My wife and I drove past Midland, TX on I20. It is beautiful, dotted with oil wells, the symbol of God's gift to Texas. It was May 28, 1923 at 6 AM when the well known as Santa Rita #1 blew and spewed crude oil around. It ushered in an era of plenty for West Texas and propelled the US into the age of oil.
God's gift to Texas made it possible for the State to build some magnificent highways, a system of lakes and water sources in East Texas and have no Income Tax. The oil wells aged and so the Country had to buy oil from people who hate us (Muslims) at exorbitant prices. But, another age of oil is coming, ushered in by new methods of drilling and extracting. The oil boom is taking place on private lands so it can not be stopped by the accursed EPA and our oil-hating President.
North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Southern Texas have each a layer of shale oil that is being reached by new drilling methods and frakking. But, their resources are dwarfed by the oil discovered in West Texas in an area called the Petroplex.
It is difficult to figure out how much oil lies below the surface. The oil formed in a "feeding rock" layer, which then squeezed it out into pools. The Santa Rita and other wells were the result of tapping this single layer of oil.
Geologists discovered that the Petroplex contains not one, but several feeder rock layers and shale oils. It looks like this:
The amount of oil contained in these layers literally boggles the mind. As an example, DEVON Energy owns a prime area of 9,800 square miles. They have reported that each square mile contains 3 Million barrels of oil and it is all recoverable, for a total of thirty TRILLION barrels of oil. There are 400 drills heading to West Texas and there is so much oil being produced that the infrastructure can barely handle it. If we can keep Obama and his EPA from throwing a monkey wrench into the operation, the US will not need another drop of foreign oil and in fact we will be exporting oil till the cows come home.
Geologists discovered that the Petroplex contains not one, but several feeder rock layers and shale oils. It looks like this:
The amount of oil contained in these layers literally boggles the mind. As an example, DEVON Energy owns a prime area of 9,800 square miles. They have reported that each square mile contains 3 Million barrels of oil and it is all recoverable, for a total of thirty TRILLION barrels of oil. There are 400 drills heading to West Texas and there is so much oil being produced that the infrastructure can barely handle it. If we can keep Obama and his EPA from throwing a monkey wrench into the operation, the US will not need another drop of foreign oil and in fact we will be exporting oil till the cows come home.
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