The number of drilled but uncompleted wells, or DUCs, has been rising steadily for nearly two years. Are costs keeping crews at bay? Are there enough crews to begin with? PBOG asked experts to explain why the backlog of well completions has become the biggest story in well completions. By Tony Burke The land game, as played by exploration and production companies in the … [Read More]
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The Labor Factor
Skilled labor, or the lack of it, is the ingredient that oil's prognosticators just don't include in their thinking. And so the price of crude goes through its … [Read More]
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Turning to the Right
In many ways, the story of drilling is the story of the drill bit. As that device has changed, so has the entire enterprise of making hole. by Bobby … [Read More]
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Band of Brothers: Top Hand Winners
The Basin's best family foursome finally gets the recognition they deserve. MIDLAND, TEXAS—This year's year's Top Hand Award Banquet honoring the Beal Brothers of BTA Oil Producers fetched hundreds of PBPA members and other individuals representative of Basin … [Read More]
Machine Learning—a New Frontier in I.T.
By Paul Wiseman It seemed like a great idea at first. There’s all this data being aggregated from thousands of wells—why doesn’t someone set up some parameters for pumps, tanks, pipelines, and anything else that can exude data—then computers can … [Read More]
Drilling Deeper: Looking Ahead—and Behind
In this month’s miscellany of articles we share outlooks for 2018 and beyond. These are the full versions of the “Drilling Deeper” news items that appeared as abbreviated versions in the print edition of PBOG’s April 2018 issue. Lower Brent/Cushing Premium … [Read More]
