I wasn’t sure what to write about for the last few days. I am working on a rig near kingfisher, OK and things are going as smoothly as they can (knock on wood). It’s more of same but that doesn’t make for interesting posts.
Lately I have been reading the journals of Captain Robert F. Scott the Antarctic explorer. Every journal entry starts off the same way with the weather report and how many miles they had traveled that day. So I thought I would give it a try. Here it is the oil field by the numbers.
Monday the 24th of April, 2017. Weather today is partly cloudy and windy. 72 degreases with a 7 mph wind out of the southeast.
From my trailer I can see 4 rigs not counting my own. Rigs are like little kids playing soccer. Sometimes they group together and fallow each other around and sometimes they spread out and not be near each other for months. Today we happen to me in a popular area.
On a normal day one rig employees ruffly 25 people divided between two 12 hour shifts. That is not counting all the truck drivers, trailer delivers, cement crews, crane operators, Welders, and others that come to rig at different stages. So daily average of 25 people on location. I can see 4 other rigs so between the five rigs there are ruffly 125 people employed right now.
A typical hole takes anywhere from 4 to 60 days to drill. With an average depth of 15,000 ft. Now when I say that don’t think of a hole going straight down. Most holes are drilled with some kind of sideways component. So it winds up looking like a sloppy L.
In the US today there are 847 rigs working.
The price of oil is $t1.84 a barrel.
Price of gas in Oklahoma is $1.97 a gallon.
I have been in country for 47 days (and have 14 more to go) I had already worked on 5 different holes.
All the numbers I have for today!