L and G Let's try to rein it in and be civilized. I'd lile to think the independent wireline folks are better than this. Take a few in downtime, I saw more...
I am very lenient with respect to "Off Topic" posts and just about everything else on this list. But I will not tolerate this kind of disrespect for members...
Has anybody got a piece of API metric chart paper (API Metric X) they could measure? I have none in stock and was trying to figure out the difference between...
By all accounts, Spindletop is considered the birth of the oil industry. In 1901 Spindletop blew 6 tons of 4" drill pipe out of the hole and flowed 100,000...
Chuck, There are plenty of people that would argue with you concerning spindletop. Granted it was a very significant discovery but the oil industry had been...
First, Drake was a promoter, and they know how to get attention. And second, he came along at a time when looking for oil first became financially attractive....
Ray, You missed the point. (again) I'm trying to show that commercial oil production in Kentucky preceded Spindletop by 80+ years. That's the point. Kentucky...
But your answer to the question that no one asked was wrong. "Everyone knows" that Colonel Drake "discovered" oil, not Captain Lucas. While Brandon's...
Much to their dismay and often their demise, Mastadons discovered a crude and rude form of oil in Paleozoic time at the La Brea tar pits. Who discovered water?...
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits "Radiometric dating of preserved wood and bones has given an age of 38,000 years for the oldest known...
Group... My wife is a Canadian (and damn' proud of it...), born in Petrolia. In view of this (and in view of domestic harmony) I feel compelled to point out...
Interesting site, I had not heard of that one. I will have to get up there and check it out! Thanks! Yes there are numerous examples of people that beat out...
The horizontal grid is exactly the same as the english one (10 + 20 divisions, 0.25" each). For Depth grid the lines are every 1m for 1:200 or 1:240 scale and...
If it comes to early production of oil , I encourage you to visit the website http://www.musee-du-petrole.com/ . It states that as early as the 14 th...
dear moderator. What I want is a guide to manual mapping. If possible, a structural mapping workflow (step by step guide) to aid my producing an isopach map...
Yes, and there is the tie-in to that french guy who played in his bathtub in Paris too! Great site Andre, thanks. Their first drilling was 1813, which is six...
... If you mean the Drake Well Museum, call them before you make the trip. The local Oil City paper, where I'm located just down stream from the museum, said...
OK, here are the guidelines to structural mapping: 1. pick a marker horizon that you can pick on all your logs. 2. Tabulate the depth to this point in...
Thank you for this information! Which of the metric scales is the most common? The paper I have seen is marked "API X Metric", but I do not have a sample...
Folks, As my name is being bandied about, I feel I must at least put in my two cents worth. The question of the discovery of oil (which I'll take to mean the...
I have visited the Petrolia/Oil City area on a field trip hosted by the Eastern Section of the AAPG. The area is wonderful historically. They have rod lines ...
"A well (Thorla-McKee Well) on Duck creek about 30 miles north of Marietta Ohio owned by Mr. McKee, furnishes the greatest quantity of (oil) of any in the...
I would love to see the pictures, that is one subject I can never get enough of. I visited the Oil City area last October when I picked up my first oil field...
Darn! After getting a FREE workable solution to my $64 question, i cannot demand a refund? Bummer... ... Usually, the information is incomplete, inaccurate or...
Not only that, but in reading Mr Merritt's postings, it is clear that he i experienced, knowledgeable and levelheaded. ... everything else on this list. But I...
**THANK** you! ... and flowed 100,000 bbls per day. Production declined by 1902 which yielded only 17,500,000 bbls that year. Figure that at 102 USD per bbl. ...
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