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America's Oil Boom Concentrated in Ten Permian Counties
Oil Price ^ | Sept 2 2025 | Julianne Geiger

Posted on 09/03/2025 2:08:07 AM PDT by texas booster

If you want to know where America’s oil boom is happening, no need to look at the whole map—because it’s limited to just ten counties in the Permian Basin. Between 2020 and 2024, these small dots in Texas and New Mexico delivered 93% of all U.S. crude oil growth, according to the latest EIA and Enverus data.

It's almost like the rest of the US doesn’t even matter when it comes to oil production growth.

The U.S. added 1.9 million barrels per day (bpd) of new crude and condensate output over that stretch. But nearly all of it came from Lea and Eddy counties in New Mexico, plus Martin and Midland on the Texas side. Lea and Eddy alone punched out almost 1 million bpd of growth—more than half the national total. That puts two dusty counties in New Mexico on par with the production increases seen from OPEC heavyweights like Iraq or the UAE in their strongest years.

Martin and Midland chipped in another 400,000 bpd, while six more Texas counties—Andrews, Glasscock, Howard, Loving, Reagan, and Ward—added 360,000 bpd combined. Everywhere else in the United States, from Alaska to offshore Gulf of Mexico, growth barely reached 130,000 bpd.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: New Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: energy; oil; oilbusiness; texas
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By 2024, those ten Permian counties averaged 4.8 million bpd—37% of all U.S. crude production. That’s more than the entire output of Kuwait and nearly as much as Iraq’s total. The math is stark: when it comes to U.S. oil growth, the map isn’t fifty states wide. It’s ten counties deep.

The formations driving the surge—Bone Spring, Spraberry, and Wolfcamp—have become shorthand for America’s shale dominance. Drillers have been high-grading, squeezing more barrels out of the same acreage, and the geology has kept delivering.

In effect, a handful of counties in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico have added more new oil supply since 2020 than some OPEC members produce outright — a reminder that the balance of global oil power still tilts heavily toward the Permian.

1 posted on 09/03/2025 2:08:07 AM PDT by texas booster
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To: texas booster

Just think how much more it would be if states like New York and California did not put up roadblocks to more oil and gas production.

Just imagine ANWR were producing now as was authorized years and years ago by Congress but which the Biden administration obstructed.

Just think if Offshore drilling were allowed somewhere aside from the western part of the Gulf.

Now imagine we had built Keystone XL and had all that extra oil from Alberta flowing in.

Hell, imagine if the state government in New Mexico did not constantly try to sabotage gas/oil production in that state.

In other words, we’ve produced this much more despite the constant sabotage of the Gaia Worshipers every chance they got. We could be doing so much more.


2 posted on 09/03/2025 2:33:13 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird

I know right! Ca has huge resources... It’s freaking leaking out of the ground.... I wonder what they do with the oil that they have to pump out of the labra tarps. To continue the excavation.


3 posted on 09/03/2025 2:39:28 AM PDT by Pocketdoor
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To: FLT-bird
New York and Pennsylvania have tremendous gas resources. But NY doesn't care about this clean source of energy. It's all about supporting the "climate hoax". How do you bring NYS to its senses?

Get rid of Hochul for one thing.

When she runs again, pull Lee Zeldin out and run him. He did real good the first time around. After all the cr** she's pulled...as Schumer's puppet.....it's time for a change...a big change.

4 posted on 09/03/2025 2:58:19 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: texas booster
Texas has at least5 oil museums. The one I visited was the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum in Midland.
5 posted on 09/03/2025 3:06:46 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Pocketdoor

“I know right! Ca has huge resources... It’s freaking leaking out of the ground.... I wonder what they do with the oil that they have to pump out of the labra tarps. To continue the excavation.”

Its always been leaking from the ocean sea bed just offshore from places like Santa Barbara. With tar balls washing up on the beaches. Drilling offshore would probably be bonanza. Probably due to eco-fanatics, zero off shore exploration has been done.
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In summary:

Natural oil seeps exist offshore Santa Barbara and have been doing so for millennia.

Offshore drilling historically contributed to local economies but caused notable disasters, most famously in 1969.

Despite some production, environmental activism and regulations have curtailed extensive new offshore exploration in recent decades.

