Drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have been around for over a hundred years. They were first developed for purposes of war, but these days privately owned drones far outnumber those owned by the military. Their usefulness is also being utilized more and more in the business...
Some needed relief for the Permian’s pain in the (bottle)neck
Because new wells are drilled much faster than pipelines can be built, pipelines in the Permian Basin have been unable to keep up with the overwhelming production of oil and natural gas. The Permian Basin bottleneck has for some time...
On April 2, 2010, President Obama said, “Oil rigs today generally don’t cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.” Eighteen days later the Deepwater Horizon explosion killed eleven crew members and leaked oil into the Gulf of Mexico for months. To his credit, after the tragedy, he tightened safety...
Hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes:
Three very good reasons to have easy renewable energy in your home.
Over a quarter of a million people lost power when Hurricane Harvey made landfall. Last week a tornado in Cape Cod left tens of thousands without power. The passing of a storm does not guarantee return...
Don’t Forget the Eagle Ford Shale
There is a lot of talk recently about the amazing Permian Basin, but there, ahead of it, and not to be overshadowed for long, is the Eagle Ford Shale. Spreading over 400 miles across Texas from the Mexican border in the west to the...
If you need a job, consider looking for one in Texas. In 2018, Texas added 391,800 jobs. Of those jobs, 3,300 were added by the mining and logging sector, which includes the oil and gas industry. That means that right now about 17% of all jobs in Texas belong...
Ryan Zinke, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior, has joined Cressman Tubular of Dallas, TX, in an advisory role. After his tenure as both commander in Navy SEAL Team Six and member of the president’s cabinet, Secretary Zinke looks to make his mark on the U.S. steel industry. In...
In the oil patch radio show is proud to bring you this week's energy minute produced by shale mag.com:
Weatherford, one of the industry's oldest and largest oil field service company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday, led by Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Russia. The OPEC plus nations...
SHALE Magazine and In the Oil Patch will host a State of Energy luncheon on July 18 from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Omni Houston Hotel Westside in Houston, Texas. Purchase your ticket now!
Along with keynote speaker, former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, three panels will...
Comstock Resources, Inc. (NYSE: CRK) ("Comstock" or the "Company") and Covey Park Energy LLC ("Covey Park") today jointly announced that Comstock has entered into an agreement under which Comstock will acquire Covey Park in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $2.2 billion, including the assumption of Covey...
