Oilman Cartoon – Summer Hands
Pennzoil, like most oil companies hired petroleum engineer students as summer-hands. These summer-hands can grow into full grown petroleum engineers, and occasionally they can become...
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It’s Time To ACT!
During August of 1992, I was a member of a 20 member delegation on a visit to Russia under the auspices of People to People...
Using ERP Solutions for Agility and Profitability
The oil and gas field services industry, like the broader energy industry it serves, faces a time of dramatic challenge and change. Technological innovation, supply-and-demand,...
Mainstream vs Midstream – Hydraulic Fracturing
With your help, we’ve set the record straight on all the media’s misleading reporting. Noise from the Mainstream… From NBCNews.com— Fracking wastewater contaminated — and...
Activism and Deception Underlie Weather Channel’s Eagle Ford Shale Report
A new investigative report by InsideClimate News and the Center for Public Integrity – promoted and produced by the Weather Channel – concludes that shale...
Oilman Cartoon – GOM Cutting Platform Maintenance Cost with SPAM
The power of SPAM, and I am not talking about emails. In the time before electronic devices conquered the world, the word SPAM had a...
U.S. Takes First Step Toward Fracking Disclosure Rules
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it would gather public comment for 90 days on whether to require chemical manufacturers to disclose the contents of...
Jamie Rood, Photographic Artist – A Day on the Rig: Viking
On the morning of the last day of August 2010, returning from my Colorado tour, I left my parents place to head over to the...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, Met with Pres. Obama in Support of the Keystone XL Pipeline
A leading Republican governor claimed Monday that President Obama will make a decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline within “a couple of months,” but...
Oklahoma Universities Offer Energy Education Programs
The growing oil and natural gas industry has spawned a unique challenge, and the state’s universities have created programs to address the need. Oklahoma City...