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    Mike Shellman

    The Land of Enrichment

    It might be worth noting that of the 49 Texas and New Mexico counties included in the definition of the "Permian Basin," (and the USGS whooptie-do technically recoverable oil resource estimates), nearly 75% of all Permian Basin tight oil production comes from just eight (8) of those 49 counties. T
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    tomasbabicki

    Roughnecks and Oil Rig Workers Wanted for Discussion

    Hello all, This may seem like an odd post, however for some time I have been conducting research for a screenplay set in the Permian Basin in Texas in 1992, coinciding with the Kuwait oil fires. As I got into the details of the film, I realised I know far less than I thought about the technicalitie
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    Montgomery Burns

    Energy Policy and virtue signaling

    Last summer in Sweden we had a "heat" period of 2-3 weeks and this forced us to emergency start one of our nuclear reactors that were idled down before final termination scheduled for end of year 2020 it also forced us to start up our old oil burner plant to prevent massive black outs since our "ren
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    Mike Shellman

    Scratch Russia Off the List

    From the Forum comment next door about excuses..... "When Wolfcamp benches in the Permian are shriveled up like raisins in a few years and we're back on our knees begging OPEC and Russia to sell us their expensive oil, we're ALL going to wish we had been less greedy, less wasteful and that we had
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    Anne Keller

    Selling out at the top?

    Note: I have another account here as 'abk' but somehow the site's decided my password is no good and doesn't want to give me another one. No wonder Twitter has 1 billion fake accounts! Seeing some interesting numbers out there for non op/RI/ORRI with the funds getting back in the oil and gas game
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    abk

    Is the Bone Spring Dry? Or just smelly?

    So, maybe time to trot out something about sour gas? From what I’ve seen lately there are a ton of permit filings for the ol’ Wolfcamp shales, but the once touted Bone Spring zone seems not to be very popular. Methane is one thing, but burning off H2S can be hazardous to a lot of people’s h
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