Morning

Slade and I are off to the airport, cant wait to get home.

Coffee is on.

Yall behave now.

 

Cant believe anybody is still up.
Be careful Blake, that coffee is dangerous and the TSA is looking for anybody acting jittery.

Currently Eating a huge cold crunchy Dill Pickle.
Gnight

 

Tell me Wyo & Bark, how is it that you can 'drill' 17k feet in the 1st place? Doesn't the 'drill' twist, (or maybe a better word is 'flex'), so much that the top makes several turns before the bottom even starts to rotate?





Morning all.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22nd:

1775 - A Continental naval fleet was organized in the rebellious American colonies under the command of Ezek Hopkins.

1807 - The U.S. Congress passed the Embargo Act, designed to force peace between Britain and France by cutting off all trade with Europe.

1864 - During the American Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman sent a message to U.S. President Lincoln from Georgia. The message read, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah."

1895 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen made the first X-ray, of his wife's hand.

1910 - U.S. Postal savings stamps were issued for the first time. They were discontinued in 1914.

1941 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Washington for a wartime conference with U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.

1961 - James Davis became the first U.S. soldier to die in Vietnam, while U.S. involvement was still limited to the provision of military advisers.

1984 - New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot four black youths on a Manhattan subway. Goetz claimed they were about to rob him.

1998 - A unit of RJR Nabsico pled guilty to attempting to smuggle cigarettes into Canada.


THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
You can’t keep people from having bad opinions about you, but you can keep them from being true.

Coffee's ready. Ph00 t00.

Something to make you laugh:

 

Yes. it twists, and flexes. In these directional well or laterals, we start vertical, down to about 8000, then build a curve and land around 9800, then drill horizontally following the path of the formation to about 15,000'. In ND we went out to 22,000'. If you can 'or even want to' imagine Barks salami, bacon, pepperoni, cheese, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, the layers of the sandwich represent different geology formations. We follow the bacon layer, as it has the oil (and gas). Here the bacon is at 93* or 3* up dip. So the total vertical depth (TVD) of the well actually decreases from where the curve lands to the TD of the well. In ND the dip is essentially flat (+/- 1*)

Depending on the length of the drill string, up to 8 wraps. We actually use that 'reactive' torque to steer the drill string while sliding to build, drop or turn the bore path.

 

So what stops the bit from eventually twisting itself off and breaking? In my limited experience with metals, you can only twist something back and forth just so many times before it breaks. If you stop the bit, which I imagine you have to do to add another section, doesn't it UNtwist until all the reactive torque is released? Then when you start it again, it twists up again. All I can picture is a twisted off driveshaft!

 

Funny Frosty Scott.


And then there's the issue of having to remove the passenger's seat too. Interesting statement Bark, removing things that might embarrass the company. You better hope the wife doesn't take to removing the things that embarrass her.



Just in case you haven't looked at the weather..........You're in for a bumpy ride at the far end. Currently all of La. and the lower 3/4 of Ms. are having severe thunderstorms with near statewide tornado watches. Safe travels buddy.

So what you're saying is you still make a hole to get the oil out but it looks like Foster Brooks was driving.

Morning all. Looks like I might have beat the virus.

 

Hey, in the spirit of the season, who can name Santa's 9th reindeer?

[hint; it was the one that laughed and called Rudolf names]

 

No, the ninth was Rudolf.

 

No. He was the 10th.

 

Yes

 

Ok, if you wanna be technical, then we'll call this reindeer in question the 10th reindeer.

 

The Ninth Reindeer

Rudolph, "the most famous reindeer of all," was born over a hundred years after his eight flying counterparts. The red-nosed wonder was the creation of Robert L. May, a copywriter at the Montgomery Ward department store.

In 1939, May wrote a Christmas-themed story-poem to help bring holiday traffic into his store. Using a similar rhyme pattern to Moore's "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," May told the story of Rudolph, a young reindeer who was teased by the other deer because of his large, glowing, red nose. But, When Christmas Eve turned foggy and Santa worried that he wouldn't be able to deliver gifts that night, the former outcast saved Christmas by leading the sleigh by the light of his red nose. Rudolph's message—that given the opportunity, a liability can be turned into an asset—proved popular. Montgomery Ward sold almost two and a half million copies of the story in 1939. When it was reissued in 1946, the book sold over three and half million copies. Several years later, one of May's friends, Johnny Marks, wrote a short song based on Rudolph's story (1949). It was recorded by Gene Autry and sold over two million copies. Since then, the story has been translated into 25 languages and been made into a television movie, narrated by Burl Ives, which has charmed audiences every year since 1964.

 

Now who are you referring to? Bark?

 

Okay, I got it! And it was a she.

 

Where do you come up with this stuff???