This video shows the oil well drilling process including animated diagrams. Examines how oil is found, how it is formed and the tools / machinery involved in the oil mining industry. / @16mmeducationalfilms
I started roughnecking in the oil fields in August of 1958 and worked for the next 54 years. Never missed but just a couple of paydays during that time. I started at the bottom, started working lead tongs, then backup tongs, motor man, derrick man and driller. I finished working 46 years as a directional driller. Had a good life and would do it again it I had to. Made more money than I could imagine. I retired at the age of 72 and in good health and with all of my fingers.
You started about the time my dad started he started in north Dakota in the 50s then all over the country to Alaska . He was on the north slope most of the time. He would go south to work for the winters he was fishing in Evanston when he died real young 42
That's awesome.. i am interested in being a drilling or production engineer. right now i am pursuing masters in petroleum engineering at the university of Tulsa. Do you have any contact still so that i can get an internship this summer which i am very eager for? Thanks
I worked as a seismic IE in the 70's for 9 1/2 years and knew it was tough to be a rough neck, but this film clearly shows how technical and difficult it really is to sink a hole. Marvelous video and super informative.
I was on drilling rigs as a young boy with my dad a drill Erin the 50’s and 60’s. I will never forget the rig sounds of diesel motors, cable singing and breaks applied. I spend 48 years in wireline services on a lot of rigs, land, on inland waters and Gulf of Mexico. It’s hard work, long hours and weeks away from home. Glad I am retired now, quite a few don’t make it. I miss them.
Every 30 feet they have to stop the drilling, to connect a new pipe and if its a 9000 ft well, they have to change 300 times to reach to the final depth. Never thought how tough it is until I saw this video. Amazing Video. We want more of this..
Over 25,000 ft long hole offshore from Santa Barbara, CA horizontally through very hard chert beds at 3 to 4 ft per hour at times with luck with hours and days spent pulling up to change quickly dulled bits.
Old documentaries were no-nonsense, straight facts for the common man. This, imo, is part of why American's were smarter back then - I'm referring to the common man, not intellectuals or politicians. Back in my grandfather's day, most men knew far more than now; more useful information at least. It makes sense too that the availability of information during the internet age would muddy the waters and cause many people to waste intellectual resources on worthless info
Love these kinds of films... informative and entertaining. Doesn't matter that it is a bit dated, main concepts never change. We just rely on technology more than gut feeling now. Good Oilmen could make good guess as to depth of well, flow rate, and field size.
I logged mud for years. You had to measure its specific gravity and viscosity and order adjustments to keep it flowing properely. Kind of simple once you had it visualized but a lot of the guys weren't able to do it. Don't know why. It wasn't hard so I did it for 30 years...mostly offshore. Meanwhile my gf was onshore doing my best friend. Worked out though. Put lots in the bank and found a better girl... for the next 40 years. Bigtime Cowboys fan now and can't wait for the 22 season. Wife has pilots license and owns a Mooney so we go to 5-7 Cowboy games a year. Life is good
That was an incredible video. My family has worked in the oil and gas industry all our lives. My grandfather, my dad, and me all union pipeline welders.
Howard Hughes, Sr. did not invent the rotary drill bit, but he was the first to file a patent on it. As an attorney, he knew how to capitalize on other people's failure to secure IP rights. His real genius was in leasing the bits rather than selling them. It has taken others a century to appreciate how lucrative this business model is.
Legend has it that Hughes' father bought the rotary drill design from a drunk engineer that needed money at a Shreveport, LA tavern. Howard Sr. then had a few made in Shreveport to test in the Smackover Play before filing a patent on his final design. Then he leased the bits so he could get them back to be resharpened and leased again. He probably required a hefty deposit for each one to ensure he got them back.
@@EDesigns_FL Who invented the rotary drill bit? Howard R. Hughes Sr. (September 9, 1869 - January 14, 1924) was an American businessman and inventor. He was the founder of Hughes Tool Company. He invented the "Sharp-Hughes" rotary tri-cone rock drill bit during the Texas Oil Boom. ... Howard Robard Hughes Sr.
I was a drill bit salesman for Smith Tool Company in the 70s and 80s. We mopped the floor with Hugh's Tool Company. They were the first but not the best.
I studied geology and mining. I am a graduate trainee in an Energy company. I work in the exploration and production unit. This lecture was very informative.
Nice to see some of my old colleagues at work in the first part of this film, I've workt on one of these rigs, the last one was the same age as I was back then. I've started on these rigs back in 1981, but this film is much earlier.
Hey what was your main motivation for working the rigs back then? What kept you going thru all those tireless nights and cold working shifts. What made you feel like this is where you’re meant to be?
@@kieranrigs4192 Back then it was a job opportunity, but it soon grew on me. I've worked on the rigs for 20 years, started as a roughneck and ended as a drilling engineer, thanks to the education programme Shell offered back then.
