*HOUSTON, Texas, April 6, 2026.* SEO Agency USA has been named an Official Sponsor of all six 2026 LDC Gas Forums produced by Access Intelligence, LLC. The agency's Founder and Chairman, Jason Langella, will serve as a featured panelist at the flagship event of the series, the 26th Annual LDC Gas Forum Southeast, taking place April 8 to 10, 2026 at the Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort & Spa in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. SEO Agency USA is an AI-first search and revenue infrastructure firm serving the energy, engineering, and industrial sectors.
The sponsorship spans the entire 2026 regional forum calendar, including the dedicated Nat Gas to Power Forum in Austin this November. That event was built specifically around powering AI data centers and hyperscaler workloads. Across the year, the sponsorship places SEO Agency USA in front of more than 1,000 natural gas executives, LDC leaders, pipeline operators, LNG developers, hyperscaler procurement teams, and critical infrastructure decision-makers.
The commitment reflects the agency's expanding practice in the energy sector. AI-driven data center demand has become a major new driver of natural gas consumption in North America. Procurement teams at LDCs, pipelines, LNG developers, and utilities are increasingly using AI search tools as their first step in vendor research. That shift has broad implications for how natural gas technology providers get discovered, evaluated, and selected.
A Panel Built for the AI Search Era
Langella's panel is scheduled for Thursday, April 9, 2026, from 3:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time. It is titled "Where There's A Will, There's A Solution - Providing Innovative Technology Solutions To Overcome Infrastructure Management Challenges." The session is moderated by Melissa Griffith, Director of Operations at Enspire Energy.
Langella is joined on the panel by Dhruv Venkatraman of Trellis Energy Software, Andy Snyder of Emerson, and Scott Vogan of nGenue. Together, the panel convenes technology providers from across the natural gas value chain. The session addresses how operators, marketers, producers, distributors, LDCs, utilities, and pipelines can meet surging demand while modernizing their commercial, operational, and discovery layers.
Notably, the panel is scheduled immediately following the Thursday keynote lunch delivered by Siemens Energy, a session titled *"From Demand Surge to Delivered Megawatts: The Gas-to-Power Opportunity Ahead."* That session frames a key story in North American natural gas: AI data centers and hyperscaler workloads are translating into new gas-to-power project orders, new combined-cycle capacity additions, and an accelerated buildout schedule for the natural gas value chain.
Langella's panel picks up the conversation at the technology layer that determines which vendors get selected to execute that buildout.
The panel's agenda explicitly identifies priorities that map directly to SEO Agency USA's core practice areas:
- Managing commercial natural gas transactions, including pricing, billing, scheduling, ETRM, customer management, LDC EDI, and transaction automation
- End-to-end wholesale and retail operations solutions for natural gas marketers, producers, distributors, LDCs, utilities, and pipelines
- Ensuring visibility and contextual presence of solutions to potential markets
- Energy trade and transaction management that is digital, scalable, efficient, and secure
- Technology innovations spanning machine learning, digital twins, artificial intelligence, digital transformation of business operations, and business intelligence built on integrated data
Langella is expected to focus his remarks on the fastest-shifting discovery layer in the industry. The question he is bringing to the panel is how AI-driven search engines and large language models now determine which energy technology providers, LDCs, and infrastructure firms appear in the research, procurement, and decision workflows of the natural gas market. He will also share what the companies already winning that layer are doing differently.
For the panel, Langella will present original primary research conducted specifically for the 2026 LDC Gas Forums. The work combines two studies: one measuring how more than 80 natural gas industry vendors appear across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok when real procurement queries are run, and a second measuring the factual accuracy of those same five platforms on 50 verifiable technical, regulatory, commercial, and safety-critical questions about the natural gas industry.
Ground-truth answers for the second study are sourced from FERC orders, PHMSA regulations, NAESB standards, American Gas Association technical references, and NTSB incident reports. The full dataset, methodology, and scoring will be published publicly following the Ponte Vedra panel.
