MARA Flared/Stranded-Gas Mining Fleet (TX + ND)

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

1. June 2025

   Operating
   Program described as "fully energized" at 25 MW aggregate, now spanning wellhead sites in both Texas and North Dakota. Source: MARA Holdings (Investor Relations)
2. 2024

   Proposed
   MARA launches a 25 MW flared/stranded-gas mining pilot in Texas. Source: MARA Holdings (Investor Relations)

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of July 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over MARA Flared/Stranded-Gas Mining Fleet (TX + ND) in Midland/Odessa area (representative), Texas appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

If you live near this site and something is happening that this page does not show, that is worth telling us. Send us the document and it goes in the record with the source attached. For sites where opposition is already established, see every contested site we track.

Power and water

Captures gas that would otherwise be flared/vented at oil & gas wellheads and combusts it in generators to power mining hardware, framed by MARA as reducing methane venting (methane → CO2 combustion swap), not as a zero-emissions source.

Notes on the record

Represented here as a single aggregate record rather than N per-site entries: MARA discloses this program only in aggregate (25 MW total across Texas + North Dakota wellheads), with no per-site count, capacity breakdown, or coordinates published, consistent with a genuinely mobile/modular operating model (containerized generators moved between wellheads as flaring economics shift at individual wells), not merely underreported. Most recent confirmed figure is from MARA's June 2025 operational update; no 2026 update was found. This is the first record using the schema's location.precision: "representative_multi_site" construct, built for exactly this case, other operators running a similar distributed flared-gas-at-wellhead model include Upstream Data, Giga Energy, and EZ Blockchain (not separately catalogued here). No sourced critical/counter-framing on flared-gas mining (e.g. that it incentivizes continued drilling) was found in this research pass, flagged as a gap, not an absence of the argument in wider discourse.

Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

• Sangha Renewables Ector County Bitcoin Mining Facility · Odessa · Sangha Renewablesunder 1 mile · Operating · 19.9 MW
• Cipher Digital Odessa Facility · Odessa · Cipher Digital2 mi · Operating · 207 MW
• Texas Critical Data Centers (TCDC) · Sharon AI + New Era Energy & Digital (joint venture)10 mi · Proposed · 250 MW

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