Associated natural gas from Permian Basin oil production is constipating oil output; if constrained by lack of pipelines and export capacity, the gas could replace US coal burning entirely, representing 440 million tons of coal displacement on BTU basis.
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“if you sort of add up what we're flaring and what we're exporting via LNG roughly speaking that could replace the entirety of our coal burning...440 million tons of coal this year...Associated natural gas is constipating the production of oil out of the Permian Basin”
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:29:50 PM
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