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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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Homelessness the Theme of New Midland-based Film

November 20, 2019 by PBOG

“Finding Home in Boomtown” chronicles a family’s journey from six-figure oilfield job to living with and helping the homeless. “And He said to them, ‘Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.’ Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.” Matthew 4:18-20, NASB “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep […]

Filed Under: Online Exclusive, People, Work and Play

Drilling Deeper

November 1, 2019 by PBOG

It’s a New World In this month’s roundup of news and views, we share some headlines that, five years ago, few would have expected to see. But that is how much things have changed since the previous boom cycle. These are the full versions of the “Drilling Deeper” news items that appeared as abbreviated versions […]

Filed Under: Business & Analysis, Drilling Deeper, Fun Tagged With: Oil and Gas, permian basin

What Sells, and Why: An Auction Primer

October 29, 2019 by PBOG

Via email, Ben Beasley, Director, Strategic Accounts (Ritchie Bros.) provided PB Oil and Gas Magazine with feedback, as follows. PB Oil and Gas: What are the top items, count-wise, being put up for auction in the Permian over the last six months, or since January, whichever way you have recent time frames calculated? How has […]

Filed Under: Communications, Internet, and Auctioneers, Featured Article, Fun Tagged With: auction, 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

Oil Patch Tales: The Doodlebugger

September 11, 2019 by PBOG

By Bobby Weaver I was late getting down to the Rig #8 last Thursday but as soon I got there and my eyes adjusted to the dim interior I spotted all the regulars gathered at a corner table in what appeared to be a somewhat somber mood. I got my usual long neck and joined […]

Filed Under: Fun, Oil Patch Tales Tagged With: Oil and Gas, permian basin

The Sport of Kings is right next-door!

July 23, 2019 by Becky

Sponsored Post: The Sport of Kings is right next-door! Have you dreamed of owning a racehorse? The unique sights, sounds and camaraderie of the backstretch in the morning, the beauty of and bond with the horse, the anticipation of race day, the anxiousness in the paddock before the race and the rush you get from […]

Filed Under: Work and Play

Gone Fishing

June 17, 2019 by PBOG

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

Big Spring, Moviemaking Mecca

April 9, 2019 by PBOG

by Jesse Mullins BIG SPRING, TEXAS—Members of the cast and crew of The Iron Orchard descended upon Big Spring, Texas, in late February as part of their publicity tour for the theatrical release of their new film. On the evening of the 21st, they were in attendance at the city’s Cinemark multiplex for a screening […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Work and Play Tagged With: Feature, featured, the iron orchard

Man of Few Words

December 14, 2018 by PBOG

A while back as I was hanging out at my favorite combination oil-patch-educational-institution-and-drinking-emporium, otherwise known as the Rig #8, when I met this fount of information in the person of an old-time cable tool man. As the evening wore on, the subject of the nature of those old time cable tool drillers came up. He […]

Filed Under: Oil Patch Tales

Oilfield Trash: A Personal Reminiscence

December 1, 2018 by PBOG

by Bobby Weaver During the 1950s and ’60s I was a part of the hard working, hard drinking group of oilfield of hands in the Permian Basin who were generally referred to as “oilfield trash” by outsiders. In those days Odessa had the reputation as the rough and ready working man’s town while Midland, only […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Oil Patch Tales Tagged With: bible belt, helter skelter, Johann Muhlenbakker, Midland, odessa, Oilfield, Oilfield Trash, permian basin, regional oil company, rural texas, social climate, Sodom and Gomorrah, Turnbaugh Corner

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