Any other oilfield trash on here?

[Steve Fryar]

Just curious that's all.I know a number of woodies in Moomba(where I work).
Cheers to two on/two off.
Steve.

[Cruzi]

Bloody service hands.

Last place I worked was opposite to Moomba in everyway.





Rig pigs rule!

[fenderbelly]

Any other oilfield trash on here?


so you're not looking to making new friends i take it.

[Cruzi]

That is how oil patch workers refer to themselves, derived from the US but worn with pride.

[fenderbelly]

OOPS. Didn't know that

So is that the same as White trash in the trailer park.

[Steve Fryar]

That's a great shot Cruzi,where is it?Minus 25C.No way.I'll take the heat!And Fenderbelly,to use your analogy,to us mine workers are white trailer trash.Nothing offends an oilfield worker than someone asking"are you still in the mines?"Happens a lot in South Oz.
By the way,I used to be a rig pig.A derrickman,many years ago.

[Cruzi]

It's in Russia, an island off Siberia.

-25 was average, when it was really cold the camera didn't work and I wasn't hanging around to take pictures.

Summer shot, snow still around but gives a better idea of scale, you can see the vehicles and if you look carefully there is a bloke in the middle.

[Steve Fryar]

Cruzi mate,that is awesome.Biggest lease I have seen is about 200m x 200m!Thats huge!Directional no doubt.I will send your pics up north.Our Russian engineer will be interested.Here is our biggest rig around Moomba.Drilling for hot rocks,and doing well.Depth 4500m,bottom hole temp. 450F.Excuse the pic.Phone job.

[Cruzi]

Is that the rig going for the geothermal holes, Century #27 (or #26)? been a while since I worked in Aussie

It was ERD work, holes only 2600m deep but reaching out 8-9,000m so we had over 11,000m of string in hole.
Had to use MWD, wireline don't work horizantally

Worked in and around Moomba a fair bit, also over the Qld border as well, do not miss the desert one little bit.
To date it for you, OD&E #18,#22,#32, also some work-over rigs.
Did some holes near "Outa-minka", downhole temps were bloody awful, surface mud temp was over 70 dgrees and in the middle of summer with air temps around 50 odd was wiping out leasehands like no tomorrow.


Think you'll apprieciate this, here is how we did a rig move, holes were only 10m apart, 8 of these did the job.

[Steve Fryar]

I was a derrickman on ODE#22 in 1989!18 and 32,I have done open hole wireline with my employer,Baker Atlas,many times.For wireline #32 is better but the crews on #18 made it easier.A double!,but much better.I nearly cried when ODE's sold out to Ensign.Another Australian icon gone.
I will send you a PM with my Baker Hughes email.I would love to see more of your pics.I miss the field.Atlas made me a supervisor.No more rigs,drilling or workover.

[Steve Fryar]

Sorry for the double post but Century#27 got the ???? and Geodynamics bought a Lightning#100 from the states.Now crewed by Eastern Well Services,who by the way,are looking to take over a drilling contract in the Cooper Basin.Fun times indeed.
As for horizontal wells,we have tractors.