The PBPA Top Hand Award Banquet was a wonderful evening honoring Mr. Dick Sivalls just a few days ago. Thank you to all those that participated in the honoring of another incredibly worthy recipient this year. The Top Hand Dinner has become one of my favorite events of the year. Each and every time I […]
Start the New Year with a New Challenge
The new year is here and the odometer is rolling over once again. The year 2023 is a distant memory and 2024 has arrived. Many take the new year as an opportunity to set new goals and make resolutions. Did you make a list of new year’s resolutions? They are certainly easy to contemplate and […]
A Time for Counting Our Blessings
And in the blink of an eye, the end of the year is upon us. It’s that time of year when thoughts turn to family, friends, celebrations, and the counting of blessings. We’re already hearing Ho, Ho, Ho and the ringing of the bells as we enter stores to buy gifts for our loved ones. […]
PBPA: Fighting for Fairness, Collectively and Individually
While the Permian Basin Petroleum Association is largely and primarily an advocate for our members on proposed laws and regulations, representing our members in two branches of our government, we also at times find ourselves representing our members in the third, judicial, branch of government. In just the recent past, PBPA has taken on legal […]
PBPA Annual Meeting: Sept. 27-28
It seems like every year when September rolls around, I find myself asking what happened to the summer months? Time slips by in all the hustle and bustle of everyday life. The kids are already back in school, and a new football season is upon us… thankfully. For the Permian Basin Petroleum Association, September means […]
Energy Security is Priority Number One in the U.S. House
The Permian Basin Petroleum Association had a great turnout for our June luncheon where Congressman August Pfluger updated the attending audience with the recent legislative work of the 118th Congress in Washington, D.C. Thank you to everyone who helped make this such a great event. Congressman Pfluger discussed the recently passed Lower Energy Costs Act […]
No Challenge Too Great
The oil and gas industry has seen incredible growth and changes over the past 100 years. In 1923, on May 28 (a century ago almost to the day), oil was discovered in the Permian Basin at a well known as the Santa Rita No. 1. This discovery initiated a new era of industry and wealth […]
Strength in Numbers—and in Resolve
Coalition building plays an important role in the power and influence that the Permian Basin Petroleum Association (PBPA) can harness especially when member companies have aligned interest and work together to impact legislative and regulatory policies. Sometimes the PBPA and other oil and gas trade associations work together to benefit all oil and gas producers. […]
The Power of the Permian
The week of February 13-17, 2023, will go down as a very important time for the communities of the Permian Basin and the oil and gas industry of the United States. The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee held a subcommittee hearing focusing on how Federal Energy Production Supports Local Communities at the University of Texas […]
The Answer Includes the Permian Basin
In 1789 after the finalization of the U.S. Constitution establishing a separation of powers between three branches of the federal government, Benjamin Franklin penned a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy which included a worry that even with Franklin’s enthusiasm for the document’s permanency “…in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and […]
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