Via email, Ben Beasley, Director, Strategic Accounts (Ritchie Bros.) provided PB Oil and Gas Magazine with feedback, as follows. PB Oil and Gas: What are the top items, count-wise, being put up for auction in the Permian over the last six months, or since January, whichever way you have recent time frames calculated? How has […]
Living in the Real World
“The last sale we had, I got up [on the podium] at 10:00 in the morning and got down at 7:30,” said Machinery Auctioneers Owner/Auctioneer Terry Dickenson. “I never left the chair.” How does he keep from losing his voice after nine-and-a-half hours of constant auctioneering? “Well, the voice, you know—you just get on adrenaline” […]
Channeling a Future
MIDLAND, TEXAS—The assembled membership of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association welcomed Omar Garcia as its luncheon speaker when the association resumed its monthly luncheon meetings here at the Midland Petroleum Club on Thursday, Sept. 19. The keynote speaker for this occasion was Omar Garcia, Chief External Affairs Officer for the Port of Corpus Christi Authority. […]
Keeping Memories Alive
The history of any 100-year-old oilfield can be told from various perspectives. Ginger Birdwell Beisch’s book about the KMA Field uses several, including her own voice. The idea to write the book came from her little brother, Michael Bruce Birdwell. He’s pictured at age four in the oilfield scene on the cover of the book. […]
Henry Petroleum/Resources celebrates 50 Years of energy excellence.
The phrase, “She Said Yes!” has become a societal cue to celebrate an engagement. When it comes to Paula and Jim Henry, there’s Paula’s first “Yes!” that led to a wedding in 1964. And then there’s Paula Henry’s second big “Yes,” the “Yes” of 1969 that would mark the beginning of a 50-year-old story that […]
The Cafeteria Plan
Welcome back! I thank you for the feedback and responses to the safety section of Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine. It is fun to write about some experiences, solutions, and different angles on how to make safety relevant, innovative, and even (sometimes) thought provoking. As I’ve said before, there are numerous different angles to […]
Old School Ways, New Era Creativity
“We’re just taking it day by day right now,” said Mesquite Oil Tools Owner/President Justin Pechacek. “A lot of our stuff is workovers and completions. We’re not so much chasing the drilling side. We’ve been able and fortunate enough to stay really busy on the disposal side.” Production increases based on previous drilling involves millions […]
Ten Years in the Making
Midland-Odessa takes another step forward. The long-awaited UTPB College of Engineering Building is now a reality. One month. Four weeks. Thirty days. And counting. Workers scampered from one end of the building, from top to bottom, and all over the outside grounds in an all-out push to finish the new College of Engineering Building for […]
Lease Prices, Demystified
In recent months some record dollar amounts have been paid for leases in the Permian Basin. In 2018 a Santa Fe firm that places bids for anonymous investors bid more than $95,000 per acre for a tract of U.S. government land on the New Mexico side of the Basin. That number was a record high […]
Patriotism and Perseverance
In January 2007, President George W. Bush appointed Gen. David Petraeus to lead the multinational ground forces in Iraq. Petraeus immediately launched a plan to secure Baghdad, and one component of his war strategy was to recall Team Phoenix. Capt. Ann G. Fox, U.S. Marine and one of Petraeus’ original Phoenix recruits, had returned home […]
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