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Drilling for miles: Record setting oil wells...

How Low Can You Go? World Record Oil Wells | The Surge™ Horizontal drilling was a game-changer and drilling for miles beneath the earth now makes for just another day in the field...

Why connections really do matter...

My Experience Of Being Gainfully Unemployed | The Surge™ After a pleasant vacation of two weeks last summer, I returned to work only to find that my ‘catch-up’ meeting was to let me know that my vacation had been extended somewhat. I was given a package of various papers, allowed to clear a few...

Looking for some O&G gear? Check this out...

The Top 5 Companies For O&G Gear | The Surge™ The Top 5 Companies For O&G Gear - Chances are you need some gear for your job in the oil and gas industry if you’re reading this...

Do you know all five of these iconic events?

The 5 Most Important Events In Oil & Gas History | The Surge™ Can you guess all 5 of these iconic oil & gas events?

But there's good news too!

Exxon’s Reported Reserves Fall The Most In A Decade: But There’s Good News Too | The Surge™ The world’s largest oil company by market value reported a 19% decline in its oil and gas reserves last year, the largest in more than a decade. In its 10-K SEC report filed last week ExxonMobil said low oil prices last year meant that some...

Today's Top Headlines In The Morning Surge!

The Morning Surge | February 28, 2017 | The Surge™ Yes! Yet another Morning Surge is coming your way. Today we’re serving up a lot of updates on developing stories that we’ve been covering for the past few weeks. OPEC cuts, India’s national oil company, and Boulder County’s moratorium...

Tonight's Biggest Headlines In The Nightly Surge!

The Nightly Surge | February 27, 2017 | The Surge™ I went to bed early last night so I’m just catching up… so I take it that Bonnie And Clyde are going to be in a reboot of Moonlighting filmed in LA LA Land? I hope Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd have cameos. Admit it, you were waiting...

A Look Back On Ronald Reagan, What The Polls Said About Trump & More!

Best Of The T. Boone Pickens Channel: Haley Barbour Interview | The Surge™ Haley Barbour is a Republican politician who gained national notoriety in the days after Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, Mississippi, and other states. He served as the 63rd Governor of Mississippi from 2004-2012, and his response to Katrina...

These two pressing unanswered questions have observers on edge...

More US Rigs, Oil In Storage Prompt More Supply Concerns | The Surge™ The number of active oil rigs in the US is the highest since October 2015 after Baker Hughes reported the addition of five oil rigs last week, up from 597 the prior week to 602. The total number of active oil and gas rigs is currently 754. That’s...

Today's top headlines in The Morning Surge!

The Morning Surge | February 27, 2017 | The Surge™ What if there was a televised awards show for the oil and gas industry? I bet President Trump would get Best Director...

They're hugely influential in the industry, but what do you REALLY know about OPEC?

5 Interesting Facts About OPEC, The World’s Petroleum Superpower | The Surge™ OPEC is just a shortened term for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. It’s made up of oil powerhouses like Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela, and was created back in 1960--over 56 years ago...

Were these men the best-kept secret of WW II?

Roughnecks Of Sherwood Forest. | The Surge™ Recently I wrote about how drilling and fracking in England’s famed Sherwood Forest has been given the go-ahead by the British Government. I also teased in that article how Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men (and Women) aren’t the...