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PBOG is the Official Publication of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association and is published monthly by Zachry Publications, LP.

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One Hundred Octopi and Counting: Lessons in Online Solids Management

June 27, 2025 by PBOG Leave a Comment

How the development, validation, and large-scale deployment of online solids management systems is saving operators money by releasing flowback equipment sooner, minimizing equipment damage due to solids carry-over, and reducing the need for shutdowns and confined space entry cleanout operations. Pounding Sand Oil and gas wells seldom produce a nice clean stream of hydrocarbons. A […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Online Exclusive, Trade Talk

Viper’s Royalty Model: Worth a Look

June 26, 2025 by PBOG Leave a Comment

Viper Energy (VNOM) presents a compelling case for investors seeking exposure to the energy sector through a mineral rights business model. The company is about to complete a transformative “Drop Down” transaction with parent company Diamondback Energy (FANG) that promises to significantly reshape Viper’s production profile in 2025. This is a transaction that was discussed at […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Industry Analysis, The Financial Picture

Getting a Line on Wireline

June 23, 2025 by PBOG Leave a Comment

Click here to listen to the Audio verison of this story!   Change comes to every sector of the oilfield, working its way through the various niches. Sometimes it comes by technological advance, sometimes by economic realities asserting themselves, sometimes by scarcity—or abundance—of resources. And sometimes it comes from ripple effects of mergers, acquisitions, and […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Wireline and Testing

Mental Health is Also Health

June 19, 2025 by PBOG Leave a Comment

Welcome and salutations! We may be going into some tough times, not that we as Americans—or as members of the oil and gas community—haven’t had our share already. One topic that is prevalent in our industry and often skirted or glossed over is mental health. It is a given that our industry is a “dog […]

Filed Under: Environmental, Safety and Training, Featured Article

Hitting the Mark: A Father’s Day Tribute

June 16, 2025 by PBOG

Click here to listen to the Audio verison of this story!   This month being the month that holds Father’s Day (June 15), I’m going to share a story of a father. It just happens that the story I know best is the one I know from my own dad, Jess Mullins, Sr. He’s been […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, People

Financial Maturity or Lack of

June 12, 2025 by PBOG

My Ethics class interviewed a successful Harvard MBA who also had a law degree from another Tier One university. He worked for many years in the oil and gas industry, including, at one point, working for three Fortune 500 Corporations in Midland, Houston, San Antonio, India, and Abu Dhabi. Our interviewee, who wants to be […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Human Resources

What’s So Smart About Artificial Intelligence?

June 9, 2025 by PBOG

Click here to listen to the Audio verison of this story! The boom/bust cycle has challenged the oil industry in many ways over the decades. Since the turn of the millennium, the newest challenge has been how to adopt new technology when there’s the frantic activity of a boom one minute and the layoffs and […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Techonology

Permian People June 2026

June 5, 2025 by PBOG

June

  ExxonMobil announced April 2 that Karen T. McKee, president of ExxonMobil Product Solutions Company, was to retire effective May 1. The Board of Directors appointed Matt Crocker president, ExxonMobil Product Solutions Company and vice president Exxon Mobil Corporation. He succeeded McKee May 1. Crocker, who has been ExxonMobil’s President/Global Business Solutions since 2023, joined the […]

Filed Under: Business & Analysis, Featured Article, Permian People

The Changing Landscape of Leasing and Minerals

June 2, 2025 by PBOG

Click here to listen to the Audio verison of this story!   The flurry of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity over the last two years has changed the minerals landscape in the Permian Basin, along with most producing basins in the United States. Fewer operators control larger acreages. Also, the definition of what constitutes a […]

Filed Under: Business & Analysis, Featured Article, Mergers and Acquisitions, Trade Talk

Down to the Wire

June 1, 2025 by PBOG

With only a few dozen hours remaining in the regular session, Texas lawmakers have sealed the fate of thousands of bills and are now focused on reconciling House and Senate versions of passed legislation. The Texas Legislature meets in a regular session every two years, convening on the second Tuesday in January of every odd-numbered […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Legal Landscape, Legalities, Legislative Matters, Online Exclusive

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