Meet Shana Robinson: Chief Growth Officer at Baptist Health System
As the Chief Growth Officer at Baptist Health System in San Antonio, Shana Robinson is working each day to share with individuals and employers those innovations to improve the ease of receiving care and lower the overall cost. Robinson, along...
Amy Chronis : Managing a Business Filled With Risk
Today’s oil and gas industry is one of the most high-tech businesses on the planet, an industry that consists of thousands of highly-competitive companies that adopt a growing array of new digital solutions every day of the week. Big business deals...
“The lady that ran the courthouse was named ‘Peaches’.” - Allen Gilmer
“We focused on Texas only, and we covered things we could get from the Railroad Commission. So, that was production data back to 1970. Then there were permits and completions. Permits, we collected daily, because we were located...
Lithium King Teague Egan
Sitting fittingly in his Tesla Model S outside a massive 11,000 square foot R&D facility, Teague Egan, the magnanimous, energetic, and exuberant leader of explosive energy-technology start-up, EnergyX, sat down to an exclusive interview for our latest issue focusing on renewables. Behind a laid-back style, Teague’s...
Tracee Bentley - Partnering in the Permian
The Permian Basin is a very big place. A vast expanse encompassing most of West Texas and the Southeastern quadrant of New Mexico, the region is roughly the size of the entire state of Utah. Like Utah, most of the Permian is characterized...
“My story starts in 1956 when I was one year old, and M. King Hubbard made a prediction about ‘peak oil.’ He said somewhere around 1970 U.S. production would peak at about 10 million barrels per day and then it would fall off over the next 25-30...
The Three Sectors of the US Oil and Gas Industry: Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream
An Overview of the US Oil and Gas Industry
The oil and gas industry in the United States has traditionally been broken down into three main business sectors: upstream, midstream, and downstream. The upstream sector consists of...
Oil and Gas & COVID-19 Hit Hard
With the onset of COVID-19 and the resulting general-economic shutdown that is affecting much of the country, it is a challenging time to stay in business. But, the oil and gas industry has been hit particularly hard. In order to survive, oil and...
It is no secret that the shale oil and gas industry is in the midst of a phase of rapid consolidation, a move that was kicked off by Occidental Oil Co. with its acquisition of big independent producer Anadarko Petroleum in April 2019. Over the past two years, companies...
A Life of Work and Service
“I probably have had the furthest thing from a straight-line path to where I am now that you’ll ever find,” Brian Freed, CEO of EPIC Midstream, told us when we sat down for our interview in September. “I started working when I was 12...
