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#QuickFacts</h1> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid"> <div class="vc_col-sm-4 wpb_column vc_column_container "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3858" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150622132311im_/http://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/oil-quick-facts-013.gif" alt="Oil and Gas Quick Facts 013" width="403" height="403"/></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Of all of the horizontal wells that have been drilled in the last five years, 99% are in the United States. Of all the wells that have ever been drilled, three quarters are in the United States.</span><br/> <em><span style="font-size: large;">Source: Peter Zeihan</span></em></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid"> <div class="vc_col-sm-4 wpb_column vc_column_container "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3214" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150622132311im_/http://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/oil-quick-facts-001.gif" alt="Oil #QuickFacts 001" width="403" height="403"/></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The exponential increase in Texas oil output over roughly the last three years has completely reversed the previous 23-year decline in the state’s oil production that took place from 1986 to 2009.</span><br/> <em><span style="font-size: large;">Source: AEI Ideas</span></em></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid"> <div class="vc_col-sm-4 wpb_column vc_column_container "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3260" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150622132311im_/http://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/oil-quick-facts-002.gif" alt="#OilandGas #QuickFacts" width="403" height="403"/></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><span style="font-size: x-large;">In mid-2009, Texas was producing less than 20% of America’s domestic crude oil. The recent gusher of unconventional oil being produced in the Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Basin areas of Texas, thanks to breakthrough drilling technologies, has recently pushed the Lone Star State’s share of domestic crude oil above 30%.</span><br/> <em><span style="font-size: large;">Source: AEI Ideas</span></em></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid"> <div class="vc_col-sm-4 wpb_column vc_column_container "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3261" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150622132311im_/http://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/oil-quick-facts-003.gif" alt="#OilandGas #QuickFacts 03" width="403" height="403"/></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><span style="font-size: x-large;">At the current rate of increase in crude oil output in Texas, the state is on track to possibly produce almost 3 million barrels of oil per day by the end of 2013, which could move the state all the way up to No. 8 in the world for oil output by December.</span><br/> <em><span style="font-size: large;">Source: AEI </span></em></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid"> <div class="vc_col-sm-4 wpb_column vc_column_container "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3325" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150622132311im_/http://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/oil-quick-facts-004.gif" alt="#OilandGas #QuickFacts 004" width="403" height="403"/></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><span style="font-size: x-large;">In 2012, almost 1,500 new jobs were created in the Lone Stare State each business day, and many of those jobs were directly or indirectly related to the state’s booming oil and gas industry.</span><br/> <em><span style="font-size: large;">Source: AEI Ideas</span></em></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid"> <div class="vc_col-sm-4 wpb_column vc_column_container "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3326" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150622132311im_/http://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/oil-quick-facts-005.gif" alt="#OilandGas #QuickFacts 005" width="403" height="403"/></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><span style="font-size: x-large;">If Texas were a country it would be one of the top 15 largest oil producers in the world, on a par with the likes of OPEC members Venezuela, Kuwait, and Nigeria.</span><br/> <em><span style="font-size: large;">Source: oilprice.com</span></em></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid"> <div class="vc_col-sm-4 wpb_column vc_column_container "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3327" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150622132311im_/http://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/oil-quick-facts-006.gif" alt="#OilandGas #QuickFacts 006" width="403" height="403"/></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Oil was first detected in Texas in 1543 when Spanish explorers saw oil floating on the water in the Galveston Bay, near Port Arthur, Texas. The first economically significant oil discovery in Texas did not happen for another 300 years.</span><br/> <em><span style="font-size: large;">Source: Texas Almanac</span></em></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid"> <div class="vc_col-sm-4 wpb_column vc_column_container "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3328" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150622132311im_/http://www.arescotx.com/wp-content/uploads/oil-quick-facts-007.gif" alt="#OilandGas #QuickFacts 007" width="403" height="403"/></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <p><span style="font-size: x-large;">No discovery had as great an impact on Texas’ oil production than the discovery of oil at the Spindletop well located south of Beaumont. 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