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A land agent is asking to come onto your property. Know your rights before you sign anything.
The Mustang Express is a 42-inch natural gas pipeline planned from Colorado and Waller counties to the Port Arthur LNG terminal. If a right-of-way agent has contacted you for survey access or an easement, what you do next affects your property and its value. This free guide explains your rights in plain terms, before decisions get made for you.
- Active nowRight-of-way acquisition by ARM Energy and PIMCO is underway
- 236–240 milesA 42-inch natural gas line to Port Arthur LNG
- 7 countiesColorado, Waller, Austin, Harris, Montgomery, Liberty, Jefferson
The guide is informational only and is not legal advice. Downloading it does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Is your property in the Mustang Express corridor?
The pipeline runs 236 to 240 miles across seven Southeast Texas counties, from the receipt area in Colorado and Waller counties to Port Arthur LNG in Jefferson County.
- Corridor counties
- Receipt area (Colorado & Waller)
- Port Arthur LNG (Jefferson)
Counties crossed
- Colorado
- Austin
- Waller
- Montgomery
- Harris
- Liberty
- Jefferson
Approximate corridor for general orientation only. This is not a survey or the exact final alignment, and routes can change. To confirm whether your property is affected, check your own parcel documents or contact our Richmond office.
What is actually happening
A $2.3 billion gas pipeline, in right-of-way acquisition right now.
ARM Energy and PIMCO are building the Mustang Express Pipeline, a 42-inch intrastate natural gas line designed to carry up to 2.5 billion cubic feet per day to the Port Arthur LNG export terminal. The project reached a final investment decision in late 2025, and right-of-way agents are already contacting landowners for survey access. The route can still shift as surveys and permitting proceed.
Who is building it
ARM Energy and PIMCO, through ARM Midstream and its right-of-way agents, using right-of-way agents to contact landowners along the corridor.
Where it goes
From receipt points in Colorado and Waller counties to Port Arthur LNG in Jefferson County across seven Southeast Texas counties.
The timeline
Surveying and easement acquisition are active now, with construction targeted in the 2028 to 2029 window.
Before you let anyone on your land
You may have the right to say no, or to set conditions, on survey access.
A right-of-way agent asking to survey your property is not the same as a final easement, and it is not the same as a court order. Texas landowners often have room to condition or decline early access. The guide walks through your options before you grant anything in writing, including how a company's claim to take land can be challenged.
The survey request
What a survey-access request actually is, what it lets the company do, and what it does not give them.
Your options
How landowners can condition or decline early entry, and what to ask for before signing any access agreement.
The easement to come
How early decisions shape the easement offer that follows, and the value most owners never think to claim.
What a pipeline easement takes
A 42-inch line is a permanent presence on the land you keep.
A pipeline easement is not a one-time disturbance. It sets permanent terms for what you can build, plant, and do over and around the line. The guide explains each so you can weigh the real cost before you negotiate.
The easement strip
Typical permanent width, temporary construction workspace, and how deep the line sits beneath your property.
Farming over the line
What you can and cannot do across the easement: crops, livestock, ponds, structures, and development setbacks.
Your full compensation
Easement value, damage to the land you keep (remainder damages), lost access, and crop or timber loss.
Inside the guide
Written for landowners, not lawyers.
The agent at your gate
What a right-of-way agent can and cannot do, and what to say first.
Survey access and your rights
How to condition or decline early entry, and what to get in writing.
What a 42-inch easement takes
Permanent width, depth, workspace, and the rules that come with it.
Farming and grazing over the line
What stays allowed on the easement, and what does not.
What your land is actually worth
Reading value on this corridor, not just the number on the offer.
The part of the value owners miss
Remainder damages to the land you keep after the easement.
Offer versus fair value
How the gap happens, and how it gets closed.
Who can take land, and how
How pipeline condemnation works in Texas, in plain terms.
Before the first crew arrives
The documentation that protects you if construction affects your land.
The next thirty days
A clear plan if the project reaches your property.
The agents are already calling. What you know is up to you.
Get the Mustang Express landowner guide and understand your rights before you grant access or accept an offer. It costs you nothing and an afternoon.
Get the free guide nowAlready been contacted about your property? Call (281) 341-5577. These matters are time-sensitive.