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High Prices Fetched By Gas, Oil, See Roughnecks Working Longer, Harder, Dying More Often
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- We have the lowest unemployement rate in many, many years in West Texas. If anyone actually wants to work (instead of mooching off SSI or welfare) they can get a job. And it is not just in the oil patch. Almost every store you pass by has ''Now Hiring'' signs posted. The population out here is not as high as that of the DFW area or Houston, so there is less of a work force to choose from. Employers are expected to hire experienced oil field hands when there are none available because they are already working in the field. I work for an oil field service company and our workforce and work load has more than doubled in the last 3-4 years.
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- Stick a pipe in a hole, spin it around, and when the black stuff comes up, put it in a barrel...
Yeah, thats real Rocket Science...way beyond what any Hispanic guy could understand.
Posted by TheVicar1 at 10:34 AM : Sep 11, 2008
Sorry I''m just getting to this, but I''ve been homeschooling my children since my first post this morning. "TheVicar1," I would love to see you do the extensive formulas and mix exactly the right chemicals like my husband does every day to avoid a "blowout" on the rig or pull back tons, yes I said tons, of pipe from 150 feet in the air while standing on a little skinny board. Sir, please don''t be putting hardworking people down unless you know everything there is to know about the particular business you are "dissing!" My husband is extremely intelligent not only in math & science, but he can also tear a vehicle apart and put it back together again in great working condition, he can do electrical work, carpentry work, plumbing work...shall I go on....not too many men have that many skills. They are much more important than just sitting in front of a computer all day entering data, just my opinion, of course. The oilfield just happens to be great money for working only 6 months out of the year. Not to shabby, eh? - Reply to this comment
- Ok, what''''''''s a downhole conductivity measurement good for? How about mud temperature, how does it effect drill rate?
Posted by whatwhy001 at 01:10 PM : Sep 11, 2008
I''d think that higher mud temperature would lower the drill rate as it supplies less lubrication when hot than when cold. And y''all can take all the connotations of that sentence for what they are. - Reply to this comment
- I find it interesting how 80 - 85 percent of the population supported the war in Iraq when it started and when things didn''''t go as well as expected you all get to change you minds. Where was the outrage when Sadam was slaughtering the Kurds? If this was Clinton''''s war (which it should have been if he had the huevos) you would have praised him.
Posted by biger-e
85% of the population may have supported going into Afghanistan after bin Laden. Very few except the brainless supported cretin-in-chief in Iraq. - Reply to this comment
- Now dont confuse the poor boy ------------------------------------------------------ Posted by slim1h2o
A poor boy is a sandwich on a baguette, with various cold cut meats and cheeses, tomato, onion, lettuce, and an olive for garnish. - Reply to this comment
- Ok, what''''s a downhole conductivity measurement good for? How about mud temperature, how does it effect drill rate?
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Posted by whatwhy001 at 01:10 PM : Sep 11, 2008
Now don''t confuse the poor boy. - Reply to this comment
- Ok, whats a downhole conductivity measurement good for? How about mud temperature, how does it effect drill rate? ------------------------------------------------------ Posted by whatwhy001
downhole conductivity indicates the level of salt-water intrusion, mud temperature and drill rate sounds a little too homerotic for me to comment on. - Reply to this comment
- Thats a lucky dentist plugging up that yap of yours with his drill. Think of all the wasted hot air that didnt pollute the environment -------------------------------------------------- Posted by whatwhy001
Youre just saying that because you are jealous that I know more about the drillin Industry than you do! - Reply to this comment
- McCain will win and %u201Cdrill baby drill%u201D may very well translate into %u201Cburn, baby burn.%u201D ------------------------------------------------------ Posted by msimamaji
YOU SAID IT! %u201Cd, and rl%u201D so that %u201Cb a b 201D%u20 1C l%u20 1Dn.%u201D in %u201Cbal%u 01D to %%u2...and dont you forget it!!! - Reply to this comment
- and he NEVER lost a finger!!!
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Posted by TheVicar1 at 12:50 PM : Sep 11, 2008
LOL,,And you never bit his finger off? In all that time?
Not even once?
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- Gothcha!
