Happy New Year! I am certainly glad 2020 is in the rear-view mirror. I only wish this COVID-19 (Corona virus) was in the rear-view mirror as well. So, greetings and salutations. To say that 2020 was a strange and tough year is like calling Moby Dick a guppy. If you are reading this, I hope […]
Merry Christmas and a Happy Brand New Year!
Greetings and salutations! I am so pleased to be writing the last article for 2020. Needless to say, 2020 has been a year of distinction. I am incredibly pleased to see 2020 in the rear-view mirror. Christmas, however, is always a special time to reflect and this year is no different. Normally I just launch […]
Job Safety Analysis / Why Do We Do Them?
Greetings and salutations! I hope you are ready for another fun-filled installment of Safety. This month we are going to shower down on everyone’s favorite topic, which is the in and outs of JSA’s, also known as Job Hazard Analysis. In fact, there are numerous different names, forms, and processes depending on the company, the […]
Water Midstream Enters a New Phase
“The sub-industry of water handling and water midstream has evolved pretty dramatically over the last three or four years,” said Bill Zartler, CEO of Solaris Midstream Holdings. Solaris designs, owns, and operates water midstream systems in the Permian Basin. Solaris itself has grown exponentially since starting from scratch in 2016. They bought a small company […]
Hanging by a (Pipe) Thread
. R&D pipe President Ron Underwood and Trident Steel CEO Kevin Beckmann have both seen better times, but neither is certain when those will return, at least for their sector. Casing in particular is tied directly to drilling, Underwood pointed out. Beckmann noted that the rig count is down 73 percent year-over-year from 2019. That […]
Let the Sun Shine In
Historically, the word “environmental” in the oil patch has had the connotation of inconvenience, hassle, and extra cost. Today, several things are converging to change that narrative—ESG has made it more necessary and technology has made it more user-friendly. A case in point for the user-friendly side is the category of portable solar power for […]
Risk
From the inception of the oilfield, risk has been a part of the business. Most everyone agrees that the first oil well in the world was drilled by Colonel Edwin Drake in Pennsylvania in 1859, a whopping 21 meters in depth, which equals 68’ 10”. However, that is not the case—at least that well was […]
There’s Green in “Clean”
With ESG becoming the new EBITDA in the eyes of stockholders and investors, environmental companies—as the “E” in ESG—are finding more interest in their services. That’s helping them somewhat in weathering what is becoming the “Year of the Black Swan,” 2020. Others are combining that with creative ways to leverage accumulated data to improve services […]
Opinion: Basin O&G Weathers Opposing Sentiments
Was there ever a more schizophrenic year for oil and gas? The tumults of 2020 have kept markets in disarray and left analysts and observers divided. Opposing forces keep tugging at the industry, hindering any straight-line improvement. On one side, there is the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) movement, with its emphasis on what it […]
Safety: Let’s Have a Meeting!
Greetings and salutations! It is my sincere hope that by the time this edition hits the press that the price of oil has crept back up and everyone has started ramping back up! Between the coronavirus, the quarantine, riots, and the Saudis and Russians seeing who can drop the prices the fastest, it has been […]
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