The U.S. Energy Boom Is Back, and It Runs on Parts That Have to Hold

August 8, 2026

Superlok® USA · 2026 Energy Outlook The U.S. Energy Boom Is Back, and It Runs on Parts That Have to Hold Record crude output and the biggest pipeline build-out since 2008 mean more instrumentation, more pressure systems, and a lot less patience for a back-ordered fitting. 13.6Mbarrels a day, the 2025 U.S. crude record the EIA expects to hold in 2026 44.9 Bcf/dnew gas pipeline capacity planned for 2026–27, the most since 2008 (EIA) Same daymost in-stock Superlok® orders ship when placed during business hours American energy is running wide open again, and the numbers are hard to argue with. The U.S. hit an annual crude record of 13.6 million barrels a day in 2025, and the EIA expects output to stay right near that mark through 2026. The Permian alone is pumping about 6.0 million barrels a day, roughly 44 percent of everything the country produces, plus 22 Bcf/d of natural gas. Downstream, operators have lined up 44.9 Bcf/d of new pipeline capacity for 2026 and 2027, the largest build-out since 2008, and more than two-thirds of it starts in Texas. From the wellhead in West Texas to the LNG trains on the Gulf Coast, crews are building. And building means

The AI Buildout Runs on Fittings You Can Actually Get

July 31, 2026

Superlok® USA · AI Infrastructure The AI Buildout Runs on Fittings You Can Actually Get Power is doubling. Racks are running hot. The small parts that seal the cooling loop are the ones holding up schedules. 2×U.S. data center power demand by 2027, 31 GW to 66 GW (Goldman Sachs) $690Bhyperscaler AI infrastructure capex in 2026 (Dell’Oro Group) Same daymost in-stock Superlok® orders ship when placed during business hours The demand is real, and it is enormous. Goldman Sachs projects U.S. data center power demand roughly doubles, from about 31 GW in 2025 to about 66 GW in 2027, lifting data centers from around 4.1% of U.S. peak power to about 8.5%. Dell’Oro Group puts 2026 hyperscaler AI capex near $690 billion, spread across Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta, and the OpenAI and Oracle Stargate effort. The money is committed. The hard part is turning it into buildings that actually run, and that comes down to the smallest parts on the job. Power is doubling, and space is already gone The map tells the story. CBRE puts Northern Virginia, the largest data center market on earth, at roughly 4,182 MW with a record 0.3% vacancy. Dallas-Fort Worth has about 716 MW under

250 Years Strong, and Still Just Getting Started

July 1, 2026

1776 ★ 2026 250 Happy Birthday, America A quarter of a millennium of grit, and the best chapters are still ahead. This Fourth of July is not just another day off. It is the day America turns 250, and a milestone like that deserves a real moment of your attention. Two and a half centuries ago, a group of ordinary people decided they could govern themselves, build their own future, and answer to no crown. Everything that followed, the setbacks and the comebacks, the invention and the reinvention, grew out of that one stubborn idea. A quarter of a millennium later, we are still writing the story, and we are proud to be a small part of it. 250 Years of Showing Up There is something worth sitting with in a number like 250. It stands for generations of people who showed up, did the work, and handed something better to the ones who came next. Farmers and machinists, teachers and truck drivers, engineers and welders, all of them putting in honest days so their kids could reach a little higher. That spirit never faded. You can still find it on factory floors, in small shops, and in the quiet