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Occidental's president and CEO, Vicki Hollub, asserts that the Permian still has significant oil to develop, disputing concerns about falling well productivity.

The Permian oil boom isn’t over just yet

The Permian has more oil in place to allow output growth for the next few years, Occidental’s president and CEO Vicki Hollub said this week, commenting on mounting concerns among analysts that well productivity in the top oil-producing U.S. shale basin is dropping off.

“Well, we’ve seen continuing improvement in our oil well productivity and so we haven’t seen a drop off,” Hollub said at the ADIPEC energy conference in Abu Dhabi, as carried by Reuters.

While there has been a degradation of productivity with some operators, the Permian “still has enough additional oil to develop that will continue to grow over the next few years,” Oxy’s Hollub said.

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Source: Oil Price

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