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The Next Big Shale Boom Could Be North of the Border

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The Permian Basin has been the star of the U.S. shale oil and gas industry for years. It also has some rather solid crude oil resourcesand some of the lowest production costs But this star is, at least for the time being, dimming as production costs rise with the natural depletion of top-quality acreage.

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Peak Permian? Geology and Water Say We’re Close

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oil-producing basin, the Permian, some areas have hit geological limits while others, yet to be drilled, are not expected to be as prolific as the prime Tier 1 acreage that producers have started to exhaust. To be sure, crude oil output in the top basin continues to rise, but growth has slowed since 2022not only because producers

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Turkey Announces Major Shale Oil Reserve Discovery

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r basin in Turkeys southeast has a reserve of 6.1 billion barrels of shale oil, Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister, Alparslan Bayraktar, has said. Turkey's current annual (crude) oil import amounts to 365 million barrels. Continental Resources, the U.S. shale producer, has estimated that the Diyarbak?r

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Permian Basin drives growth in tight oil production in U.S. onshore lower 48

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

Onshore crude oil production in U.S. Energy Information Administration, driven by growth in tight oil production in Permian Basin. Onshore production includes both legacy oil production primarily from vertically drilled wells and newer tight oil production primarily from horizontally drilled wells.

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Chevron to cut nearly 800 jobs in Texas Permian basin

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(World Oil) –Chevron Corp. plans to lay off nearly 800 employees in the Permian basin, its biggest oil-production operation globally. The bulk of the reductions will come from Chevrons Midcontinent campus on the outskirts of Midland, Texas, the company said in a filing with the Texas Workforce Commission.

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ConocoPhillips deal marks investment firm’s continued push into Texas’ Midland basin

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(World Oil) –Rising Phoenix Capital, an investment firm specializing in oil and gas mineral royalty acquisitions, have announced a strategic purchase of mineral interests in Ector and Midland Counties, TX, operated by ConocoPhillips.

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Diamondback subsidiary Viper acquires Sitio Royalties in $4.1 billion deal

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

Viper is now clearly a must-own public mineral and royalty company in North America with attractive size and scale in the Permian Basin.” Sitio’s assets included 25,300 net royalty acres in the Permian Basin and 9,000 additional net acres in Eagle Ford, DJ and Williston basins.

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