Worked as petroleum geologist in the eighties an nineties and spent hundreds of days and nights at drilling sites like these. Although more then 20 years have passed the so familiar sounds of drilling operations strike me as I was just now living the site. always thought roughnecks work is hard but now when I am old and seeing this from a distance of time I rely admire them.
Loved the video. Very interesting! I was born and raised in the oil field. West Texas and eastern New Mexico. I've managed to work in most every capacity from staking out where the wells were going to be drilled to drilling them to completing them to being a company man for several oil companies. I even welded both in the field and in rig building yards.
Fantastic video. Been in the oil patch for 23years working on the construction side and the processing side but never the drilling, pretty cool for sure.
Thanks, I transfer the 16mm films to digital - this one came out pretty clear - it's hard because of so many factors - condition of film, temp, focusing, my own eyes can't see as well any more, exposure, etc. I'll keep my eyes open for more films like this though. Glad you appreciate the film - Jerry
Thanks for a very interesting and informative, even if I'm certain many technical developments have been made since this film, I expect that the "basics" still apply :) Best regards
@@16mmEducationalFilms No, toilet paper does change. When I was a kid my school had these horrible little single pieces that when folded over were about the size of a business card and the material was like wax paper. Perfect for little clumsy hands...small pieces of slippery paper to clean up messy bottoms. Haven't seen that type of TP for at least 20 years.....thank god
Do they made a lot of changes do they made a lot of changes the old smaller companies that don't have much money still have same old rigs but the newer companies they're badass they look like little cities piece of cake I don't know why the color roughnecking anymore should be called picnicking LMAO SMH
Now a days we go down about a mile and start bending the well almost to ninety degrees and go another mile. Perforate the pipe and frack . This is why wells last much longer then we first began.
i just wow, by the way, im a petroleum engineering student, and i just interisted that drilling oil and gas platform, this video more complex to explained than i got from my collage, thanks mate!
@@16mmEducationalFilms Do Geothermal Drilling and separated to Steam. Nicola Telsa said in 1931, Geothermal drilled down into to the Earths heat will produce Electric power. It does that today.. (see Ormat Tech.)
I started as a mud mixer in 1991 with Flint drilling company and became a 12 hrs. Tool pusher in 3 Years also worked for the precion drilling h and p and many other oil companies
28 years in the patch. Trew chain on a triple motor man supervised building lease in Castaic ca. Became pumper on that lease for about 16 years. I am now 70. Started in 1976 on rig.grew up in Piru CA. Raised daughters in Fillmoe. No in Grass Valley Ca 15:01 15:09
We had a nipple up shop, them & the on call welder would be out at the rig as soon as the casing was run and cemented in, welder would weld the flange on, nipple up crew would attach the BOP, and the driller would have the fellas start tripping back into the hole. BOP was a piece of case pipe until you needed to control a gas kick. If the pipe started coming back out of the hole, there are rams that shut, severing the drill string and closing the hole. Then everybody runs like hell anywhere but there.
This is just a little Rig. We use one that uses three 30 foot sections. But there is a few rigs that use four sections. They drill for oil. We drill for steam. Geothermal Water that turns to steam. GREEN POWER. Otherwise, all the same.
Successfully drilling for oil is a very difficult and demanding process. The Germans never discovered how, although they were good at mining coal, etc. One of the main reasons they lost the war that the history books won't tell you.
It didn’t really have much to do with their inability to do so. They just didn’t have any real oil reserves to tap. Most of Western Europe doesn’t. That’s why the empires fell.
This video is very poorly titled... it seems to be about how oil is drilled and pumped up from underground... but this says nothing at all about how oil is actually formed.
What's crazy is even then there was the concern of low oil😁. I can kinda understand why hydrogen and EV vehicles are trying to be a thing, sorta. Technology have significantly change since this video, cars are more efficient than ever, I'm positive we'll have plenty of oil during my lifetime
There will always be plenty of oil. It's the second most plentiful substance after water on Earth and it replenishes itself. They want you to think it's scarce to keep the price up.
The US DoD hired Exxon in the 1960's to explore the use of hydrogen as a fuel for vehicles. Exxon got Texas A&M to help out where they determined the cost of the special alloys needed for the engine, line fittings and storage tanks made hydrogen too expensive to consider using. In the 1980's Ford looked into developing engines that ran on hydrogen and shelved the plans after determining the cost would add 30% to the cost of a standard car. Then the Big Three automakers looked into shared platforms for lighter weight cars and trucks using the same engines, drivetrains and suspensions with different style body panels and interiors that snapped in place like Lego blocks then bolted down. The idea was to have the components shipped to regional warehouses around the World where unskilled workers could assemble vehicles when orders came in. Two engines were to be offered with one being Diesel and another with a plastic block that ran on methanol. The methanol engine was for urban use and in regions were methanol was easy to produce like Brazil. They cancelled the project when they sensed that the public around the World had no interest in anything like that.
@@billwilson3609 plastic engine blocks! You know I thought of this randomly. How greedy could manufactures be to produce something like that🤔? in today's time that is.
