Lana Cunningham “An optimist who charges ahead—that’s what leadership is about. And that is Curtis Mewbourne.” This description of Curtis W. Mewbourne by a University of Oklahoma professor underscores one of the numerous reasons for his selection as recipient of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association’s Top Hand Award, to be bestowed Jan. 28 at a […]
A Global Perspective
Colin Fenton, keynote speaker for the 2015 Annual Meeting of the PBPA, addressed the past, present and future of oil and gas—here and around the world. Colin Fenton, managing partner at Blacklight Research and Columbia University fellow, was the keynote speaker at October’s PBPA Annual Meeting. Hailing from the Ivy League, the corporate banking […]
Workforce Turnover: Changing with the Times
By Shanti Terry As times change, people change. No industry is immune to the effects of this undeniable principle. For today’s oil and gas industry, the workforce best demonstrates these changes. In this series of articles, we will address the prevailing questions regarding how things are changing and why. For this, the first segment of […]
Pink Petro
A new social media channel hopes to turn black gold a new shade of pink. By Paul Wiseman, Special contributor “Just the good old boys / Never meanin’ no harm.” For most of its history the oil and gas industry’s mode d’emploi could’ve started with the opening lines from that Dukes of Hazzard theme […]
National Memorial Worker Week
By Darrel Canada Starting on April 28 and continuing through May 2, 2014, the OSHA Training Institutes across the United States and its territories conducted free and reduced cost seminars in remembrance of all the employees who have lost their lives on the job. I took an active role of teaching an OSHA 7405 class […]
Elevated Perspective
Steve Pruett and his well-placed partners have put together one of the biggest new E&P outfits to hit the Permian in several years. By Al Pickett, special contributor The most important factor in securing equity funding for a start-up energy company is people, according to Steve Pruett. “It is a marriage of people, experience, a […]
Making It Happen: The Irrepressible Clayton Williams
It is with sadness that we report the recent passing of the highly accomplished and much-revered West Texas oilman Clayton Williams. As a remembrance of his life, we share once again this personality profile we published some years ago. Our condolences go to his family and many friends. “You can’t help but enjoy life […]
Profile: Mark Machen, president of Blue Quail Water Transfer
In an industry that is chock full of dizzyingly complicated technological processes and procedures, there’s something somehow gratifying in contemplating a trade that anyone can grasp. The business of “water transfer” fits that description. It’s an essential task—a veritable “from Point A to Point B” logistic—but it calls for professionalism and its own unique set […]
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