Nine Energy Service, Inc., announced in March that Matthew Vick of Marietta, Ohio, and Osbaldo Alcaraz Arana of Enid, Okla., each won a 2019 Ford F-150 XLT truck in Nine’s Truck Giveaway, which celebrates and recognizes employees’ commitment to safety. Thirty employees, each of whom demonstrated outstanding safety track records, qualified for a chance to […]
So You Want to be in Safety!
Greetings and salutations to this month’s column on Safety. As you may know, I started in the oilfield in 1971. This was also the same year that OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) started up as well. It has been a long road for both of us. There is no doubt that it will continue […]
Situational Awareness
Greetings and salutations! Welcome back to this month’s discussion on Safety in the Permian Basin! Let’s get right to it. As you are keenly aware, the global and stateside political climate is strained. (That’s like calling Moby Dick a guppy.) Tension in the Middle East is also high. American society is divided and in a […]
A Night of Memories
MIDLAND, TEXAS—This year’s year’s Top Hand Award Banquet honoring Dick Saulsbury of Saulsbury Industries fetched hundreds of PBPA members and other individuals representative of Basin energy interests to the Midland Petroleum Club on Jan. 16 to celebrate the career of an extraordinary man. Saulsbury himself took the podium at one point during the proceedings and […]
Top Hand 2019: Dick Saulsbury
Dick Saulsbury’s impact can be felt on projects all across the Permian Basin, and now his remarkable career will be recognized when Saulsbury is honored as the Permian Basin Petroleum Association’s 2019 Top Hand winner at the annual Permian Basin 2019 Top Hand Award Banquet on the evening of Jan. 16 at the Barbara and […]
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 […]
“They Sacrified for You…”
“… so you need to sacrifice your time for them,” said Carlton Brown. “Stand for those who stood for you.” His brother, Kameron, military veteran, is one who stood for all of us. Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine recognizes Veterans Day by sharing the story of one of our own. It has been our […]
Henry Petroleum/Resources celebrates 50 Years of energy excellence.
The phrase, “She Said Yes!” has become a societal cue to celebrate an engagement. When it comes to Paula and Jim Henry, there’s Paula’s first “Yes!” that led to a wedding in 1964. And then there’s Paula Henry’s second big “Yes,” the “Yes” of 1969 that would mark the beginning of a 50-year-old story that […]
Hire to Retire – “What were you thinking?”
by Michele Harmon As I start my second article, I wanted to remind you that my goal is to inform, to make you stop and think before reacting, and to help you know where to find the right answers to keep you out of hot water with regards to Human Resources (HR) issues. I hope […]
Road Safety
Welcome! I hope this August finds you happy and safe! Today I am going to broach the subject of the most dangerous and deadly part of our industry… Driving. I fully understand that the 40 hours of documented training that we received at the mature age of 16 to 18 years of age fully qualifies […]
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