The year 2014 has begun with a bang in the Permian Basin. San Antonio-based Lake Truck Lines opened an oilfield services facility in Odessa with another planned in Snyder as it expands into the Permian Basin. Doug Cain, president and CEO, told the Midland Reporter Telegram, “We will probably be going after the Cline Shale […]
A Barometer of Everyone’s Success
That’s what the equipment rental business is. A thriving industry in its own right, it keeps other oil and gas operations humming, and its own fortunes chart a picture of the health of everyone else. By Paul Wiseman, special contributor Equipment rental is big. Bigger than ever. And it’s headed for unprecedented heights in the […]
Death by H2S
A negligent company owner gets prison and fines. By Darrel Canada During all the years spent in the oilfield and in training classes I have taught, I’ve always tried to make a difference in people’s mindsets. I want the hard working men and women going back home safe to their families every day. I feel […]
No Shortage of Work
The well servicing industry gets it going and coming. They’re all the time going out to new wellsites during this drilling boom, and they’re always coming back to their mainstays–the producing wells–to keep the crude flowing. By Hanaba Munn Welch The steadiest, surest income from the exploration for the earth’s riches characteristically comes to companies […]
Give Our Regards
Broadway beckons, barbecue beguiles, and firestarters flicker. WHERE TO EAT: West Texas barbecue is a wonderous thing. Barbecue served straight out of the pit is even better. If you’ve got a hankering for slow-cooked meat in hefty quantities, KD’s Barbecue on Garden City Highway and Interstate 20 is the answer. Come on in and grab […]
In Like a Lion
Never look back. Have the moxie to “let go of certainties.” Pull the tubing on that old well. Oh, and France wants you. With March at hand, winter’s all but whipped. All we need to worry about are rains, sleet, flareups of scorching heat, gale force winds, maybe record snow and bitter cold. Hmm. February […]
It Just Seemed Fascinating
Cloyce Talbott, co-founder of Patterson UTI, was all in for drilling, right from the get-go. By Hanaba Munn Welch Cloyce Talbott wasn’t born into the oil business. Just almost. In 1939, at Megargel, Texas, Talbott’s father took the advice of a neighbor, lease operator C. T. Hedges, and acquired a lease with four wells—shallow wells […]
The Driller and the Monkey
by Bobby D. Weaver Oil well drillers tell a host of stories on themselves. One of my favorites is the story of the driller and the monkey. It seems that some years ago a driller from West Texas took a job in South America. It paid extraordinarily well, but the location was deep in the […]
Apache Corp. the Latest to Impress National Press
National media outlets continue to discover and weigh in on the Permian Basin energy boom, as the Reuters news service did in December. Apache Corp. was the primary focus in a report that highlighted the heightened activity and new ways of conducting business in the oil fields of far West Texas and Southeast New Mexico. […]
Positively Positive
Whether we’re three years into the upswing or five or more–depending on where one fixes the starting point–it’s clear that reports from the field just keep saying the same thing: business is good. Dallas-based Pioneer Natural Resources recently announced record horizontal drilling results in West Texas. Scott D. Sheffield, chairman and CEO, said, “Our first […]
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