When it comes to the Permian Basin and the amount of oil and gas resource contained in it, he becomes positively loquacious. "We should view the Permian Basin as a permanent resource," he says ...

Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. The Permian remains the premiere U.S. basin. The peak of crude oil production in the Permian before the pandemic was 4.9 MMbpd.