Houston Chronicle/Bloomberg: Texas is about to create OPEC's worst nightmare
The map lays out OPEC’s nightmare in graphic form.
An infestation of dots, thousands of them, represent oil wells in the Permian basin of West Texas and a slice of New Mexico. In less than a decade, U.S. companies have drilled 114,000. Many of them would turn a profit even with crude prices as low as $30 a barrel.
OPEC’s bad dream only deepens next year, when Permian producers expect to iron out distribution snags that will add three pipelines and as much as 2 million barrels of oil a day.
“The Permian will continue to grow and OPEC needs to learn to live with it,’’ said Mike Loya, the top executive in the Americas for Vitol Group, the world’s largest independent oil-trading house.
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WNU editor: I have been told that U.S. shale producers can still turn a profit at $30 per barrel. Bottom line .... OPEC is confronting a competitor that they cannot compete against, control, or influence.
3 comments:
The price at the pump has dropped steadily this last week even leading into a heavy travel week with the Thanksgiving holiday. It’ll be under $2.00/gal shortly.
under $2.00/gal shortly?
Maybe in the southern tier.
What other tier is there?
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