The new numbers are out and Lea County, NM continues to be the #1 petroleum producing county in the nation. At slightly over 1 million barrels a day it accounts for almost one fifth of the total production of the Permian Basin which is the largest producing area in the nation. We don't have any scenery to speak of, It's usually dry and almost always windy, but we got OIL, the life blood of the world.
