Years ago, when I started in the drilling business, training of new hands was almost non-existent. Drillers expected new hands to know what to do and how to do it without any instruction – almost as if they were supposed to be born with the knowledge of how to make the tongs bite or slip the drill line.
There is an underlying message in my article this month. You cannot turn on the radio or television without hearing about the drilling industry these days. It does not matter that it’s offshore oil drilling – for Joe Public, it is drilling.
“What
is a jet pump, and how does it differ from a centrifugal pump? A jet pump
actually is two pumps in one – a centrifugal pump and a jet assembly, commonly
called an injector.”
The
grouting of wells has become a large part of the drilling industry in recent
years. Water well, environmental wells, mineral exploration boreholes, and
ground source heat pump installations make up a large part of the grouting in
our industry.
The
blowout, fire and sinking of the rig Deepwater Horizon, and the tragic loss of
11 of our peers in the drilling industry, will be with us much longer than it
takes to clean up the environmental mess.
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