Telling a Story The fine photography collected, as well as (often) shot, by oilfield photographer Mitch Mayborn in middle-to-later 20th Century, working for Drilling Magazine, holds up as documentary imagery of that day, and as a nice primer to the various components of the patch.
HRIQ: Oil and Gas Technology and Labor
by Bill Price Technology has dramatically changed the oil and gas industry in the last decade. We know the effect of enhanced oil extraction on production but this was only possible through the introduction of sophisticated technology. The energy industry has become less labor intensive, as is true of most industries. The industry has experienced […]
Getting the Resources Gone
Takeaway is what the midstream sector is all about. Getting the crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids away from the wellheads and on their way to the processing plants. Sounds simple, but it’s a world unto itself, and it’s a world that’s undergoing dramatic change. by Jesse Mullins The upstream sector has its […]
Sizing Up the Services Sector
Same Song, Next Verse The Permian Basin Petroleum Association has been in existence now for more than 55 years. The mission of the PBPA is the same today as it was back in 1961: to promote the safe and responsible development of oil and gas resources in the Permian Basin region of West Texas and […]
The Pipes, They Are A’Callin’
The Pipes, They Are A’Callin’ We are living in the age of the Big Buildout. Infrastructure is having a boom of its own. We share, from our recent “News Reviews” coverage, six months’ worth of pipeline announcements: November 2017 Midland-based Oryx Midstream Services will complete a new regional crude oil pipeline serving the Delaware Basin […]
Company Town
There are stories aplenty of “company towns” built by oil companies in oil’s early 20th century heyday, but no company town fit the mold better than a Basin town, Texon, that endured for generations. by Bobby Weaver Back in 1955 Tennessee Ernie Ford had a hit song entitled “Sixteen Tons” concerning the travails of a […]
HRIQ: Child Labor – Is It Okay?
by Bill Price It might seem surprising to see a headline calling attention to a discussion of child labor, and child labor laws—that whole topic seeming like something right out of the 19th century. But child labor is still a topic of discussion, even today, and knowing about it, and about its governance, is […]
Fifty Years
Diversification by industry and geography has fueled Saulsbury’s expansion through its first half-century, and equips the firm for its foray into the next. By Paul Wiseman The oil and gas business isn’t actually like a roller coaster, though many have made that comparison. On a real roller coaster, you see the dramatic rises and […]
The Well That Launched the Permian
Santa Rita #1 was the discovery well that opened what would prove to be the biggest oilfield in America, and what might someday become the biggest in the world. Its story is one that epitomizes what the oilfield is all about. by Bobby Weaver It has been almost one hundred years since the Santa […]
Saulsbury Industries at 50
Notching its 50th anniversary, Saulsbury is the archetype of the classic Basin-grown business. And for the folks at SI, growth with integrity is not an option—it’s an imperative. By Paul Wiseman People often ask Saulsbury Industries founder Dick Saulsbury if, in 1967, he thought his little two-person electrical company would grow to employ hundreds […]
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