Texas Tech University has announced it is partnering with Natura Resources and Abilene Christian University (ACU) to deploy Natura’s molten salt reactor (MSR) currently under construction at ACU. The collaboration aims to integrate MSR technology with water desalination and energy production systems, addressing Texas’ critical energy and water needs. Those close to the project say […]
Made In The Permian Basin
When you’re at the duty-free shop at Tokyo International Airport and you see a bottle of Jack Daniels you know one thing: the only place in the whole world it comes from is Lynchburg, Tennessee. This is the kind of pride one can take when surveying the fact that more of the Permian’s needed infrastructure […]
Change Happens: DEI and More
Will changing regulations reduce inflation and costs overall? Will it end some of the current entitlement of our workforce after COVID? I only minored in Economics, but it just makes sense that decreasing regulations will decrease costs and thus reduce the rate of inflation. Only time will tell but let’s review some current and upcoming […]
Office Functions: There is a Better Way
The back office is usually just that in the oil industry—back behind the scenes. It rarely makes headlines for great technological leaps. Nonetheless, it looks radically different than it did 10, even five years ago. Quietly, smartphone apps and the ability of accounting software to mine and analyze data from field monitoring systems have replaced […]
Keep It Fresh, Keep It Relevant
Greetings and salutations again to my fellow safety brethren! Regardless if you are a safety professional, a worker out in the field, or an executive, I appreciate you taking a small part of your day or month to read what’s going on in the field of safety. As I’ve stated numerous times over the last […]
Going Horizontal
Spreading out far and wide—what are the limits of long laterals? In the shale revolution, the vertical sections of wellbores don’t do much for production—they’re a means to an end. So, the longer the laterals connected to each vertical hole, the more of the formation is exposed to production. Meanwhile, an ancillary benefit of […]
Legislative Update March 2025
With Committees Established, Texas Session Set to Pick Up the Pace The 89th Session of the Texas Legislature features 30 House committees and 16 Senate committees. On Feb. 13, day 31 of the 140-day regular session, Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows announced his committee assignments. “There is no small role in the committee process, as […]
Five-Day Wells, Challenges for OFS, and the Fallout of The Simpsons
The journal entries below are excerpted from recent installments of James Wicklund’s “Things I Learned…” newsletter. Anyone Care? A central topic [at a recent industry luncheon] was how the OFS companies survive—with consolidation winning that category—and thrive—a goal that no one seemed to have an answer for. The rig companies spend millions of dollars on […]
The Unintended Consequences of Over-Zealous Regulations
Let’s face it, there aren’t many jobs in Cut Bank, Montana. And of those that do exist, the top-paying ones are jobs in the energy industry, like oil and gas operators and energy service companies. Some of those oilfield jobs involve companies such as Montalban Oil & Gas Company (MOGO), owned by Patrick Montalban. MOGO […]
Permian Oil: The Next Four Years
Fourteen years ago, in 2011, I wrote an article for MarketWatch that described how frac’ing for oil and gas would “change everything” for American energy. Among my assertions was the prediction that the United States would be an energy exporter by 2019. The negative comments on the piece were overwhelming. I was told that I was stupid and naive […]
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