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Drill falls down the hole on an oil rig
Posted on 3/23/25 at 4:52 am
Posted on 3/23/25 at 4:52 am
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Posted on 3/23/25 at 4:57 am to Street Hawk
No more truck nuts for the dumbass who fricked up.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 5:00 am to Street Hawk
You gotta set the slips around the drill pipe or whatever that was The only piece used for drilling that is bigger diameter is a stabilizer.
It was extremely short and normally you don't pick up something short first. You pick up something long then screw stuff into it either on bottom while it hangs or you set the slips around it to keep it from falling down hole while you add a component above it
It was extremely short and normally you don't pick up something short first. You pick up something long then screw stuff into it either on bottom while it hangs or you set the slips around it to keep it from falling down hole while you add a component above it
Posted on 3/23/25 at 5:18 am to Street Hawk
Ole baw wanted to speed up the trip to bottom.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 6:07 am to Street Hawk
If only there were a couple women there to tell him how to fix it................................
Posted on 3/23/25 at 6:12 am to Street Hawk
Fishing crew finna eat
Posted on 3/23/25 at 6:27 am to Strannix
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Fishing crew finna eat
Yugely
ETA: that comment on Reddit “just use a big magnet”
This post was edited on 3/23/25 at 6:28 am
Posted on 3/23/25 at 6:32 am to idlewatcher
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ETA: that comment on Reddit “just use a big magnet”
What if we told him theres an entire sub-industry devoted to fishing shite out of well bores lol.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 6:33 am to Street Hawk
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Do we know what happened here?
That’s how we secretly send things to China
Posted on 3/23/25 at 6:49 am to Street Hawk
Well completion bonus went down the hole with that pipe.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 6:57 am to Strannix
We had a butt clinching fishing job on one of my projects 2 weeks ago. Thankfully we retrieved it. Would have been around a $3 million LIH.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 7:17 am to Street Hawk
Note to self…do not unlatch elevators until slips are set.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 7:25 am to Street Hawk
It happens occasionally that stuff breaks off and ends up at the bottom of the hole. The old junk basket may come into play here. I recall pipe parting or cones being drilled off the bit in my day. And yes, there is a whole sub industry dedicated to getting that stuff out. I have a distant memory of an impression block.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 7:26 am to BabysArmHoldingApple
Depends on what they were doing. Latching on to the fish with an overshot should be easy. If they were just going in with dumb iron to drill out a casing shoe, quick and easy. If they had an expensive LWD might have to pay for some tools. If they were running liner into open hole and it gets differentially stuck that could turn into a cut, pull, and sidetrack.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 7:32 am to Street Hawk
Call the fishing guy.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 7:41 am to JL
I could analyze this to death, but the dude who opened the elevators is the derrickhand, wearing extra cold weather gear and a harness. He was either headed up or just came down and it wasn't his job to touch the elevators. Either way, if there wasn't open hole below them they've got a box up fishing job on drill pipe. Should be straightforward to get over it and pull it if it was just a drilling assembly. I've been able to go in with drill pipe and screw into the box and pull it before the fishing guy got to the rig, but depends on hole geometry and luck.
This post was edited on 3/23/25 at 7:47 am
Posted on 3/23/25 at 7:50 am to JL
I can’t even really follow wtf you guys are talking about, but these drilling threads always fascinate me.
So there’s 3rd party companies that you call in to retrieve this? They and their equipment is not on site right?
So there’s 3rd party companies that you call in to retrieve this? They and their equipment is not on site right?
Posted on 3/23/25 at 7:55 am to Strannix
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Fishing crew finna eat
how DO they retrieve something like that?
- jiggle around until they engage the threads?
- drop something inside and expand to hold via friction - or create new 'threads'?
- drop something inside all the way to the bottom and expand to create a lift?
or
- drill an new hole??
Posted on 3/23/25 at 7:57 am to baldona
Depends, I would imagine on land jobs, they don't keep fishing tools on site. I run deepwater ops and we keep usually first run fishing tools for drill pipe out on the rig for situations like this where we can at least get the fishing assembly made up and going in the hole while we mobilize more tools and a fishing hand. Each fishing job can get very specific so you can't keep all the tools on the rig and it gets expensive. Fishing is sort of an art form and there aren't a ton of guys who have that expertise. Usually by the time you jar, free point and backoff, get out the hole you can get a fishing hand flown out so doesn't really pay to keep one on the rig.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 8:00 am to Street Hawk
Whatever was in the elevator must not have been very heavy. Not sure the elevators would easily open on a pipe string or even a joint of casing.
I’ll admit I never tried opening a loaded elevator.
I’ll admit I never tried opening a loaded elevator.
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