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Posted: 3/12/2011 5:38:43 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Anyone have good pictures of a large frac job? I should have taken some of a CHK well I saw in TX. About 30 tanks header'd up in a row on one side of the yard looked pretty cool. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile 30 frac tanks aint a big frac. Those days are gone though around here. Theres maybe a dozen on the pad and a crew a half mile away pumps water in from a huge pond on the lease or a neighboring lease. Less suck trucks, less tanks more room for the pumps and sand cans. Got any pics? I have a feeling most here don't know what frac'ing is, or how it works. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I have a picture of a 10 stage frac that we where a part of. I think its on my comp at work 40 and 50 stage are the norm here nowadays. I got some pics somewhere, I think theyre on my phone. Like I said though, now its all CalFrac equipment with one or two of the wireline service vehicles. Maybe 6 or 10 frac tanks and a small pit. I know I got some good pics of my truck being buried over the bumpers too. I'll see if I can dig some up. |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 5:42:08 AM EDT
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Cool pics. Do you go off shore too? I used to several years ago. Company I'm with now is land based. But, we work all over the US. |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 5:42:28 AM EDT
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Quoted: Top drive just unscrew the top joint, pick up a new section and screw it back together. No slips, no tripping. Less time for the string to get stuck from cuttings settling in the annulus. Top drives still use slips..... |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 5:51:59 AM EDT
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I'm in the rental business for the oilfield in Texas. Here is a forklift that we were called to "repair" on one of these locations. lol http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=27392 Looks like it needs a new tire and should be good to go. 
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Posted: 3/12/2011 6:00:40 AM EDT
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I guess it isn't such a novelty to me being from Oklahoma and all, but I still can't help but look for Joe Dirt in those pics. Thanks for posting them ,still very cool.
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Posted: 3/12/2011 6:29:57 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/12/2011 6:52:36 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: H&P 298 south of Vernal, Utah back in the summer. I sure miss the warm summer days  http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/DD977GM2/HP298_VernalUtah.jpg S. Ouray? Ever work in Piceance? We were South of Ouray in that field about 25 miles South of Ouray. I have drilled a ton in the Piceance basin. ALl on top of the mountain and hated it since we didnt get per diem due to the catered camnps  Exxon? If yes, did you ever drill with that dickface WOODY?
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Posted: 3/12/2011 6:54:47 AM EDT
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Quoted: Anyone have good pictures of a large frac job? I should have taken some of a CHK well I saw in TX. About 30 tanks header'd up in a row on one side of the yard looked pretty cool. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Nitrogen Frac  |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 10:56:34 AM EDT
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Yes they still use slips, but hand slips are pretty much a thing of the past, most use air/hyraulic slips now, also the tongs are being phased out (safety) and replaced w/a hydraulic "Iron Roughneck" and "ST80" type equipment. Just in the last ten years the oil field (drilling in particular) has removed some of the more dangerous equipment and replaced it with automated hyraulic stuff.
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Posted: 3/12/2011 11:24:14 AM EDT
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Quoted: Hey zack3g, that little rig is cute. Does your doghouse have a rack to hang your purses too?  I usually work with rigs a bit larger...  I broke out on rotaries back in the late 60's. Folding base portables with no substructure. You set the base on railroad ties (seals) and unfolded it, set the drawworks, the a-legs, the rotary table, and raised the derick. Dig some pits and hook up the mud-pump....and you be drillin'. I also worked on Parker Bros 118 in Lost Cabin, WY. It had a 90 foot substructure, electric everything, power tongs, used 6 cylinder Wakashau diesel locomotive engines for power....and had an elevator up to the doghouse for the Co. man. It was the biggest land rig running in North America at the time. We T.D.'d right at 30,000 feet. Exploratory well for the Rocky Mountain Overthrust. I worked seeral years on a rig identical to the one the OP is working on. In fact it wouldn't supprise me if that didn't used to be one of Big 7's rigs. Of all the rigs I roughnecked on, drilled on, pushed tools on, and was drilling super over....I like the little 'kelly rigs' the best. I like Bucyrus 28's & 32's too, but that's another story. Down here in Texas, most of the rigs are top drive triples with about a 30' substructure. They're big....but I haven't seen one yet as big as Parker 118.  Now I'm just a lowly, lowly land man.... |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 11:32:30 AM EDT
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Quoted: Yes they still use slips, but hand slips are pretty much a thing of the past, most use air/hyraulic slips now, also the tongs are being phased out (safety) and replaced w/a hydraulic "Iron Roughneck" and "ST80" type equipment. Just in the last ten years the oil field (drilling in particular) has removed some of the more dangerous equipment and replaced it with automated hyraulic stuff. I saw a rig a couple of years ago that only took a driller and one floor hand to run. It had an 'iron roughneck' and was very cool to watch it make a connection. Everything was computerized. The coil tubing rigs are an interesting concept too....but I don't know much about them. I know that one's running up on Chesapeake's DFW airport lease....or was anyway. Bummer if you're a floorhand....getting replaced by a machine. 
