Permian Basin of West Texas is experiencing an oil boom

Fuel Fix ^ | February 27, 2012 | AP

[Recon Dad]

DALLAS — The Permian Basin of West Texas is experiencing an oil boom, leading some of the region’s top oilmen to predict that Texas oil production will double within five to seven years.

Oil drillers over the last eight years have found that the dense oil rock of the basin surrounding Midland and Odessa responds well to hydraulic fracturing, releasing lush yields. Total oil production last year in Texas averaged more than 1 million barrels per day for the first time since 2001. [snip]

[fieldmarshaldj]

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!! Nobody tell Zero or he’ll screw it up.

[Recon Dad]

and limits placed on land use by the presence of such endangered species as the dunes sagebrush lizard.

....if someone wants to pay me I can take care of this problems....no questions asked.

[cripplecreek]

I was surprised to find how much oil is being produced in my Michigan county (Jackson county). We’re apparently the oil capitol of Michigan with 500,000 barrels in the last 6 months of 2011.

The waterkeepers are desperately trying to shut down the injection wells now with falsehoods and lies about chemicals and even radioactive materials being pumped into the ground.

[SailormanCGA72]

How long will it take before the big eared Muslim in the WH will try to shut down West Texas oil production like he did in the Gulf of Mexico? He’s already not a big fan of anything Texas. Maybe Texas should just go ahead and become a sovereign Republic again.

[Recon Dad]

I was surprised to find how much oil is being produced in my Michigan county

One of the major oil and gas “traps” in southern Michigan is the Albion-Scippio Trend, in Jackson and Calhoun Counties.....you’re lucky no Sagebrush Lizards to worry about.

[Recon Dad]

If he gets reelected Taxas maybe be the best place to move to.

[cripplecreek]

I grew up in southwestern Jackson county as the drilling in the Albion-Scippio expanded into our area in Hanover township.

Now I'm in southeastern Jackson county and the drilling is going on all over this area. It appears to be primarily for natural gas.

A night with low cloud cover from my back yard. Gas flares all around. The bright light in the center was a drilling rig behind the trees.

[taildragger]

CC...

Rumor has it they are following the fault line N-NE of where you are.

I haven't seen it, but they are drilling around School Craft College / 275 right off the highway. It maybe closer to the 8 mile exit, as I heard it from someone who lives near their, Northville / Livonia -ish...

[cripplecreek]

Keep an eye out for the waterkeepers. They’re a Kennedy funded enviromarxist humanity hating group. The idiots are opposed to all oil and gas drilling, mining, coal, farming, logging, private property, unrestricted water use etc....

http://www.waterkeeper.org/

[CedarDave]

How long will it take before the big eared Muslim in the WH will try to shut down West Texas oil production like he did in the Gulf of Mexico?

Not long. In New Mexico lots of the likely production areas are on federal BLM land and in both NM and West Texas, Fish and Wildlife is being urged by enviro-nazis to declare large areas off limits to drilling to save a small "endangered" lizard. Click on the link below for details:

Lizard

or read this link for details:

Meet The ‘Endangered’ Critter That Could Halt A Fifth Of America’s Oil Production

The decision, originally scheduled for December 2011 has been moved to this coming June.

[353FMG]

And with modern oilwell recovery techniques, the boom can only increase in scope.

Gee, how I wish Texas would secede. But then it would have to close all borders.

[thackney]

Click on the link below and zoom in on Texas.

http://gis.bakerhughesdirect.com/RigCounts/default2.aspx

When combined with the work on the Eagle Ford, nearly half the rigs operating in the US are in Texas.

[re_nortex]

[Recon Dad]

Great map, I hope the next time I see it Texas is solid blue.