Although you may not realize it, you are a very interesting storyteller in a way in which even someone who has no previous knowledge can learn alot from you !
This is cool man...I grew up in the Ohio Valley and my family had some 1800's wells that were in the Big Engine sand. I spent alot of time with my grandfather pumping brine and finally we would get some good olive green gold lol. And, all the family had wonderful, free, natural gas. Pap-pap piped all the family on the hill into those wells.
Driving across the country and seeing those oil wells pumping along the freeway I always wondered how they actually worked and processed oil. I just learned more about oil wells than I ever thought I would know. Thanks for the vid.
Grew up in the oilfields in Kansas. I went to work in it right outta high school. I worked on the subsurface pumps for like 3 years repairing them. Tubing and rod pumps. So I get most of your talk about here brother. Lol 👍
Really enjoyed this and the one with the 100 year old well. Grew up in the Rangely oil patch in the 1960's. While not affiliated with the industry directly, I have aways loved the old pumpjacks and still enjoy being shown how they work and how it all fits together. Oil not only "smells like money" to me, it smells like home.
Extremely interesting. One thinks he understands a system, only to find out there are several more layers of complexity to it. Thanks. Well explained (no pun intended).
I had an Army buddy who lived in Tyler Texas who had a well that was drilled and maintained by a company. He had no knowledge of how the well worked, other than when it pumped it pumped money. Thanks for explaining how the well worked. I ride in Michigan and they have some of these pumps where we ride. Now I know how they work. Also, my Wife's Grandpa, who lived (he is now dead) in Ky also had a well and they used the gas to heat with and cook. They used to use coal, which was also strip mined off his land. The whole area went from dirt poor and heating and cooking with coal (dug by hand from a coal seam) to relative wealth and heating and cooking with gas.
Watching the light diffract through that gas boiling out of the tank was something else. I learned a bit today. Always good to find out something new. Thanks man!
Zach your livelihood is amazing to me! I'm a gearhead and have worked on cars and small engines 25 of my 40 years of life. Up here in the northern midwest oil isnt a thing. I wish it was! I can't think of a better livelihood than fixing, maintaining, and running oil wells! What an amazing family legacy you have! Wish I could apprentice a guy like you to learn the trade.
