Cartels Stealing West Texas Oil

🚨Cartel Oil Theft in the Permian Basin

Case Chambers, an Oil and Gas expert who's been in the industry for years, details the blatant theft of oil in the Permian Basin by cartels as "they're pulling in with tankers in the middle of the night; they're just pulling straight up to… pic.twitter.com/zHNLMpDTQR

— Shoe (@samosaur) December 18, 2025

… the tanks loading."

Dallas executives at the petroleum club are well aware of the theft and write it off as it's considered a byproduct of the industry, "but most of the bigger oil companies will tell their guys in the field: don't confront these guys if you run across them. We don't know who they are."

Oil is the number one source of energy production in the United States, and over half of it is produced in the Permian Basin.

Alarming West Texas Oil Theft Emerges As National Security Threat https://t.co/o4G3RyJPgu

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 28, 2026

We're watching the Pemexification of the Permian basin. Cartels have drained Mexican pipelines for years, and now that same organized midstream theft is proving how physically exposed US domestic infrastructure actually is.

— Mossin Nagant (@MossinNagant) March 28, 2026

Emerges??? Nah, it’s been this way for a very long time. Media is just now printing the story.

No one ever took these stories seriously in the past, but it’s true and it’s been occurring in Texas for a VERY long time.

There’s actually a production accounting code for oil…

— Tom Slocum for Texas 🇺🇸 (@slocumfortexas) March 28, 2026

… theft.