Sponsored Content: Cudd Energy Services named Gene Sweeney as Director of Well Intervention and Integrity. Sweeney will take on responsibilities for Cudd’s domestic snubbing, well control, and special services disciplines. Sweeney returns to Cudd after leading BP’s global well control team for the past seven years where he was responsible for strengthening BP’s well control […]
Testing the Waters
Water is the talk of the Basin. Where water goes, or does not go, seems to sway as many decisions as does any other factor. By Jesse Mullins Is it possible that any industry moves faster than the oil and gas industry? When did O&G become a “sand” and “water” industry? Sure, those ingredients […]
Character Matters
The prime mover behind Midland Energy, S. Javaid Anwar, was feted by a full house as the PBPA bestowed its highest lifetime honor, the Top Hand Award, on this deserving recipient. MIDLAND, TEXAS—This year’s year’s Top Hand Award Banquet honoring S. Javaid Anwar of Midland Energy Inc. fetched hundreds of PBPA members and other individuals […]
Basin Oilman by Choice
George H.W. Bush took his family and his fresh Yale degree and spurned the hoity-toity of the blueblood, patrician Eastern seaboard life he knew, to plunge himself into the redblooded, gritty, bootstrap worklife of the Permian Basin. Official portrait of the 41st U.S. President There may never be another American president with closer personal ties […]
Old School: The Service Sector Knows What Works
The oil price uptick of the past year or more, welcome as it was, has been slow to penetrate labor-intensive sectors like oilfield service. By Paul Wiseman “Prices back five years ago, six years ago were decent on the pulling unit side, but they went way down and they haven’t come up to where they […]
Energy-Minded Educator
Odessa College President Dr. Gregory Williams has achieved a success that extends beyond his institution, helping make the college a partner in the larger worlds of community, industry, and region. By Shanti Terry If community and professional recognition counts for anything, Dr. Gregory Williams is a much-revered figure. Currently in his 12th year as the […]
Permian People
Hirings, promotions, and other personnel matters in the nation’s biggest oil patch—or in companies who do business here. International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced Aug. 1 that Matthew “Matt” DeArman had joined the Firm’s Finance and Restructuring Group in Dallas as a partner. DeArman’s practice focuses on the representation of agents, lenders, and […]
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 […]
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