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America’s Top Oil Field Was Desperate for Pipelines. Now It Has Too Many. - The Wall Street Journal

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America’s hottest oil region has too many pipelines and not enough oil to fill them, bad news for pipeline operators.

Just two years ago, rapid production growth in the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico had overwhelmed regional infrastructure, causing bottlenecks that crushed local crude prices.

Now, the region, which is producing around...