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I started doing some thinking today. no, I didn't hurt myself, but I did figure out I traveled three days for roughly three hours of actual work.
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From: Home: Kaplan, LA - Pipelining In: Pecos, Tx
DTR's "Cooler than ice cubes 14 miles North of North Pole" member
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Muted one day, Banned the next....... Ah the life of a DTR 1%'er
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From: Ohio: Home of the disappointing sports teams
Needless to say we got to "see the sights"
Nice job Marc
I wish I was as fine, as those who work the pipeline!
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From: Wyoming
Evening all,
Just got a call from one of the guys on the rig. Apparently they took a big gas kick last night. The company man messed up and dumped all the heavy mud into the reserve pits. Now they don't have any to kill the well with. Apparently they got things shut in just in time.
Back story to this whole ordeal is they are drilling with a very high amount of annular pressure (not letting the pump pressure, the flow into well, bleed off the return, the flow out of the well) and so they are actually fracturing the formation and getting more gas. So they increase the annular pressure to stop the extra gas and fracture more. Then they get more gas, so they increase annular pressure...
You get the idea. The flare that I 'bothered' Blake to post a while back was tiny compared to what they have now.
We have been pleading with them for three wells now about their drilling practices, they just wont listen.
The last well we drilled came alive while the production crew was working on it and we had to make 600 barrels of kill mud before they were able to shut it in. There was so much gas pressure the cement didn't fill in the formation properly. When they drilled out the plug, they had a freight train heading right for them.
Could turn into a bad situation. Prayers would be appreciated. Hate to say it, but I am glad I am at home.
Just got a call from one of the guys on the rig. Apparently they took a big gas kick last night. The company man messed up and dumped all the heavy mud into the reserve pits. Now they don't have any to kill the well with. Apparently they got things shut in just in time.
Back story to this whole ordeal is they are drilling with a very high amount of annular pressure (not letting the pump pressure, the flow into well, bleed off the return, the flow out of the well) and so they are actually fracturing the formation and getting more gas. So they increase the annular pressure to stop the extra gas and fracture more. Then they get more gas, so they increase annular pressure...
You get the idea. The flare that I 'bothered' Blake to post a while back was tiny compared to what they have now.
We have been pleading with them for three wells now about their drilling practices, they just wont listen.
The last well we drilled came alive while the production crew was working on it and we had to make 600 barrels of kill mud before they were able to shut it in. There was so much gas pressure the cement didn't fill in the formation properly. When they drilled out the plug, they had a freight train heading right for them.
Could turn into a bad situation. Prayers would be appreciated. Hate to say it, but I am glad I am at home.
NICE DROP, Marc!!! I can hang a quarter for ya down here..
hope you had an awesome memory hunt! sounds like you fought the trail to get there too!
Blakey!! Happy trails family man! God bless both momma and the little ones (WOW a BIG brother!!)
still busy, and adding more. gonna hop in the hot tub cause no one can find me then
got all the tires on where they belong, looks like school when all the kids have new sneakers (hehe)..17s on the one ton work truck- 12 ply tires Goodyear wranglers. oh yeah. glad I don't have to do that again for three years (or more!)
jeff, awesome to hear about your work. very glad you are the one doing it, not me. sounds like if scott (chaikwa) did it, he would have a new nickname.
Canadian submarines......nope. never would have guessed. are they propelled with hockey sticks?
what drugs is Top taking with his Canadian military history lesson?
hope you had an awesome memory hunt! sounds like you fought the trail to get there too!Blakey!! Happy trails family man! God bless both momma and the little ones (WOW a BIG brother!!)
still busy, and adding more. gonna hop in the hot tub cause no one can find me then

got all the tires on where they belong, looks like school when all the kids have new sneakers (hehe)..17s on the one ton work truck- 12 ply tires Goodyear wranglers. oh yeah. glad I don't have to do that again for three years (or more!)
jeff, awesome to hear about your work. very glad you are the one doing it, not me. sounds like if scott (chaikwa) did it, he would have a new nickname.
Canadian submarines......nope. never would have guessed. are they propelled with hockey sticks?
what drugs is Top taking with his Canadian military history lesson?
I played for the US youth pro-motion team (Midwest Soccer Academy). We stopped in Amsterdam during one of our sight seeing trips. For some crazy reason they turned twenty 16 year old kids loose in the red light district for the day
Needless to say we got to "see the sights"
Nice job Marc
Needless to say we got to "see the sights"
Nice job Marc

DTR's "Cooler than ice cubes 14 miles North of North Pole" member
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Thanks everyone!
Still have lots of work cleaning up after the hunt but I got a good start on it. Spent an hour and a half cleaning mud off the 4-wheeler and have at least that much more to do on it.
The radiator is packed with mud and debris so it was overheating all the time on the way out. Gonna have to do some disassembly to get at it and clean it right. Also came out with a torn CV boot. I hear that one is a pain to fix. Not the boot but getting the joint out. Trailer got a flat 1'mile from the trail head on the last load. Busted both beads
but I was able to get it close enough to the end that I could drive the truck back to it and winch the thing onto the trailer and get home.
Plenty of other fun stuff in the woods too but I have lots still to do so it'll have to wait a bit. The soldier I took with had an excellent time though and got enough hunting stories for 5 hunts out of this one.
Still have lots of work cleaning up after the hunt but I got a good start on it. Spent an hour and a half cleaning mud off the 4-wheeler and have at least that much more to do on it.
The radiator is packed with mud and debris so it was overheating all the time on the way out. Gonna have to do some disassembly to get at it and clean it right. Also came out with a torn CV boot. I hear that one is a pain to fix. Not the boot but getting the joint out. Trailer got a flat 1'mile from the trail head on the last load. Busted both beads
but I was able to get it close enough to the end that I could drive the truck back to it and winch the thing onto the trailer and get home.Plenty of other fun stuff in the woods too but I have lots still to do so it'll have to wait a bit. The soldier I took with had an excellent time though and got enough hunting stories for 5 hunts out of this one.
I wish I was as fine, as those who work the pipeline!
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From: Wyoming
Man am I just sick. Got a rim off the classifieds here on DTR and was told it was a really nice rim. Just opened it. Looks like it's been setting in a rust heap for 8 years. I guess I'll have to see how the member handles it. 
Either way I have to wait another couple months to get my spare off my truck.
Try to help a guy out, and that's what I get.
Maybe I should have just bought it from ebay. Jeeze that just makes me sick.
Sorry for the rant.

Either way I have to wait another couple months to get my spare off my truck.

Try to help a guy out, and that's what I get.
Maybe I should have just bought it from ebay. Jeeze that just makes me sick.
Sorry for the rant.



