Lead The Way
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
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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
Read more →Okay, so every time I go out to see my friend Renee Cudd, I know where I will find her. She will be riding around in her golf cart on her ranch in Woodward, Oklahoma overseeing and managing the vast q
Read more →Okay, so until about three years ago, I had not started a pumping unit engine by hand using a handle on the flywheel. Until that time, all of my units were started by using a roll starter (or pin star
Read more →These are stories of real pumpers like you whose luck and the right equipment and supplies ran out at just the wrong moment. And Greasebookers, don’t think of this as work. Uh Uh. No way is it work. Y
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