Featured Oilfield Blogs (19)

Mud motor failure downhole may be happened from time to time. The questions that are usually raised are things like “How do I know if the mud motor fails down hole?” and “What indications will I see that this has happened?” etc. Due to this, I would like to share my personal experience regarding mud motor failure and its symptoms.…

Feb. 8th, 2013

In the course of my fishing duties, up here in the Bakken, I have run into a problem that is…

Jan 22, 2013

I sit here today, writing this, and hiding out from a cold snap that will get anyone’s attention. It is 31 below zero.  I feel like Boris Pasternak writing Dr. Zhivago.

As a Texas hand working up here for 2 years now, I have had to make some adjustments to my lifestyle to live and work in…

Twas Christmas eve and the hole was tight.

The little rig pulled with all of its might!!!

Circulate, rotate, work pipe in and out,

This will fix the problem without any doubt.

High vis, low vis, sweep, sweep, sweep.

Up with the mud weight, but don’t let it seep.



Lets add some mica, just for…

If criminal negligence includes the notion of "failure to act," then the failures to act by managers onboard the Deepwater Horizon who were BP's contractors (Transocean, Halliburton and others) should also be subject to criminal prosecution. "I didn't make the final decision" should not be a defense, as everyone who did not object (and loudly) to proceeding in the face of two failed well integrity tests is complicit.

My article (linked below) discusses the safety audit on the…

Appendix Z .

Hydraulic analyses of BOP control system (from ultra Deep) ,one of scenarios that have been investigated is operating the EDS/Auto shear system “, the investigation found strong indications on that the EDS/Auto shear system haven’t worked as intended. There have been signs of leakage in the St-lock line and the question is raised how large leakage can the system have and still cut the drill pipe. Scenario 5 :failure in the EDS(Auto shear )system .This scenario has been…

Plastic Viscosity (PV) is the resistance of fluid to flow. In the field, we can get the PV from a viscometer. Typically, the viscometer is utilized to measure shear rates at 600, 300, 200, 100, 6, and 3 revolutions per minute…

I am currently working for a small outfit right now, but had an offer to go work for Baker Hughes.

 I was wondering how the MWD department is to work for, how is their software?

Are they wireless from doghouse to shacks or do they still rub cables? 

As well I was wondering if anyone has any input on how long I should do MWD before moving up to become a Directional Driller, because I do have actual rig floor experience.

 If anyone has a pirated version of Winserv…

Oil and Gas drilling has seen its ups and downs through the years. The phrase "Boom or Bust"must originate with the drilling industry,  because things are either always balls to the wall going fast or so slow that workers are having to sell everything they have acquired just to survive.

Roughnecks have always been a resilient people willing to give a hard days work for a good days pay. Tough oilfield work has always attracted men from all walks of life. College educated professionals…

What it's Like To Be Oilfield Trash

Everyday the headlines read something about the hardships hard-working American men  are causing on cities and towns where drilling is occurring.

In Pennsylvania a Congressmen accuses oilfield workers of spreading sexually transmitted disease among his "womenfolks" as he calls them. The issue to him was never

"What were the womenfolks of his community doing dropping their panties for these oilfield workers" or "maybe it was…

As I sit here in this dark house looking at old pictures of wooden drilling rigs and comparing those monsters with the iron we have now days,  I just can't believe on how far we have come. Now if you're new to drilling or to the oilfield for that matter, you can't possibly imagine the stuff they have come up with.

 When I first broke out on a drilling rig, we had spinning chain and tongs and slips we had to throw every connection. This past summer I was on a rig that had an ST-80 with…

As I sit here and read other people blogs, I start thinking back to when I started out on a drilling rig.

To some they would not call it a rig. But it done it's job drilling wells in and around Stephens County, Oklahoma. The old rig is not much to brag about. It was just a derrick mounted on an old army trailer, that my dad had bought from someone.

The derrick was home-made out of 2 7/8 tubing. with a small crown mounted on top of it. My father and I welded channel iron to the…

We just found out that my husband's rig is moving to Louisiana. As of now, he is about an hour and a half away from where we live, so he gets to come home about every two or three days. But when they move to Louisiana he will be six hours away from the house, definitely too far for him to come home.

Just when I had gotten used to having him pretty close, then they are going to move, but it's like they say, they don't put fences around a drilling rig.

I know we will make…

Several years ago we had a post topic

"Things You Won't Hear On A Drilling Rig"

I have re-posted a few of the answers here and hope  you guys visiting will add a few of your own-Enjoy!

Things You Won't Hear On A Drilling Rig



"No Thanks, we're all on a…