This is my childhood buddy, Buckwheat. He and I go way back. Today he looks like I feel having just AFE'd a proposed new well to be drilled in August. From 2020, well costs across the board are up 43 stinking percent, providing I can even find an open hole logging company at the time I drill this we

So, maybe time to trot out something about sour gas? From what I’ve seen lately there are a ton of permit filings for the ol’ Wolfcamp shales, but the once touted Bone Spring zone seems not to be very popular. Methane is one thing, but burning off H2S can be hazardous to a lot of people’s h

Last summer in Sweden we had a "heat" period of 2-3 weeks and this forced us to emergency start one of our nuclear reactors that were idled down before final termination scheduled for end of year 2020 it also forced us to start up our old oil burner plant to prevent massive black outs since our "ren

This was about the age I started wrenching rods from the same sort of wooden platform. Like this young man, I didn't have much of a reach, and wasn't fast enough, so I had to tail rods out, instead, and make sure they were staggered on the rod rack properly. I could do THAT! But by 8 years old I wa