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McLean: Natural gas emissions reductions beat solar and wind combined by 2x
“When you account for natural gas emissions, the total emissions reduction that has been allowed by the increase of natural gas Because of shale development is two X that of solar and wind.”
Jay McLean Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 59:49 Striking Oil – CrownRock by Lime Rock Capital (EP.428)
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McLean: Permian Shift to Horizontal Drilling Yielded 3x Capital Productivity Uplift
“And it also prompted an acceleration of a big industry shift in the Permian Basin from the vertical drilling, which we had been doing since our founding in 2007 to horizontal drilling, which proved to be effectively a three X uplift in the productivity of the …”
Jay McLean Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 27:55 Striking Oil – CrownRock by Lime Rock Capital (EP.428)
Assertion Supported
McLean: CrownRock grew from under 40k to over 160k barrels per day
“And at that point in time, we were producing a little under 40,000 barrels a day, and we had projections to get well over 150,000 barrels a day if we held it for another five years. We briefly got over 160,000 barrels a day right before we sold the investment.”
Jay McLean Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 46:06 Striking Oil – CrownRock by Lime Rock Capital (EP.428)
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McLean: US active drilling rigs dropped from 1,800 to under 600
“I mean, there were 1800 rigs running in the United States at that point in time. Last week, there was less than 600 rigs running in the US.”
Jay McLean Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 24:53 Striking Oil – CrownRock by Lime Rock Capital (EP.428)
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McLean: 2015 OPEC War Dropped U.S. Rig Count to 300-400
“The rig count went from 2000 rigs to get as low as 304 hundred rigs. More bankruptcies than you had ever seen in the oil and gas business since the 19 eighties.”
Jay McLean Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 26:52 Striking Oil – CrownRock by Lime Rock Capital (EP.428)
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McLean: U.S. oil production share reached 70-year low in 2007 before rebounding
“2007 U.S. Oil production as a share of global production hit its absolute minimum that we've seen over a 70 year time span. And at the moment that we sold it hit a local maxima that spanned 30, 40 years.”
Jay McLean Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 54:37 Striking Oil – CrownRock by Lime Rock Capital (EP.428)
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