Plains All-America Pipeline has completed or is completing several new pipeline projects in the Permian Basin designed to help producers in midstream operations. The pipelines serve the Bone Spring, Spraberry, and Wolfberry areas in nine counties at a cost to build of $135 million. “These projects provide additional pipeline gathering capacity in areas with significant […]
From the General Counsel
JOAs and Liability In April of this year, I wrote about a case that was currently before the Texas Supreme Court titled “Wendell Reeder v. Wood County Energy, LLC, et al.” In that case, the operator, Reeder, argued that the 1989 Model Form Joint Operating Agreement’s exculpatory clause prevented him from being held liable for […]
From the President
Here we go again. By now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will have proposed listing the Lesser Prairie Chicken as either Threatened or Endangered. This is another result of the legal settlement between the USFW and the Centers for Biological Diversity and the WildEarth Guardians, which brought us the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard listing proposal. […]
News Reviews
Offshore operator reports show that personnel were evacuated from 21 production platforms (3.5 percent of the manned platforms in the Gulf) and 2 rigs (2.6 percent) during Hurricane Isaac in late August, according to the Oil and Gas Journal. About 1.3 million b/d of production was offline at the height of the storm. The Journal […]
From the Chairman of the Board
The Permian Basin Petroleum Association was honored this week to host Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus as our featured monthly luncheon guest. The PBPA luncheon was preceded by a reception for Speaker Straus in the new offices of Concho Resources. In both events Speaker Straus emphasized the tremendous impact the Permian Basin is […]
Fishing: An Industry, and an Art
The business of “fishing” a well bore requires skill, technology—both new and tried-and-true—and a mechanical aptitude as well. Like everything else, this trade keeps changing, too. Fish: Anything left in a wellbore. Fishing: To attempt to retrieve a fish from a wellbore. The Oilfield Glossary compiled by Schlumberger explains a complicated industry process in a […]
Heat Wave
OSHA-mandated flame retardant clothing (FRC) is an apparel trend that hasn’t caught fire—not among the hands who must wear it even during scorching summertime heat—but help is on the way. Take a typical summer day in West Texas when the thermometer hits a high of 100 degrees (and sometimes higher) and where shade trees are […]
Outside the Box: PBIOS Celebrates an Innovator
The Permian Basin International Oil Show, slated for Oct. 16-18, will celebrate an innovative and independent-minded thinker, Charles Perry, as its industry honoree. Three times during our interview, Charles R. Perry’s cell phone rang. Each time, it was someone with a technical question about Perry’s gas processors. “My title is chairman emeritus,” Perry quipped, “but […]
Making Music in the Mud Biz
Not Yet Through Mud is his metier. Music is his mainstay. Ken Goldsmith, mud dawg that he is, takes Mudsmith Ltd. into melodic new waters. Welcome to the world of Ken-isms, “green initiatives,” customer service, and “floating slabs.” It’s all here… in Mudland. Well, the song’s for you if you’re not yet through at […]
Play-by-Play Report
The Permian’s productive plays are newmaking and interesting in and of themselves, but they reveal unique and often-unexpected qualities when alongside the plays of outlying regions. Pete Stark calls them the “Big Three” of the tight oil plays. “If you look at the Bakken, the Eagle Ford, and the Wolfberry, those three plays have been […]
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