Editor’s note: Steve Kaser wrote about a remote, summer 2011 drilling job for April’s National Driller. This story describes a challenging Montana well decommissioning job from winter 2011.
In summer 2011, I had been involved in the drilling of a water well at a remote, fly-in-only hunting lodge in northeast Oregon and subsequently put together an article on the project for the various state association bulletins. (That article was republished in National Driller in April.) Because of the difficult logistics involved in obtaining a successful completion to that job, we had figured it would be highly unlikely anything more off the wall than that project would ever come up again. What is it they say? Don’t ever say never?