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You haave to keep in mind that there are still guys like that in the industry. They just do not often work for some companies. It is a small oil patch, and word gets around.

I asked to be put on a blacklist with one company and refused to work for them because their operation was such a mess--not that that was necessarily dangerous, but it was not going to make a well.

I'd rather spend my time and energy bringing a well in.

If they just want to piss their AFE away, throw me a wad and go to Vegas...but don't get me on a location where the chain of command is run by someone 1500 miles away who wants to micromanage a fast moving and changing situation but consistently can't be bothered to get out a decision in 12 hours.

I can't think of a better way to get a lateral out of zone (or never get it in) than be drilling across the top of a small structure and have some person elsewhere insist on calling the shots on secondhand hours old data.

Any more, if you are two hours behind the bit, you might as well be drilling on another planet.