A New Low . . .
Not much happened today, which was reflected in a new low vehicle count, with only 33 vehicles coming through the gate today.
Don’t know if it’s the holiday weekend or not, especially since the rig apparently got all their problems worked out and went back to drilling again this morning. But ‘slow’ is always good, so it works for us.
I did finally find out what was confusing me about how they’re drilling the 3 wells here, though. In the past (2012) when we worked a multi-well drill site, they drilled the first well all the way down to the required 12,000 – 14,000 foot level and then moved to the next hole and drilled that one.
But I was confused when they drilled the first hole for a few days, then moved to the second hole for a few days, and then the third one. I knew they didn’t have enough time to go down to 14,000 feet. And they didn’t have enough drill pipe on the pad to go that deep either.
It takes about 350 pieces of drill pipe to go that far down, and since it is all stacked right out in front of us, it was easy to see that they didn’t have enough pipe on hand.
But then a couple of days ago, I heard the Company Man telling a visitor that they’re doing these wells in sections, though I’m not sure why.
In some cases they do it in 3 stages – a surface drill, an intermediate drill, and then a deep drill, setting the casing, the well liner, in place as they go. So they cycle through the wells, doing a surface drill on all three, then an intermediate drill on all three, and then a deep drill.
But apparently our well will only be done in two sections, not three. I assume that this all varies due to the soil conditions downhole.
I did get the site WiFi code today, but that’s about all the time it lasted. . .a day. When he gave me the code, he said that they were putting in a better one, and in fact the guy was there right then working on it.
And I guess he got it installed because this evening the old one no longer works. The WiFi part is still up, but it doesn’t connect to anything. I was hoping that they might have used the same password on the new one, which would have simplified things for everyone, but no luck. So I’ll try to get the new code tomorrow.
We did get some unexpected rain about 8:30 this evening while Jan was on duty. I say ‘unexpected’ because there was no rain in the forecast, just ‘Partly Cloudy’. Jan said the ‘Partly Cloudy’ lasted for about 30 minutes, and luckily she only had one vehicle come in during that time.
I did get a photo today of where and how we’re parked.
We’re parked parallel to the highway, so entering vehicles come from around behind us and then stop in front of the canopy.
The tarp over the canopy is not very photogenic, but it works. The standard canopy fabric just does not hold up to 24/7 in the Texas sun. And a replacement is about $100. But if the tarp gets shredded at some point, and it does once or twice a year, then another $20 at Wal-Mart and I’m back in business.
I’m cheap, what can I say.
Thought for the Day:
“We are defined as much by our enemies as we are by our friends.”
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