Quote from Jason Langella
"The procurement team at an LDC looking for a new ETRM vendor or a pipeline integrity consultant doesn't start at Google anymore," said Jason Langella, Founder and Chairman of SEO Agency USA. "They start at ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Claude. I'm on this panel because the industry hasn't fully processed what that shift means yet, and I've spent the last year measuring it. The companies that are going to win the next five years of natural gas procurement are the ones that figured out how to exist inside those discovery tools before their competitors did."
Langella also acknowledged Christy Coleman, Vice President of LDC Gas Forums, who leads the forum series and opens each event with welcome remarks. "Christy Coleman and her team have built the LDC Gas Forums into the room where the natural gas industry actually has its most important conversations," Langella added. "Christy is one of the best operators I've ever worked with, and it is an honor to sponsor every one of her events this year."
The 2026 LDC Gas Forums Calendar
SEO Agency USA's Official Sponsor commitment covers every forum on the 2026 LDC Gas Forums calendar. The series, described by its producers as "Where the Natural Gas Industry Gathers," convenes the operators, marketers, financiers, and technology providers that keep North American gas infrastructure running. The 2026 events are:
| Forum | Dates | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 26th Annual LDC Gas Forum Southeast | April 8–10, 2026 | Ponte Vedra Beach, FL |
| LDC Gas Forum Northeast | June 8–10, 2026 | Boston, MA |
| LDC Gas Forum Rockies & West | August 10–12, 2026 | San Diego, CA |
| LDC Gas Forum Mid-Continent | September 14–16, 2026 | Chicago, IL |
| Gulf Coast Energy Forum | October 14–16, 2026 | New Orleans, LA |
| LDC Gas Forum Nat Gas to Power *(focused specifically on powering AI data centers and hyperscaler workloads)* | November 11–13, 2026 | Austin, TX |
The LDC Gas Forum Southeast, now in its 26th consecutive year, draws 400+ natural gas executives annually. The forum has historically convened alongside sponsors including Shell, Trafigura, and leading North American LDCs. The broader LDC Gas Forums series is produced by Access Intelligence, LLC, the publisher behind multiple energy, infrastructure, and industrial media brands.
A Cross-Industry Speaker Lineup
The 2026 LDC Gas Forum Southeast convenes executives, regulators, and advisors from across the natural gas value chain.
Confirmed speakers and panelists include representatives from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the American Gas Association, the American Public Gas Association, bp, Kinder Morgan, Williams, TC Energy, Southern Company Gas, ConocoPhillips, Duke Energy, Siemens Energy, Emerson, Boston Consulting Group, the Tennessee Valley Authority, Argus Media, Natural Gas Intelligence, Gas South, Greenville Utilities Commission, and the City of Tallahassee, alongside technology and advisory firms including East Daley Analytics, NeuVentus, CB&I, CPC, Trellis Energy Software, Black Belt Energy, Cleveland Advisory, Enspire Energy, the Torridon Group, CMC Gas, and nGenue.
The agenda also features a Thursday-morning fireside chat with Tala Goudarzi, Partner at the Torridon Group and former Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Fossil Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy, on geopolitics and the impacts of recent events on U.S. energy policy; a Thursday-morning panel on infrastructure permitting and gas-electric coordination featuring FERC, the American Gas Association, Boston Consulting Group, TC Energy, and Southern Company Gas; and a Friday Gas Buyers Panel convening Duke Energy, the Tennessee Valley Authority, Greenville Utilities Commission, and CMC Gas. The complete preliminary agenda is available at [ldcgasforums.com/se_agenda](https://www.ldcgasforums.com/se_agenda/).
