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re: Do We Have Any Tool Pushers and/or Drillers On The OT?
Posted on 7/16/15 at 3:12 pm to DonChowder
Posted on 7/16/15 at 3:12 pm to DonChowder
There must be something like 3 degrees of separation in this industry. It's probable.
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Posted on 7/16/15 at 3:19 pm to Ellis Dee
That reminds me of a pipe tripping story when I was a roughneck. We had those old foot slips for tripping. Spring loaded and two roughnecks would stand on them to set them. We were a few thousand feet in on a 12,000 foot trip. The string was in the slips and the driller was running the blocks up for a stand. I was working the driller side tongs. The guy working the lead tongs threw them on the pipe in slips to latch them. When they hit the tool joint the slips sprung open and "poof" the string dropped about 9,000 feet. The driller was looking up at the derrickman latching the stand. When he looked down at the rotary table his eyes got big and he looks at us and asks "where did the pipe go?" 
Of course it was the last night of the hitch.
Of course it was the last night of the hitch.This post was edited on 7/16/15 at 3:20 pm
Posted on 7/16/15 at 3:21 pm to Ellis Dee
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all reality shows are played up for TV.
I have watched swamp people and have come to the realization to never mess with an alligator hunter...they handle 800lb gators as if they only weighed 150lbs
Posted on 7/16/15 at 3:23 pm to redstick13
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Of course it was the last night of the hitch.
that's usually when something stupid happens
What happened afterwards?
Posted on 7/16/15 at 3:35 pm to Ellis Dee
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What happened afterwards?
The driller had to stay over until they got the fish out the hole.
Poor guy did nothing wrong. Posted on 7/16/15 at 3:39 pm to redstick13
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The driller had to stay over until they got the fish out the hole.
collecting that overtime baw
Posted on 7/16/15 at 3:43 pm to Ellis Dee
I work on whats classified as a "mega project" - Kashagan field in Kazakhstan. We are professional so we don't really horseplay like you see on Black Gold tv show. Deep pockets buy you a higher caliber of rig trash.
Posted on 7/16/15 at 3:46 pm to Sao
Back in the 80's I was working on an inland barge for Gulf. We were working over wells. Well there was a crew of rednecks and a crew of black guys. The rednecks would trap coons in the marsh to transplant back to the Pearl River swamp for coon hunting. There was a billards room on the rig and the drill crews would relax after their tours/shifts shooting pool. One evening all the black guys were in the pool room shooting. One of the rednecks got the boar coon while wearing welding gloves and threw that mad arse coon the pool room with all the black guys and locked the door so they could not escape. Needless to say they were not too damn happy.
Another time, there was this guy loose in the swamp and a couple of fisherman had come up dead. The wanted man was called the "swamp rat" on NOLA TV news. Well the black guys would also fish off the back of the barge in the evenings. The same redneck that threw to coon on them got a over the head rubber halloween mask and creeped along the bumpers of the barge until he came to the well head area in the back. He had dunked the mask in th ewater so the hair was dripping wet and scared the shite out the black guys. He chased one of them through the motor room all the way to the showers on the other end of the rig. The barge had those small water tight doors and the guy being chased was about 300#...needless to say he had a hard time getting through the doors at a high rate of speed. Dud ran all the way to the showers and locked himself in a stall.
That shite would get your fired today. Hell those guys probably wouldn't even get hired today. Not to mention the lawsuits.
There were many more, but that's all I got for now.
Another time, there was this guy loose in the swamp and a couple of fisherman had come up dead. The wanted man was called the "swamp rat" on NOLA TV news. Well the black guys would also fish off the back of the barge in the evenings. The same redneck that threw to coon on them got a over the head rubber halloween mask and creeped along the bumpers of the barge until he came to the well head area in the back. He had dunked the mask in th ewater so the hair was dripping wet and scared the shite out the black guys. He chased one of them through the motor room all the way to the showers on the other end of the rig. The barge had those small water tight doors and the guy being chased was about 300#...needless to say he had a hard time getting through the doors at a high rate of speed. Dud ran all the way to the showers and locked himself in a stall.
That shite would get your fired today. Hell those guys probably wouldn't even get hired today. Not to mention the lawsuits.
There were many more, but that's all I got for now.
Posted on 7/16/15 at 3:51 pm to bpinson
Not even close to what goes on. Those guys wouldn't last a day with the bullshite they do.
Posted on 7/16/15 at 4:47 pm to offshoretrash
Been on a few Mickey Mouse work over rigs where you get a taste of what goes on in that show but nothing to the degree they show.
Posted on 7/16/15 at 8:15 pm to offshoretrash
They were actually pretty fair hands. They just had a redneck sense of humor.
Posted on 7/16/15 at 8:27 pm to redstick13
As a Company Man( recently laid off) for a major, my arse would be in a sling if one of the Drilling Superintendents showed up and shite like that was happening. Also, the oilfield is different wherever you go. In California I got in trouble for asking one of the roughnecks is he wanted me to hold his purse while he was struggling with a tool.
When I started off roustabouting for Rowan we had a lot more horseplay and meet me behind the welder's shack and we will settle this. That is pretty much none existent. Offshore you are paying millions a day to run a rig and on land it is all about saving money and cost cutting and drilling fast. The super majors pretty much tolerate no bullshite from the rig crew. They will call the Coast Guard to come pick you up or if on land they will have you escorted of lease by a cop. In Pennsylvania, I had a driller threaten to slit a roughnecks throat and stuff him down the pipe. The toolpusher, two burly rig hands and myself watched him till the sheriff showed up and arrested him.
