The business of environmental services keeps evolving into something more akin to a real business function, and less like an onerous duty. The trend is driven partly by conscience and partly by receptivity to change. The days in which “environmental” was a dirty word in the oil patch are long gone, say the experts. More […]
Vision Shift
Unprecedented growth in the Basin calls for an extensive road plan overhaul. By Julie Anderson As a 37-year resident of Odessa and now Ector County’s chief administrative officer, County Judge Debi Hays is proud of the contribution the Permian Basin makes not only to the Lone Star State, but to the nation. In fact, she […]
The Vitality of the Independents
America has not fully grasped what has happened in the hinterlands of domestic energy, where old fashioned American ingenuity has achieved one of its greatest triumphs. In our first installment, we took up the idea that it wasn’t the major oil companies who re-invented the oil and gas industry—it was the independents, mainly in the […]
The Essential Element
Water, the universal solvent, the element that puts the “hydraulic” in hydraulic fracturing—this force of nature that also is a force that drives oil and gas exploration and production—is the hottest commodity in the industry. The No. 1 issue facing the Permian Basin today is not jobs or the economy. It is water. With drought […]