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Posted: 3/12/2011 11:37:48 AM EDT
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Cool pics. Do you go off shore too? I used to several years ago. Company I'm with now is land based. But, we work all over the US. How hard is it to get a job in the industry? |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 11:42:48 AM EDT
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pffffttt.....
I go underground and drill holes in the roof.....
awsome pics! 
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Posted: 3/12/2011 2:33:43 PM EDT
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Anyone have good pictures of a large frac job? I should have taken some of a CHK well I saw in TX. About 30 tanks header'd up in a row on one side of the yard looked pretty cool. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile 30 frac tanks aint a big frac. Those days are gone though around here. Theres maybe a dozen on the pad and a crew a half mile away pumps water in from a huge pond on the lease or a neighboring lease. Less suck trucks, less tanks more room for the pumps and sand cans. Got any pics? I have a feeling most here don't know what frac'ing is, or how it works. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I've got pics, its what I do every day. I can't/won't post them though, I'd like to keep my job. A big frac job all depends on where you are at and the formation you are pumping into Largest nitrogen frac I've designed and pumped used 22 transports (11 Million SCF) |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 2:44:10 PM EDT
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[hint]You need to drill in NW North Dakota[/hint]
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Posted: 3/12/2011 2:48:41 PM EDT
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This is the last rig I was on...a little bigger: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v632/zack3gpics/fa794f82.jpg It is not nearly as nice as the last one. Where is the Texas flag on this one? |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 2:49:01 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Holy shit dude, no offense but that rig looks like a total piece of shit death trap. Kinda thought the same thing! Hows that one dude get up to the top? And maybe I can't see it, but is he harnessed in? Holy f'kn OSHA [/quote] He can either ride the blocks up or use the ladder with a derrick climbing counterweight. Yes, he has a rope and harness, he has to lean out in space with his feet on the "diving board". |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 2:51:41 PM EDT
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Quoted: Yes, when I was there, a geologist babysat every hole and analysed the samples of the formation coming up in the mud (cuttings).Quoted: Does a degree in geology help in this field? depending on what you want to do, yes. oil companies love geologists. they are the ones that figure out where the oil and gas are located. also, some service companies like mudlogging companies like geologists, but the pay will undoubtedly be better with an oil/gas company. |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 2:56:39 PM EDT
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Quoted: dumb question, but in your top pics, the crane block says 125 tons. is that the capacity of the crane? or how much that damn block weighs? That is the block's capacity-250,000 pounds. |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 3:02:45 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Hey zack3g, that little rig is cute. Does your doghouse have a rack to hang your purses too? I usually work with rigs a bit larger... I broke out on rotaries back in the late 60's. Folding base portables with no substructure. You set the base on railroad ties (seals) and unfolded it, set the drawworks, the a-legs, the rotary table, and raised the derick. Dig some pits and hook up the mud-pump....and you be drillin'. I also worked on Parker Bros 118 in Lost Cabin, WY. It had a 90 foot substructure, electric everything, power tongs, used 6 cylinder Wakashau diesel locomotive engines for power....and had an elevator up to the doghouse for the Co. man. It was the biggest land rig running in North America at the time. We T.D.'d right at 30,000 feet. Exploratory well for the Rocky Mountain Overthrust. I worked seeral years on a rig identical to the one the OP is working on. In fact it wouldn't supprise me if that didn't used to be one of Big 7's rigs. Of all the rigs I roughnecked on, drilled on, pushed tools on, and was drilling super over....I like the little 'kelly rigs' the best. I like Bucyrus 28's & 32's too, but that's another story. Down here in Texas, most of the rigs are top drive triples with about a 30' substructure. They're big....but I haven't seen one yet as big as Parker 118. Now I'm just a lowly, lowly land man.... I remember that well and rig. It was pretty famous all around Wy. I mostly worked in the Big Horn Basin a little north of there and 10 or so years later. |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 3:26:40 PM EDT
