Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

You're probably seeing casing. It's for new wells. If you don't case and cement the well, the formation will swell up and shut the hole in in a matter of days/hours. If it were from old wells, they go in a few hundred feet, cut the casing, and then cement the whole thing shut, and the pipe looks like hell. It's possible that it's actual drill stem, but there isn't nearly as much of that on the road, because it gets reused over and over, and generally stays local to that area. Here's some pics of the difference. You can see the drill pipe has the female (box) end molded as part of the pipe. But the casing actually has a collar screwed to one end.

Drill pipe (drill stem):


Casing:

 

Most of it is casing then. Different colors. Lot's of pink.

 

Yeah, drill pipe won't have color. You're seeing casing. It's always a good thing to see. Means a well is somewhere at least getting drilled. Doesn't mean it's coming on line, but they're at least drilling it. Once they want to produce it, they'll set what's called a "packer", and land even smaller casing into the packer inside the casing they already put in the hole. That way the bigger casing stays protected, and if they need to replace the smaller "production" casing, they can pull the small stuff out, and replace it. Figure the casing they cement in place to be around 4.5" - 5.5" OD, and production "tubing" (casing) around 2 3/8" OD. Still looks the same, just smaller diameter.

 

I did a Vegas stop over at the Stratosphere. It was a nice night. They have truck parking too.

 

And a lot of leases don't have all the wells drilled either. The few right around me only have 4 out of 8 holes drilled. A few weeks ago a work over rig came up and put in a conductor hole. Haliburton came up and cemented it. Id imagine pretty soon a rig will be up here.

 

Most of it around here is 13 3/8 surface 9 5/8 for intermediate and 5.5 for production

 

Dragging something on my deck is a good way to get the winch bar thrown at you …

 

But but they cause gas in our water from fracking. Ha ha always found this funny since it has nothing to do with the frac and all to do with the casing.

 

that used to drive me crazy. Guess they really wanted to do it like that on some test holes. Or just didn’t have the money in the spot to do it in the qtr or year. Crazy how some of that works.

 

hell yeah, with no shirt and sun reflecting off him like tin foil