In this month’s roundup of news and views, we share some progressive views and expansive pronouncements. These are the full versions of the “Drilling Deeper” news items that appeared as abbreviated versions in the print edition of PB Oil and Gas Magazine’s October 2019 issue. Upstream Sector Emerging As Epicenter for Industrial Internet The upstream […]
Road Safety
Welcome! I hope this August finds you happy and safe! Today I am going to broach the subject of the most dangerous and deadly part of our industry… Driving. I fully understand that the 40 hours of documented training that we received at the mature age of 16 to 18 years of age fully qualifies […]
Line in the Sand
Basin frac sand mines may face a shakeout in the last quarter of 2019. By Paul Wiseman The oil and gas economy is always compared to a roller coaster ride, but nowhere in the sector has the ride been crazier over the last decade than in frac sand. Until the early 2000s, frac sand mining […]
Telling Isn’t Training!
Welcome back to this month’s installment about everyone’s favorite topic of safety! I recently was reading a post that intrigued me on a social media. A person who was new to safety wanted to know what was the most prevalent cause of accidents in the oilfield and why. The question was broad and yet evoked […]
Where to Go from Here?
“People said, ‘We’ve got to do something different.’” The last downturn helped shift people’s mindsets. Weatherford’s latest project in Odessa shows what that change looks like. By Paul Wiseman “We’ve been in the Permian Basin for decades,” said Weatherford International’s Karen David-Green, “and this new facility allows us to consolidate 10 product lines under one […]
Innovators
Wells and technology both get more complex. Companies are applying their best minds, and best thinking, to the task of staying up with the changes. By Paul Wiseman “Sometimes I think—me personally, or WellWorx or the industry—that we’ll run out of ways to innovate or we’ll run out of good ideas,” said Matt Raglin, founder […]
The Art of Control
By Paul Wiseman To be a Basin business and be a mere four years old and have almost 100 employees—this is not the typical track for a Permian startup of recent vintage. But at Van Zandt Controls, Larry Richards and team have focused small to grow big. The news is always full of stories of […]
Safety and the “Real World”
Greetings and salutations! Welcome to my inaugural column for the Permian Basin Oil & Gas magazine. I am excited to bring you stories, reports, and ideas. Some of the ideas will be new to even my safety colleagues. Just the same, I hope to bring you a refreshing look at what’s new and what’s old. […]
It’s dirty work, but….
… but someone’s got to create the footprint, build the approach roads, and do all the other site work that must happen before the “real work” gets started. Dirt work is elemental in the Permian Basin. By Paul Wiseman They may not move Heaven—although it may seem like it sometimes—but they do move lots of […]
The Keys to the Castle
Most cyber threats come, unintentionally, from within. By Paul Wiseman “We have met the enemy, and they are ours.” Admiral Oliver Perry, September 1813 “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” Walt Kelly, as quoted in a Pogo poster, April 1970 The average person receives 12 spam emails per day, totaling 4,000 per […]
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