Milwaukees Best Light said:
Ag_07 said:
Haha
Spent too much time early in my career walking a field around with a Shoenstad looking for flush mounted wells.
It was always relief to see stickups.
One of my first sampling jobs was in a refinery. I spent 20 minutes looking for a flush mount, then I got operators involved and spent another 20 minutes with us all looking. Yeah, my front tire was parked on top of it. Oops.
I was doing a job up in Michigan that we started in February, drilling soil borings on a 100' grid across a property and occasionally installing wells. There was about 3' of snow on the ground, so it was very obvious where we had been by the wallowed out wheel ruts through the snow made by the rig, driller's supply truck, and the environmental truck driving down the grid lines from point to point.
After about a week of work and probably 40 borings and 4-5 wells, we had a visit from the Michigan DNR (now EGLE) since they were funding part of the work. The guy they sent out talked with us for a bit while watching the drillers work, then asked if we had installed any wells yet. I said yes and directed him to go look on the next grid line over. He walked around for about 20-30 minutes up and down a couple of the grid lines, then came back and asked again where the wells were. The only thing on the site that was not covered in snow were the tire ruts and the dark red stickup boxes that he had walked several circles around. I pointed to one, and he said "Oh, I had never seen an aboveground completion before, I was looking for flush mount pads."
