“Improvements, innovations, and insights” are common ingredients in this month’s array of articles. These are the full versions of the “Drilling Deeper” news items that appeared as abbreviated versions in the print edition of the October 2014 PBOG. Texas Energy Boom Requires Improved Infrastructure Texas’ oil boom has brought jobs and increased tax […]
Oil Patch Songs from the Permian Basin Part 3
Like Desperados Waiting on a Train Part 3 of 6 by Joe W. Specht The evocative lyric from Guy Clark’s classic song turns out to be, on deeper inspection, a tribute to the oil patch and one of its veterans. Explore this and more gems from the mostly unmined body of work that some call […]
Early Adapter
A prime example of a new breed of leadership that’s arising in the Basin, Shawn Beard is a Gen X-er who is a mix of Old School and New, leading a limber, lean, responsive, energetic operation into bold new times. by Jesse Mullins Even in boom times, it takes something special to take a two-person […]
Credit to Her Gender
Rosalind Redfern Grover has a seat at the table. By Al Pickett, special contributor Rosalind Redfern Grover readily admits she never planned on going into the oil and gas business when she left Midland to go to college at the University of Arizona in Tucson. But life doesn’t always follow the path that […]
Oil Patch Songs from the Permian Basin Part 2
By Joe W. Specht Where the Cotton Grows and the Rich Oil Flows A musical tour through the Permian oil patch can be a tour through the energy industry’s colorful past as well. Hank Harral and Jimmy Simpson lived the life in fact and in song. In our first (August issue) installment of this […]
Oil Patch Songs from the Permian Basin Part 2
By Joe W. Specht Where the Cotton Grows and the Rich Oil Flows A musical tour through the Permian oil patch can be a tour through the energy industry’s colorful past as well. Hank Harral and Jimmy Simpson lived the life in fact and in song. In our first (August issue) installment of this […]
Toward Allowing Exports
Octane Energy CEO Jared Blong, serving on behalf of the International Association of Drilling Contractors, testified June 26 before Congress on the issue of lifting the U.S. ban on exporting oil. Editor’s Note: The following is the statement given on June 26 by Jared Blong, CEO and President of Octane Energy LLC, before the […]
The Rise of the Drilling Contractor
Independent drilling contractors fuel a significant part of the Permian Basin’s production renaissance. By Paul Wiseman, special contributor That the Permian Basin is the epicenter of the planet regarding increases in oil production is not news—figures show 28 percent of North America’s onshore drilling rigs operate here. Half of the rigs in the nation […]
Crossroads
Energy policy for the 21st century is no easy matter, as a conversation with Christopher Guith proves, and the biggest challenge lies in reaching the public with the facts. “The energy industry is led by engineers. American engineers have built the world, but they are the worst communicators in the world.” – Christopher […]
Big and Getting Bigger
Texas’ second-biggest play, the Eagle Ford Shale, boasts five of the top 10 producing counties in the state, including numbers one through four. While it’s not expected to eclipse the Permian Basin, the Eagle Ford will approach the Permian’s numbers in coming years. In less than six years, the Eagle Ford Shale in South […]
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