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Re: And now for something completely different:



At 02:05 PM 8/14/2002, Moser, Dennis wrote:
Okay, so Holly's cleaning up some OCR'd texts and she came across this one. If anyone out there working in petrochem industry-related archives can identify this term, you win the prize (as yet undetermined beyond our aeternal gratitude).

"New Drilling Record Set!

Humble set a new drilling record in California when its first well in the Fillmore field, Caistic Junction District, was completed on July 6.

Subsequent to SPUDDING, the Filmore Operating Unit 1, Well 1, was drilled..."

It's in the dictionary!

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=spudding&r=67

tr.v. spud·ded, spud·ding, spuds

To remove with a sharp spadelike tool.
To begin drilling operations on: spud an oil well.

Not A Oil Person,

Tara


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