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Quoted: Zack, What does the 1st 'thing' look like that enters the ground that all the others hook up to? The bit thing.  |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 3:37:24 PM EDT
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dumb question, but in your top pics, the crane block says 125 tons. is that the capacity of the crane? or how much that damn block weighs? That is the block's capacity-250,000 pounds. Thank you. |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 3:40:34 PM EDT
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chris costa's father FTW? |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 3:46:21 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Hey zack3g, that little rig is cute. Does your doghouse have a rack to hang your purses too? I usually work with rigs a bit larger... I broke out on rotaries back in the late 60's. Folding base portables with no substructure. You set the base on railroad ties (seals) and unfolded it, set the drawworks, the a-legs, the rotary table, and raised the derick. Dig some pits and hook up the mud-pump....and you be drillin'. I also worked on Parker Bros 118 in Lost Cabin, WY. It had a 90 foot substructure, electric everything, power tongs, used 6 cylinder Wakashau diesel locomotive engines for power....and had an elevator up to the doghouse for the Co. man. It was the biggest land rig running in North America at the time. We T.D.'d right at 30,000 feet. Exploratory well for the Rocky Mountain Overthrust. I worked seeral years on a rig identical to the one the OP is working on. In fact it wouldn't supprise me if that didn't used to be one of Big 7's rigs. Of all the rigs I roughnecked on, drilled on, pushed tools on, and was drilling super over....I like the little 'kelly rigs' the best. I like Bucyrus 28's & 32's too, but that's another story. Down here in Texas, most of the rigs are top drive triples with about a 30' substructure. They're big....but I haven't seen one yet as big as Parker 118. Now I'm just a lowly, lowly land man.... I remember that well and rig. It was pretty famous all around Wy. I mostly worked in the Big Horn Basin a little north of there and 10 or so years later. Grey Wolf was running a HUGE rig (550-something if I remember right) out of Casper a few years back. I was part of cementing the longstring. 25,000' TD or something like that... all I really remember was that the rig was MASSIVE. From what people said, that rig came up from the South and was supposedly the biggest rig in N. America at the time. |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 4:04:39 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Yes they still use slips, but hand slips are pretty much a thing of the past, most use air/hyraulic slips now, also the tongs are being phased out (safety) and replaced w/a hydraulic "Iron Roughneck" and "ST80" type equipment. Just in the last ten years the oil field (drilling in particular) has removed some of the more dangerous equipment and replaced it with automated hyraulic stuff. I saw a rig a couple of years ago that only took a driller and one floor hand to run. It had an 'iron roughneck' and was very cool to watch it make a connection. Everything was computerized. The coil tubing rigs are an interesting concept too....but I don't know much about them. I know that one's running up on Chesapeake's DFW airport lease....or was anyway. Bummer if you're a floorhand....getting replaced by a machine. Anything that can run is being used with Bakken and Eagle Ford. Plus all the shale drilling for gas. |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 6:28:15 PM EDT
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Yes they still use slips, but hand slips are pretty much a thing of the past, most use air/hyraulic slips now, also the tongs are being phased out (safety) and replaced w/a hydraulic "Iron Roughneck" and "ST80" type equipment. Just in the last ten years the oil field (drilling in particular) has removed some of the more dangerous equipment and replaced it with automated hyraulic stuff. I saw a rig a couple of years ago that only took a driller and one floor hand to run. It had an 'iron roughneck' and was very cool to watch it make a connection. Everything was computerized. The coil tubing rigs are an interesting concept too....but I don't know much about them. I know that one's running up on Chesapeake's DFW airport lease....or was anyway. Bummer if you're a floorhand....getting replaced by a machine. Anything that can run is being used with Bakken and Eagle Ford. Plus all the shale drilling for gas. Everything running is an understatment....there is one company(no names) that averages 3 1/2 hour DT per day........couldn't even think thiat. |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 6:41:07 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Anyone have good pictures of a large frac job? I should have taken some of a CHK well I saw in TX. About 30 tanks header'd up in a row on one side of the yard looked pretty cool. