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Re: And now for something completely different:



Title: And now for something completely different:
I was raised in the oilfield; in fact my earliest memory is of going out to a drilling rig with my dad (a "triple" BTW) and looking up at this pyramid of lights going up into the black sky, and the noise!  The vibrations!  Anyway; spudding refers to the process of starting a new well; the drilling of the initial hole (somewhat larger than the drillhole) is called spudding the well.  The area around the spud is enlarged to contain BOPs (blowout preventers) and the "christmas tree" or wellhead, and is commonly called the "rathole."
 
Just back from the river, and a question I can answer!  What could be better?

Roy Webb, C.A.
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University of Utah
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-----Original Message-----
From: Moser, Dennis [mailto:dmoser@LEE.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 12:05 PM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
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