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Manufacturing: The Permian’s Quiet Explosion
Gauges, tanks, and rods: these are just a few of the region’s made-in-the-U.S.A. goods that are keeping the Permian Basin’s energy sector humming. By Lana Cunningham Record numbers in rig count, houses sold, building permits issued, and civilian labor force. All these statistics reflect a booming economy in West Texas pumped up by the petroleum […]
Temporary Housing: Taking the Long View
Workforce housing now consists of more than just a Home on the Range. Throughout history, mineral plays have brought floods of people to remote areas that lacked sufficient resources and infrastructure to house, clothe, and feed such hordes. We’re not told how King Solomon housed the workers at his mines at Ophir, but we know […]
New Mexico: Land of Enchanting Opportunities
By Al Pickett, special contributor Like their Texas neighbors, oil and gas producers in New Mexico feel the inevitable pressures that accompany a boom economy. Things are “still a gamble,” as one NM source says. But the state’s Permian region is producing more crude than ever. Mike Miller said he was in Hobbs, N.M., recently […]
A Brightening Picture For Gas
With prices up, Basin natural gas production sees new life. By Paul Wiseman, special contributor Discussing natural gas in the Permian Basin is somewhat like talking about Pippa Middleton—a lovely idea but not really the main attraction. The three Texas Railroad Commission districts that primarily identify the Basin—7C, 08 and 8A—accounted for 441.1 thousand MCF […]
Elevated Perspective
Steve Pruett and his well-placed partners have put together one of the biggest new E&P outfits to hit the Permian in several years. By Al Pickett, special contributor The most important factor in securing equity funding for a start-up energy company is people, according to Steve Pruett. “It is a marriage of people, experience, a […]
Making a Statement: Midland’s Energy Tower
It already has its own Wikipedia page, for goodness sakes. If all plans are put in motion, the latest Big Thing to hit the Permian Basin will be the 58-story Energy Tower now slated for downtown Midland. Midland-based developer Energy Related Properties will build its high rise in the heart of downtown Midland, offering more […]
Powering Up
West Texas, with its growth and its booming energy industry, has been feeling the pinch in another energy sector–electricity. “You may be in for another difficult summer, price-wise, here.” When those words come from a vice president at ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, they sink deep. America might run on oil, but the […]
Feeling the Impact
The Cline Shale, still in its infancy as a producing zone, is exerting a profound effect in places like Garden City and the rest of Glasscock County. While the Permian Basin is a busy place for the oil and gas industry these days from one end of the basin to the other, tiny Glasscock County […]
The Next Big Thing… Keeps Arriving
Automation is spreading two ways through the Permian Basin oilfield. One, it is filtering down from the larger companies to the smaller companies. And two, it is going far beyond simple applications, like electronic gauges to measure liquids in tanks. Matt Cosby, marketing manager at Resource Automation and Electrical, Farmington, N.M., believes that the rush […]
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