Economists at IHS Markit recently issued a report (summarized here) that predicts that oil production in the Permian Basin will almost double by 2023, increasing by 3 million barrels per day (mbd) to 5.4 mbd. That level of growth will account for more than 60% of net global oil production. As Daniel Yergin, vice-chairman of IHS Markit indicates, “(i)n the past 24 months, production from just this one region—the Permian—has grown far more than any other entire country in the world. Add an additional 3 mbd by 2023—more than the total present-day production of Kuwait—and you have a level of production that exceeds the current production of every OPEC nation except for Saudi Arabia.”
In a separate report, summarized here, IHS Markit predicts that natural gas production will rise in the United States by almost 8 billion cubic feet per day (bcf/d) or more than 10 percent in 2018 alone. Altogether, U.S. production is expected to grow by another 60 percent over the next 20 years, the report says. In the Permian Basin alone, production of both natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs) are expected to double from 2018 to 2023, reaching 15 bcf/d and 1.7 mbd, respectively.
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