Lea County Tops 1-Million Barrels of Oil/Day
Hobbs Sun News (Jan. 10, 2023) – Keeping the No. 1 spot among the nation’s counties, Lea County hit the record books again, logging almost 32 million barrels of crude oil in October. That’s a little more than a million barrels a day. With a lion’s share of county revenue coming from the oil and gas industry, County Finance Director Chip Low tracks the data.
“As far as I can tell, Lea and Eddy (counties) are the top two oil and gas producing counties,” Low told the News-Sun. “Midland, Texas, is at only 17 million in October.”
After adjustments to data reported in October, Low found that Lea County actually topped 30 million for the first time in September at 30,016,695.
