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 Toyahville, is home to one of the largest (1/3 acre) manmade pools in the world. […]
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 and inform oil patch operations. Innovators in those three areas share their expertise. By Paul Wiseman Transparency and Accountability […]
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 areas in close proximity to gasoline refineries, where you […]
Digging Into The Dug, Part 2
It was sand, water, logistics, services, and completion technology as the second full day of the DUG Permian Basin Conference brought the event to a conclusion. The two days in Fort Worth were an immersion course in Basin basics. By Jesse Mullins | Photography by Tom Fox Last month we shared the messages of Day […]
Charting Performances
Permian Break-Even: As Low as $22 a Barrel During the last three years, companies operating in the Permian Basin have drilled much longer laterals and used substantially more complex well completion design in their newer wells with the aim of reaching higher initial production (IP) rates. Well lateral lengths in the Permian have increased in […]
Boston Energy Research: Future Oil Price Road Map
Monthly Future Oil Price Road Map by Paul Kuklinski July 12, 2018 Timing Differences Impacting Oil Price Psychology The recent peak in oil prices reflected the anticipated loss of supply from Libya, Iran, and Venezuela, downtime in Canada, and looming pipeline bottlenecks in the Permian Basin. But future supply is being augmented by the response […]
Driven to Succeed
Basin-area trucking firms face a shortage of trained drivers. Like, 3,000 drivers. “We noticed, with this [recent] downturn, that a lot of the drivers that left—they haven’t come back,” said Endeavor Energy Services’ Trucking Division General Manager Patrick Martinez. By Paul Wiseman “We noticed, with this [recent] downturn, that a lot of the drivers […]
Digging into the DUG
The 2018 DUG Permian Conference delivered a primer on what it takes to be successful in the Basin. FORT WORTH, TEXAS—The DUG Permian Conference, an annual event, fetched top Basin executives and other decision makers to this fine city for what turned out to be an eye-opening exploration of the fast-changing landscape that is the […]
Pushing Frontiers
Producing Pipe at the Well Milford, an EPC corporation headquartered in Midland, has announced a strategic partnership and distribution agreement with Tubi USA Inc., a HDPE pipe manufacturer with a patented mobile production system. As Marcello Russo, Tubi founder and CEO, commented, “Our production system has proven itself on projects in Australia and New Zealand […]
Pipe: It Touches Everything
By Paul Wiseman “Instead of being focused on the drilling side, we’re very much focused on the production side,” says Ron Underwood, president and founder of R&D Pipe. The company is based near Houston, selling pipe throughout the Gulf Coast as well as in the Permian Basin. The flood of drilling rigs in the […]
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