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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

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

May Miscellany

May 1, 2016 by PBOG

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got… good rocks.   Four Colorful Figures The famous Four Sixes Ranch in West Texas was founded by a famed rancher, Burk Burnett, who later became a famed oilman (viz., the Burkburnett Oil Boom of the early 20th Century). But before his oil days, Burnett lived the […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Workovers Tagged With: Feature, featured, May Miscellany

New And Noteworthy

May 1, 2016 by PBOG

RISING ABOVE THE DOWNFALL OF OIL Karmic Energy, innovators of the digital oilfield and environmentally friendly products, have worked busily over the past several months to position the company for future growth. Taking steps to ensure a strong corporate base, the company first began making internal changes. As a team—all the way from the top […]

Filed Under: Techonology, Workovers Tagged With: Feature, featured, new and noteworthy

Oil Patch Songs from the Permian Basin Part 3

October 1, 2014 by PBOG

Like Desperados Waiting on a Train Part 3 of 6 by Joe W. Specht The evocative lyric from Guy Clark’s classic song turns out to be, on deeper inspection, a tribute to the oil patch and one of its veterans. Explore this and more gems from the mostly unmined body of work that some call […]

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

Worth Celebrating

June 5, 2014 by PBOG

Public spiritedness–and cowboy hats–are never out of season. June 14 marks Flag Day, the day set aside for commemorating the adoption of the American Flag by the Second Continental Congress on that day in 1777. President Woodrow Wilson established the tradition in 1916. Texan in Transit In the accompanying photo (check out our digital edition, page […]

Filed Under: Workovers

In Like a Lion

March 5, 2014 by PBOG

Never look back. Have the moxie to “let go of certainties.” Pull the tubing on that old well. Oh, and France wants you. With March at hand, winter’s all but whipped. All we need to worry about are rains, sleet, flareups of scorching heat, gale force winds, maybe record snow and bitter cold. Hmm. February […]

Filed Under: Workovers Tagged With: workovers

Keep Calm and…Smile

February 25, 2014 by PBOG

We take a page from the people at Easily Amused and try to find some levity in whatever comes our way. Plutonic Relationship: No, he wasn’t an oilman. But he was a New Mexican, and a famous one, and one who chose to live his life in (or very near, as in Las Cruces) the […]

Filed Under: Workovers Tagged With: workovers

Workovers

January 5, 2014 by PBOG

Be It Resolved January is the month of new beginnings and New Year’s Resolutions, and if you’re doing great with a resolution to stop smoking or lose weight, more power to you. Of course, logic dictates that those who make less lofty or less ambitious goals will be likelier to succeed. We found some of […]

Filed Under: Workovers Tagged With: workovers

Workovers: Worth Repeating

October 1, 2013 by PBOG

Those sagacious sayings, that is. A little trip down Memory Lane for fans of a classic western, and some collected wisdom, to boot. We were so taken with the colorful quotes from CUDD general manager Clint Walker that appear in our profile on him in this issue, that we just had to reflect on another […]

Filed Under: Workovers Tagged With: workovers

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