Going Horizontal
Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine
MARCH 1, 2025
Starting Small, then Growing by Leaps and Bounds Early in the shale revolution, before about 2012, 5000-foot laterals were the new and challenging thing in the Permian Basin. Averages of 10,000 were standard by 2018, when 12,500 became the new norm, LeBlanc observed. Three milesabout 15,000 feetbegan trending in about 2023.
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