I was trying to make sure that you understood that there is a difference between the two drilling industries ------------------------------------------------------ Posted by slim1h2o
My Dentist has been in the drilling Industry for 44 years, and he NEVER lost a finger!!! - Reply to this comment
- Where they do use the term "roughneck" (and "roustabout"...quaint, and often deadly).
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Posted by ibsteve2u at 12:35 PM : Sep 11, 2008
Gothcha!
I was trying to make sure that you understood that there is a difference between the two drilling industries, and that the names and other aspects are not interchangeable, with each other.;) - Reply to this comment
- I find it interesting how 80 - 85 percent of the population supported the war in Iraq when it started and when things didn''t go as well as expected you all get to change you minds. [blah blah gross assumptions]
Posted by biger-e at 12:35 PM : Sep 11, 2008
You overlook the fact that at the start of this war America did not know that the WMD stories were all lies.
You wouldn''t quibble with someone who took a car back to the dealer after finding out that the odometer had been rolled back with a drill, would you?
Why should America be expected to continue to support something that is killing their sons, daughters, husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters - when it was all based upon lies? - Reply to this comment
- But, just for clarification, in the environmental drilling business, we/they are called "drillers helpers, and not roughnecks.
Sorry, the above sentence should look like this;
But, just for clarification, in the environmental drilling business, we/they are called "drillers and drillers helpers, and not roughnecks. - Reply to this comment
- But, just for clarification, in the environmental drilling business, we/they are called "drillers helpers, and not roughnecks.
Posted by slim1h2o at 12:32 PM : Sep 11, 2008
I was referring back to this article, which is about the injuries and deaths occurring in the oil drilling business.
Where they do use the term "roughneck" (and "roustabout"...quaint, and often deadly). - Reply to this comment
- I find it interesting how 80 - 85 percent of the population supported the war in Iraq when it started and when things didn''t go as well as expected you all get to change you minds. Where was the outrage when Sadam was slaughtering the Kurds? If this was Clinton''s war (which it should have been if he had the huevos) you would have praised him.
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- The experts in this report only touch upon one serious risk with oil drilling: terrorism.
Oil companies right now are employing unskilled imported workers. When McCain wins the election, we will witness a lot more drilling. Because we need oil and because oil companies want record profits, McCain will railroad through special guest worker programs for the oil fields and off shore oil platforms. Oil companies will get their labor pool through overseas agencies that conduct no reliable background checks. (Of course in a place like India, Indonesia, or Pakistan, you can%u2019t conduct a reliable background check any way.) This will provide a perfect opening for terrorist to infiltrate our oil fields and drilling platforms.
Obama was half right when said we will not solve our problems by drilling for more oil More drilling will not lower the price of oil for a number of reasons that I don%u2019t have space to discuss here. . And it will usher in a new set of problems that no one, except perhaps yours truly, can imagine. Unfortunately, Obama will lose the election. McCain will win and %u201Cdrill baby drill%u201D may very well translate into %u201Cburn, baby burn.%u201D - Reply to this comment
- Which begs the question: Are all roughnecks fortunate enough to work for someone like you?
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Posted by ibsteve2u at 12:27 PM : Sep 11, 2008
Couldn''t tell ya,,I''m retired.
But, just for clarification, in the environmental drilling business, we/they are called "drillers helpers, and not roughnecks. - Reply to this comment
- This article leaves out the cost of securing the oil supplies worldwide.
How many troops have died securing just Iraq''s pipelines? How many more will die?
And how much money do the oil companies pay to use our troops to protect their profits?
As Bush said, America is addicted to oil. Addicts can rationalize anything to keep the buzz going.
Humanity has always been on the road to extinction, there is a future date when life on earth will start over, and all we can do is use our cllective intelligence to prevent that inevitable day as much as possible.
We die only once, and for such a long time. - Reply to this comment
- In other words, I took out of service, so nobody would/could get hurt by it.
And that''s just one aspect of safe drilling methods.
Posted by slim1h2o at 12:25 PM : Sep 11, 2008
Which begs the question: Are all roughnecks fortunate enough to work for someone like you? - Reply to this comment
