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Mentally retarded shell commercial?
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Have you seen that Shell gas commercial where the older guy and younger kid are in a restaurant, and the kid is polishing off his milkshake and the guy is just looking at him in deep thought like he has some kind of idea?......WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?
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Maybe he's feeling sorry for the kid cause he knows he's going to experience a semen-covered death in a basement somewhere
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That is how the engineer that invented directional drilling thought of the idea of a bent mud motor. It is now common place and revolutionized the drilling industry.
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it took a fucking milkshake for someone to think of that? your lying it probly came from some one with the common since to get all the oil out of the hole
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are you in the oil industry? you no your stuff about bent mud moters?
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There is a lot more than you think to getting oil out of the ground.
Anyway a mud motor is a piece of machinery that is place directly after the bit in a drilling string. By running mud through this motor at high velocity it causes rotors inside to spin thus spinning the bit.
Putting a slight bend (usally 1 or 2 degrees) allows a drilling string to turn underground.
Basically it allows you to change driection underground. Infact it is possible to turn 90 degrees in 100 feet of drill pipe.
It is also possible to drill straight down make 2 90 degree turns and come back up at the surface. This method is sometimes used to run wires under lakes mountians or roads.
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I am a petroleum engineer
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you gotta use the right weight of mud, or else say bye-bye to your drilling platform!
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i was thinking of becoming a mud engineer im looking more at the drilling side now though
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ya its actually pretty crazy. Your mud weight is what puts a hydrostatic force on the formation. If you mud weight is too low your formation could blow out. There are devices called Blow Out Preventors. or BOP's that can close in a well that is kicking back but accidents occur when these are either not in place or used incorrectly.
I have seen rigs that have blown out with the tubing inside. It was insane. It looked like the top of a barbwire fence except for 300 yards long and 67 pound per foot pipe. They all rolled up on the ground outside of the rig.
If your mud weight is too high you blow out your formation and fuck up your 4 million dollar well.
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haha owned thats gotta be the best n00b ownage ever
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it is pretty crazy. The company I work for is doing a project for SNEPCO's offshore rigs, so I've had to learn about that stuff.
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Mobile Environmental Technologies, we clean the cuttings so TPH level are nondetect so that they can reinject them, and we clean the muds and return them to the rig to be used again.
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That off shore shit is pretty cool.
I dont know a whole lot about it but I want to try to get some experience in a couple of years.
Do you know why they would want to re inject the cuttings?
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word I was ready to go with wikipedia.
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well SNEPCO is shell's Nigerian branch pretty much, so they want to do everything offshore, because there's a lot of unrest and rebel activity in Nigeria - transporting to shore/having/treating onshore of contaminated drilling byproducts is a big liability for them, because if anything happens because of the rebel groups, the DPR (Nigeria's EPA kinda) will hold shell responsible.
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well actually i was asking because im wanting to work of shore so ...... and he seamed the guy to ask.
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