Mike, keep up the good work. You're onto something with all the great photographs and history. I'm sure you have it in your archives, but the slant-drilling of the thirties (both in LA and East Texas) was a colorful part of oil and gas history, as was the auctioning off of Choctaw head-rights in the twenties and thirties. I suffer from thin-skin disease so I've decided to stay away from peakoilbarrel, which is now under control of the Left Coast bunch. Not only that but all those chartists got a turd stuck in their Circle of Willis (the blood vessels that supply the base of the brain) and every time somebody writes a sentence they don't agree with, they get all plugged up--I don't want to cause a stroke. Make the book colorful and poignant, happy and sad, the way I know you can from living the life. Gerry
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Nice to hear from you, Gerry. There is surprisingly little history on the 'under the fence stuff,' even, as you correctly suggest, in East Texas Field where it was pretty prevalent. An old timer told me a hilarious story about drilling across the fence in the ETF in '39; the drilling well intercepted the Woodbine within 40 feet of an existing well being worked over, bailed to remove sand, its BHL no where close it where it was suppose to be either. Mud blew up the existing well and a gun fight between the two operators ensued. Both company men had Buicks, ALL the hands had guns, both crews hiding by their respective company cars, and over 100 rounds were emptied at each other with no casualties. For years after, both Buicks could still be seen in town, at various beer joints, both still riddled with bullet holes in them.
I'm sorry about your experiences at AntiOilBarrel. I've never seen so many out of work internet experts so amazingly dialed into ALL the ins and outs of our industry. I've been in it for over 60 years and I don't know 1/10th of what those yahoos pretend to know. An example of the holders of the intellectual and moral high ground...
Don't wander far and share anything, anytime you wish, please.
Hi Gerry , nice to have company .