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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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Change Happens-Sometimes for the Good

September 14, 2023 by PBOG Leave a Comment

Welcome to this month’s edition of oilfield safety. This month I’m opting to do a small variation from safety and take the opportunity to branch out and attempt to sing our industry’s praises! After years of being in the oilfield, 52 years to be exact, the oilfield has changed immeasurably. Rules have changed, the pay […]

Filed Under: Environmental, Safety and Training, Featured Article

Innovation Transforms Environmental Services

September 4, 2023 by PBOG

One oilfield service sector that’s readily plugging in to increased planetary awareness is the environmental services niche. Two companies, Petro Waste (now under new ownership as described below) and Milestone Environmental Services, are among those who are growing their footprint. One whose footprint is already global—Halliburton—is hard at work developing software to make environmental impact […]

Filed Under: Environmental, Safety and Training, Featured Article

Ten Stark Realities of Oilfield Safety

August 10, 2023 by PBOG

Greetings and Salutations! This month marks my fourth year as a contributor to this magazine. In one of my earliest articles, I referred to a presentation that I did that, in my humble opinion, established the top ten stark realities of oilfield safety. Even among my constituents in the safety field I knew some who […]

Filed Under: Environmental, Safety and Training, Featured Article

Sleep, Blessed Sleep

July 13, 2023 by PBOG

Hello and welcome to this month’s installment of Safety and how you can live with safety! Let’s get right to it, as I am excited about this month’s topic! So you want to be in the oil and gas business. Good for you. Be prepared for sleepless days and nights. Regardless if you are an […]

Filed Under: Environmental, Safety and Training, Featured Article

North American Gas Market to Expand 25% in 10 Years

July 1, 2023 by PBOG

Near-term gas market expansion continues to be driven by global demand for U.S. LNG exports, which will largely be supplied through continued growth in Permian associated gas and Haynesville production, according to a recent report from Wood Mackenzie. “LNG export growth will drive the market for many years but will slow substantially in the 2030s, […]

Filed Under: Drilling Deeper, Environmental, Safety and Training

Tinker: “No Form of Energy is Renewable”

July 1, 2023 by PBOG

At the International Energy Summit in Miami, Fla., held May 30-June 1, Dr. Scott Tinker, Director, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, delivered a talk challenging the idea of renewable energy. The lecture sparked intense discussion on the ongoing energy transition. Each year, AIEN hosts a lecturer as part of their […]

Filed Under: Drilling Deeper, Environmental, Safety and Training

Chemical Safety: SDS

June 15, 2023 by PBOG

Hello and welcome to this month’s installment on safety. If you were to look into any popular publications or magazines, seeking some riveting reading material, you probably wouldn’t find many articles about Safety Data Sheets, aka SDS. The world is full of mind-numbing acronyms, but hardly any create such low excitement as the three letters […]

Filed Under: Environmental, Safety and Training, Featured Article

New Mexico board approves new rule to curb oilfield emissions

June 9, 2023 by PBOG

New Mexico’s environmental improvement board recently approved a new rule to curb oilfield emissions that cause ground-level ozone.  The so-called “ozone precursor rule” is intended to reduce this pollutant in areas where fossil fuel operations elevate it to levels deemed unsafe.  Advocates told the Santa Fe New Mexican that the new regulation “will make New […]

Filed Under: Environmental, Safety and Training, PBOG Newsletter

Have a Game Plan

May 18, 2023 by PBOG

Welcome to this month’s installation of safety! Today I will be making an analogy to the sport of football. It is one of the most popular sports in the Permian Basin. Most companies, large or small, evaluate their respective effectiveness as a safe company once a year. Traditionally it is after the Christmas season and […]

Filed Under: Environmental, Safety and Training, Featured Article

Document and Verify

April 6, 2023 by PBOG

Welcome to this month’s safety edition! I hope this finds you enthusiastic, happy, and injury free at your organization! For the last three years of writing for this publication, I’ve yet to run out of things to say! Isn’t that a typical safety person? That was a rhetorical question—you don’t have to answer that. As […]

Filed Under: Environmental, Safety and Training, Featured Article

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