The Vermilion Parish tract runs more than 900 times that footprint. Under that agreement, ExxonMobil is expected to turn over land it has held in Vermilion Parish since the 1950s, long leased out for hunting and fishing, with coastal restoration provisions built into the deal. Drew Angerer, Getty Images Drew Angerer, Getty ImagesNo SpaceX filing or regulatory record ties a similar gas plan to the Vermilion Parish site specifically, and that claim should be treated as unconfirmed for now. A separation and dehydration facility at Pecan Island anchors a pipeline network, documented in regulatory filings, that runs dozens of miles to offshore production blocks, and a separate 131-mile pipeline runs from Erath, in Vermilion Parish, to Port Arthur, Texas. That existing footprint wouldn’t hand SpaceX a fuel supply on its own, but it removes a step Starbase didn’t have when SpaceX started building there.