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 energy interests to celebrate the career of four extraordinary man. For our full feature profile of these […]
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 send alarms to alert managers and field personnel any time there’s a problem! Very […]
Looking Ahead—and Behind
Lower Brent/Cushing Premium Hasn’t Hurt Exports/Brent/Houston Relationship More Important by Sandy Fielden, Director, Oil and Products Research, Morningstar Commodities Research Exports Remain Buoyant The premium of international benchmark Brent crude to its U.S. counterpart West Texas Intermediate (WTI) delivered to Cushing, Okla., has narrowed nearly 50 percent this year even as outright crude prices reached […]
The Wall of Water
The rapidly developing water midstream sector promises a “wall of water” for producers. This expanding midstream sector replaces truck trips with more efficient hub-and-spoke gathering and distribution systems. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert; Isaiah 35:6, ESV “We are modern day alchemists,” says Wolfcamp Water Partners CEO Toby Darden. […]
Lighter Than Air: A History of the Helium Industry in the Permian
by Bobby Weaver The oil and gas industry produces many products ranging from fuel to plastics, but few are aware that the extraction of rare gases are an important, albeit a small, part of that activity. Perhaps the most important of those gases is helium. When the term helium is mentioned, the vision that comes […]
Permian Rental Companies Back the Stats
As Analysts Note Impressive Peak, Locals Confirm Industry Uptick. The day after Christmas 2017, IHS Markit, an economic analytics firm based in the United Kingdom, issued a press release referencing the Permian as a “super basin.” In fact, the headline and first few paragraphs made one think Christmas would last well into the […]
IIoT Meets O&G
Can technology make $20 oil profitable? Technology-based improvements in time efficiency have already made oil production at least sustainable at $50 per barrel. Could further improvements drop the break-even level to even lower prices? Firms who are leaping forward to fully embrace oilfield technology—both providers and end-users—point out that the “old ways” of doing […]
Drilling Deeper: Ring in the New
In this month’s miscellany of articles, the theme of newness might be the tie that binds. These are the full versions of the “Drilling Deeper” news items that appeared as abbreviated versions in the print edition of PBOG’s January 2018 issue. Weir Erects Service Center Fort Worth-based Weir Oil and Gas broke ground in […]
Oilfield Culture
Who are those people and why do they act that way? By Bobby Weaver No matter where they may roam, be it in oilfields in exotic places like the Middle East, South America, Africa, or even North Dakota, oilfield people maintain a certain persona. That persona derives from a close identification with the industry […]
Sand Nation
In a sweeping and disruptive move that in some ways pre-empts the huge sand suppliers of Wisconsin and other points north, the Basin storms into the sand mining business, bringing home what could be the lion’s share of this vital and ever-growing segment within the well completion industry. by Jesse Mullins “The West Texas […]
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