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-Land of the Free
JR Would Be Proud - Texas Oil Production Now Rivals Opec Nations
2013-07-11
With Obama restricting oil production on US federal lands even more in all 50 states, Texas wildcaters are frustrating his war on fossil fuels like the road runner vs the coyote cartoon.
We all know oil production in Texas has soared in recent years. But putting the rise in graphic form shows just how phenomenal the energy turnaround has been: The surge looks exponential.

In March, Texas oil production reached its highest level since 1984. That month, the Lone Star State pumped more than 74 million barrels of crude from the ground, which means if Texas were a country, it would be one of the 15 largest oil producers in the world.

Saudi Texas: Oil's new reign in Texas draws comparisons to the Kingdom (link to another recent story)

Texas' oil output has doubled in less than three years, putting it in the ranks of OPEC heavy-hitters like Venezuela, Kuwait and Nigeria.

As a whole, the United States produced 221 million barrels of crude in April, with more than a third coming from Texas.

Analysts are tossing around the words "phenomenal," "amazing" and "unprecedented" when discussing the numbers.
Posted by:Omavimble Stalin3583

#6  "I'd just as soon rather the money I pay for gas go to Texans than into a terrorist-sponsoring hell-hole like Saudi Arabia."

FTFY, Sgt. Mom.
Posted by: Barbara   2013-07-11 13:02  

#5  I thought as much, seeing the changes over the past few years as we drove south from San Antonio for book events in Goliad and Beeville. A good few years ago, many of the little towns along the roads we took were practically ghost towns - lots of boarded-up storefronts. But now they are thriving, with lots of new construction - and on the outskirts, man-camps and new RV parks, which have nothing to do with the snowbirds from northern states. Wells and new plants all over ... and acquaintances in Goliad told us last year there were families getting substantial checks for mineral rights who had been just barely scraping by, before. And the traffic in and out of the local courthouses, of people researching ownership and leases, was a like a six-lane urban highway at rush hour.
I'd just as soon the money I pay for gas go to Texans than into a terrorist-sponsoring hell-hole like Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2013-07-11 11:27  

#4  That was a long time ago. We were all much younger then. Champ will just nationalize them to protect the rare Flattened Armadillo.
Posted by: Fred   2013-07-11 11:19  

#3  The main reason the Champ has been unable to cripple Texas' oil production (thus far)is that there is very little federal land in Texas. When Texas joined the Union it retained its public lands as a condition of annexation.
Posted by: BrujoTejano   2013-07-11 09:59  

#2  unfortunately, there is a danger that Texas is ramping up govt spending faster than it should (and mainly on education)
Posted by: lord garth   2013-07-11 09:15  

#1  To put TexasÂ’ oil production in perspective, Perry compared it to North Dakota, the nationÂ’s No. 2 oil-producing state. In November, Texas produced almost three times as much oil as North Dakota, home to the productive Bakken Shale.

As soon as the NSA digests this article, Champ will take credit for increasing domestic oil production.
Posted by: Bobby   2013-07-11 06:05  

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