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Re: And now for something completely different:



One clue is at <http://www.oilhistory.com/pages/Portable/keystone.html>.
The Glossary of Mining and Mineral Industry (1920) has, as one definition
of SPUD: To work the boring tool by means of the bull wheel alone in
starting an oil well. A SPUDDING BIT is defined as "A broad dull drilling
tool for working in earth down to the rock."

Hope that helps.

   ---Terry

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Terry Abraham   Special Collections, University of Idaho
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Moser, Dennis wrote:

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> 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..."
>
> Spudding?!?! Not an arcane Irish faminee's tactic for gaining
> sustenance...certainly not an Idahoan defense mechanism, for sure.
>
> Time to take off the gloves, (latex, nitirile, or otherwise) get to the task
> at hand and help us finger this one out. We've already digitized all we can,
> so we can't go out on a limb to guess with this one.
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> Dennis "Yes, I WOULD like fries with that and could you do them up in light
> crude, please" Moser
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> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Andale Mono">Okay, so Holly's cleaning up =
> some OCR'd texts and she came across this one. If anyone out there =
> working in&nbsp; petrochem industry-related archives can identify this =
> term, you win the prize (as yet undetermined beyond our aeternal =
> gratitude).</FONT></P>
>
> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Andale Mono">&quot;New Drilling Record =
> Set!</FONT>
> </P>
>
> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Andale Mono">Humble set a new drilling record =
> in California when its first well in the Fillmore field, Caistic =
> Junction District, was completed on July 6.</FONT></P>
>
> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Andale Mono">Subsequent to SPUDDING, the =
> Filmore Operating Unit 1, Well 1, was drilled...&quot;</FONT>
> </P>
>
> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Andale Mono">Spudding?!?! Not an arcane Irish =
> faminee's tactic for gaining sustenance...certainly not an Idahoan =
> defense mechanism, for sure.</FONT></P>
>
> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Andale Mono">Time to take off the gloves, =
> (latex, nitirile, or otherwise) get to the task at hand and help us =
> finger this one out. We've already digitized all we can, so we can't go =
> out on a limb to guess with this one.</FONT></P>
>
> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Andale Mono">Dennis &quot;Yes, I WOULD like =
> fries with that and could you do them up in light crude, please&quot; =
> Moser</FONT>
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