Picture from this morning in the majestic oil fields on the North Slope of Alaska. All of 25 degrees up here.



ETA: oh and it was 5:30 AM

Sweet!



And its full of Fords. Sheesh.




We post them here, and nicely notify Goatboy that we want moar!

2 man rig with iron roughneck.....

Rut-Roh

In an attempt to keep this alive and get ourselves a sub-form I give you....

"North Slope"


including drill site


Drill site and Power plant


And even wildlife hanging out around schlumberger's bone yard/camp


Now that's done with, here's a picture of Baker Hughes' shop


and a liner hanger assembly with with a pack-off that i stabbed up to go out to a drill site.

Bump.....

Who's doing the wireline job? Haliburton looks to be all over the frac job.

Getting ready to install some cathodic protection on an old tank that is being put back in service. This is the entrance, right around seven feet tall.


This is inside the tank before we started digging our anode holes. Generally the standard operating procedure is for the sand to be removed and be working on top of hard pack, they wanted to re use the sand which we eventually had to tell them was a no-go. It was like working on a beach, which is difficult when trying to dig anode graves and the needed trenches to tie them all together.
It has a floating ceiling that adjusts it's position dependent upon how much material is in the tank, it's roughly seven feet high.


Digging the anode graves with a mini-x, the operator will scrape his hard hat on the ceiling if he doesn't keep his head turned slightly to the side. You also have to be mindful of the pillars holding the ceiling in place and also mindful of not over extending your excavator's arm otherwise you will hit the ceiling which creates an extremely loud noise that will make your heart skip a beat.


This is an anode grave with a layer of carbon coke poured in the bottom to increase the effective surface area of our anode. Each of the nine anode grave received thirteen bags of coke, which weighed fifty pounds that had to be carried in by hand across the loose sand and then hand dumped into the holes which results in looking like a coal miner after two bags. After the anode is laid in the grave it's of vital important no soil falls in and makes contact with it, it's not an enjoyable experience.
You can also see how good the lighting is inside the tank, this grave was maybe thirty feet from the main entrance.


I've got a handful of other pictures I'll be posting in a thread in Team.

Workin today. Managed to get off 4 fracs in 8 days.

Trying to get folks to use proper procedures and practices when pumping fracs takes time... I should be a consultant, but you can't teach some people. Sheesh.

99% of screenouts are preventable.

DON'T FLUSH A WELL WITH CO2! Also, DON'T PRESSURE TEST WITH CO2!

Another thread GoatBoy.

Any Geologists Here? Sadly, lost in GD.

That is AWESOME Darcy...Thanks for sharing.