{"id":313288,"date":"2024-03-26T20:43:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=313288"},"modified":"2024-03-26T20:43:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:43:33","slug":"the-triumphant-usa-is-now-producing-more-oil-and-gas-than-any-nation-ever-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=313288","title":{"rendered":"The triumphant USA is now producing more oil and gas than any nation ever has"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We and our friends have no need to truckle to the Kremlin or Saudi Arabia.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in January that\u00a0US domestic production of crude oil<\/a>\u00a0for September 2023 set a new all-time high of 13,247,000 barrels per day. That fact probably deserved more notice than it received given that it was the most oil any nation on earth had ever managed to produce in a single month. The high-tech modern US oil and gas industry is completely transformed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Telegraph<\/a> has the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even more remarkable is the fact that US producers managed to break the record in November, and then exceed the September number again in December, the most current month for which full data is available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is likely November\u2019s all-time record of 13,319,000 barrels per day (bpd) has been exceeded at least once again during the first quarter of 2024, as producers find ways to wring more production out of each wellbore.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That ability to increase per-well performance through the application of more effective processes and advancing technologies has been crucial to the ability to raise overall production given that the upward curve has continued even in the face of an active rig count that has dropped by over 25 per cent in the past 15 months. That is a feat the US industry has never achieved in any other period in modern times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The September 2023 record took place exactly 15 years after American crude production had hit a production nadir not seen since 1943, when the manpower and resource requirements of fighting World War II slowed the business to a crawl. The US churned out just 3,974,000 bpd in September 2008, a level the State of Texas alone exceeded by almost 2 million bpd 15 years later.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those were the days before the shale revolution kicked off in earnest. Indeed, it was the very next month, October, 2008, when the first successful horizontal oil well<\/a> was drilled in the Eagle Ford Shale formation in South Texas. Management at the company that drilled that first well, Petrohawk Energy, thought they were drilling for dry natural gas. Imagine their surprise when the light brown sweet oil began flowing up the pipe along with the gas stream.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later, drillers were completing successful horizontal wells in the first of many productive shale formations in the Permian Basin of West Texas. By 2012,\u00a0production from Texas<\/a>, which had amounted to just a little more than 1 million bpd in 2008, had risen to 3 million bpd. In November 2023, Texas produced 5,657,000 bpd, and would rank as the 4th<\/sup>\u00a0biggest producing nation on earth if it were a standalone country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These numbers are stunning, and they are coming in the face of a President, Joe Biden, and an administration that continues to invoke federal regulations and executive orders designed to impede the industry\u2019s ability to grow. So, other than advancing technology and human ingenuity, how do we account for this ongoing expansion of America\u2019s energy might?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in January that\u00a0US domestic production of crude oil\u00a0for September 2023 set a new all-time high of 13,247,000 barrels per day. That fact probably deserved more notice than it received given that it was the most oil any nation on earth had ever managed to produce in a single month. 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