by Bobby Weaver Some people, usually of the male gender, just plain like to fight. That is especially true of oil field hands. Now myself, I never was much of a hand at fisticuffs. For one thing I was a tad small for the activity and besides my threshold for pain was always […]
Getting the Message Out
Being heard and understood by the public was an overarching theme of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association, which convened Oct. 25-26 in Midland. by Jesse Mullins A full day’s slate of speakers and panels concluded what organizers felt to be one of the best annual meetings, in recent times, […]
Among Top Hands, A First
PBPA Awards its prestigious Top Hand award to the Beal Brothers, the braintrust at BTA and some of the most respected oilmen in the Basin. by Jesse Mullins On Jan. 18, in the sumptuous confines of the Midland Petroleum Club, four exceptional brothers will be feted as the latest Top Hand honorees, as they […]
Back In The Day: Telling a Story
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 […]
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