By Julie Anderson Imagine an intruder found a small hole through which to snake a video device into your home. Throughout the next week, the invader deftly wound the video probe through each room and closet of your house, finding valuables both large and small. Then, one day you left your travel plans in clear sight of the probe. Finally, when you were miles away the intruder … [Read More]
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When It Hit Him In the Face
When he died at age 100—40 years ago this year—he was the last of the Spindletop oil pioneers. Curtis G. Hamill was a driller on the 1901 discovery well that … [Read More]
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Last Splash of the Summer: DO IT
While it may still be sultry summertime, there are refreshing getaways for those who know where to look. Reeves County this year’s hot spot of hot spots for drilling and completion activity—holds one such retreat. Balmorhea State Park, in … [Read More]
Automation Gets in Gear
The steps-saving discipline that is automation keeps expanding its realm. From a service company’s back office to a producer’s onsite operations to injection chemicals at remote locations—and far beyond—automation continues to spread its ability to streamline … [Read More]
Carbon Black: The Overlooked Commodity
Wherever Wheels are Rolling… on ice or mud or snow... the name that's known is carbon black. Where the rubber meets the road. Just another essential product brought to the world by the fine folks in oil and gas. There are places in West Texas, especially … [Read More]
