Recent additions help Basin’s oil, gas, and NGL transportation supply catch up with demand–for now. Just as the Permian Basin’s oil boom has created a series of traffic jams on the roadways, the increase in production of crude oil, natural gas, and NGLs has brought about a jam-up on the midstream highways. Companies such as […]
Transparency Pays
Pipeline appraiser David Howell has made a career of digging up abandoned pipelines–and of sharing his acumen and know-how with anyone who has need of it. By Hanaba Munn Welch Nothing brings a career choice into question like a series of dry holes. In retrospect, David Howell would call it providence. But back in the […]
Allocation Revisited
A few months ago I wrote on the Texas Railroad Commission’s issuance of permits for “Allocation Wells.” Specifically, I noted that EOG Resources, Inc., in 2012, applied for a permit to drill an Allocation Well that crossed leases in which it did not have the right to pool. The mineral owners protested the issuance of […]
Mounting Challenges
Permian Basin activity remains strong throughout the Basin and that makes the work we do here at the PBPA all that much more important. The issues keep coming at us and the Board and I are committed to doing what it takes to keep folks drilling and producing for years to come. PBPA continues to […]
Drilling Deeper – October 2013
Here you will find the full versions of our articles… articles that appeared in truncated form in our October print edition of the magazine, in our “Drilling Deeper” department. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Renaissance Man, in Retrospect Workforce Housing’s Unexpected Side Benefits eOilBoom.com Launches Oil and Gas Crowdfunding Platform Professional Development Getting Shortchanged RR Candidate Takes […]
2013 Southwest Oil & Gas Awards Finalists Announced
2013 Southwest Oil & Gas Awards Finalists Announced The votes have been collected and counted for the 2013 Southwest Oil & Gas Awards. The judges of the awards, made up of 52 leading industry executives, have reviewed more than 400 entries from about 250 companies and their votes have now been […]
News Reviews: Gainers and Groundbreakers
Fall 2013 finds the Permian Basin acknowledging yet more peaks and possibilities. Two locations in New Mexico, including Otero Mesa, 12 million acres of wild grasslands in southern New Mexico primarily controlled by the Bureau of Land Management, are included on a list of 12 places in the U.S. deemed “too wild to drill” by […]
Drilling Mud: More Than Meets the Eye
And yet less changed, it seems, than most other oil and gas standbys. Drilling fluid remains a constant in an ever-changing industry. In an industry which is known for rapid, constant change, particularly in recent years, one field has remained unchanged in essentials for decades. While the industry changes around them, drilling fluids manufacturers continue […]
Growing With the Times
In the 13 years since his company, now known as CUDD Energy Services, was bought by a much larger holding company, Clint Walker has presided over a ten-fold increase in CUDD’s income statement. He’s a bootstraps-type oil and gas pro who keeps a hand in the cattle ranching trade and still finds time to pull […]
Rigged to Succeed
In his five decades in the drilling industry, Ray Brazzel has bored down to the things that really matter. Ray Brazzel admitted he has seen a lot of changes in more than a half century of working in the oil and gas industry. “Technology has improved and rigs are safer now, but they need to […]
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