Spraberry Trend

And I remember visiting 23 well sites in 21 days, uh, in West Texas, and that shows you the level of activity.

Everyone almost, other than the old Spraberry formation, everyone was logging wells, evaluating wells.

Uh, it was crazy.

Um, it was the Wild West in those times, people living, uh, in tents.

He retired in 2016, returned in 2019, and ultimately sold the company to ExxonMobil for around sixty billion dollars.

He was one of the first to pioneer horizontal drilling in the Permian after years of drilling through it vertically and seeing production from both the Spraberry and the Wolfcamp.

One eminent geologist had written the Permian Basin off to be in permanent decline, and it now supplies close to half of US crude output.

In his memoir, From Tehran to the Permian, which publishes tomorrow, the title is literal.

Sure

... or the Spraberry or something.

This is back..." And all of a sudden the Permian's now producing 5.6-

Yeah