The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum inducts four individuals who have made their mark on their industry and their region. Two came from the upper Midwest, two from Houston. Their lives merged in dusty West Texas and over the years their rugged edges have been polished into a sparkling knowledge of the petroleum industry. That business […]
From Waste Heat to High Performance
Heat capture on worksites can be used to generate electricity–and the added power can improve oil and gas revenues. The development of new technologies has had an impressive impact on the oil and gas industry, especially in the past 30 years. Geoscience software, 3D seismic acquisition, shale fracking techniques, directional drilling, and reservoir modeling are […]
The Century Mark: Midland-Based Fasken Oil and Ranch Celebrates a Momentous Milestone in May
By Paul Wiseman In the early 1900s west Texas was as empty as a whiskey bottle at closing time, and almost as dry. (Some things haven’t changed). What would possess someone in far-off Toronto, Canada, to buy approximately 220,000 acres of the place, sight-unseen, is still somewhat of a mystery. But that is exactly what […]
The Life Cycle of Pipe
By Jesse Mullins Seemingly the simplest component of the oil and gas industry’s vast array of hardware, pipe is subject to intense scrutiny and is a product that will “make the rounds” more than most. Can any industry be more dependent on pipe than the oil and gas industry? Pipe defines, perhaps more than any […]
Give Me Land, Lots of Land
By Paul Wiseman, special contributor Landmen see Basin land rush moving northward and eastward. It only seems like there’s an echo in here. It’s just that people really are repeating “Cline Shale, Cline Shale,” wherever you go, a phenomenon that can be especially unnerving in small space like an elevator. It’s not that this play […]
Eternal Vigilance
By Al Pickett, special contributor Eternal vigilance is, as the saying goes, the price of liberty, but it is the price of safety as well–especially in today’s hectic and fast-paced oilfield. Krisha Marker said she received a phone call recently that she called the “greatest Valentine’s Day gift a safety person could receive.” Marker is […]
To Keep Moving Forward
He took the name for his mechanic shop from a tool box, of all things, but then Mike Torres has been pulling answers out of tool boxes for a long time. Torres, the founder and operator of Stars and Stripes Rig Service of Denver City, Texas, is making a name for himself as a tackle-anything […]
Will Rising Regulations Sink Small Operators?
The office isn’t easy to find. It’s listed as Suite 204 on the ground floor directory, but none of the doors along the hallway lists a Suite 204. Finally, another tenant gives directions to go to the end of the hall (which appears to be a dead end), turn right, and look in the door […]
Well Servicing: A Trade in Transition
It is not surprising that well service companies consider hiring and housing as two of their top issues, as oil prices continue parked at just under $100 per barrel. The words used to relate the topic do open the eyes a bit. “Theft” was how Rich Fontenot described it. Fontenot, senior sales representative for Nabors […]
The Fast-Changing Frac Frontier
One of the exciting new developments in the production of both oil and natural is the ever-changing, always-evolving “Frac Frontier.” Hydraulic fracturing, the practice of pumping fluid and sand at high pressure to increase the flow of the hydrocarbons to the surface, has been credited, along with horizontal drilling, with bringing about the dramatic increase […]
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