Oh, Frack! – small dead animals

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fiddle- If you were involved in the industry, you’d know how remote locations are exploited. The only benefit to local people is some temporary jobs. Any growth is from migration of workers, and equipment, as I mentioned. Places like Rainbow Lake are 95% immigrant populations. They’ll be ghost towns in 20 years, just like Tuktuyaktuk.
a@c- Not sure what you’re getting at. There’s a fairly robust economy in the vicinity of this picture. There are some people with their hands out, but not as many as you’re suggesting.

Oh yeah, the guy in the picture is trespassing. Wellheads are not to be toyed with. There’s probably 500 PSI casing pressure.

It’s obvious that none of these provinces need equalization money if they can afford to stop whole industries from starting up and operating in their provinces.

Texas-Canuck
I’ve got a 22 year old from CB who has been in Calgary working with us since he was 17. As connected as kids are nowdays, he keeps in touch with his family and peers on a daily basis.
I asked him what he thought of the above article and the general mindset of folks back home.
At 22 years old he pretty much concurs with what PMSH said about the culture of defeatism in AC and talked about the pougie/welfare mentality of his peers.
He went back home a few years back with a wad of cash and played the role while he was on a well deserved holiday. He came back and told me a story about how his girlfriends mom scolded him because a kid his age didn’t deserve that much money. Funny thing is the kid earned the money doing “piece work” not hourly. He explained to her how he made it and she was aghast. Merit and hard, efficient work isn’t fair it seems.
So I think you are correct, the kids with some gumption are where the work is, most others don’t want to work and in fact have become schooled in dependancy.

I’d go skating at the outdoor oval but it is +8c and raining.

Coach
As far as that wellhead goes I have a few thoughts…
Looks like a 10″ 10,000 psi wellhead.
The Casing and Master valves appear to be locked out in the standard oilpatch fashion.
Everything is bull plugged.
The dognut lag screws appear to be neither full locked or full open.
The tubing hanger bolts are done up sloppily…unequal thread exposure…
As far as casing pressure goes…no way to know from this picture…

Good for you syncro. You know one kid from Cape Breton, and you can name the parts of a wellhead. Outstanding!

@ Texas-Canuck, I read your comment @ 3:39 and my sympathies go out to you. Unfortunately every province people with that mindset. They have more control in some provinces than others.
BTW, my family on the paternal side got some of those fish. Thank you. You send your young men and women out here and we will give them a job and a new mindset.
@ syncrodox, good for you, keep up the good work young fella.

Syncrodox, coach.
Its not how I’d leave a well but then what was the abandonment, I don’t know and I suspect you don’t either.
“Unequal thread exposure” ha I thought it was just me being picky… sorry, “anal twat” I think was the last term I heard!
I also suspect its not really that long since it was abandoned judging by the state and the surround.
I grant you things sometimes ain’t always so but shouldn’t be any pressure if abandonment was done as per industry standards.
ANYWAY
Happy New Year to all those that not having time off are involved in the thankless task of keeping the lights bright.

Thanks Ken. DSV, not the way I ever left a wellhead either, abandonded or otherwise.
coach..If you figure it’s just one kid and a few wellhead parts I know…well…I’de love to hear your assessment of both the wellhead and the social condition in question.
Happy New Years all.

What about all the little brown people hired to work in warm cozy Calgary labs, and run around high-rise hallways with a little white card that say’s Engineer to appease the Liberal left?
All those years of displacing young and capable white people would go to waste if you ever shut down the oil patch. Think of the grandparents in India for Kristina’s sake!!!!!!

coach >
I’ve pulled onto locations with leaking wellheads a few times before. Once out south Rocky Mnt Hse, that was over +15% sour.
I was alone, had no mask with me only a gas detector but initially parked off location, circled upwind and could then hear it vent occasionally as I approached “carefully”. Lots of trees out west that can capture and redirect wind direction.
I simply backed out called the office and waited on a maintenance crew, they arrived “masked up” to retighten the flanges.
People are pretty stupid when they don’t bother to read and then heed the signs; they are there for a reason!

Knight 99
Too true, unfortunately.
And yes been there with the H2S as well, I just love the bit explaining to town why we’re not doing anything.
Hey ho the world over its the same.
Stupid, reminds me last night I explained with the help of a bit of “lubrication” why I couldn’t believe in evolution and had to believe in the Almighty, because you know there are far to many stupid people still around for evolution to be a valid theory.

You’re right, coach, can’t be done. Hasn’t benefited anyone locally in Alberta.
Keep that hand out…

Most Newfoundlanders/Labradorians and Maritimers don’t feel like this.
Unfortunately most of them are working in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Northern BC. This leaves a huge number of right leaning East Coasters away during elections. The proportion of voters is unnaturally high on the welfare/gov’t employee side than it should be.
Also, just because one a@@hole wrote an article about one a@@hole who doesn’t want to see a few pipes, doesn’t mean you should paint a whole province that way. I seem to remember a lot of news about someone trying to blow up gas pipelines and trying to prevent construction of Site C dam in Northern BC. Doesn’t mean the people in general OR the government of the province are against the plan. That’s NORMAL MEDIA BS and SDA regulars of all people should recognize it for what it is.
I’m not saying there don’t need to be some changes back east; industry needs to flourish there – but there are some disadvantages as well. Goods shipped across the atlantic bypass the east coast and head straight to Toronto/Montreal. They don’t share a border with the US(exc. NB) Heck it often costs more to get to NL from the west coast than it does to get to Europe or most of the States. The fact that they are behind back east puts them at a disadvantage in growth.
Most of those things are just basic facts and don’t reflect on Westerners or Easterners. Certainly no province should ever turn down industry.

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