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PBOG is the Official Publication of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association and is published monthly by Zachry Publications, LP.

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How Oil Populated the Permian Basin

April 20, 2020 by PBOG

Population growth created by the first ten years of oil production in the Permian Basin was remarkable. Once the Big Lake field began to develop, a veritable deluge of oil men poured into the Permian Basin. As it turned out, during the mid to late 1920s, that vast lightly inhabited region with no known oil […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, History Tagged With: 100 Years, anniversary, Oil and Gas, permian basin

A Company Town for the Ages

March 23, 2020 by PBOG

There are few examples of the company town concept in oil country. Some come close, like the town of Philips near Borger up in the Panhandle. Others, like the company camp concept, fall peripherally within that range. The reasons they do not qualify are threefold. A company town, to be rightly deemed as such, must […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, History Tagged With: 100 Years, Permain Basin

Born on a Prayer

February 10, 2020 by PBOG

Although completion of the Santa Rita #1 well in Reagan County in 1923 was preceded by the Mitchell County Abrams #1 (1920) and the Loving County Russell #1 (1921), firsts do not necessarily denote the most important. The Santa Rita well, which was in the same 100-barrel production range as those which preceded it, received […]

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Permian Basin #1

January 6, 2020 by PBOG

Just one hundred years ago this year, some 19 years following the Spindletop discovery on the Gulf Coast that made Texas the leading oil producing state in the nation, the first successful oil well in what was to become known as the Permian Basin was drilled. At the time the region was viewed as a […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, History Tagged With: Oil and Gas, permian basin

Keeping Memories Alive

October 21, 2019 by PBOG

The history of any 100-year-old oilfield can be told from various perspectives. Ginger Birdwell Beisch’s book about the KMA Field uses several, including her own voice. The idea to write the book came from her little brother, Michael Bruce Birdwell. He’s pictured at age four in the oilfield scene on the cover of the book. […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, History

Gone Fishing

June 17, 2019 by Bailey LeRoux

Here’s how Schlumberger’s Glossary defines a “fish”: Anything left in a wellbore. It does not matter whether the fish consists of junk metal, a hand tool, a length of drill pipe or drill collars, or an expensive MWD and directional drilling package. Once the component is lost, it is properly referred to as simply “the […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, History, Tool and Equipment Rental Tagged With: Feature, featured

Turning to the Right

March 19, 2018 by PBOG

In many ways, the story of drilling is the story of the drill bit. As that device has changed, so has the entire enterprise of making hole. by Bobby Weaver   In today’s world the speed and efficiency of drilling oil wells has reached a level undreamed of by early day oilmen. The evolution of […]

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Lighter Than Air: A History of the Helium Industry in the Permian

February 1, 2018 by PBOG

by Bobby Weaver The oil and gas industry produces many products ranging from fuel to plastics, but few are aware that the extraction of rare gases are an important, albeit a small, part of that activity. Perhaps the most important of those gases is helium. When the term helium is mentioned, the vision that comes […]

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Oilfield Culture

January 2, 2018 by PBOG

Who are those people and why do they act that way? By Bobby Weaver   No matter where they may roam, be it in oilfields in exotic places like the Middle East, South America, Africa, or even North Dakota, oilfield people maintain a certain persona. That persona derives from a close identification with the industry […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Feature, featured, oilfield culture

Back In The Day: Telling a Story

December 1, 2017 by PBOG

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.              

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