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 […]
A Shale Primer
The term “shale play”—generally a misnomer when applied to most oil and gas resource plays—is more likely a “tight sand” or “tight rock” play. We tap an expert for a primer on “play” terminology, as well as an assessment of today’s emerging plays. by Jesse Mullins When PBOG settled in with Philip H. “Pete” Stark, […]
Second Stage
Call it a second-level surge—because ”boom” and “bust” are words that ought be purged from the local vernacular. But with the recent uplift looking long-term, the surge has been in structures and infra-structure—developments that come after more confidence has set in. Our Permian Economic Outlook tells a story of a deepening expansion. By Lana Cunningham […]
Safety: Hitting Close to Home
Emergency Action Plans ought to be more than precautionary verbiage that lives on a wall somewhere. It ought to be knowledge that lives in employees’ minds and even accompanies them home. One way for employers and employees to get serious about Emergency Action Plans is for them to take the training home and share it […]
Workovers: Worth Repeating
Those sagacious sayings, that is. A little trip down Memory Lane for fans of a classic western, and some collected wisdom, to boot. We were so taken with the colorful quotes from CUDD general manager Clint Walker that appear in our profile on him in this issue, that we just had to reflect on another […]
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