Where do you work?

[drew_goring]

I could use your photo of the rig for where I've been working. Have spent a lot of time on these things doing inspections, investigations, observing and coaching crews, etc. Not now though. Lots of layoffs and fewer rigs running - my old company has I think 12 in the Permian Basin, down from around 75 last fall. Collapsed several outlying offices and now everything is in Midland. They offered to let me go roughneck - said they wanted to have me around if things picked back up. I declined - I'm in better shape now than I was in the late 80s, when I was working on rigs, but I didn't want someone else bumped to make room for me - makes for tension on a crew. And there were some office politics that I just didn't want to play. So, I'm doing lots of stuff at the house now!

Yeah. Mainly cased hole. On that particular job we were running a casing corrosion analysis. In that province, Rigs are required to run one for every 30 days they drill to make sure they aren't eating away at their surface casing with the drillpipe. I don't mind it at all...it's gravy work. We are still busy up here in Northern Alberta/BC although a little slow now with breakup and road bans.

Normally I work with service rigs completing wells and running cement bond logs. But service rigs aren't nearly as purty.