Here is a snap I took in southeast Texas, somewhere between Corpus Christi and San Antonio:
These are modern pumpjacks – and the owners are clearly labelled on the sign:
This snap was taken here,
just a few miles north of the village of Cambellton (pop. 350):
There are two things that are really interesting to me.
First, since Texas is a very mature oil area, how could there be NEW pumpjacks? Does this mean they carried out fracking somewhere nearby? My guess after doing a bit of research – YES!
And second – I looked up the company: Murphy Exploration and Production. Interestingly, the senior leadership teams has financial leaders, HR leaders, legal leaders – but nary an operations leader!
So . . . who at Murphy is responsible for actually getting the oil out of the ground?