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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
Read more →The oil and natural gas industry has a proud history of hard work, determination, grit, and using proven conventional methods to get the job done. Greg Archbald, a savvy entrepreneur who’s challenging
Read more →Understanding what it is like downhole (a term referring to the underground part of the oil well operation) is important for a variety of reasons; but most importantly, it is one of the fundamental as
Read more →Before the mid-1950’s, very little acknowledgement was given to the risks and dangers lease pumpers face while working with high levels of hydrogen sulfide gases (H2S). Although improvements to drilli
Read more →In the oilfield, many of your duties are performed alone. Therefore, it is vital to follow the proper oil & gas safety procedures put in place by the state and federal governments, as well as the spec
Read more →From the lease owner to regulatory agencies, when you work as a lease pumper there are plenty of relationships you will have to maintain. However, one often overlooked association is between the lease
Read more →I have to admit one of my favorite perks of working as a lease pumper is how my job is rarely the same from day to day. Equipment status, the level of production, the conditions of the maintenance sch
Read more →Okay so, when I was a soldier in the Army and I had to finally sit down to do the scads of paperwork required to do the job I was doing – you know material data sheets, truck maintenance schedules cal
Read more →Okay so, not too long ago, I was restarting a Fairbanks 503 after it had gone down overnight. Anyone who has performed this function on these very solid old engines also knows that if they are really
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