Chron.com | IHS: Most new Permian oil will be exported from Houston, Corpus Christi Chron.com U.S. oil consumption is only rising slightly, while the Permian boom meshes well with Congress lifting the nation's decades-old crude export ban at the end of 2015. Crude exports of 520,000 barrels a day in 2016 already have risen to almost 1 million ... From peak oil to energy abundance. Energy expert now says the Permian Basin is a permanent, near-infinite resource |