Permian Basin held steady at 405 rigs in the latest count of active oil and gas drilling rigs from Baker Hughes. As of Nov. 27 there were 405 rigs in Texas (down 1 in previous week), 103 rigs in New Mexico (down 1 in previous week) and 802 rigs in U.S. (down 1 in previous […]

Darrell Ricketson, vice president and COO of Kinder Morgan EOR, will be a featured speaker next week during the annual CO2 Conference at the new Bush Convention Center in Midland. The conference Dec. 9-13 also will include a field trip to Kinder Morgan’s CO2 operations in Scurry County. Steve Melzer, conference director, told the Midland […]

Crude oil production in Scurry County for 2019 is ahead of levels from 2018, according to Railroad Commission of Texas and Snyder Daily News. For the first eight months, Scurry County operators reported 10.26 million barrels compared to 10.16 million barrels for the same period in 2018. Permits and completions also are ahead of last […]

Houston-based Gator Technologies said last week it expanded operations in Midland. The new facilities on West County Road 157 support the company’s bottom hole assembly tool rental, repair and manufacturing. Gator also opened new facilities in Broussard, La. Marc LeBlanc, president, said, “By operating from these strategic bases, we will reduce transportation costs and delivery […]

Tulsa-based Helmerich & Payne, Nabor Industries, a drilling rig operator headquartered in Bermuda with principal offices in Houston, and Calgary oilfield service company Ensign Energy Services currently are the top three drilling rig operators in Texas, according to Enverus and the Houston Chronicle. The Chronicle reported this week Helmerich & Payne operates 117 of the […]

European oil major Royal Dutch Shell recently filed for six horizontal drilling permits in Permian Basin with the Railroad Commission of Texas, including three on leases in Winkler County managed by state-owned mineral rights company University Lands. Royalties from those three wells will benefit the University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems from the […]

Dallas-based HollyFrontier said Nov. 18 it will build a renewable diesel unit at its Navajo refinery in Artesia, N.M. The new RDU will have production capacity of about 125 million gallons a year and allow HollyFrontier to process soybean oil and other renewable feedstocks into renewable fuel. With accompanying rail infrastructure and storage tanks, according […]