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Re: This Spud's for you (was" and now for something completely differ ent")



Spudding is to actually break the surface of the earth and start drilling.

( I cheated - we have an employee here who was formerly in the oil and gas
industry. )

Steve Fisher
University of Denver

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Hodges, Holly wrote:

> After concerns were raised that the original subject line may not have been
> adequately specific (the responses we've received have been most helpful and
> many thanks!), I'm reposting the original with a more appropriate subject
> line....
>
> Holly
> __________________________
> 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
>
> _____________________________
>

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