Weaving electronics into oilfield apparel looks to boost worker health and safety
In the 1980s comedy/drama The Greatest American Hero, special education teacher Ralph Hinkley meets aliens who give him a suit with super...
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Midland Conference Promises to Reveal How Technology is the Future of the Oil Patch
How many of these concepts can you define? IIoT Blockchain Dashboards AI Datastreams Industrial Machine Intelligence Depressed already?...
Clayton Williams, Jr. & a Life Full of Surprises! A Right Cross, Success from Failure and an Aty
It was the right cross that did him in: chipped his tooth and put him out for the evening. But the worst part? He never saw it coming. ...
The seven-word pickup Line!
Floyd and Barbara Hughes started Hughes Oilfield Transportation, LLC, in 2000 on 11 days’ notice, when their former employer suddenly...
Tale of two oilmen—How Dwayne Taylor and Will Farmer turned the nation’s focus to energy independenc
One of Ed Lauer’s first dates with Heather Taylor was at a statewide New Mexico event involving thousands of people, led by her father,...
You’ll notice right away that Apple Electrical Contractors is not named after its owner, Eddy Shelt
It all started when Eddy was working part-time for an electrical contractor during his high school and college years. One day the...
Everyone feels “Lucky” to work in Lucky Services’ family atmosphere
A 100-person group hug? If they weren’t still so busy, this could happen at Lucky Services Trickle-down family values: Respect,...
WTI in the DNA—Oil Patch provides fertile soil for oil AND families
When Bruce McKee bought M & W Hot Oil in 1981, it was a company with just a few trucks and a short but loyal customer list. Friends asked...
Hughes family business trucks on through the Oil Patch’s ‘certainty of uncertainty’
The Full House reunion has nothing on Hughes Oil Trucking’s family room at company headquarters. Some days it’s Family Ties and other...
Apple Electrical’s core values give them the big picture of work and family.
You may have heard about the guy who passed three bricklayers on a construction site one day. Curious about the project, the passerby...
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