{"id":41504,"date":"2018-12-10T09:44:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41504"},"modified":"2018-12-10T09:44:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:44:25","slug":"the-real-implications-of-the-new-permian-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41504","title":{"rendered":"The Real Implications Of The New Permian Estimates"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Crude-Oil\/The-Real-Implications-Of-The-New-Permian-Estimates.html\">The Real Implications Of The New Permian Estimates<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"articleImageContainer\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d32r1sh890xpii.cloudfront.net\/article\/420x175\/e20a002acb7a350e924ab806d39af5b3.jpg\" media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"singleArticle__articleImage\" title=\"oil rig\" src=\"https:\/\/d32r1sh890xpii.cloudfront.net\/article\/718x300\/e20a002acb7a350e924ab806d39af5b3.jpg\" alt=\"oil rig\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-content\" class=\"wysiwyg clear\">\n<p>This week the United States Geological Survey (USGS) announced a groundbreaking oil and gas discovery in West Texas\u2019 Permian Basin. According to the organization\u2019s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/news\/usgs-announces-largest-continuous-oil-assessment-texas-and-new-mexico\">press release<\/a>, a whopping 46.3 billion barrels of oil, 281 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 20 billion barrels of natural gas liquids are now believed to lie untapped in the Wolfcamp Shale and overlying Bone Spring Formation area of Texas and New Mexico\u2019s Permian Basin.<\/p>\n<p>Major players in the energy industry already have a significant presence in Wolfcamp and Bone Spring, including Occidental Petroleum Corp. and Pioneer Natural Resources Co. It was already well known and well documented that these fields were remarkably fertile grounds for oil extraction, but the jaw-dropping extent of the new figures released this week by the USGS has made the massive crude and shale reserves of the Permian Basin freshly headline-worthy. The figures in this week\u2019s press release are in fact, in the case of Wolfcamp Shale, more than double the previous resource assessment.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/d32r1sh890xpii.cloudfront.net\/tinymce\/2018-12\/1544221909-h1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d32r1sh890xpii.cloudfront.net\/tinymce\/2018-12\/1544221909-h1.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Click to enlarge)<\/p>\n<p>Source: USGS<\/p>\n<p>The USGS assessed the area more than two years ago in 2016, and has officially determined that it contained the largest estimated quantity of continuous oil in the entire United States. &#8220;Christmas came a few weeks early this year,&#8221; said U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke in response to these momentous figures. &#8220;American strength flows from American energy, and as it turns out, we have a lot of American energy. Before this assessment came down, I was bullish on oil and gas production in the United States. Now, I know for a fact that American energy dominance is within our grasp as a nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real Implications Of The New Permian Estimates This week the United States Geological Survey (USGS) announced a groundbreaking oil and gas discovery in West Texas\u2019 Permian Basin. According to the organization\u2019s recent press release, a whopping 46.3 billion barrels of oil, 281 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 20 billion barrels of natural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15331,23083,3640,23430],"class_list":["post-41504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-haley-zaremba","tag-oil-price-com","tag-permian-basin","tag-united-states-geological-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41505,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41504\/revisions\/41505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}