OT: Army
- Thread starter StrangerHorn
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Yes, thank you. I can understand your meaning better now.
I definitely can envision them forcing "mourners" to the procession but he was still a very popular figurehead. There were definitely those celebrating his death; he was NOT a good person. But as American politics have shown, you don't have to be a good person to be celebrated.
Obama wasn't a saint either, before red hats get salty.
lol i had to make sure you weren't talking to me.
chico spends his time on a longhorn message board. he's pointless.
While you spend your time running down all things Trump. And I see you peeking at my posts
Subsea drilling is slower. I could move to land but the pay is worse and the hours would be longer.
Occidental just planned a massive layoff. Transocean/Valerus had another major layoff last year.
It's almost as if there are different sectors of O&G.
Drilling on shore is slowing. Rig count keeps slowly falling. Now if you're in the pipeline bidness, bidness is good. Also if you're in the artificial lift bidness, bidness is pretty good as well.
Our onshore drilling is picking up in areas, including the Eagle Ford. We’re buying acreage positions and adding to ours.
Yeah midstream has been wild. They're trying to hire pipeline engineers with no pipeline experience.
I'm on the pipeline side of things. Part of the company builds new pad sites another part puts in gas lifts, pad crossings, flowlines to facilities ect.. I do the as built surveys then come in afterwards and hydrotest the completed install. I'll also do re-certs when needed.
Yes, I know my job consists of me sitting on my butt and watching movies all day but at least I'm saving mileage on my back, whatever is left.
Any chance for a compromise and go to the big tiddy bar?
Does a 48 go by any other name? I'm not even sure I know what that is.
A 48 is a big pipe wrench used in the oil field to tighten valves and fittings and come in 24 and 16's.sometimes ya have to use a cheater pipe on the end to tighten a fitting..nothing is too tight in the oil patch..in my younger days i built pads and put oil batteries together, turning pipe threading, valves on lines , fittings etc. and running flow lines with a friends oil crew in the summers, fitiing the tanks and heat separator..etc ready for the trucks to pick up the oil from tanks, used to thread the pipes on a PTO hub that run off the truck with the clutch, I run some long Flow lines down La Grange and Winchester way back then and layed some in the beer joints in La Grange and Giddings..fun times
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Oh, haha. No, I havn't touched one of those in a while. The cats actually installing flanges and unions do but not this guy. However I do have a 36 in my truck just incase I find something loose above ground that I can tighten instead of calling out a maint crew.
Now ya get it Bro! A 36 ain't shit next to using a 48 for 15 hrs a day.. makes you old fast
Some scientist took a Roughneck and a Tool Pusher and a Company Man and put them in seperate cubicles and gave them some Ball bearings and told them to do something with them
In the 1st room the roughneck had formed them into a perfect Pyramid
In the second room, the Tool pusher was running around trying to figure what color to paint them
In the 3rd room the Company Man played with them for about a couple minutes and fell asleep in the corner...old Oil Patch joke
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Two Roughnecks from North Dakota were on a trip to South Texas to sign on with a new drilling contractor when they were pulled over by a State Trooper.
The trooper walked up and tapped on the driver-side window with his nightstick.
The Roughneck rolled down the window and WHACK, the trooper smacked him in the head with his nightstick.
“What the heck was that for?” the Roughneck asked.
“You’re in Texas,” the trooper answered. “When we pull you over in Texas, you better have your license ready by the time we get to your car.”
The trooper ran a check on the license and the Roughneck was clean, so he gave him his license back.
The trooper then walked around to the passenger side and tapped on the window and the other Roughneck rolled down the window and “WHACK”, the trooper smacked him on the head with the nightstick.
“What’d you do that for?” the other Roughneck demanded.
“Making your wish come true,” replied the trooper.
“Making WHAT wish come true?” the Roughneck asked.
“I know you Roughneck types,” The trooper said. “A hundred feet down the road, you would’ve turned to your buddy and said… “I wish that SOB would’ve tried that on me!”
Man, you guys with all this talk about “laying pipe”, little tidy bars, big tidy bars....
And to think, this thread went from killing an Iranian terrorist, a sooner calling a elcapitan a traitor, and now oil fields.
Cant wait until basketball starts. Wait, what, they are 10-4? They must be good!
