Workers’ compensation is a state-regulated insurance program that helps people with work-related injuries and illnesses. Employees covered by workers’ compensation insurance (a.k.a. workers comp) get medical care necessary to treat their injuries and illnesses. Depending on the type and severity of the injury, workers’ compensation may also provide: payments to replace … [Read More]
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Outstanding in Their (Oil)Field
We share the following item that was originally published by the Petroleum Museum, the organization that maintains the Petroleum Hall of Fame. The Petroleum Hall … [Read More]
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Wireline Comes into Its Own
As wireline goes, so goes the O&G industry. Wireline makes a good barometer for what's happening not just in the service industries sector, but in Basin … [Read More]
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Oil Scouts and Landmen: Perceptive, Perspicacious, and Persuasive
Oil scouts and land men have a history that intertwines—and skills sets that have some things in common. by Bobby Weaver The oil and gas industry has always been an extremely competitive field. From its very beginning in Pennsylvania in the 1850s, it was an … [Read More]
Generational Shift
New money, new blood, new horizons: The next generation of wildcatters gears up for the future. By Paul Wiseman “This rise is like the World War II rise—those guys coming home after World War II. You know, the oil field kind of ramping up for them,” says … [Read More]
Holding Stuff Together
Welding transformed the oil and gas industry. Electric arc welding and oxy-acetylene have been tools for shaping a world. by Bobby Weaver Welding is one of those trades necessary for the operation of today’s petroleum industry. It is hard to … [Read More]