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile 30 frac tanks aint a big frac. Those days are gone though around here. Theres maybe a dozen on the pad and a crew a half mile away pumps water in from a huge pond on the lease or a neighboring lease. Less suck trucks, less tanks more room for the pumps and sand cans. Got any pics? I have a feeling most here don't know what frac'ing is, or how it works. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Excellent thread on what frac'ing is and why it is done... with minimal herp/derp. |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 7:17:48 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Anyone have good pictures of a large frac job? I should have taken some of a CHK well I saw in TX. About 30 tanks header'd up in a row on one side of the yard looked pretty cool. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile 30 frac tanks aint a big frac. Those days are gone though around here. Theres maybe a dozen on the pad and a crew a half mile away pumps water in from a huge pond on the lease or a neighboring lease. Less suck trucks, less tanks more room for the pumps and sand cans. Got any pics? I have a feeling most here don't know what frac'ing is, or how it works. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I have a picture of a 10 stage frac that we where a part of. I think its on my comp at work Ever heard of JUST IN TIME PERFORATION (JITP)? As far as I know, it is only done in one spot on earth. I was part of the crew that originally "pioneered" the patented JITP technique for Exxon. Brief summary of JITP (because it is the coolest thing I have ever done in the oilfield so far): In a conventional frac job, the well bore has been perforated at a specific zone before well stimulation takes place. The perforation tools (guns) are removed from the bore and the frac job can begin stimulating that specific zone which was just perforated. If multiple zones are to be done, each zone must be individually perforated and frac'd, then a new zone can be perforated and fracturing can begin again. Once that first zone is frac'd, the perforation tools are reinserted in the bore, the desired depth is found for the second zone, the zone is perforated, the guns are removed, and frac can begin stimulating the second zone... etc. etc. etc. This is a timely/costly process and possibly can take days to accomplish a large multi zone frac job. Example of a 3 zone frac job: perforate zone 1, frac zone 1, perforate zone 2, frac zone 2, perforate zone 3, frac zone 3. A "normal" 3 zone job could take 15 hours to do. With JITP, the well stimulation progress no longer is judged by zones, but by "events" instead. An event can consist of up to FORTY zones... During each event, a very long perforating gun and/or bottom hole assembly is inserted into the bore and kept in the wellbore the entire time that fracturing takes place. The gun/bha is moved up and down the bore both sealing off certain zones (or balls are used) while simultaneously perforating desired zones and being frac'd. The process is completed when the perf gun goes empty. When empty, another well (on a pad wellsite) is then frac'd (accomplished by opening/closing valves to redirect frac fluids) with about 5 minutes of downtime. When that perf gun runs out, the prior perf gun is then ready for another frac event. This process allows 24hr fracs that run nonstop for weeks on end, a pad wellsite with 10 wells can have HUNDREDS of zones fractured in a very small amount of time (2 or 3 weeks). A 24hr period of time could allow 50+ fractured zones. The first attempt at this while I was there yielded 23 zones in 12 hours. To run a job like this, multiple crews, a nonstop line of sand haulers, multiple wireline crews, multiple flowback crews, a lot of engineers, $3k a day consultants, etc. are needed... I was told the per week cost exceeded 3 million dollars. Hooray for tight gas. Good link with illustrations below: http://www.halliburton.com/public/pe/contents/Papers_and_Articles/web/A_through_P/Advanced_Multizone_Stimulation_Technology_SPE95778.pdf |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 7:46:17 PM EDT
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Really interesting pics. Thanks for posting. Drilling for gas & oil is not a small feat, even on land. One mile underwater, WOW!
