Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 21, 2026, 08:15 PMIt looks looks like the lady in red is the real deal.  Dream your cornucopian dreams as you do, but the red queen runs.

TGS.COM • 2026-02-02

Rising Gas-Oil Ratios in Delaware Basin Oil Targets

Oil-targeted development in the Delaware Basin is increasingly challenged by rising gas–oil ratios, raising questions about fluid evolution and long-term oil yield across core benches.

Well Jumpin Jack Flash - who coulda knowd, a bubble point is reached where an oil well turns into a gas well.

I'm always amazed when the mass media, or the internet, gets around to "discovering" the most basic principle of solution gas drive reservoirs.

For the record, I've got the individual well counts inside of the Permian that have changed from oil to gas, and when. For example the Spraberry formation wells transition far slower than the Wolfcamp wells. The Eagle Ford has always been a mix, and the Bakken has mostly always stayed oil, even across 2-1/2 decades now.

This fascination with GOR has poppped up a couple of time, over at POB one poster, a local operator in the Permian has been raging about it "gassing out" for at least all of this decade.

For an effect so predictable, I find it amusing that folks keep discovering it, attaching it to a doom argument, and pontificating. Well, when bell shaped curves don't work, there are always other things that can be abused to create a cool oil doomer story.

PS: I've also mapped the regions down to the resolution of about 10,000 acres to find the areas most likely to be effected, as well to well interference is also part of this effect. The more interference, the higher the liklihood of a well transitioning from oil to gas in shorter time spans.