Howdy ya’ll I know it has been a while but life on the Northern Plains has been pretty busy. After leaving the job in Wyoming that got shut down I’m back in North Dakota. Let me tell you it’s a lot colder here now than the last time I was here. it snowed about four inches here and let me tell you it makes the place look a whole lot prettier!
Things have been very busy here. Had a great feast for thanksgiving with 5 birds! My awesome coworker and I cooked it all up with lot so of help from the guys. We wound up feeding something like 35 people. Not everyone gets to go home for the holidays so we make do the best week can. It wasn’t as exotic and the snow crab they serve in Alaska but it was hearty and kept the cold at bay. Did I mention that its winter here in ND? Yeah it’s cold! Has not gotten above freezing in over a week.
When I’m not busy decorating for Christmas, we are drilling wells that are very exciting. I was just on a project that was doing something I had never heard off before. A three mile lateral! That means that after drilling down two miles then drill sideways for three miles!!! I believe they are some of the record setting wells for length. It’s amazing to think that we can have five miles worth of drill pipe in the ground and still be able to steer it. This one was drilled under a lake. I could see it from the shakers when I go to get a sample. Pretty cool.
The other exciting project I was on recently was a short 2 mile lateral but it had this crazy curve where we had to swing extra wide to get in the right spot. Has to do with land rights. But basically the rig was in one township section and we were drilling down the middle of the section next to us. If you made a model of the turn it would look like some kind of weird modern art sculptor with one long section between two curves both going in different directions.