 One thing for sure, you know more about this stuff many of us on ARFCOM.
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I, probably like most guys, the only connection with the oil & gas industry, is when I put that nozzle in the filler tube, andI squeeze the handle; that liquid gasoline better come out.Quoted:
Men & boys, still playing in mud. 
BTW: I am interested in seeing what a real blowout preventer looks like. Ever since BP's blow-out the news media just show drawings of one. Plenty pictures on the net. They are modular and usually implemented in a stack with annular on top, blind and shear ram types below. Annulars are a "blob" with the ram type look like a gate valve...because they are, sort of. http://www.mesawellservicing.com/images/BOP-hydraulic.jpg Subsea BOPs have a shit ton more supporting equipment with them and are covered with the stuff. This is a good land based example, annular at top, with 2 blind below and a shear at the bottom. Choke and kill ports between, blanked off with rusty blind flanges.
Hmmmm.... didn't know there was a difference between land based & seabased BOPs. Interesting. Now I can see why the .GOV was pretty stymied when they had shut off the flow of the well. The .GOV didn't have the expertise. This stuff is literally rocket science on earth. |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 7:49:23 PM EDT
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I'm in the rental business for the oilfield in Texas. Here is a forklift that we were called to "repair" on one of these locations. lol http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=27392 That should buff right out
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Posted: 3/12/2011 8:49:03 PM EDT
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And here i Get to haul the Drill pipe and small pipe to Distributors from the south to the north.
Zack next time i am in LA lets meet up for lunch. Now if i could only get my truck Workin in the oil Patch up in ND hauling water or pipe. Damn the OTR stuff |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 8:50:06 PM EDT
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And here i Get to haul the Drill pipe and small pipe to Distributors from the south to the north. Zack next time i am in LA lets meet up for lunch. Now if i could only get my truck Workin in the oil Patch up in ND hauling water or pipe. Damn the OTR stuff You'll have to catch me when I'm actually in LA. Right now I'm working in TX, next job, who knows where I will be.
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Posted: 3/12/2011 9:00:28 PM EDT
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Maleante- that is some very cool stuff, thanks for sharing.
All this E&P talk makes me when I were in that instead of midstream. But hey, were pretty stable, relatively. Petroleum- my favorite industry. :D Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 3/12/2011 9:14:09 PM EDT
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Quoted: Maleante- that is some very cool stuff, thanks for sharing. All this E&P talk makes me when I were in that instead of midstream. But hey, were pretty stable, relatively. Petroleum- my favorite industry. :D Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile 1998 was a horrible time for either. One of the reasons I like high oil prices. And it is bad for democrats. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 8:39:10 AM EDT
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Maleante- that is some very cool stuff, thanks for sharing. All this E&P talk makes me when I were in that instead of midstream. But hey, were pretty stable, relatively. Petroleum- my favorite industry. :D Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile 1998 was a horrible time for either. One of the reasons I like high oil prices. And it is bad for democrats. I remember those days. My parents had bought a new home the previous year and oil was tanking...not good times. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 8:55:32 AM EDT
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Cute rig.
My last rig; I'm on a much smaller jack-up now. 
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Posted: 3/13/2011 9:41:30 AM EDT
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Are the guys wearing tin hats or plastic like everyone else these days?
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Posted: 3/13/2011 8:00:19 PM EDT
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Cute rig.
My last rig; I'm on a much smaller jack-up now. http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j16/bajatacoma/IMGP2330a.jpg I miss working offshore. The food was great and it was a lot of fun. Saw some strange stuff out there, though. One of the first things I learned about working offshore is that porn can be a group activity. Walked in the TV room my first day offshore and there was porn on the TV with a person in every chair and several people on the couch all staring at it. 
