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Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

PBOG is the Official Publication of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association and is published monthly by Zachry Publications, LP.

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A Believer in This Business

April 7, 2025 by PBOG

“I’m sort of a watch maker more than I am a deal maker.” That’s one way Halliburton President and CEO Jeff Miller describes himself. “I’ve always been fascinated by how we do work and how we control work.” His goal is to create “the least amount of friction” with the most efficiency and safety. Boiling […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, People

Top Hand 2024: Honoring Our Own

March 24, 2025 by PBOG

Top Hand

The PBPA’s Top Hand Award for 2024 went to a much deserving recipient, Dennis Johnson MIDLAND, TEXAS—Highlighting an evening full of fond wishes, memories, stories, recognition, celebration, and an outpouring of good will, Midland’s own Dennis Johnson accepted the Permian Basin Petroleum Association’s Top Hand Award for 2024 here at a gala ceremony at the […]

Filed Under: Events, Featured Article, PBPA, People

Five-Day Wells, Challenges for OFS, and the Fallout of The Simpsons

February 27, 2025 by PBOG

oil

The journal entries below are excerpted from recent installments of James Wicklund’s “Things I Learned…” newsletter. Anyone Care?  A central topic [at a recent industry luncheon] was how the OFS companies survive—with consolidation winning that category—and thrive—a goal that no one seemed to have an answer for.  The rig companies spend millions of dollars on […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Fun, People

In the Best Basin Tradition

January 6, 2025 by PBOG

Basin

The oilfield legacy of this year’s Permian Basin Petroleum Association Top Hand, Dennis Johnson, looms wide and, as with any oil legacy, deep into the earth. He will be presented the award the evening of January 18 at Midland’s Petroleum Club. Currently Chairman and CEO of Summit Petroleum LLC, he previously had the vision to […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, PBPA, People

Give and Take

December 30, 2024 by PBOG

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The fact that any cities in the Permian Basin, including Midland and Odessa, are more than a pinprick on a map is due to the presence and extraction of oil and gas. Indeed, the only reason the region is named after rocks that are invisibly buried thousands of feet out of sight, instead of by […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, People

Permian People December 2024

December 6, 2024 by PBOG

December 2024: Hirings, promotions, and other personnel matters in the nation’s biggest oil patch—or in companies who do business here.   SM Energy Company announced Sept. 9 that Beth McDonald had been appointed as its Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. President and Chief Executive Officer Herb Vogel commented: “We are delighted to welcome Beth to our […]

Filed Under: Business & Analysis, Featured Article, People, Permian People

Oil’s Eternal Optimist

December 2, 2024 by PBOG

MIDLAND, TEXAS—When Harold Hamm and a few members of his executive staff sat down with PB Oil and Gas Magazine in the Petroleum Museum in this oil-centric capital one sunny day this fall, the founder and leader of Continental Resources was keeping a timetable that would soon see them huddling up with the Permian Basin […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, People

Two Stock Bargains in the Delaware Basin

November 28, 2024 by PBOG

delaware basin

In recent months I have discussed multiple stock investment opportunities in the broad Permian Basin. Today, I will focus on two that are bargains in the Delaware Basin specifically.   The Delaware has a higher percentage of natural gas to oil production than the Midland. While in the past companies were very focused on oil, […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Industry Analysis, People

Sourcing Capital, U.S. Debt, Virtue Signaling, and [unvirtuous] Candied Pork Belly Bacon Bites

November 21, 2024 by PBOG

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The journal entries below are excerpted from recent installments of James Wicklund’s “Things I Learned…” newsletter.   It was a fun week in Dallas. The real treat [first week of October] was the Hart Energy Capital Conference in Dallas. The 400 attendees set a record for the conference. Karl Rove was the keynote so you can imagine […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Industry Analysis, People

Remember a Veteran on Veteran’s Day

November 11, 2024 by PBOG

Veterans Day falls on Nov. 11th. As I pondered how to commemorate this occasion, it occurred to me that one way is simply to tell a veteran’s story. If the desire is to honor veterans in general, then seeing one doing his sacrificial duty for his country is a good way to remind us of […]

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