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🚨 TEXAS! The US just discovered 1.6 BILLION untapped barrels of oil in Texas + 28.3 TRILLION cubic feet of natural gas ready to be extracted!
X ^ | 01/17/2026 | Gunther Eagleman

Posted on 01/18/2026 2:50:55 AM PST by SmokingJoe

🚨 TEXAS! The US just discovered 1.6 BILLION untapped barrels of oil in Texas + 28.3 TRILLION cubic feet of natural gas ready to be extracted!

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Texas just keeps booming even as California continues to droop.
1 posted on 01/18/2026 2:50:55 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

From the video:
“...10 months worth of gas and 10 weeks worth of oil...”


2 posted on 01/18/2026 3:00:33 AM PST by Repeal The 17th ( I am obsessed with not being obsessed with anything.)
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1.6 BILLION untapped barrels of oil in Texas + 28.3 TRILLION cubic feet of natural gas

How do they accurately predict those numbers?

3 posted on 01/18/2026 3:01:23 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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::taptaptap:: Waiting for the cost of NG to plummet...
4 posted on 01/18/2026 3:09:39 AM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I was wondering the same thing, and also I would think that by now most if not all of the gas and oil in Texas would be known about.


5 posted on 01/18/2026 3:10:22 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: SmokingJoe

They must have used Cooper (Landsman) as head of exploration.


6 posted on 01/18/2026 3:16:23 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall)
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Texas just keeps booming even as California continues to droop.

Per plan. I'd bet there is a lot undeveloped oil in California too, especially off the coast.

7 posted on 01/18/2026 3:20:08 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: SmokingJoe
"Don't cry for me, Venezuela!"

(Until now, everyone's been saying how Venezuela had the world's largest reserves. Don't know if this new find is enough to tip the scales - but it's a movement in the right direction.)

Regards,

8 posted on 01/18/2026 3:21:30 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
They must have used Cooper (Landsman) as head of exploration.

Since his dad is now unemployed, he can hire him as head of operations.

9 posted on 01/18/2026 3:23:28 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: SmokingJoe

An 8 or 9 percent increase in known Texas reserves.


10 posted on 01/18/2026 3:26:13 AM PST by jimfree (My 23 y/o granddaughter has more quality exec experience than most Dem pres candidates.)
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To: Carry_Okie

Most natural fuels or ‘rare earths’ or things like diamonds are plentiful in the end and cheap to get, it’s all artificial manipulation by the oligopolies to keep prices up. Same with almost all pharmaceuticals, medical treatments in general, legal expenses.

Pretty much everything on the planet is unreasonable especially now. From fast food to nearly anything the ‘free market’ has been dead for ages and it’s virtually shortage economics via central planning around the world.


11 posted on 01/18/2026 3:28:18 AM PST by Polanski
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To: Carry_Okie

Most natural fuels or ‘rare earths’ or things like diamonds are plentiful in the end and cheap to get, it’s all artificial manipulation by the oligopolies to keep prices up. Same with almost all pharmaceuticals, medical treatments in general, legal expenses.

Pretty much everything on the planet is unreasonable especially now. From fast food to nearly anything the ‘free market’ has been dead for ages and it’s virtually shortage economics via central planning around the world.


12 posted on 01/18/2026 3:28:18 AM PST by Polanski
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To: SmokingJoe

If only they found this on land I owned.


13 posted on 01/18/2026 3:28:26 AM PST by Lazamataz (The quickest and easiest way to untold riches is to be elected to national office.)
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To: SmokingJoe

The libs are not going to like this.

In my last job I found myself working in a total lib environment. One of the more vocal libs was always running down Big Oil. So I asked this jackass one day why he hated oil companies. His sorry reply related to a glass of water, in that there is only so much in it and it has to go empty sooner than later.

His glass analogy was a joke, for more and more oil is being discovered all over the world each year.

And is it really a fossil fuel?


14 posted on 01/18/2026 3:39:57 AM PST by redfreedom (They’re AWFUL...Affuent White Female Urban Leftists)
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To: SmokingJoe

It sounds like this is a prediction from USGS and not a flowing discovery.

Could take years to be ready for market.

And a relatively small deposit.

So, why announce it?


15 posted on 01/18/2026 3:42:16 AM PST by PeaRidge
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To: Polanski
it’s all artificial manipulation by the oligopolies to keep prices up.

Been on top of that for a long time.

it’s virtually shortage economics via central planning around the world.

Contrary to the "environmental" progenitors of this plan, it is actually immensely biologically destructive to wildland landscapes. I've spent the better part of a career proving it.

16 posted on 01/18/2026 3:44:42 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
How do they accurately predict those numbers?

Who says they're super-accurate? They are probably "only" good estimates. Might be, in reality, as much as 1.9 billion barrels of oil. Might be "only" 26.0 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

And as to the "how?" Probably also using A.I. to analyze, e.g., 3-D images captured via seismic surveying. Really advanced stuff.

Are you disputing their credibility?

Regards,

17 posted on 01/18/2026 3:44:58 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Are you disputing their credibility?

No I'm not. Since when does asking a simple question equate to questioning the accuracy of any such statement? Sheesh.....

18 posted on 01/18/2026 3:53:05 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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And is it really a fossil fuel?

Apparently yes. There's a few skilled oil people on the forum; one who knows his stuff tells us that you can actually see microscopic fossils of the organisms that generated the oil.... right in the oil.

19 posted on 01/18/2026 4:00:26 AM PST by Lazamataz (The quickest and easiest way to untold riches is to be elected to national office.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Good for Texas. And if they ever tap into the Rockies and open up ANWR, the US will be the fossil fuel controller of the world.

wy69


20 posted on 01/18/2026 4:03:17 AM PST by whitney69
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