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PBOG is the Official Publication of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association and is published monthly by Zachry Publications, LP.

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The Rising Stature of Gas

July 28, 2025 by PBOG Leave a Comment

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Click here to listen to the Audio verison of this story!   Despite the Permian Basin being the second-biggest natural gas producing region in the United States, gas is a byproduct—and often a nuisance—here. But to keep the oil flowing, the gas must also flow, even when sales prices are negative. Fortunately, infrastructure keeps being […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Trade Talk

OSHA/DOGE

July 24, 2025 by PBOG Leave a Comment

Greetings! While contemplating what topic I would write about, I came across an educational video from a safety company. In this video, a certified safety professional discusses a bill, introduced by Representative Andy Biggs, aimed at abolishing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). This safety professional delved into the bill’s contents, as well as […]

Filed Under: Environmental, Safety and Training, Featured Article

What’s Going Down

July 21, 2025 by PBOG Leave a Comment

Click here to listen to the Audio verison of this story!   Regardless of the exact status of environmental regulations, the oil and gas industry is working toward getting cleaner. Drilling and production activities often create material that’s more wasted than wanted, and methods for dealing with that are getting cleaner and safer. And in […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Trade Talk

One Hundred Octopi and Counting: Lessons in Online Solids Management

June 27, 2025 by PBOG

How the development, validation, and large-scale deployment of online solids management systems is saving operators money by releasing flowback equipment sooner, minimizing equipment damage due to solids carry-over, and reducing the need for shutdowns and confined space entry cleanout operations. Pounding Sand Oil and gas wells seldom produce a nice clean stream of hydrocarbons. A […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Online Exclusive, Trade Talk

Getting a Line on Wireline

June 23, 2025 by PBOG

Click here to listen to the Audio verison of this story!   Change comes to every sector of the oilfield, working its way through the various niches. Sometimes it comes by technological advance, sometimes by economic realities asserting themselves, sometimes by scarcity—or abundance—of resources. And sometimes it comes from ripple effects of mergers, acquisitions, and […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Wireline and Testing

Mental Health is Also Health

June 19, 2025 by PBOG

Welcome and salutations! We may be going into some tough times, not that we as Americans—or as members of the oil and gas community—haven’t had our share already. One topic that is prevalent in our industry and often skirted or glossed over is mental health. It is a given that our industry is a “dog […]

Filed Under: Environmental, Safety and Training, Featured Article

The Changing Landscape of Leasing and Minerals

June 2, 2025 by PBOG

Click here to listen to the Audio verison of this story!   The flurry of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity over the last two years has changed the minerals landscape in the Permian Basin, along with most producing basins in the United States. Fewer operators control larger acreages. Also, the definition of what constitutes a […]

Filed Under: Business & Analysis, Featured Article, Mergers and Acquisitions, Trade Talk

Electrifying the Permian

May 19, 2025 by PBOG

There is a new sheriff in the White House, and with his administration embracing the oil and gas industry, excitement and relief has permeated throughout. Although the doors of possibility have now opened upon a gleaming prospect of four prosperous years ahead, certain of the industry’s lingering challenges will need solutions if growth is to […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Infrastructure, Trade Talk

In the Air or on the Ground, Safety Is Still Safety

May 15, 2025 by PBOG

The NTSB estimated a total of nearly 24 million flight hours in 2007, when 6.84 of every 100,000 flight hours yielded an airplane crash while 1.19 of every 100,000 yielded a fatal crash. This was down from an all-time high of 9.08 accidents per 100,000 hours in 1994. It is an old statistic that I’m […]

Filed Under: Environmental, Safety and Training, Featured Article

Taking Carbon Captive

May 12, 2025 by PBOG

Carbon capture and storage grows technology, but legal and geological questions remain. The old saying about change and things staying the same may itself need to change, especially in the energy sector. “The more things change, the more they continue to change,” would better codify the rapid acceleration of new technologies and landscapes. And with […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Trade Talk

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