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Gone Fishing

February 1, 2019 by PBOG Leave a Comment

Gone Fishing

Here’s how Schlumberger’s Glossary defines a “fish”: Anything left in a wellbore. It does not matter whether the fish consists of junk metal, a hand tool, a length of drill pipe or drill collars, or an expensive MWD and directional drilling package. Once the component is lost, it is properly referred to as simply “the […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Online Exclusive, Web Exclusive, Web Exclusive Tagged With: cable tool rigs, downhole, Oil patch fishermen, oil wells, Oilwell Supply Catalog, simple fishing spear

Tooling Up

October 1, 2018 by PBOG Leave a Comment

Tooling Up

The oil tools sector relies on old school and new tech to ride the Permian wave. By Paul Wiseman How do you mix new technology with old-school values to stay abreast of customers’ ever-changing operations? This sharing of knowledge boosts teamwork in ways not possible before. Two Permian-based downhole tools companies are using different approaches […]

Filed Under: Drilling Deeper, Featured Article, Web Exclusive Tagged With: Cagle, Carmichael, CEO Aron Marquez, Colombia’s onshore market, ever-changing operations, Kuwait, LTD, Manager Randy Adams, Midland’s Wildcat Oil Tools, new technology, Odessa firm Cagle Fishing and Rental, Pennsylvania, Permian-based, sharing of knowledge, sharing of knowledge boosts teamwork, tooling up, whipstock business

Future Oil Price Road Map

August 14, 2018 by PBOG Leave a Comment

Oil Price Stability: Fragile Barring a geopolitical event, latest data indicates a market balance will endure in coming months, keeping oil prices near current levels. Long term, the bias is higher, with growing evidence a supply gap will emerge before 2025. by Paul Kuklinski WTI crude is $67/B, compared to a 1H18 average just over […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Online Exclusive, Web Exclusive Tagged With: Boston Energy Research, consensus, fragile, gasoline prices, gulf cost, Inventory Outlook, Iran, Lybia, MMBD, network full, oil price, Opec, Schlumberger, sold at discount, Sour Crude

Carbon Black: The Overlooked Commodity

August 3, 2018 by PBOG Leave a Comment

Carbon Black: The Overlooked Commodity

Wherever Wheels are Rolling… on ice or mud or snow… the name that’s known is carbon black. Where the rubber meets the road. Just another essential product brought to the world by the fine folks in oil and gas. There are places in West Texas, especially areas in close proximity to gasoline refineries, where you […]

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Pushing Frontiers

July 1, 2018 by PBOG Leave a Comment

Pushing Frontiers

Producing Pipe at the Well Milford, an EPC corporation headquartered in Midland, has announced a strategic partnership and distribution agreement with Tubi USA Inc., a HDPE pipe manufacturer with a patented mobile production system. As Marcello Russo, Tubi founder and CEO, commented, “Our production system has proven itself on projects in Australia and New Zealand […]

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Staying the Course

June 1, 2018 by PBOG Leave a Comment

Staying the Course

Technology on Parade On April 12, in Midland, Weatherford International welcomed customers, employees, and students as well to see and hear about cutting-edge technologies that the services firm is employing in the Permian Basin. The Petroleum Museum was the venue for the two-day event. Weatherford CEO Mark A. McCollum was on hand, as well as […]

Filed Under: Drilling Deeper, Featured Article, Online Exclusive Tagged With: Drilling Deeper, Feature, featured

Lighter Than Air: A History of the Helium Industry in the Permian

February 1, 2018 by PBOG Leave a Comment

Lighter Than Air: A History of the Helium Industry in the Permian

by Bobby Weaver The oil and gas industry produces many products ranging from fuel to plastics, but few are aware that the extraction of rare gases are an important, albeit a small, part of that activity. Perhaps the most important of those gases is helium. When the term helium is mentioned, the vision that comes […]

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Oil Patch Tales: Bait and Switch

December 30, 2017 by PBOG Leave a Comment

Oil Patch Tales: Bait and Switch

by Bobby Weaver     Some people, usually of the male gender, just plain like to fight. That is especially true of oil field hands. Now myself, I never was much of a hand at fisticuffs. For one thing I was a tad small for the activity and besides my threshold for pain was always […]

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Back In The Day: Telling a Story

December 1, 2017 by PBOG Leave a Comment

Back In The Day: Telling a Story

Telling a Story The fine photography collected, as well as (often) shot, by oilfield photographer Mitch Mayborn in middle-to-later 20th Century, working for Drilling Magazine, holds up as documentary imagery of that day, and as a nice primer to the various components of the patch.              

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HRIQ: Oil and Gas Technology and Labor

December 1, 2017 by PBOG Leave a Comment

HRIQ: Oil and Gas Technology and Labor

by Bill Price Technology has dramatically changed the oil and gas industry in the last decade. We know the effect of enhanced oil extraction on production but this was only possible through the introduction of sophisticated technology. The energy industry has become less labor intensive, as is true of most industries. The industry has experienced […]

Filed Under: Facts, Featured Article, Human Resources, Online Exclusive, Web Exclusive Tagged With: Feature, featured, hriq

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