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re: Sad news --- Oklahoma rig explosion leaves 5 missing
Posted on 1/22/18 at 10:15 pm to GREENHEAD22
Posted on 1/22/18 at 10:15 pm to GREENHEAD22
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Yea I am aware of this, I may have been around a rig or two.
STFU worm, you are a new grad that was scrambling around looking for his first oilfield job a little over a year ago.
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Posted on 1/22/18 at 10:18 pm to GREENHEAD22
Hands are more careless when they can run away instead of swim. Land wells in NAM typically have lower reservoir pressure than their offshore counterparts. The hands can get away with playing cowboy most of the time.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 10:20 pm to xrockfordf150x
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multiple hands should be watching
Yes they should but unfortunately it doesn't always happen.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 10:29 pm to DaBike
We had trip tanks and an older veteran of the oilfield ( our shaker hand ) sat on the trip tanks constantly watching mud given/taken while tripping. 5 stands / 5 barrels. Heard that in my sleep. Prayers for the families.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 10:34 pm to cave canem
Not quite
I was about 50 miles north of Macondo when it happened.
However yea I am still pretty new in the grand scheme but I know the basics.
Carry on though, I am sure you need to get back to the pits, we dont need your rig on the news as well.
This post was edited on 1/22/18 at 10:48 pm
Posted on 1/22/18 at 10:35 pm to redstick13
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Unless you're air or foam drilling. You don't know you're taking a kick until the flare goes off.
This could not be any further than the truth. Even land rigs have trip tanks and TT pumps to keep the hole full while monitoring for a kick. Yes, on land they may bypass the TT but you still have active pit PVTs that can tell you what's going on downhole during a trip.
A lot of areas drill with high background drill cutting gas, hence seeing it at the flare. no one trips with active gas at the flare.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 10:40 pm to Drilltiger
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Unless you're air or foam drilling
I didn't say air/foam tripping did I?
Posted on 1/23/18 at 12:01 am to DaBike
Prayers for the families.
I hate seeing shite like this. They're just trying to make a living for their families and end up dying for it.
I hate seeing shite like this. They're just trying to make a living for their families and end up dying for it.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 4:00 am to GREENHEAD22
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Not quite
I was about 50 miles north of Macondo when it happened.
However yea I am still pretty new in the grand scheme but I know the basics.
Carry on though, I am sure you need to get back to the pits, we dont need your rig on the news as well.
Just pulling your chain a bit, what is a pit? Is that not where you keep DA engineers?
Posted on 1/23/18 at 6:07 am to tgrbaitn08
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Fox 8
Link?
Posted on 1/23/18 at 7:37 am to redstick13
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Also land operations don't usually have a dedicated mud engineer onsite
This was true in the 70’s and 80’s, but it’s very common for land rigs to have 1 and many times two mud engineers onsite full time.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 7:45 am to GeauxGutsy
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This was true in the 70’s and 80’s, but it’s very common for land rigs to have 1 and many times two mud engineers onsite full time.
I worked on land rigs up to 2013 with no dedicated mud engineer.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 7:46 am to DaBike
Reports on the radio here in Houston this morning that 5 are indeed missing and the blowout killed livestock in the area.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 7:59 am to redstick13
Yeah reports this morning are that the search has resumed for the 5 missing.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 8:04 am to cave canem
Can you all explain what appears to have happened in layman’s terms? Thanks.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 8:05 am to jorconalx
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Fox 8
Link?
10 o’clock news last night
Posted on 1/23/18 at 8:06 am to redstick13
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I worked on land rigs up to 2013 with no dedicated mud engineer.
They do exist, but on-site mud engineers are not rare. See Pioneer or EOG operations in W Texas
Posted on 1/23/18 at 8:09 am to xrockfordf150x
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Regardless of how the hole is filled, backside or trip tanks, volume in has to equal volume out.
I'm not really well versed on drilling rigs but it seems that automatic sensors could be made to help monitor this type of thing that would trigger an alarm or automatic shutdown
Posted on 1/23/18 at 8:11 am to GeauxGutsy
quote:it's pretty rare to have 2 mud engineers on a land rig in most US formations. Usually depends on how cheap the operator is/what was sold and/or the ease of mud program, formation predictability in which drive by will suffice.
This was true in the 70’s and 80’s, but it’s very common for land rigs to have 1 and many times two mud engineers onsite full time.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 8:12 am to 10MTNTiger
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Can you all explain what appears to have happened in layman’s terms? Thanks.
In the simplest terms possible, they were standing on top of a giant shook up 200º coke bottle and popped the top.
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