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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 Art of Control

August 5, 2019 by PBOG

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 […]

Filed Under: Automation, Controls and Measurement, Featured Article, People Tagged With: Automation, featured article, midstream, permian basin, Upstream, Van Zandt

Automation Gets in Gear

August 7, 2018 by PBOG

The steps-saving discipline that is automation keeps expanding its realm. From a service company’s back office to a producer’s onsite operations to injection chemicals at remote locations—and far beyond—automation continues to spread its ability to streamline and inform oil patch operations. Innovators in those three areas share their expertise. By Paul Wiseman Transparency and Accountability […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Trade Talk Tagged With: accountability, accounting, Automation, checkpoints, Feature, featured, innovators, productivity, profit margins, profitability, technology, transparency

The Next Big Thing… Keeps Arriving

April 26, 2013 by PBOG

Automation is spreading two ways through the Permian Basin oilfield. One, it is filtering down from the larger companies to the smaller companies. And two, it is going far beyond simple applications, like electronic gauges to measure liquids in tanks. Matt Cosby, marketing manager at Resource Automation and Electrical, Farmington, N.M., believes that the rush […]

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