They Came Out Smoking It was Napoleon who said that “an army travels on its stomach.” If the army that descended on Windwalker Farms ever were pressed into duty on the field of battle, not only would it be formidable—with 300 under arms, and a high incidence of marksmen—but it’d be well-fed, too, with a […]
The Booming Business of Worker Accommodations
Living Large, Temporary Style It goes by a number of names: temporary housing, workforce housing, “man camps,” lodges, worker accommodations—but by whatever name, these developments are making an impact in the Permian, as they have in all booming oil and gas plays. ODESSA—It’s quiet here in the dining hall of Goliath Industries’ pristine, barely completed […]
Pushing the Frontier at Pioneer
Pioneering Spirit The President and CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources, Scott Sheffield, combines a global perspective with West Texas savvy to help fuel a resurgence in the Basin. When Teri Pender joined a small independent in Midland 30 years ago as an auditor, she occasionally had to ask questions of a petroleum engineer who always […]
News Reviews
Across the United States, there’s “a growing understanding of how to use the technology to get at the resources.” Domestic crude oil production in the U.S. averaged more than six million bbl/d for the first quarter of 2012 for the first time since 1998. The U.S. Energy Information Administration attributed the milestone to growth of […]
From the General Counsel
Accommodating the Accommodation Doctrine How the surface estate may be used—more specifically, whether a surface owner is incommoded by a mineral owner’s uses of that surface estate—is a question that the Texas Supreme Court is being called upon to answer. Recently the Texas Supreme Court was asked to clarify what a surface owner is required […]
From the Association President
Questions of whether certain information must be shared or not are at the forefront of much debate within the industry. The Texas House Energy and Natural Resources Committees both met in late June to discuss Interim charges. These Interim hearings will guide the development of legislation we will see in the 2013 legislative session. A […]
From the Chairman of the Board
Must the “boom-to-bust cycle” always play out true to form? It might depend on whether the “boom” is itself really a boom, or something else. When is a boom not a boom? The usual answer is that a boom becomes a bust when crude oil prices fall out from underneath us. We have all lived […]
The Future of Co2
A temporary lack of available CO2 has limited its oilfield usage, but remedies are on the way even as CO2 technology sees new horizons. Even Steve Melzer admitted that the injection of carbon dioxide for use in enhanced oil recovery projects in the Permian Basin has taken a backseat to the much more publicized unconventional […]
Making It Happen: The Irrepressible Clayton Williams
It is with sadness that we report the recent passing of the highly accomplished and much-revered West Texas oilman Clayton Williams. As a remembrance of his life, we share once again this personality profile we published some years ago. Our condolences go to his family and many friends. “You can’t help but enjoy life […]
New Mexico’s New Horizons
Although the oil and gas industry in New Mexico is booming—as it is in the rest of the country—these days, Wally Drangmeister calls the state’s industry “a tale of two basins.” Drangmeister, the director of communications for the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association, pointed out that there are a near-record 87 rigs operating in […]
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