Production insights, field guides, and operator wisdom from the team that built the fastest-growing app in the oil patch.
Okay so, when my dad starts a project, there is no lunch, no water, no anything until we have finished the job. I feel certain it is today, why I am always the last pumper in the field – and the dirti
Read more →So were we! So, we decided to do something about it and see how the folks here at GreaseBook might be able to help! First a little background… In May 2016, organizations like the National Stripper We
Read more →Hey, Guys, this is Brian with MAC 5 Energy. I’m out on location today, but I had to stop for a moment and tell you about a little secret called GreaseBook… My partners and I started MAC 5 about a year
Read more →Disloyal Tendencies: The Mobile Scare There is a very real external danger in the war against conventional production reports. And, there is a very real internal danger from people who are working for
Read more →When I began writing for Greasebook, the company’s founder, Greg Archbald, asked me if I’d be willing to write a few short pieces talking about who I am and “why a woman is writing a pumper’s blog”. (
Read more →When summer turns to fall, it’ll be time to check out our Western methanol pumps in your oil and gas production fields. Inevitably, those little pumps get dried up from lack of use over the summer. Th
Read more →When my father was in Vietnam, he had the nose of his F-105 Thunder Chief fighter jet blown off flying missions well into North Vietnam airspace. He looked down at his feet and saw open air underneath
Read more →I know you groan when you hear that you have an Ajax engine on your pumping route. But the reality is, Ajax engines are still, to this day, among the very best engines for pumping units I have ever wo
Read more →In one of the companies where I was a full-time company pumper, we had a system called “partner pumping,” which meant one pumper would pump there other pumper’s wells when they were off-duty. For reas
Read more →Hello World! For those of you who are looking for GreaseMonkey from the E&P Magazine article entitled, “Operator: Unchained“, look no further! We’re actually known around the oil patch as “GreaseBook”
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