The US Energy Information Agency had its Annual Energy Outlook for 2019.
The middle projection is for the US to reach 15 million barrels per day of oil production. This would be more than Saudi Arabia and Iraq combined.
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The high projection for oil and natural gas liquids would be 24 million barrels per day by 2025. If the technology goes right the US could produce 28 million barrels per day by 2035-2045.
This is all coming from the shale oil boom. Real-time data updates guide drilling so there are no dry wells. Exxon Mobil by itself is scaling up Permian (Texas) operations to 1 million barrels per day by 2024. This will be about double current production.
This will be a massive economic boost to the US economy.
It will also mean that there will be no green climate change economic shift with trillions of dollars per year to be made by big oil and natural gas.
The world will have to offset CO2 and fossil fuel use with ocean technology. Creating massive algae blooms using iron can sink tens of billions of tons of CO2 every year.
500 algae blooms per year that are each 3 to 30 million tons in mass would offset all of the industrial and transportation activity. Create a new industry instead of wrecking the current economy.
SOURCES – EIA
Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com
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Yeah, still not tired of all the winning.
Let’s make those algae edible also.
LoL…. Once the World bend their KNEES to OIL from Middle East. Now Middle East WILL bend their KNEES to the US !!…Well Done !!!