The debate over drilling and environmental management in the US has reached intense heights. It is easy, when considering these arguments, to feel like US oil production is driven entirely by gushing wells in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska. However, Paul Kedrosky looked into some Department of Energy data and found that huge wells account for barely 10% of US oil production.
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As you can see here, small and medium wells in the US (blue and yellow) account for over 70% of total US oil production. In fact, wells that produce less than 50Bbl a day account for almost half. It turns out, the small and numerous finds and the more productive!
