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Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

PBOG is the Official Publication of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association and is published monthly by Zachry Publications, LP.

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Vision Shift

August 1, 2019 by PBOG

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Infrastructure Tagged With: Feature, featured article, Gas, Oil, permian basin, roads

Digging Into The Dug, Part 2

August 2, 2018 by PBOG

It was sand, water, logistics, services, and completion technology as the second full day of the DUG Permian Basin Conference brought the event to a conclusion. The two days in Fort Worth were an immersion course in Basin basics. By Jesse Mullins | Photography by Tom Fox Last month we shared the messages of Day […]

Filed Under: Events, Featured Article Tagged With: digging the dug, Feature, featured, Oil, sand transport, water matters

Rigged to Succeed

October 1, 2013 by PBOG

In his five decades in the drilling industry, Ray Brazzel has bored down to the things that really matter. Ray Brazzel admitted he has seen a lot of changes in more than a half century of working in the oil and gas industry. “Technology has improved and rigs are safer now, but they need to […]

Filed Under: Featured Article Tagged With: Ann, Brazzel, Drilling Industry, featured, Oil, Ray

Well Servicing: A Trade in Transition

March 4, 2013 by PBOG

It is not surprising that well service companies consider hiring and housing as two of their top issues, as oil prices continue parked at just under $100 per barrel. The words used to relate the topic do open the eyes a bit. “Theft” was how Rich Fontenot described it. Fontenot, senior sales representative for Nabors […]

Filed Under: Featured Article Tagged With: featured, Oil, Well Servicing

Pipe Dreams: Smith Pipe of Abilene

March 4, 2013 by PBOG

ABILENE, TEXAS—Just four miles southwest of this town on Highway 277 South, the road that leads to San Angelo, is the community of Caps. For years, those driving down the highway barely encountered any indications that Caps even existed, except for a sign in front of the Caps Baptist Church and a highway sign that […]

Filed Under: Featured Article Tagged With: Abilene, Cliff Smith, Cline Shle, featured, Oil, Smith Pipe

Vital Independence Part III: Broad Vista

February 4, 2013 by PBOG

Big Oil is outside looking in. As the major oil companies return from offshore and overseas to American fields to grab a piece of the shale revolution, a revolutioncreated by independent oil and gas companies—largely in Texas and New Mexico—the Bigs find that the independents sit upon the leaseholds they (the majors) once controlled.  And […]

Filed Under: Featured Article Tagged With: Big Oil, Broad Vista, featured, Independent Oil, Oil, permian basin, Vital Independence

Drilling Efficiency

January 24, 2013 by PBOG

Drilling efficiency is the phrase on everyone’s lips, as the bar keeps getting set higher and higher. Industry observers weigh in on getting the most drilling done in the least time for the least money. Reducing drilling costs is an everyday topic in the oil patch and there is no simple answer.  Is that site […]

Filed Under: Featured Article Tagged With: Drilling, Efficiency, featured, Oil, Saving Time, Speed, Time is Money

The Vitality of the Independents

January 24, 2013 by PBOG

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Article Tagged With: Big Oil, featured, Gas, Independence, Independent, Oil, Vital Independence

The Essential Element

January 24, 2013 by PBOG

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Article Tagged With: Desalination, featured, Gas, Oil, permian basin, Water, Water Shortage, Water Treatment

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