Pipeline Innovation in the Digital Oilfield
What is the digital oilfield? Simply put, it’s how oil and gas companies apply digital technologies to drive their core business. For upstream companies, these...
Oilman May-June 2020
Crucial Features in Optimal Management of Oil and Gas Storage and Terminals
The storage of hydrocarbons represents one of the last steps of the production chain; tank farms are places where the oil pumped from the oil...
Dropping Oil Prices Impact Economies Around the World
Dropping Oil Prices Impact Economies Around the World The future of the global oil industry is increasingly uncertain. As oil prices fall to their lowest...
Certainty: In Uncertain Times
As I write this column, the word that keeps coming to the forefront of my mind is “uncertainty.” Uncertainty is on all of our minds...
Update on Automatic Tank Gauging for Oil Lease Tanks
Owners of oil lease tanks have been constrained by lack of technology and outdated regulations from being able to fully utilize automation in their tanks....
High Frequency Data Analytics Can Unleash Enormous Business Value for Oil and Gas Enterprises
In the next 15 years, machines such as servers, sensors, and other devices will outnumber humans by more than 100 to one. As these machines...
In Oil and Gas Innovation is Key to Success
A Few Words on the State of the Industry COVID-19 has turned the world upside down. If you are reading Oilman Magazine, then you, dear...
Geomechanics, the Nemesis of the NPT
In the oil industry, project calculations are made based on two values: time and investment, making it clearer than ever that time is money. For...
Management of Water Control for the Best Use of Hydrocarbon Reserves
It is well known that in the oil industry the production of hydrocarbons in many cases leads to the production of unwanted fluids, generally water....
T. Boone Pickens and the “Red Bull”: A Once-in-a-Lifetime Case — and Client
In November 2016, a jury in Pecos, Texas, delivered a $146 million verdict on behalf of my client, Mesa Petroleum Partners, run by the legendary...