It already has its own Wikipedia page, for goodness sakes. If all plans are put in motion, the latest Big Thing to hit the Permian Basin will be the 58-story Energy Tower now slated for downtown Midland. Midland-based developer Energy Related Properties will build its high rise in the heart of downtown Midland, offering more [...]
West Texas, with its growth and its booming energy industry, has been feeling the pinch in another energy sector–electricity. “You may be in for another difficult summer, price-wise, here.” When those words come from a vice president at ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, they sink deep. America might run on oil, but the [...]
The Cline Shale, still in its infancy as a producing zone, is exerting a profound effect in places like Garden City and the rest of Glasscock County. While the Permian Basin is a busy place for the oil and gas industry these days from one end of the basin to the other, tiny Glasscock County [...]
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 [...]
The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum inducts four individuals who have made their mark on their industry and their region. Two came from the upper Midwest, two from Houston. Their lives merged in dusty West Texas and over the years their rugged edges have been polished into a sparkling knowledge of the petroleum industry. That business [...]
The Texas Railroad Commission adopted new rules March 26 to encourage Texas operators to continue their efforts to conserve water used in hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas even though hydraulic fracturing and total mining use account for less than one percent of statewide water use. The state’s top three water consumers are irrigation, municipalities, [...]
It already has its own Wikipedia page, for goodness sakes. If all plans are put in motion, the latest Big Thing to hit the Permian Basin will be the 58-story Energy Tower now slated for downtown Midland. Midland-based developer Energy Related Properties will build its high rise in the heart of downtown Midland, offering more [...]
West Texas, with its growth and its booming energy industry, has been feeling the pinch in another energy sector–electricity. “You may be in for another difficult summer, price-wise, here.” When those words come from a vice president at ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, they sink deep. America might run on oil, but the [...]
The Cline Shale, still in its infancy as a producing zone, is exerting a profound effect in places like Garden City and the rest of Glasscock County. While the Permian Basin is a busy place for the oil and gas industry these days from one end of the basin to the other, tiny Glasscock County [...]
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 [...]
The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum inducts four individuals who have made their mark on their industry and their region. Two came from the upper Midwest, two from Houston. Their lives merged in dusty West Texas and over the years their rugged edges have been polished into a sparkling knowledge of the petroleum industry. That business [...]
Heat capture on worksites can be used to generate electricity–and the added power can improve oil and gas revenues. The development of new technologies has had an impressive impact on the oil and gas industry, especially in the past 30 years. Geoscience software, 3D seismic acquisition, shale fracking techniques, directional drilling, and reservoir modeling are [...]
By Paul Wiseman In the early 1900s west Texas was as empty as a whiskey bottle at closing time, and almost as dry. (Some things haven’t changed). What would possess someone in far-off Toronto, Canada, to buy approximately 220,000 acres of the place, sight-unseen, is still somewhat of a mystery. But that is exactly what [...]
