I got bumped to first class one time flying from San Antonio to Phoenix to play in a tennis tournament and sat next to Charles Barkley....

Big, small, shallow deep, all of us in the oilfield tend to rely on the shale stuff to fix our problems.

Some really big 2000 HP onshore rigs with 38 foot substructures and most offshore jack-ups, even floaters (semi-submersibles) used in...