By Paul Wiseman “Instead of being focused on the drilling side, we’re very much focused on the production side,” says Ron Underwood, president and founder of R&D Pipe. The company is based near Houston, selling pipe throughout the Gulf Coast as well as in the Permian Basin. The flood of drilling rigs in the […]
The Down and Dirty of Dirt Work
by Hanaba Munn Welch Nothing beats good dirt work to get a drilling project off to a smooth start—not just a proper pad for the rig(s) and a pit for fluids and level ground for tanks and other equipment but also a road to carry heavy traffic to and from the location. Getting it […]
Drilling Deeper: Staying the Course
In this month’s miscellany of articles, prudence and preventive maintenance are recurrent themes. These are the full versions of the “Drilling Deeper” news items that appeared as abbreviated versions in the print edition of PBOG’s June 2018 issue. Technology on Parade On April 12, in Midland, Weatherford International welcomed customers, employees, and students as […]
A Sporting Chance
There were no guarantees and no safety nets when Debi Sport Moore assayed, in mid-career, to build a business of her own. But she took her chance and made something of it. Today Sport Environmental Services is setting a standard for what it means to be an environmental services firm. By Al Pickett, Special Contributor […]
Water, Water Everywhere in the Permian
This approaching flood will require water treatment instead of an ark. by Paul Wiseman Grizzled veterans of the Oil Patch have a saying that goes something like this: “We produce mostly water and a little bit of oil.” In the days of vertical wells and falling production that issue was not a problem. Scattered […]
Taking the Right Approach
J. Ross Craft, chairman and CEO of Approach Resources, has a career that is intertwined with the storied “career” of the Wolfcamp play. Like Jim Henry before him, who pioneered the Wolfcamp vertical shale play, Craft and his contemporaries have made some “lateral” moves that have changed the landscape. by Jesse Mullins Permian Pure […]
Epstein
PBPA Matters Hearts and Minds MIDLAND, TEXAS—The membership of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association (PBPA) convened at the Petroleum Club in this city on March 22 for its monthly luncheon, where attendees heard keynote speaker Alex Epstein deliver remarks about “the moral case for fossil fuels.” The talk, which is shared below in […]
Standing up for Safety in the Permian
Oil patch safety gets personal for most professionals. By Paul Wiseman Scratch almost any safety professional and you’ll likely find, just under the surface, a horrific work-related tragedy that relentlessly drives everything they do. These images are burned into their psyche with no less force and agony than that of a branding iron searing the […]
Mission: Uncompleted
The number of drilled but uncompleted wells, or DUCs, has been rising steadily for nearly two years. Are costs keeping crews at bay? Are there enough crews to begin with? PBOG asked experts to explain why the backlog of well completions has become the biggest story in well completions. By Tony Burke The land game, […]
The Labor Factor
Skilled labor, or the lack of it, is the ingredient that oil’s prognosticators just don’t include in their thinking. And so the price of crude goes through its gyrations pretty much independent of oil industry realities. by Jesse Mullins It was one of those lunch-table conversations that arise whenever oilfolk gather and the subject turns […]
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