Ok, when does baseball start?
And to think, this thread went from killing an Iranian terrorist, a sooner calling a elcapitan a traitor, and now oil fields.
Cant wait until basketball starts. Wait, what, they are 10-4? They must be good!
Ok, when does baseball start?
A little bit for everybody to be honest. Right now eog is installing gas lift on just about everything in this area. Yes, I'm aware it is the restructured enron.
I'm not too sure who the main contracts are with in east or west tx. I get sub contracted out a lot to other pipline companies as well because they either dont have the equipment to hydrotest in the field or their safety history is less than stellar.
Very good. Last 2 question what is your SS# and your mother’s maiden name. I may have crossed paths with you in Gonzales. I’ve been with EOG since right before we spun off from Enron, late 90’s.
EOG is actually the drilling division of Enron that spun off several years before Enron collapsed so we weren’t connected with that other than myself and coworkers still diverting income to Enron stock, good times
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This is one more reason I like to check up on you guys. Did not expect a thread bringing me back to my college days at OU sweating my ass off in the oil patch with a shovel in my summer jobs. Had no idea until today was a 48 was. Good times.
Hey man, it was the big wigs at the top.
Yes, it's very likely we know a lot of the same people then. You wouldn't happen to be on the safety side of things would ya? I think it was earlier last year when y'all had a blowout near Smiley that burned for about a week before it was put out.
I tested the other lines at the facility overnight and got to meet just about every big cigar from houston. Hell, if one of 'em was you then I've got your phone number too.
Small world.
I'm on the land side, deal with landowners and their attorneys, contracts etc. I'm in our Gonzales office off the bypass. I do however remember that blowout. Before the Eagle Ford Gonzales Co. was one of the historically poor counties in the state. Now, I routinely deal with landowners and their "problems" who are making millions a month. Pretty tight formation when you can drill laterals 200' apart and have minimal communication.
Oh and btw If you haven't eaten a my buddy Johnny's cajun cafe you're missing out. Hands down the best smoked boudin I've ever had.
Mo money mo problems.
I've only had 1 occurrence with a problematic landowner and it was mostly because she had zero mineral rights. Wasn't the most pleasant lady but I could understand considering there were three 4 well pads built right next to her house.
The dust, noise & constant random vehicles coming in 24/7 without the oil money incentive would drive me crazy too.
Tis time for me and Fresh to get our Rucks to go settle this Iran stuff, Fresh can have the air and I will take the ground, Hopefully we will be in Scotland drinking beer by the weekend...
ya'll telling jokes on here.....the biggest joke I have seen in a while was watching CNN this morning. They were running the story about Iran admitting to shooting down the passenger jet. They said the Iranians said it was the fault of America because it caused them stress and they were easily fooled into thinking it was an American attack plane......Honest to God the CNN news crew AGREED WITH THEM!!!!
I have to say that I realize the Iranians would be nervous about a counter attack and all, but if they cannot recognize the difference between an attack and a passenger jet THAT HAD JUST TAKEN OFF FROM THEIR OWN AIRPORT......well.....they have no business owning a missle system!
…...and what is up with that idiot newscrew?
I have to say that I realize the Iranians would be nervous about a counter attack and all, but if they cannot recognize the difference between an attack and a passenger jet THAT HAD JUST TAKEN OFF FROM THEIR OWN AIRPORT......well.....they have no business owning a missle system!
…...and what is up with that idiot newscrew?
Wait, so Iran needs a safe space too? Snowflake terrorists, who knew......
I've had my fill of that region. Crazy to think that I almost went back with a brother of mine after I separated but then I met my future wife.
That woman saved me in more ways than she'll ever know.
Dear Iran,
In the event we do decide to start bombing you, fear not. We won't be sending the planes that you can actually detect on radar.
Signed,
509th Bomber Wing
Whiteman AFB
johnson county Missouri
In the event we do decide to start bombing you, fear not. We won't be sending the planes that you can actually detect on radar.
Signed,
509th Bomber Wing
Whiteman AFB
johnson county Missouri
When the going gets really rough, I hope we send the 843rd Bombardment Wing out of Burpleson Air Force Base....
I imagine those are one of the worst aircraft to pilot. Them boys stay in the air damn near 2 days straight per mission.
