DOJ Lawsuit Blocks the Merger of Halliburton and Baker Hughes Chase Beakley The Halliburton and Baker Hughes Merger: An Autopsy Report On May 1, Halliburton and Baker Hughes announced that they were finally prepared to take their long suffering merger attempt behind the shed and put it out of its misery. The deal had […]
New And Noteworthy
Fresh offerings of products and services for the oil and gas set. Push-In Foam Earplug Honeywell (NYSE:HON), on Apr. 6, announced the Howard Leight TrustFit Pod push-in foam earplug that provides workers with properly fitting ear plugs to protect against noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). Research shows that half of all industrial workers experience […]
Broadened Horizons: WTI Crude’s Comeuppance
Observers expound on what the recent lifting of the crude oil export ban could mean to the U.S. energy climate. Julie Anderson On Dec. 18, 2015, the United States of America lifted a 40-year-old ban on exporting crude oil, put in place in 1975 in response to the Arab oil embargo. While the […]
Drilling Deeper: Relax And Get Yourself Right
When times get tough, sometimes you just can’t help but roll with the changes. If only those pesky regulatory bodies would relax with you… These are the full versions of the “Drilling Deeper” news items that appeared as abbreviated versions in the print edition of PBOG’s June 2016 issue. Hess is Oil’s Best “Corporate […]
The Broader Picture: June 2016
Where we share some O&G news from beyond the Permian’s borders—news that, in some way, touches the Basin. EIA Apr. 25 Above-normal temperatures during the 2015-16 winter were a key factor in lowering heating demand and winter fuel expenditures. Compared with the 2014-15 winter, propane and heating oil demand decreased by 16 percent and […]
Year-Round Respect
by Julie Anderson Twice each year, our country makes a special point to pause, remember, and thank our soldiers, those who died in service to their country on Memorial Day, and those still among us, on Veterans Day. In recent decades, in the midst of profoundly unsettling events, the honor and respect for veterans and […]
A Tale of Two Cities
Odessa and Midland deal with volatility together and apart. Chase Beakley It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. You knew that was coming. After rattling off a list of poetic polarities, Dickens concluded that famous opening by saying, “In short, the period was so far like the present period, […]
New And Noteworthy
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 […]
A Permian Man Through and Through
PBOG remembers Audie Conder, a long-time well servicer, Railroad Commission employee, and loving family man. Al Pickett, special contributor He has been described as a go-to guy and a problem solver. That is how a generation of operators and contractors who dealt with the Texas Railroad Commission’s District 7B office in Abilene felt as […]
Talkers and Doers
In his new film, Fractured, filmmaker Mark Mathis compels us to watch our mouths when we talk about the energy industry. by Tony Burke “Something we shot [for Fractured] but didn’t use because we didn’t have time for it is: you could take every guy like me, I’m a professional talker, I’m a doer […]
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