Permian Basin
The Permian Basin is the massive, prolific oil and gas region spanning West Texas and southeast New Mexico, and the busiest drilling area in the U.S.
The Permian Basin, spanning West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, is the most active and productive oil and gas region in the United States, drawing workers and companies from across the country and around the world to its heavy, continuous drilling activity. Its scale has made it a magnet for talent and services alike, from landmen setting up permanent offices there because of lower land costs, to engineers and technicians who move there specifically to be near the industry's center of gravity.
Guests on the show describe the Permian as a defining stop in many industry careers, a place where people from wildly different backgrounds converge, and a region so central to national production planning that projects spanning basins from the Permian to the Haynesville get discussed and compared in the same breath.
Heard on the show
“when you get to the Alaska area or the North Dakotas or to the Permian Basin where there's a lot of heavy drilling activity going on”
“folks from North America who are working in around Oklahoma or in the Permian Basin or in North Dakota, to folks working uh in Central Asia, Middle East”