A bigger, better, more experience-packed expo awaits oil and gas industry professionals this April 14th, as the Midland Energy Expo follows its sold-out 2014 event with an expanded program for 2015. Besides the brand-new venue—the just-opened Midland Horseshoe Pavillion, next door to last year’s venue in the Horseshow Arena—there is a full roster of speaker […]

  By Julie Anderson Oilfield equipment auctioneers hold forth on the ‘whys and wherefores’ of the auction trade.   There are certain words that conjure up both images and sounds, and “AUCTION” is definitely one of them. First, you have a mental picture, or, rather, a comingling of two pictures: a man on a stand […]

  By Lana Cunningham She’s not your ordinary 26-year-old. Amelia Dipprey has her Rimfire Trucking, all 55 trucks worth, rolling—keeping the wheels turning in the oil and gas industry. Tall and lanky with long curly hair dangling down her back, Amelia Dipprey doesn’t look the part of an owner of a Texas trucking company. But […]

  By Al Pickett, special contributor Seismic’s earthshaking technologies enter a new era. Often compared to the use of ultrasound in medicine, seismic surveys are used by oil and gas explorers to produce detailed images of various rock types and their location beneath the Earth’s surface in an effort to determine the location and size […]

  by Rebecca Hargus A Permian Basin oil and gas company takes a leadership role in redefining what an oil and gas company workplace can be. Economic growth has been taking place at a record pace in the Permian, and in the midst of this growth, companies have been expanding and looking for ways to […]

by Jesse Mullins Paradigm Shift In Part One of this series, we examined some of the distortions used against oil and gas by not just hostile activist groups but by media, even mainstream media. In this installment, we revisit some of that ground but we also broaden the perspective by raising the issue of morals—the […]

By Rebecca Hargus Howard Parker and Joe Parsley, this year’s recipients of the PBPA’s “Top Hand” award, are exemplars of what it means to be an oil and gas executive. And yet they are more than that, as well. Jan. 22 marks the grand and gala occasion, set for the Midland Center, in Midland, Texas. […]

By Jesse Mullins A Case to Be Made   It’s never hard to find an example. Like, for instance, the example that presented itself in the morning’s news, as this report was in progress. An example of what, you ask? An example of a subtle trashing of the oil and gas industry. Of loaded language. […]