The Shift Beneath the Forum's Agenda
The 2026 LDC Gas Forum Southeast opens with a keynote from Liz Bowman, Vice President of Government Affairs and Outreach at Williams, on the policy and regulatory frameworks shaping a major new driver of natural gas demand: data centers. Data center power demand has become a defining factor in North American infrastructure planning, and it features prominently across the forum's agenda. Langella's panel extends that conversation into a related question: which vendors, operators, and advisors actually get selected to build, manage, and modernize that infrastructure, and how those selection decisions are now being made.
The natural gas industry is navigating this infrastructure buildout against the backdrop of a significant shift in search and information discovery. Procurement managers, engineering leads, and capital-allocation decision-makers are increasingly turning to ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Claude to build vendor shortlists before any formal RFP is issued. Energy companies with thin websites, gated PDFs, and no structured data are already invisible in this new discovery channel. Most of the industry has yet to react.
SEO Agency USA's Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) methodology is designed specifically to address that gap. The firm engineers the technical, content, and authority signals that make energy, utility, and industrial clients findable, citable, and selectable inside the AI platforms that are rapidly becoming the first stop in the B2B research journey. As natural gas demand growth converges with the AI infrastructure buildout, the firms that win the next decade of contracts will be the ones that exist clearly inside the platforms procurement teams are actually using.
Powering the Data Center Wave: Why Natural Gas Is at the Center of the AI Buildout
The 2026 LDC Gas Forums calendar reflects a fundamental shift in what is driving natural gas demand in the United States. AI data centers and hyperscaler workloads from companies including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, and xAI are translating into new gas-to-power project orders, new combined-cycle capacity additions, and an accelerated buildout schedule for the industry.
According to the International Energy Agency, natural gas is on track to fuel most new U.S. data center projects through at least 2030. U.S. analyst forecasts call for 4 to 8 billion cubic feet per day of added natural gas demand from data centers by 2030, with some studies projecting that data center power demand could increase total U.S. natural gas production by 10 to 15 percent over that period. Hyperscalers are projected to invest more than $500 billion in data center capacity in 2026 alone.
In the U.S. Southeast specifically, utilities and pipeline developers are planning more than 3.3 billion cubic feet per day of new gas-fired generating capacity by 2040, largely to supply data centers. The natural gas value chain, from upstream producers to midstream operators to LDCs to LNG developers to gas-to-power EPCs, has become a critical infrastructure layer underwriting the AI growth wave.
The LDC Gas Forums series has responded to this shift by building an entire forum dedicated specifically to it. The LDC Gas Forum Nat Gas to Power, which Access Intelligence convenes in Austin, Texas every November, brings together gas marketers, pipeline operators, LNG developers, IPPs, utilities, hyperscaler procurement teams, EPCs, and technology providers focused on the gas-to-data-center value chain. SEO Agency USA's Official Sponsor status covers the Nat Gas to Power Forum alongside the other five regional forums. The commitment reflects the agency's focus on the full spectrum of natural gas industry stakeholders, from traditional LDC operations and LNG export to the rapidly growing data-center-driven gas demand category.
For the energy technology vendors, EPCs, consultants, and software providers competing to win contracts in this buildout, the stakes are high. Hyperscalers and their advisors are conducting initial vendor research months before any RFP is issued, and that research is increasingly happening inside AI search tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok) rather than through traditional vendor directories or trade press. Companies that are invisible to those AI platforms are being systematically excluded from shortlists they would historically have made. This is the discovery layer Langella's research and his Ponte Vedra panel address.
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About the LDC Gas Forums
The LDC Gas Forums are the natural gas industry's longest-running regional forum series, produced by Access Intelligence, LLC. The six 2026 forums collectively convene more than 1,000 natural gas executives representing LDCs, pipelines, producers, marketers, utilities, LNG developers, and technology providers across North America. The LDC Gas Forum Southeast is the flagship event, now in its 26th year. Full details and registration are available at [ldcgasforums.com](https://www.ldcgasforums.com/) and [ldcgasforums.com/se](https://www.ldcgasforums.com/se/).
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