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"We met a potential client face-to-face who previously we had only known through email and telephone calls. That personal interaction will likely result in engaging our services," said longtime exhitbitor John Graves of Graves & Co. Consulting, who has been attending NAPE since the expo's second year.

President Biden has the worst energy policy since Jimmy Carter, so it was probably inevitable that he would disinter one of Mr. Carter’s worst ideas—a “windfall profits” tax on oil companies. Doesn’t he know that when you tax something, you get less of it?

President Biden has the worst energy policy since Jimmy Carter, so it was probably inevitable that he would disinter one of Mr. Carter’s worst ideas—a “windfall profits” tax on oil companies. Doesn’t he know that when you tax something, you get less of it?

On May 17, 2022, Bill Vail represented Graves & Co. Consulting at the New York Energy Capital Assembly’s annual conference in New York City. Held at the New York Stock Exchange’s […]

USA Today, March 31, 2022 Will gas prices ease with Biden’s release from strategic reserve? Experts say it’s not enough One million barrels of oil will be released per day […]

Houston, March 14, 2022 | PR Newswire Graves & Co. Consulting, a professional independent reservoir engineering firm to the oil and gas industry, announced today that Allen C. Barron, Executive Vice President, […]

Houston, TX – June 17, 2020 Graves & Co. Consulting (www.gravesconsulting.us) is a reservoir engineering and geological consulting firm. We are pleased to announce the creation of a strategic alliance with Signa Engineering (www.signa.net) providing unparalleled engineering and consulting capacity and expertise. [cont'd]

Tight-oil production in the U.S. set new records in 2019, but the banner year ended with an important caveat: more than two-thirds of crude production from shale plays flowed from wells drilled in the past 2 years. The figure reflects the fast-paced life of horizontal wells while also highlighting that older assets are not contributing as originally expected. [cont'd]

At a dusty drilling site east of San Antonio, shale producer EOG Resources Inc recently completed its latest well using a new technology developed by a small services firm that promises to slash the cost of each by $200,000.