How to Use Permian in a Sentence

Permian

adjective
  • The worst occured some 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian period.
    — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • New Mexico houses portions of the prolific Permian shale field, which also crosses into Texas.
    — Georgina McCartney, Reuters, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Instead, the rest is owned through longstanding minerals rights and joint venture partnerships, meaning that some Permian revenues come in without any capital spending.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Chevron is actively cutting its Permian capital expenditure to save money and keep production there plateaued to 1 million barrels daily.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025
  • In the dreadful wake of the greatest die-off in history, the end-Permian mass extinction, the biosphere struggled for millions of years with high carbon dioxide levels during the torrid height of Pangaea.
    — Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Complex food chains, featuring numerous predatory marine reptiles and amphibians, were established just three million years after the end-Permian mass extinction.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Parham also observed that Crescent plans to let Vital's output decline, which will help extend its Permian inventory life, thus addressing a major investor concern.
    — Tipranks.com Staff, CNBC, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Lariosaurus valceresii was a small aquatic reptile that appeared shortly after the devastating Permian mass extinction 252 million years ago.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
  • What’s unusual about Chevron’s Permian position because of the legacy history is Chevron only operates a small majority of its footprint.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
  • To compare apples and oranges, Exxon owns and controls the vast majority of its industry-leading Permian position, and is operating a whopping 35 drilling rigs there.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Chevron’s unique legacy Permian position dates to the 19th century when the Texas Pacific Railway tried and failed to build a railroad from Texas to California.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Diamondback said its Permian oil production averaged 521,000 barrels per day in the first quarter, which was above even the high point of its guidance at 512,000 barrels.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 4 May 2026
  • And 250 million years ago, extraordinary heat nearly killed off complex life in the high-CO2, end-Permian mass extinction known as the Great Dying, just before the rise of the dinosaurs.
    — Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Poised at the end of a humdrum interglacial, in an otherwise chilly corner of Earth history, industrial civilization is emitting carbon dioxide at a clip 10 times faster than the apocalyptic volcanoes of the end-Permian mass extinction.
    — Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Several are associated with mass extinctions, including the Great Dying at the end of the Permian period, which was caused by the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province.
    — Howard Lee, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026
  • Chevron bought Texas in 2001 for $36 billion at a time when the Permian position was considered a depleted afterthought before the shale revolution unlocked reservoirs previously considered uneconomic.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Jenkins also expects several macro and operational factors that affected 2025 performance to improve into mid-2026, including Waha price conditions and additional volumes tied to Permian dry gas expansion.
    — Tipranks.com Staff, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Furthermore, Scotto highlighted that global tailwinds, including rising Permian gas-oil ratios, known as GORs, in Texas and Middle East supply disruptions, are expected to benefit EPD's diverse and integrated asset base.
    — Tipranks.com Staff, CNBC, 10 May 2026

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