解码特拉华州:勘探与生产如何开启未来

该盆地比东部的米德兰盆地更深、含气量更大、地质更复杂、也更偏远。但对于美国许多顶级石油和天然气生产商来说,特拉华号的奖励实在是太诱人了。

一座孤独的钻井平台在新墨西哥州的特拉华盆地进行石油和天然气钻探,那里几乎没有植物能够生存。(来源:Jim Blecha,oilandgasstockphotography.com)

德克萨斯州洛芬县的油井数量远远超过人口数量。

根据美国人口普查局的数据,洛芬县(人口:43)是全美人口最少的县。

但它是特拉华盆地德克萨斯州一侧钻探活动的中心,特拉华盆地是二叠纪盆地的一部分,运营商预计未来几十年的原油产量将出现增长。特拉华河从德克萨斯州西部延伸至新墨西哥州东南部,其开发程度低于其东部二叠纪表亲米德兰盆地。

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Decoding the Delaware: How E&Ps Are Unlocking the Future

The basin is deeper, gassier, more geologically complex and more remote than the Midland Basin to the east. But the Delaware is too sweet of a prize to pass up for many of the nation’s top oil and gas producers.

A lone rig drills for oil and gas in the Delaware Basin of New Mexico, where few plants can survive. (Source: Jim Blecha, oilandgasstockphotography.com)

Oil wells easily outnumber people in Loving County, Texas.

Loving (population: 43) is the least populous county in the nation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

But it’s the epicenter of drilling activity on the Texas side of the Delaware Basin—a portion of the Permian from where operators expect to see decades of future crude oil production growth. The Delaware, extending from West Texas into southeastern New Mexico, is less developed than its eastern Permian cousin, the Midland Basin.

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