There’a a fantastic National Park in West Texas, .. Big Bend.. Make yourself a promise to get there but be aware it’s a big park in a big place…. that’s another well-kept secret…Texas is Big… Huuge!
Measurements made by the National Park Service show Big Bend has the darkest skies in the contiguous United States.
In addition, In 2019 alone, in the Texas Permian shale oil field, production rose by a million barrels a day, and it could surpass the Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest, within three years. Now producing four million barrels a day, the Permian generates more oil than any of the 14 members of OPEC except Saudi Arabia and Iraq. The Permian, as vast as South Dakota, is distinct from other shale fields because of its enormous size, the thickness of its multiple shale layers — some as fat as 1,000 feet — and its proximity to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. The Permian has been producing oil for a century, and provided much of the fuel the allies needed to win World War II.
Texas’ other monster oil field is the Eagle Ford shale, which was only discovered in 2008. The East Texas Oil Field and the and Spraberry Trend Oil field are among the largest oil fields in the world and both are in Texas. there are more than 65,000 oil and gas fields of all sizes in the world. However, 94% of known oil is concentrated in fewer than 1500 giant and major fields. Most of the world’s largest oilfields are located in the Middle East, but there are also supergiant (>10 billion bbls) oilfields in Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, and Russia.
Everybody Fits Inside Texas
per http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/THOC/Texas.html “The area of Texas is about 262,000 mi. Dividing this figure by the current human population of 7 billion all living on one floor leaves each family of four with about 10 m x 10 m.i.e., 400 square meters, a piece of ground the size of a big two bedroom two bathroom apartment; about 40 feet x 40 feet. 
Views: 5
