Texas Pacific Land Corporation ($TPL) is a storied Texas landowner turned energy player. In this episode, we unpack its transformation from a 19th-century railway land grant to a modern public company that sits atop one of the Permian Basin’s richest zones. We explore the elegant simplicity of its business — collecting royalties from oil and gas produced on its vast acreage — and the newer, fee-based growth push into water handling and midstream services that aims to provide steadier, recurring revenue. TPL’s legacy landholdings give it a rare, durable moat and pricing power in its backyard, but that same model leaves it deeply exposed to commodity cycles. Add in the capital- and operating-intensity of scaling water infrastructure, growing competition from established midstream players, and ESG pressures as the energy transition accelerates, and you’ve got a company balancing huge advantages with real execution and market risks. Is TPL a uniquely positioned, low-hassle play on American oil and gas, or a heritage landowner being pulled into the messy, high-stakes world of energy services?

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