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At the same time, natural gas producers reported that “rolling blackouts” caused significant “production shortfalls.” “We saw these vulnerabilities,” said Joshua Rhodes, a research associate at the University of Texas Energy Institute. “We saw these issues. We wrote some reports, and then they sat on the shelf and apparently had no impact. I think Texas deserves better than that.” Credit: KVUE Power outages hit Permian Basin Situated in the Permian Basin, Midland has long been known as an epicenter of oil and natural gas production. “If Permian was a country, it would be like the fourth-largest producer of oil,” said Dr. George Nnanna, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas Permian Basin. “In the last decade, we’ve seen about a 1.1 billion barrel increase in oil production and about 3.6 trillion cubic feet increase in natural gas production.”

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