Wherever Wheels are Rolling… on ice or mud or snow… the name that’s known is carbon black. Where the rubber meets the road. Just another essential product brought to the world by the fine folks in oil and gas. There are places in West Texas, especially areas in close proximity to gasoline refineries, where you […]
Digging Into The Dug, Part 2
It was sand, water, logistics, services, and completion technology as the second full day of the DUG Permian Basin Conference brought the event to a conclusion. The two days in Fort Worth were an immersion course in Basin basics. By Jesse Mullins | Photography by Tom Fox Last month we shared the messages of Day […]
Pushing Frontiers
Producing Pipe at the Well Milford, an EPC corporation headquartered in Midland, has announced a strategic partnership and distribution agreement with Tubi USA Inc., a HDPE pipe manufacturer with a patented mobile production system. As Marcello Russo, Tubi founder and CEO, commented, “Our production system has proven itself on projects in Australia and New Zealand […]
Staying the Course
Technology on Parade On April 12, in Midland, Weatherford International welcomed customers, employees, and students as well to see and hear about cutting-edge technologies that the services firm is employing in the Permian Basin. The Petroleum Museum was the venue for the two-day event. Weatherford CEO Mark A. McCollum was on hand, as well as […]
A Sporting Chance
There were no guarantees and no safety nets when Debi Sport Moore assayed, in mid-career, to build a business of her own. But she took her chance and made something of it. Today Sport Environmental Services is setting a standard for what it means to be an environmental services firm. By Al Pickett, Special Contributor […]
Taking the Right Approach
J. Ross Craft, chairman and CEO of Approach Resources, has a career that is intertwined with the storied “career” of the Wolfcamp play. Like Jim Henry before him, who pioneered the Wolfcamp vertical shale play, Craft and his contemporaries have made some “lateral” moves that have changed the landscape. by Jesse Mullins Permian Pure […]
Epstein
PBPA Matters Hearts and Minds MIDLAND, TEXAS—The membership of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association (PBPA) convened at the Petroleum Club in this city on March 22 for its monthly luncheon, where attendees heard keynote speaker Alex Epstein deliver remarks about “the moral case for fossil fuels.” The talk, which is shared below in […]
Band of Brothers: Top Hand Winners
The Basin’s best family foursome finally gets the recognition they deserve. MIDLAND, TEXAS—This year’s year’s Top Hand Award Banquet honoring the Beal Brothers of BTA Oil Producers fetched hundreds of PBPA members and other individuals representative of Basin energy interests to celebrate the career of four extraordinary man. For our full feature profile of these […]
Machine Learning—a New Frontier in I.T.
By Paul Wiseman It seemed like a great idea at first. There’s all this data being aggregated from thousands of wells—why doesn’t someone set up some parameters for pumps, tanks, pipelines, and anything else that can exude data—then computers can send alarms to alert managers and field personnel any time there’s a problem! Very […]
Lighter Than Air: A History of the Helium Industry in the Permian
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 […]
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