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Over the past decade, plunger lift use has grown drastically; which in turn, has created a boost in oil productivity. Other contributions have included: improved computers and technology, equipment re
Read more →Okay GreaseBookers, I know that most of us love our dogs. Since I have been in the oilfield, I have met only one person who did not like a dog in a pumping truck. It happens to be the man I pump for n
Read more →Flowing wells are created when the water and gas produce a pressure forcing the liquid from within the rock through any openings (such as a well). While the pressure may be powerful enough to push the
Read more →In my years in the oilfield, I have noted that there tends to be a sort of kill-or-be-killed culture among the people who work in it together. When I came home from Iraq, I fairly quickly entered the
Read more →Just like no two people are alike, neither are two wells. It doesn’t matter if the wells are located in the same area, utilize the same equipment, or if they are drilled into with the same oil-bearing
Read more →Drilling the well and cementing the casing are only the first steps to completing the well. Once complete, the rig crew will install tubing to bring the oil and/or gas from the reservoir back to the
Read more →Okay so, when they rebuilt the Six Million Dollar Man, they made him better. I mean there’s really no arguing the point. Have you seen the man jump a building? They had the technology, as they reminde
Read more →Okay so, literally 10 minutes before I got to my first oil well on Christmas day, the weather was a balmy 64 degrees and things, while cloudy, looked pretty muchly okay. I had a weather report that so
Read more →Okay so It’s Halloween time and I can’t help but think of things that frighten me like plugged up Meko regulators, critters lurking in my meter houses and strange mechanics who appear late at night at
Read more →Okay, so I was coming back from a much needed break out of the Iraqi war zone from Ireland. The year was 2005. It was a beautiful vacation. I had met my family in Dublin and for 10 days we had just ma
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