The start of June marks the end of the 87th Regular Session in the Lone Star State and Representatives and Senators from across the state are returning to their communities to share the results of a legislative session that began with pandemic, met the challenges of an unexpected winter storm, and continued to persevere with […]
Recognizing Someone Special
If a tree falls in the forest, but there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? If a trade association has members, but those members can’t be in the same room with each other, can you have a member event? On April 1, 2021, PBPA held its first in-person event […]
Pigging Comes of Age
The lowly and usually invisible pipeline pig is not just an oilfield tool. Any industry that uses a pipeline to transfer liquid from place to place uses pigs to clean the insides and to check structural integrity. Food, industrial chemicals, water, and other fluids can flow a few feet across a plant or thousands of […]
Handling Conflict at Work
Building a better team by utilizing your employees’ modes of conflict. What? In May, I wrote about successful and efficient meeting leading. This month let us review building successful teams. First, you must hire a good team. Then you need to know how each new hire gets their job done while interacting with your internal […]
The NGL Factor
In Memphis, Elvis is The King. In the Permian Basin, Oil is The King. Oil’s had a long string of hits in West Texas, dating back more than 100 years. Its backup singers, natural gas and natural gas liquids, have their place, but they’ll never be the star of the show. In fact, NGLs are […]
Safety Man Puts out Fire; News at 10!
As I was leaving my office that was downtown, and going to an adjacent building, I looked over by the smoking area outside, and there was a medium-sized fire! Being the safety professional I am, I assessed the situation. It appeared to be a fire in the plastic 5 gallon bucket used for cigarette butts. […]
Positive Thinker
Any kid growing up in northern Louisiana around Shreveport is immersed in the oil and gas business like a fish in the water. Such was the upbringing of Gravity Oilfield Services President and CEO Rob Rice. “Up in those areas, that’s just kind of what everybody did,” Rice recalled, so it’s not surprising that he […]
What Have We Been Up To?
The Permian Basin Petroleum Association has represented the oil and natural gas industry of West Texas and Southeast New Mexico for 60 years. In that time, the leadership and staff of the PBPA has changed and evolved to represent the Association’s membership and needs. Today, PBPA is led by President Ben Shepperd, and a full-time […]
PBPA Stepped Up in the Face of February’s Winter Storm
Leaving nearly three million households without power, Winter Storm Uri swept across Texas in February, and was one of the most devastating winter events in decades. Almost immediately, experts began pointing fingers, looking for a culprit that let the state’s energy grid go dark. But as the events were unraveling in real-time, our Permian Basin […]
Mastering the Art of a Great Meeting
Mastering running an efficient meeting is a necessary skill for leaders. Most attendees do not like meetings because meetings take time away from doing their jobs, and the organization risks losing some of their bottom lines because of the time away from performing the essential functions of positions. Due to Covid and beyond, meetings have […]
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