevron's subsidiary Energy Forge One LLC secured a recommendation for a $227 million JETI tax abatement to build a 2,500-megawatt gas plant in Pecos, Texas — a plant that will serve only a Microsoft data center. The project, valued at $7 billion, would emit more CO₂ annually than Jamaica, according to Wired's analysis. The abatement requires final sign-off from the Governor's office.

The flight pattern is telling: the jet has shuttled four times between Houston and the Midland/Pecos corridor in the past three days alone. Chevron's fleet — heavy on long-range business jets and Gulf-stream rotorcraft — is built for this kind of quick-turn regional work, ferrying executives to the field as regulatory deadlines close.