When I started off roustabouting for Rowan we had a lot more horseplay and meet me behind the welder's shack and we will settle this. That is pretty much none existent. Offshore you are paying millions a day to run a rig and on land it is all about saving money and cost cutting and drilling fast. The super majors pretty much tolerate no bullshite from the rig crew. They will call the Coast Guard to come pick you up or if on land they will have you escorted of lease by a cop. In Pennsylvania, I had a driller threaten to slit a roughnecks throat and stuff him down the pipe. The toolpusher, two burly rig hands and myself watched him till the sheriff showed up and arrested him.
Posted on 7/16/15 at 8:37 pm to scubachris
Years a go, circa 1983 I was down at Aransas Pass in S Tx running a filter unit for completion fluid on a workover rig. A big storm blew up and me a worm were sitting in the truck while they were tripping pipe have a sandwich and a beer. All of a sudden it was raining sideways with about 60-80 mph winds, (no shite). Worm asked me if we should tell the drill crew the weather was bad...yeah right. Well the wind twisted the derrick and tangled all the pipe that was stacked back. and there we were in the truck watching it all. Nobody was injured, but it was a miracle they weren't.
Posted on 7/16/15 at 9:17 pm to lsuoilengr
You shouldn't be posting about that, baw
Posted on 7/16/15 at 9:50 pm to Sao
During the late 70s I was a deric hand on a work over rig. Hard work, but had fun too.
We were coming out of the hole one afternoon . There was a worm working the floor using breakout tongs. The driller showed him two or three times how to set the tongs and how to hold them on the pipe. Well he didn't do it right and the tongs sliped and cut his finger off. A clean cut and picked it up off the floor. He was sent to the bank to go to the Dr to try to get it put back on. As he was getting on the crew boat he slipped and dropped his finger overboard. Like I said had fun too.
Ps. I was in the dog house after my 12 hrs . There was a loud boom, we ran outside and there was another worm standing by a generator with a bloody face. He had tryed to check the water level in a big battery useing a cigarette lighter. You figure that one out.
We were coming out of the hole one afternoon . There was a worm working the floor using breakout tongs. The driller showed him two or three times how to set the tongs and how to hold them on the pipe. Well he didn't do it right and the tongs sliped and cut his finger off. A clean cut and picked it up off the floor. He was sent to the bank to go to the Dr to try to get it put back on. As he was getting on the crew boat he slipped and dropped his finger overboard. Like I said had fun too.
Ps. I was in the dog house after my 12 hrs . There was a loud boom, we ran outside and there was another worm standing by a generator with a bloody face. He had tryed to check the water level in a big battery useing a cigarette lighter. You figure that one out.
Posted on 7/16/15 at 10:18 pm to Ellis Dee
Desperado's or Coyote's?
Posted on 7/16/15 at 10:33 pm to Herman Frisco
Then there was the night we caught the gator in the marsh on the inland barge. The company man caught on and we had to let him go. We were gonna cook that arse on the grill.
I worked on the same rig as a filter hand 7x7 and we had a good time and smoked a lot of weed. Gulf company man Dude tried and tried to catch us, but he couldn't.
Once upon a hitch change they brought the dogs out and we were out of weed so they found nothing. Well they found pain pills and a dildo the female galley hand had...(ha). They would bounce the tennis ball and the dog was off to look, sniffing and sniffing, but there was nothing to fine. I told them that is a damn dumb dog. If they would have come the week before...boom.
Then since they were out in the marsh with the dogs they went to the Gulf Oil "training" rig where all the sons of the Gulf Oil execs were working and found all kind off shite. It was quite the hitch. They should have searched the parking lot in Venice...Ha.
I worked on the same rig as a filter hand 7x7 and we had a good time and smoked a lot of weed. Gulf company man Dude tried and tried to catch us, but he couldn't.
Once upon a hitch change they brought the dogs out and we were out of weed so they found nothing. Well they found pain pills and a dildo the female galley hand had...(ha). They would bounce the tennis ball and the dog was off to look, sniffing and sniffing, but there was nothing to fine. I told them that is a damn dumb dog. If they would have come the week before...boom.
Then since they were out in the marsh with the dogs they went to the Gulf Oil "training" rig where all the sons of the Gulf Oil execs were working and found all kind off shite. It was quite the hitch. They should have searched the parking lot in Venice...Ha.
Posted on 7/16/15 at 11:35 pm to Sao
This novel is full of a lot of offshore hijinks. It is presented as fiction, but the truth is that it is a combination of 2-3 true stories from the Gulf Coast.
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Three weeks on an oil rig, and she’d be the only woman on board. I wasn’t worried at all: my wife was completely faithful. In fact, I even encouraged her to tease the oil workers while I watched via webcam. Then things went horribly wrong. The head of the rig hacked my laptop and, pretending to be me, encouraged my wife to go further and further with him and his buddies. Thousands of miles away, all I could do was watch in horror as they took her again and again….
This post was edited on 7/17/15 at 1:07 am
Posted on 7/16/15 at 11:53 pm to Sao
Broke several bones in accident while working offshore. Large tools with not so smart people working long hours in non-ideal situations can often equal trouble. Was once a great way to earn money for school if you don't get hurt.
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