The Dragon's spring time breakroom and watercooler (3.21.10-3.27.10)
Just a heads-up.... start packing...
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Joined: Jun 2006
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From: Jonesborough, TN
No, thanks... I do pretty good on my own.
I am not eligible for recruiting duty... ha.
I was trying to go MSG, however, I just found out that I am disqualified tonight. Pretty peeved about that.
Ok, I think I'm done for the night. Got to come home early because I have to come to work early tomorrow.
I am not eligible for recruiting duty... ha.
I was trying to go MSG, however, I just found out that I am disqualified tonight. Pretty peeved about that.
Ok, I think I'm done for the night. Got to come home early because I have to come to work early tomorrow.
I wish I was as fine, as those who work the pipeline!
Joined: Dec 2008
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From: Wyoming
A buddy of mine just sent me this link. It shows how oil wells are drilled, and how production is completed. They reference a measure while drilling tool, that is what I am involved in. I Tell the directional drillers where the bit is, what the inclination (degrees from vertical), and azimuth (compass direction) and depth of the drill string (TVD or true vertical depth - depth of bit from surface) are, so they can keep the drill string in the formation, or within the parameters of the well plan. There are other measurements that the instrument takes like temperature and vibration.
Thought some of you who are not familiar with the process might find it interesting. It is pretty elementary but it is a good representation of what we are doing out here. I am not in the Bakken right now I am actually in SW Wyoming drilling for Gas. We drill what is called an S well, looks more like the outline of a chair without the back leg, but it is the same process. We just don't have a long lateral portion like in the Bakken, Gas wells are generally more vertical.
Oil production in the Bakken formation
Thought some of you who are not familiar with the process might find it interesting. It is pretty elementary but it is a good representation of what we are doing out here. I am not in the Bakken right now I am actually in SW Wyoming drilling for Gas. We drill what is called an S well, looks more like the outline of a chair without the back leg, but it is the same process. We just don't have a long lateral portion like in the Bakken, Gas wells are generally more vertical.
Oil production in the Bakken formation
Administrator / Severe Concussion Aficionado
Joined: Jul 2008
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From: Home: Kaplan, LA - Pipelining In: Pecos, Tx
Dang, didja catch that thing in a swimming pool....
We aint got no stream that clear around here.
Morning DTR
Coffee's on. Enjoy.
I wish I was as fine, as those who work the pipeline!
Joined: Dec 2008
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From: Wyoming
Drive safe claude.
Well Blake are you any purdier.
Hey Don, hate to say it but I don't think they are runnin any more. I think they done crossed the finished line...
Thanks, I kinda thought so.
Well Blake are you any purdier.
Hey Don, hate to say it but I don't think they are runnin any more. I think they done crossed the finished line...
Thanks, I kinda thought so.
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Joined: Jan 2004
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From: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Why don't you have his people call your people and y'all can do fish. 
Morning all.
Today is Tuesday, March 23rd.
On this day in 1775 - American revolutionary Patrick Henry declared, "give me liberty, or give me death!"
1794 - Josiah G. Pierson patented a rivet machine.
1806 - Explorers Lewis and Clark, reached the Pacific coast, and began their return journey to the east.
1839 - The first recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] was used in Boston's Morning Post.
1857 - Elisha Otis installed the first modern passenger elevator in a public building. It was at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway in New York City.
1889 - U.S. President Harrison opened Oklahoma for white colonization.
1903 - The Wright brothers obtained an airplane patent.
1912 - The Dixie Cup was invented.
1933 - The German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act. The act effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers.
1942 - The Japanese occupy the Anadaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.
1942 - During World War II, the U.S. government began evacuating Japanese-Americans from West Coast homes to detention centers.
1951 - U.S. paratroopers descended from flying boxcars in a surprise attack in Korea.
1967 - Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. called the Vietnam War the biggest obstacle to the civil rights movement.
1972 - The U.S. called a halt to the peace talks on Vietnam being held in Paris.
1972 - Evel Knievel broke 93 bones after successfully jumping 35 cars.
How is it that he broke 93 bones and the jump is still considered 'successful'?
1981 - CBS Television announced plans to reduce "Captain Kangaroo" to a 30-minute show each weekday morning.