A buddy sent me THIS today and asked I comment on it. I am going to tippy-toe around this Tweet the best I can out of respect for Art, even though in the past he has implied I was just a measley stripper well operator angry at the shale oil industry and not worth listening to. I assume by four

I bank at a branch of a really old, famous West Texas bank that is not very big, or fancy, but I'm told has the one the highest levels of deposits in the entire country. Its main bank is a hundred miles from Midland but in West Texas that's not much of a drive and I think cattlemen and oil men as

Howard County is textbook quality. In the last two months Howard County gas production has also gone into steep decline. The lag was 16 months behind oil production. Midland County has also broken trend. Midland average production depth is about 10,500' while Howard County is perhaps 8,000.

Can we torture the Howard County data a bit more? As President Obama used to say, and this is some time ago now, yes we can. First of all the volumes: Then the gas to oil ratio in energy equivalent terms: Howard County gas production has remained flat as oil production tipped over into its death

I agree with DOE Secretary Chris Wright - terminology matters. At a time when it is more important than it's ever been to discuss issues that affect everyone I keep seeing more and more jargon. The finance bros have been working overtime to create their own language around concepts that take m

Producers finally weigh in on the outlook for 2025 - not big fans of the "drill baby drill" idea. But there's another way to get prices down with the stroke of a pen - ban exports "temporarily". Anyone ready to give odds on this?

They've been reminding that their machine learning model doesn't see things the same way that Novi and others do and that there are limits to production growth that don't have anything to do with the "tech" - it's the rocks. Worth a listen. Good discussion/reminder of the difference between