{"id":381552,"date":"2025-06-05T12:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=381552"},"modified":"2025-06-05T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:03:20","slug":"permian-basin-the-energizer-bunny-of-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=381552","title":{"rendered":"Permian Basin \u2013 The Energizer Bunny of Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Guest \u201cThis\u00a0bunny<\/a>\u00a0just keeps going and going!\u201d by David Middleton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tight oil production in Permian drives growth in onshore U.S. Lower 48 states production<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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Data source:\u00a0<\/strong>U.S. Energy Information Administration,\u00a0Short Term Energy Outlook\u00a0(<\/em>Table 4a<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>Table 10b<\/a>), May 2025 and Enverus<\/em>
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Onshore crude oil production in the U.S. Lower 48 states (L48) has more than tripled since January 2010, driven by tight oil production growth in the Permian region. Onshore crude oil production is made up of both legacy oil production, primarily from vertically drilled wells, and newer tight oil<\/a> production, primarily from horizontally drilled wells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legacy production decreased from 2.6 million barrels per day (b\/d) in 2010 to 2.1 million b\/d in 2024. Over the same period, tight oil production increased from 0.8 million b\/d to 8.9 million b\/d, accounting for 81% of total onshore L48 oil production in 2024. The Permian accounted for 65% of all tight oil production growth and 51% of L48 oil production in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2010, U.S. tight oil production within and outside of the Permian has generally grown. Tight oil production from non-Permian plays decreased from 2015 to 2017 in a period of low oil prices<\/a>. At the beginning of 2020, tight oil production from the Permian region was essentially equal to tight oil production from all other producing regions in the United States. Permian and non-Permian oil production both fell significantly<\/a> in response to crude oil prices falling below $50 per barrel<\/a> (b) related to the COVID-19 pandemic, with production reaching annual lows in May 2020. After 2020, however, production in the Permian increased at a faster rate than production outside the Permian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Data source:\u00a0<\/strong>U.S. Energy Information Administration,\u00a0Short Term Energy Outlook\u00a0(<\/em>Table 10b<\/a>), May 2025 and Enverus<\/em>
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Tight oil production in the Permian began growing again in 2021 as crude oil prices rose, but production in the non-Permian remained low. After 2020, Permian tight oil production grew at a slower rate than 2017\u201319, but by December 2024, Permian production reached 5.6 million b\/d, up 45% compared with 2020. In contrast, non-Permian tight oil production decreased by 14.9% (0.6 million b\/d) based on the annual average oil volumes from 2020 to 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within the Permian region, the Wolfcamp, Bone Spring, and Spraberry plays produce most of the tight oil, accounting for 99% of Permian tight oil production in 2024. The Wolfcamp play, the largest of the three, has driven growth in the Permian and produced 3.4 million b\/d of tight oil in 2024, which was equivalent to production from all other non-Permian tight oil plays combined. The Spraberry and Bone Spring combined produced an average 2.1 million b\/d in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Data source:\u00a0<\/strong>U.S. Energy Information Administration,\u00a0Short Term Energy Outlook\u00a0(<\/em>Table 10b<\/a>), May 2025 and Enverus<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Principal contributor: <\/strong>Troy Cook<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tags: <\/strong>crude oil<\/a>, oil\/petroleum<\/a>, production\/supply<\/a>, Permian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

US EIA<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

From 2000 through 2024 the cumulative production from the Permian Basin totaled been 14 billion barrels of crude oil and nearly 40 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. In 2024, the basin accounted for about 2 billion barrels of oil and nearly 7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas production.<\/p>\n\n\n

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