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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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When It Hit Him In the Face

August 14, 2018 by PBOG

When he died at age 100—40 years ago this year—he was the last of the Spindletop oil pioneers. Curtis G. Hamill was a driller on the 1901 discovery well that launched the Texas oil industry. As his obituary stated, Hamill was standing on a derrick platform 40 feet off the ground Jan. 10, 1901, when […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Workovers Tagged With: Curtis G. Hamill, Driller, gusher, oil boom, Oil Pioneers, Spindletop

Last Splash of the Summer: DO IT

August 13, 2018 by PBOG

  While it may still be sultry summertime, there are refreshing getaways for those who know where to look. Reeves County this year’s hot spot of hot spots for drilling and completion activity—holds one such retreat. Balmorhea State Park, in Toyahville, is home to one of the largest (1/3 acre) manmade pools in the world. […]

Filed Under: Work and Play Tagged With: Balmorhea state park, manmade pool, summertime, swimming, toyaville

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, History Tagged With: Feature, featured

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, History, Online Exclusive Tagged With: Feature, featured, online exclusive, online only

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

Oil Patch Tales: Bait and Switch

December 30, 2017 by PBOG

by Bobby Weaver     Some people, usually of the male gender, just plain like to fight. That is especially true of oil field hands. Now myself, I never was much of a hand at fisticuffs. For one thing I was a tad small for the activity and besides my threshold for pain was always […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Oil Patch Tales, Online Exclusive Tagged With: Feature, featured, online exclusive

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.              

Filed Under: Featured Article, History, Online Exclusive Tagged With: back in the day, Feature, featured

Company Town

November 3, 2017 by PBOG

There are stories aplenty of “company towns” built by oil companies in oil’s early 20th century heyday, but no company town fit the mold better than a Basin town, Texon, that endured for generations. by Bobby Weaver Back in 1955 Tennessee Ernie Ford had a hit song entitled “Sixteen Tons” concerning the travails of a […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, History, Oil Patch Tales, Online Exclusive Tagged With: Feature, featured

From Fresnos to Caterpillars

September 1, 2017 by PBOG

Dirt Work is the oilfield’s under-appreciated trade, and yet nothing gets done in the Patch until the dirt’s been worked. by Bobby Weaver I’ll never forget the first time I went out on a tanking job. It happened early in the summer of ’55, when we contracted to build a battery of two hi-fives in […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, History, Online Exclusive Tagged With: Feature, featured, historical, online exclusive

Oil Scouts and Landmen: Perceptive, Perspicacious, and Persuasive

August 1, 2017 by PBOG

Oil scouts and land men have a history that intertwines—and skills sets that have some things in common. by Bobby Weaver The oil and gas industry has always been an extremely competitive field. From its very beginning in Pennsylvania in the 1850s, it was an industry whose practitioners found it necessary to know what the […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, History, Online Exclusive Tagged With: Feature, featured, historical

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