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energyTexas Oil Production Could More than Double by 2025 and Surpass Saudi Arabia

April 10, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
ExxonMobil revised its Permian Basin (Texas and New Mexico) growth plans to produce more than 1 million oil-equivalent barrels per day by as early as 2024 – an increase of nearly 80 percent and a significant acceleration of value. Exxon’s …
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energyTexas Sets New Record for Oil Production

February 14, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
The Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO) reported oil production in Texas totaled a record 1.54 billion barrels (bbl) in 2018 which surpassed a previous record of 1.28 billion bbl set in 1973. If Texas were a country …
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spaceSpaceX Texas Spaceport Schematic and Artist Conception

January 21, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
SpaceX is initially building a launch pad for the Starhopper at Boca Chica, Texas. However, SpaceX has to build a lot more for the orbital Super Heavy Starship launches. There are older plans and artists renderings of the Boca Chica …
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spaceSpaceX Texas Launch Site Progress

January 16, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
SpaceX continues to build the Starship hopper test rocket. They are removing placeholder engines and opened up the rocket to add fuel tanks and the real raptor engines. Here are tweets about progress on the Texas launch site. It still …
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climate changeTexas Has Oil Past 2050 and Telling Real-Life JR Ewings to Stop Will Not Work

December 9, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
The US Geological Survey has performed an updated survey of the primary oil basin in Texas and doubled their estimate of technically recoverable oil and gas from 2016. Fracking Technology Keeps Improving They did not change how much oil they …
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futureRecord US and World Oil Supplies in 2019 and 2020 and Crazy Peak Oilers

November 22, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
Peak Oil was a very popular idea from about 2000 to 2013. The idea was that world oil production or a nations oil production would reach a maximum level and then go into permanent decline. US crude oil production set …
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energyTexas will add 2 million barrels of oil per day in 2019 and more in 2020

November 22, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
Texas Permian oil producers will add three pipelines and 2 million barrels of oil a day. A few months ago it was believed that U.S. oil production was going to plateau from mid-2018 to 2020. However, August saw the largest …
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oilUS number one in oil production and Texas would be world number 3

July 18, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
Texas oil output (Permian and Eagle Ford) is expected to 5.6 million barrels per day in 2019, according to HSBC. Texas will be more nearly half of America’s total crude oil production. EIA forecasts US oil production to average 11.8 …
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californiaTexas could have a higher population than California in 2045

July 15, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
California had a massive drop in projected population since a reforecast in 2014 and the forecasted future population in Texas has been increasing. The newest combined estimates are that Texas could have more people than California by 2045. If Texas …
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energyTexas and Permian Basin oil production to double by 2023

June 13, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
Permian basin oil production is forecast to reach 5.4 million b/d by 2023—more than current production from any single Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries member other than Saudi Arabia, IHS Markit said in a new report. The Permian Basin is …
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