Watchman On The Wall (@Ezekiel38Watchman)

America's Most Important Oil Basin You've Never Heard Of - 1,993 views Premiered 13 hours ago #DJBasin #Niobrara #Colorado Eight out of every ten barrels of crude oil produced in Colorado come from a single county north of Denver. The field underneath it ranks among the top ten in the United States by proved reserves. Almost nobody outside the industry can name it. The Denver-Julesburg Basin covers roughly 70,000 square miles across Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and Kansas. It is the largest oil basin in the Rocky Mountain West by a wide margin, and for a century it was considered worthless — the oil was there, locked in Cretaceous chalk that would not give it up. Then, in the summer of 2024, the federal agency responsible for forecasting American oil production stopped listing it by name. This is the story of how a basin that big becomes invisible, what it takes to pull oil out of rock 5,500 feet under a wheat field, and why a category label on a government spreadsheet might matter more than it sounds — right as American crude production is forecast to fall for the first time since 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU3zxKGbtGA #DJBasin #Niobrara #Colorado #OilAndGas #Geology #Energy #WeldCounty #Wattenberg #Geoscope