The Texas Legislature meets in a regular session every two years, convening on the second Tuesday in January of every odd-numbered year. These biennial sessions are limited to 140 days. The governor has the authority to call special sessions as necessary, which cannot exceed 30 days. The 87th Texas Legislature is set to meet January […]
Ziglo & Friends
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. […]
Homelessness the Theme of New Midland-based Film
“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 […]
Shrinking the Footprint
The business of environmental services keeps evolving into something more akin to a real business function, and less like an onerous duty. The trend is driven partly by conscience and partly by receptivity to change. The days in which “environmental” was a dirty word in the oil patch are long gone, say the experts. More […]
“People said, ‘We’ve got to do something different.’”
The last downturn helped shift people’s mindsets. Weatherford’s latest project in Odessa shows what that change looks like. By Paul Wiseman “We’ve been in the Permian Basin for decades,” said Weatherford International’s Karen David-Green, “and this new facility allows us to consolidate 10 product lines under one roof. It also shows that we intend […]
Basin Traffic: What’s to Be Done?
By Paul Wiseman There was a wreck on I-20 along my the way to a meeting about road safety. I’m not sure if that’s ironic or just appropriate. Just before I left Midland to head to the quarterly meeting of the recently-formed Permian Basin Road Safety Coalition, I received the following email from them: “Traffic […]
Rig count falls 9 in Texas; U.S. count below 1,000 for first time in 14 months
Texas again led a decline in oil and gas drilling as the nation’s count of active rigs dropped below 1,000 for the first time in more than a year. According to Baker Hughes, as of April 26, Texas lost 9 rigs in the past week to 491, and the Permian Basin count declined 3 to […]
Weir opens new service center in David Mims Business Park
Weir Oil and Gas, an international company that serves the upstream market, opened a $30 million service center in David Mims Business Park last week. The service center of 92,000 square feet combines Weir’s three Permian Basin facilities into one location for 150 employees. The new plant offers pressure pumping and pressure control assembly, repair […]
Danos to construct central tank battery in Midland
Gray, La.-based Danos said April 10 it has been awarded a contract to construct a central tank battery in Midland for an unnamed Texas-based independent exploration and production company. Danos’ Amelia Integrated Services will fabricate pipine and structural components that will be shipped to the installation site for assembly and construction. The three-month project will […]
Texas Petro Index climbs to 213.2; rig counts, production, employment up
Karr Ingham’s Texas Petro Index increased for the second consecutive month to 213.2 in February from 212.5 in January. The index had declined the two previous months from 213.3 in October to 212.4 in November and 212.2 in December. The index by Ingham, petroleum economist from Amarillo, is based on a comprehensive set of economic […]
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