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How Many BP People will be Fired?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Lerret Jul 25, 2010.

 

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Lerret commented on Drilling Ahead's page Louisiana-Oilfield Company Fined $126,000 For Jamming Employee Cell Phones
"How many of us have not walked into a work place and found someone texting or talking?  In certain situations that can be fatal...working on a rig is just one such place. At the very least you are cheating someone out of the time you are being…"
May 7
Lerret replied to Cast Iron Crisp's discussion Cutting Corners, Don't.
"This should be the way things are done... I've seen too much of the kind described above..."
May 3
Lerret commented on Drilling Ahead's page Wyoming Imposes New Oil & Gas Worker Safety Rule
"When has a bit salesman or delivery man been involved in a rig fire? 100% cotton is "resistent" to fire. Any plastic product is likely to melt. And how many roughnecks and roustabouts are going shirtless on a hot day?"
Feb 8
Lerret commented on Drilling Ahead's page Locking Horns Over Eagle Ford Texas Oilfield Deer Season
"Hey, I know that guy!  He is a board member of the National Association of Royalty Owners - Texas chapter. Terry works to help mineral owners "keep 'em honest" and often monitors production on places where the operator or…"
Dec 24, 2012
Lerret commented on Drilling Ahead's page 2 BP Employees To Face Manslaughter Charges Over Macondo Accident
"I noticed they said "former" for several of those people. BP probably shot a lot of messengers as well as the guilty parties but I bet they did it to cover management's hienie more than any moral outrage with the engineers on the…"
Nov 15, 2012
Lerret replied to Lerret's discussion Marker Bed in the Niobrara in the group Mud Loggers
"I'm not active there - I live in Arkansas now. I appraise mineral rights rather than mudlog but do occasionally do some field work.  I have a personal stake in the Paradox basin but I always loved to work there or in the Piceance.  I…"
Sep 27, 2012
Scott Moses replied to Lerret's discussion Marker Bed in the Niobrara in the group Mud Loggers
"There you go ,how is the drilling going out that way used to drill up in the northwest hide from bears"
Sep 26, 2012
Lerret replied to Lerret's discussion Marker Bed in the Niobrara in the group Mud Loggers
"I'm just an old sample guy... Was talking to a geo about picking tops S of Rangely and over to Meeker way. We picked the tops off samples only.  None of that MWD stuff"
Sep 26, 2012
Scott Moses replied to Lerret's discussion Marker Bed in the Niobrara in the group Mud Loggers
"Lerret, I did a few wells out in Weld county and I'm wracking  my brain as to such a bed and truthfully I dont remember such I mainly worked from Gamma and the Pierre Shale member to locate the top of the Niobrara its…"
Sep 26, 2012
Lerret replied to Mark Watson's discussion How does a person become a mud logger in the group Mud Loggers
"The first requirement is to be nuts.  Answer the following questions?   Do you count coffee by the cup or the pot? Have you ever caught samples after midnight wearing only a pair of boots and your underwear? Have you ever blessed out…"
Sep 26, 2012
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Marker Bed in the Niobrara

Faded as my memory is, I think there used to be a marker bed in NW Colorado that was pretty extensive where they called the Niobrara top.  It was pink laths of feldspar sprinkled in the shale. Anyone recall such a marker bed?  I wonder if it goes into NE Co as well.See More
Aug 29, 2012
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Lerret replied to Tom's discussion Corvascope in the group Mud Loggers
"Mine has 2 soft cups. I think you might check with the manufacturer of the microscope. I think those eyepieces are standard sizes and a medical supply Co. might carry them."
Aug 29, 2012
Lerret replied to Robert H Pitterman, Jr's discussion Mud Logging in the group Mud Loggers
"Engineers are fixated on cost...lower the cost.  Rock hounds are seen as impediments to that purpose. It never once occurs to an engineer that the purpose is to FIND oil in economic quantities. They think the purpose is to drill the deepest…"
Aug 29, 2012
Lerret replied to Greg Tyra's discussion technology in the group Mud Loggers
"I quit the ML biz in 91. Sit an occasional well. Don't see a lot of "newbies" that know sand from shale. Don't think I would like monotonous drilling of horizontal shale though I see the reason why a unit is important to keep in…"
Aug 17, 2012
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Aug 17, 2012
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Lerret commented on Drilling Ahead's page Marcellus Rig Blows Out Injuring 3 Workers On Antero Location in West Virgina
"Shallow blowouts are generally the result of drilling surface hole and not realizing a shallow sand can be encountered.  400' is probably less than the surface casing depth.  Happens occasionally.  If air drilled (which I know…"
Aug 17, 2012

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At 8:11am on May 29, 2010, Galen Cox said…
Question for you Lerret the rig here (Drilling on Lewelling Well, Otero Co., NM 1976-77) The dog house was on reserve pit side or was it is normally what was the deal on that?
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