[Smokin' Joe]

Actually, no, I'm not proud. I have spent the last 25 years working horizontal wells, and throughout the whole time this has been news, I have tried my darndest to teach people the difference between drilling and fraccing, oil rigs and pump jacks, and clarify a number of fundamental terms from the oil industry for folks who do not work in the oil patch.

I confess I have been a dismal failure.

I still see fresh reports in the media which call fraccing a drilling technique, and which demonstrate such fundamental misusage of basic terminology they belie a complete ignorance of how oil wells are drilled and completed. That is either the result of 'learning' from people who have no clue, either, or the result of refusing to do basic research.

Those mistakes ring out to people in the industry like someone describing auto repairs to a mechanic which would involve putting the fuel injectors back in the transmission or changing out the turn signal blinker fluid filter.

Sorry to have been so abrupt, but in the interest of intelligent discussion I will continue to call out such errors where I find them.

[Dusty Road]

Some times Joe you just have to shake your head and smile or as the penguins in the movie Madagascar say “Just smile and wave boy’s just smile and wave”.