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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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API says U.S. petroleum demand fell in April year-to-year for fifth straight month

June 2, 2023 by PBOG

Washington, D.C.-based American Petroleum Institute said this week that U.S. petroleum demand – as measured by total domestic petroleum deliveries – increased by only 17,000 barrels per day in April compared to March (to 19.8 million b/d).  But compared to April 2022, U.S. petroleum demand fell 0.8 percent – the fifth straight month of year-to-year […]

Filed Under: PBOG Newsletter, Workovers

The World’s Biggest Oilfield

February 27, 2023 by PBOG

Saint Rita of Cascia (Italy), later to be known as the Patron Saint of the Impossible, left this earth on May 27, 1357. Exactly 466 years and one day later (May 22, 1923), a well named after her, extending about 3,050 feet into the earth she’d left, began alternately flowing, and blowing out, for about […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, History

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

Railroad Commission says Eastland County lake safe for recreational use

March 5, 2020 by PBOG

Railroad Commission of Texas said Feb. 20 it notified City of Gorman that Bass Lake in Frank Gray Memorial Park in Eastland County has been determined to be safe for recreational use.  The spring-fed lake on the edge of the Barnett Shale was contaminated in April 1990 when a pipeline ruptured and spilled 294,000 gallons […]

Filed Under: PBOG Newsletter, Work and Play

Crossing the Line

February 24, 2020 by PBOG

We convened down at the Rig #8 this past Friday for our weekly alcohol-fueled sojourn down memory lane. This time the subject came up concerning some of the more wealthy members of our little oil patch fraternity and how they got that way. There were the usual yarns about old so-and-so and how he drilled […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Fun, Oil Patch Tales Tagged With: featured article, Oil and Gas, permian 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 […]

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

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

In a Philanthropic Spirit

January 1, 2020 by PBOG

MIDLAND, TEXAS—In a special event hosted by the Association of Fundraising Professionals / Permian Basin chapter, a select group of philanthropic-minded folks were feted at the Petroleum Club in this city on Nov. 19. This “National Philanthropy Day” celebration recognized deserving individuals and groups who have generously bettered their communities and their fellow human beings. […]

Filed Under: Fun, Online Exclusive Tagged With: Oil and Gas, permian basin

Ziglo & Friends

December 17, 2019 by PBOG

My family moved to Odessa in 1949, just a year after George Bush moved his family there. George went to work peddling “rope, soap and dope” for one of the oilfield supply houses while my dad began building tanks for the National Tank Company. The Bushes left for Midland shortly after we arrived in town. […]

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