Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Scary Chart

Below is a chart of US oil production showing both onshore and offshore contributions.



Note that this chart only goes to 2010. The Macondo blowout brought things to a virtual standstill that year so the future will show a significant decline in offshore production.

Source: Offshore Magazine

3 comments:

Old NFO said...

And we really can't afford to lose 1-2 mbbls/day of production, especially not in THIS world 'climate'...

Peripatetic Engineer said...

It sure would be nice to know that a pipeline from Canada was going to bring more oil to the Lower 48.

Clay said...

Also a good article:
http://www.theoildrum.com/tag/gulf_of_mexico
(the series on Gulf of Mexico, Reserves vs. Production)