[Recon Dad]

Since you worked deep wells have you heard about or were aware of a deep find that runs from just west of Baton Rouge, La west toward the Texas line? Back in the early 80's the find was announced as the deepest in the US. I followed it, but it just disappeared from the news. I always felt it was due to the depth and price of oil, but I thought it would eventually hit the radar screen again when oil prices got high.

[geopyg]

No - I don't know much about the oil find you mentioned. I DO know that on the first rig I was working on in Wyoming the driller said we stopped short of the gas zone (I imagine he knew where it was as he had been drilling in that region for several years). He said the company would do that once in awhile and could claim the hole as a loss for tax purposes, then when gas prices went up they would go the last few thousand feet and open it up - but with most of the labor being done at cheaper rates.

The more I think about it though I'm not so sure he was right. It's an awful big deal to get a rig set up that can get down 25k feet. And I would imagine that the environmental permitting would have to be done all over again.