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Re: And now for something completely different:



Title: And now for something completely different:
There may also be an older antecedent to the use of spuds in oil fields.  The area just east of Sacramento and certain locations in Nevada and Wyoming were heavily mined for gold using dredges.  I believe the technology was also used to modify waterways in the Sacramento River delta between Sacramento and San Francisco.  Exemplified by the Natomas Company, dredges which were supported by 3 spuds (or legs) could creep along by lifting up first one spud and then another, moving along when an area was mined out.  The result was a field of pebbles and small boulders left in mole tunnel-like patterns.  Aerial views are quilt amazing.
 
Susan, whose astonishing knowledge of this subject area comes from records she processed because otherwise she knows little about engineering topics
 
Susan Searcy
Nevada State Library and Archives
sesearcy@clan.lib.nv.us
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From: Lucinda Glenn [mailto:lglenn@GTU.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:19 AM
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Subject: Re: And now for something completely different:

A search of the Library of Congress came up with a book:  Spudding in:  Recollections of Pioneer Days in the California Oil Fields by William Rintoul (San Francisco:  California Historical Society, 1976).  A fascinating read I am sure.
 
Lucinda (I'm going on vacation next week, but will not set an autoreply!) Glenn
Graduate Theological Union Archives
Berkeley, CA
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From: Moser, Dennis [mailto:dmoser@LEE.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:05 AM
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Subject: And now for something completely different:

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.

Dennis "Yes, I WOULD like fries with that and could you do them up in light crude, please" Moser