I don’t know if you’d call it a reliable source, but I’d be happy to drive you around Texas and show you derelict rigs that are still sitting over dried up wells. It sure didn’t replenish. There. No one with half a brain should accept this hypothesis as fact without a lot more study and data.
Ever heard of "stripper wells"? Those would be "dried up" oil wells that were started up with the existing infrastructure in place and produce commercially-viable quantities of oil again. Prominent in the Permian Basin.
Thank you, but I’ve driven myself around Texas numerous times. If there is a pump-jack in place, it’s a working well. It may not operate full time, but it is a working well. Non working wells are plugged. To think that oil and gas have ceased to be produced is silly.