Oil Field Trash and Proud of it!

[sneakypete]

Hey Bruce (BeauBayou) -
Didn't want to cut into the Saline/Larto thread. Are you drilling or production? I was both for Gulf Oil and then Chevron. Fished on the job a lot in both capacities, too.
Glad to know some of the "Bros" here on CDC are of the same inclination. "Digging deeper cheaper!"

I'd include you, too, Randy, but we always figured your breed (Reservoir engineer or geologist) were science-fiction writers! And then your bunch would cuss me for drilling a dry hole! But it was sure fun back then.

Hope it still is - at least a little.
Pete

[Tracker123]

Pete, I cut my teeth in the oilfield. Rough necked in High School in West Texas. Wanted to go to the University of Texas but went to A & M only because I needed to work full time while going to school part time (I come from a very poor family). The Austin Chalk was booming back then around College Station. I was a driller for Delta Drilling. After I graduated went to work for Sperry Sun as a directional driller (back then they only hired engineers). Did that for many years all over, experienced a lot of nice places. Taught at UL Lafayette Petroleum Engineering for a while, now in Reservoir Engineering.

I am proud of it as well Pete. And, you're right, it was fun.

[sneakypete]

Man, Randy, you have a fine pedigree! You can share my boat anytime - redfishing, mind you!
Pete

[Tracker123]

Thanks Pete, I would enjoy swapping stories with you.

[Tbone]

If it weren't for us pipeliners, you oil field trash (Pete's words, not mine) would not have a market for your product. My Daddy was a pipeliner for about 40 years and it was my privilege to work with him and other crews for 10 summers back in the pipeline heydays of the 60s and 70s. I've always said it was getting up at 5:00 a.m., working 10-12 hours a day, seven days a week in dust/mud and 100 degree weather that kept me in school. Every young person today ought to be forced to work at least once in a real manual labor job to appreciate how easy most of them have.

[prefers shiners]

hey guys(those 3 that have posted).....this looks like an "Off Topic" to me......what do you think....

[sneakypete]

hey guys(those 3 that have posted).....this looks like an "Off Topic" to me......what do you think....

Yeah yeah yeah, I'll quit - just touching base.
Sure like Didi's osprey pics.
Pete

["D"]

Man, Randy, you have a fine pedigree! You can share my boat anytime - redfishing, mind you!
Pete
Now that would be a yak full! Both ways, boat yak and talking yak. And all I did for 33 yrs was take some of the product and turn it into something useful, rubber. Used in almost every thing plastic, roofing, wire insulator and motor oil additive for viscosity indexing. Thanks you guys for finding and providing it. PS move us if you must, no prob.

[prefers shiners]

Yeah yeah yeah, I'll quit - just touching base.
Sure like Didi's osprey pics.
Pete

don't quit.......always glad to see you posting.....Didi said thanks....now, ya'll continue on......I like the story....

[BoarBuster]

I don't know a thing about the work you guys did. I was a construction carpenter and worked refineries. Left that to become a millwright and ran across a lot of young people starting into construction. Myself and some of the older hands would tell them that this was the time for them to get their rears back in school and learn to do something else because our kind of work would make an old man out of them quick. I told my wife the other day that when I started college I almost went to become a social worker. Wish I had I would be in better shape now I think. But hey with out you guys I would not have had a job in the plants. Thanks to all of you. My stepson is a motorman.

FISH ON