@@partsshooter Wasn't due to greed but to reduce the weight of the vehicle and increase the power and mpg's by using ethanol. The block was to be made from high strength and heat resistant plastic. The only metal parts were the crank, bearings, rods, pistons, cylinder liners, cam, head, valve components, water pump and bolts. The combustion chambers and piston crowns were to be coated with a ceramic with the motor oil being a lifetime silicone lubricant. It was designed to run at very high rpm's on a very lean mixture with the power going to a multispeed automatic transmission that would allow it to get around 70 mpg in town and over 100 mpg on the highway. They figured that cities around the World with smog problems would be interested in seeing vehicles using those being sold there but weren't, so they cancelled the project. I'm sure they still have the plans on hand since producing ethanol is a lot easier and cheaper than rechargeable batteries. Back then they also had designs for plants that took in municipal trash, removed the metals, glass and plastics then ground-up what remained into a mash that had yeast added to ferment the sugars into alcohol. Then the mash was distilled to remove the alcohol then cooked longer to extract the water for reuse. Then the dried out mash was transported to farm fields to be plowed under to add nutrients and organic matter to the soil. They figured those could be built by existing sanitary landfills since those could be mined once conservation measures have people producing less trash.
America has (supposed to have) it's own 400 year supply. Forget the other countries. Why we fight for oil around the world is just an exercise of power. My Dad said, we should use theirs before we share ours. Beginning to believe his words.
@@misatoblushing6913 Nah, i'm an industrial mechanic ;) But from what i've heard they have a pretty strong "new guy" mentality, so you're gonna have to prove yourself and earn theyr respect.
@@gabrielathero It's called "making a hand". And don't ever challenge them that they can't pipe dope your ass or you'll be riding back from work with your ass covered in wooley booger pipe dope. Think Henry's wet patch roof coating but worse. Except Mike Tyson, I'm pretty sure nobody is gonna pipe dope his ass.
Do you have any issues with copyright claims abuse on here in regards to vids you upload? Another youtuber I know of, Fran Blanche, has been having all sorts of issues with claims on old films they convert from old film rolls and upload to youtube, so I just figured I'd ask since you seem to have the same sort of stuff. So do you have a lot of claims on vids you upload? If not, how do you manage to get around that, so to speak? Thanks!
drilling fluids have changed a lot, though the simpler water-based ones still have their place. essentially it is water, plus a weighting agent (often barite), a viscosifier (like bentonite), potassium chloride to reduce reactions with clays in the rock, plus or minus some other additives to control pH and other properties. oil-based muds are more complex and expensive, but have advantages over water based fluids. Halliburton (Baroid) and M-I SWACO (now part of Schlumberger) are 2 companies providing specialized drilling fluids today.
Generally, how long would a drill bit last? I know it would vary depending on type of rock, equipment efficiency, drill operator etc..Also, when did they stop using chains to tighten and take apart the sections?
Throwing chains were ended in about the 70’s due to safety and speed . Lot of fingers lost throwing chains. Chains were used to spin the pipe, then torqued by the tongs .
Not that I'm saying anything about older folks but I love these old videos because they aren't overtly complex and I think that might have something to do with studies showing that each generation gets a bit higher in iq (don't seem like it nowadays though)
@@avgjoe-cz7cb Plants are where oil started to begin with, it's only natural. Digesting all that plant matter to produce oil on an industrial scale is gonna take a lot of energy. They'll have it worked out by then.
An this, ladies & gentlemen, is why a gallon of gas cost 27 cents in 1951 ($3.01 in 2022 money). An this, ladies & gentlemen, is why a gallon of gas cost 35 cents in 1969 ($2.75 in 2022 money).
If they were running out of places to drill back then, that means the earth will run out, soon. Especially considering there's more than twice as many people burning it, now.😩
Back then there wasn't the technology and ability to extract oil from places they knew held oil. Horizontal drilling and fracking open up more areas as opposed to drilling straight down.
I question the popular notion that petroleum is a fossil fuel. The deposits of petroleum exist far deeper than any fossil bed. How did the petroleum get so much deeper than the deepest fossil bed? It would be somewhat understandable if petroleum was just a tiny bit deeper than the deepest fossil beds. But it is much, much, deeper. Also, the easy petroleum to get was extremely shallow. Some surveys of depleted wells found the wells filled with petroleum again. There is no explanation for that. Besides all this, why is petrol still a fuel for automobiles at all? Why has the planet not moved to diesel? That is the forever fuel.
SHELL...I KNOW IT IS THE BEST RIFINED OIL AND GAS ON EARTH...THIS IS WHY WE SEE SHELL AT MOST AIRPORTS...(OMEGA TOOK SHELL OIL AND RE REFINED IT TO BE THE CLEANEST...74 I BELIEVE...NOT SURE IF THEY ARE STILL IN BUSINESS(???)
@@lukestrawwalker I worked for Schlumberger of Canada in the early 1970's. Fracking was starting then, but it wasn't until directional drilling was perfected that it was worth the cost of fracking.