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Posted: 3/13/2011 8:10:33 PM EDT
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America FUCK YEA!
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Posted: 3/13/2011 8:36:45 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Yes they still use slips, but hand slips are pretty much a thing of the past, most use air/hyraulic slips now, also the tongs are being phased out (safety) and replaced w/a hydraulic "Iron Roughneck" and "ST80" type equipment. Just in the last ten years the oil field (drilling in particular) has removed some of the more dangerous equipment and replaced it with automated hyraulic stuff. I saw a rig a couple of years ago that only took a driller and one floor hand to run. It had an 'iron roughneck' and was very cool to watch it make a connection. Everything was computerized. The coil tubing rigs are an interesting concept too....but I don't know much about them. I know that one's running up on Chesapeake's DFW airport lease....or was anyway. Bummer if you're a floorhand....getting replaced by a machine. Anything that can run is being used with Bakken and Eagle Ford. Plus all the shale drilling for gas. Yeah....Baker Hughes Rig Count says that there are currently 1715 rigs running domestically. That's up 308 from last year....it's bustin' loose again!! http://investor.shareholder.com/bhi/rig_counts/rc_index.cfm |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 8:40:42 PM EDT
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Does a degree in geology help in this field? depending on what you want to do, yes. oil companies love geologists. they are the ones that figure out where the oil and gas are located. also, some service companies like mudlogging companies like geologists, but the pay will undoubtedly be better with an oil/gas company. Our geologists here make BANK. |
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Posted: 3/13/2011 8:43:00 PM EDT
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Men & boys, still playing in mud.
BTW: I am interested in seeing what a real blowout preventer looks like. Ever since BP's blow-out the news media just show drawings of one. Plenty pictures on the net. They are modular and usually implemented in a stack with annular on top, blind and shear ram types below. Annulars are a "blob" with the ram type look like a gate valve...because they are, sort of. And they hardly prevent blowouts. They more or less at best redirect the energy to a more controlled release. At worst..they fail and the side flies off. Definitely don't want to be on another rig where that happens. Some of you might remember my thread here about that from a few years back. They DO work if you can catch the kick before you lose control. But trying to stop 8,000 PSI of mud, sand and gas once the kick has progressed? Yes, nearly impossible since that stuff tends to erode the sealing surfaces fast. But a good crew can spot the potential kick. 8? We've pushed at 10 before and may or may not have bounced off 11. 
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Posted: 3/13/2011 8:44:10 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/13/2011 8:45:48 PM EDT
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Anyone have good pictures of a large frac job? I should have taken some of a CHK well I saw in TX. About 30 tanks header'd up in a row on one side of the yard looked pretty cool. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile 30 frac tanks aint a big frac. Those days are gone though around here. Theres maybe a dozen on the pad and a crew a half mile away pumps water in from a huge pond on the lease or a neighboring lease. Less suck trucks, less tanks more room for the pumps and sand cans. Got any pics? I have a feeling most here don't know what frac'ing is, or how it works. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I have a slight idea.
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Posted: 3/21/2011 11:57:59 PM EDT
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Pics taken on my latest rig:
Big assed drill bit: 
For a much bigger rig: 
Other stuff: 
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Posted: 3/22/2011 7:22:38 AM EDT
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Hey!!!
We aren't paying millions of dollars per well for your photography skills. Get back to work.
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Posted: 3/22/2011 7:27:29 AM EDT
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Does a degree in geology help in this field? depending on what you want to do, yes. oil companies love geologists. they are the ones that figure out where the oil and gas are located. also, some service companies like mudlogging companies like geologists, but the pay will undoubtedly be better with an oil/gas company. I'm in my first year of a geology degree and have heard some secondhand stories of fresh graduates making some serious cash. Thanks for the insight As a jr geo there is more money in Oil and Gas than in Mining. |
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Some of the drill pipe in the first pictures looks like the stuff the company I work for makes.
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Posted: 3/22/2011 10:08:35 AM EDT
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Some of the drill pipe in the first pictures looks like the stuff the company I work for makes. How come you guys can't make the pieces of pipe the same length?
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