The interplay of natural oil seepage and human drilling complicates assessments of offshore oil impact in the region.


6 posted on 09/03/2025 3:12:21 AM PDT by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity)
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To: texas booster

Lea and Eddy are New Mexico, obviously.

Same oil patch as Midland, but Delaware basin, so more carsting and whatnot.

That said, the reason for the boom to the West is legal. New Mexico minerals are largely federal and a lot of the surface is BLM (the old BLM, not the black racist group).

The change to Trump has removed the bureaucratic loggerheads that frustrated production.


7 posted on 09/03/2025 3:47:23 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: dennisw

Ca oil reserves have one use.
Oil scientists study the oil geology.
There had been extensive research of CA oil deposits, but then CA banned oil exploration.
Oil companies gave up and published their results.
To this day, CA oil reserves are the only documented oil field data available for public study, as oil companies understandably keep most of their results private.

So oil scientists in USA, Russia or Saudi Arabia study CA oil fields, as the only publicly available data to learn where the oil is and how to get to it.

So CA ban has given a huge boost to oil exploration everywhere else!
Thanks CA! Your stupidity, our gain!


8 posted on 09/03/2025 3:48:24 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: Pocketdoor

“ Ca has huge resources”

Large but poor quality and difficult to develop mechanically. It’s good, but compared to the Permian, not even in the same zip code.


9 posted on 09/03/2025 3:49:05 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Nateman

Neat cars there, too!


10 posted on 09/03/2025 3:49:33 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: AZJeep

“ To this day, CA oil reserves are the only documented oil field data available for public study, as oil companies understandably keep most of their results private.”

Categorically false. TX requires extensive reporting and most has also been made public in SEC filings.


11 posted on 09/03/2025 3:51:34 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: AZJeep

It is probable that in 20 years or so as Red China increases its control of California, that the oil business will be revived by companies under CCP control. All the recent blather from California Democrats about “racial justice” for California agriculture is likely a cover for increased CCP infiltration with non-white Americans as nominal owners. If Gavin Newsom becomes President in 2029, 20 years may be too optimistic.


12 posted on 09/03/2025 3:58:21 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Surely, there are some data from other places, even Saudi’s publish some results. But the complexity of CA data cannot be matched by any other published results.


13 posted on 09/03/2025 4:10:27 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: texas booster
"If you want to know where America’s oil boom is happening, no need to look at the whole map"

F*ck that, I want to see the whole map. I want to know what all the fuss was over the Keystone pipeline and ANWR.
14 posted on 09/03/2025 4:24:41 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: texas booster

Bkmk


15 posted on 09/03/2025 4:25:27 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: AZJeep

Dunno. I’m just a reservoir engineer and petroleum geologist, so I defer to your expertise.

The Permian, Delaware (NM and Pecos/Reeves in TX) is easily the most studied oilfield in the world.

Saudi has a tight hole on data because there is an incoming sea of water that will shut off viable production slowly creeping in. I’ve studied it for Aramco, but literally subject to multiple NDAs, just like everyone.

Can’t say I’ve looked at anything in CA for 20 years, nor has there been any industry effort to develop data. It’s small potatoes.


16 posted on 09/03/2025 4:26:40 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: texas booster

But... but.. “peak oil”

How many more lies are we going to be told by our government before we stop listening.


17 posted on 09/03/2025 4:30:32 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

“Large but poor quality and difficult to develop mechanically. It’s good, but compared to the Permian, not even in the same zip code.”

By poor quality do you mean heavy crude like in Venezuela? If so, we might not have West Coast refineries that are built to handle this this type crude.


18 posted on 09/03/2025 5:26:10 AM PDT by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity)
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To: FLT-bird
Just think how much more it would be if states like New York and California did not put up roadblocks to more oil and gas production.

But,they won't stop. It will get worse because you are seeing a nationwide segregation take place. Those states are slowly becoming more and more liberal as the conservatives escape. What needs to happen are safeguards preventing them from telling the rest of the country what to do. States need to regain their sovereignty. This is what drives the Texit movement.

19 posted on 09/03/2025 5:27:13 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: FLT-bird

Exactly....


20 posted on 09/03/2025 5:39:19 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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