Buffeted by an array of external factors and rising operational challenges, the Permian basin stands at a crossroads in 2025. Can the world’s busiest and most prodigious onshore oil and gas region remain the major driver of U.S. energy security into the future, or will an increasingly unfavorable set of market conditions—combined with the global reordering of tariffs and trade relations being invoked by President Donald Trump—force an end to the long period of sustained growth seen in the region since the advent of the Shale Revolution?.

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