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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150405034444/http://www.arescotx.com/permian-basin-on-track-to-be-top-shale-oil-producer/permian-basin-shale-oil/" target="_blank" rel="attachment wp-att-3039"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3039" style="border: 0px none; margin: 5px 10px;" alt="Permian Basin Shale Oil Unconventional Drilling" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150405034444im_/http://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/permian-basin-shale-oil.jpg" width="225" height="225"/></a>Orthodoxy is slowly being jettisoned in the <a title="Permian Basin" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150405034444/http://www.arescotx.com/tag/permian-basin/">Permian Basin</a>. As the oldest and most prolific hydrocarbon-producing region in the United States, the Permian is undergoing a surge in <a title="Unconventional Drilling" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150405034444/http://www.arescotx.com/tag/unconventional-drilling/">unconventional drilling</a>. Traditional vertical rigs represented 80 percent of the regions rig count in February 2011. That figure plunged <a title="Permian Basin Overview" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150405034444/http://www.energyeconomist.com/a6257783p/exploration/detail/permian/Permian_Basin_Overview.html" target="_blank">to just 42 percent</a> by the end of the second week of April 2014.</p> <p>What鈥檚 driving the surge in unconventional production? Higher oil prices coupled with rich opportunities to significantly boost resource extraction are transforming the region, which began producing more than 90 years ago. 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