To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Crap. They still have meters and gages, and a guy watching the flow in the mud pit. It may not be as modern but tens of thousands of wells were drilled without computers. First drilling engineer I ever saw on a rig was using a slide rule.
It took a bunch of people not doing the job for this to happen.
14 posted on
07/24/2010 10:40:03 AM PDT by
HoustonCurmudgeon
("I'll try to be NICER, if you will try to be SMARTER!" ~ MNJohnnie, FReeper)
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
"It took a bunch of people not doing the job for this to happen." It took the Harvard MBAs that the Seven Sisters hire, rather then some poor tool pusher who grew up in the Oil Patch, and went to school at night. This is what you get when you treat a business and a mechanical process as a practical application of economic theory.
72 posted on
07/24/2010 11:37:03 AM PDT by
jonascord
(We've got the Constitution to protect us. Why should we worry?)
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
"It took a bunch of people not doing the job for this to happen." It took the Harvard MBAs that the Seven Sisters hire, rather then some poor tool pusher who grew up in the Oil Patch, and went to school at night. This is what you get when you treat a business and a mechanical process as a practical application of economic theory.
73 posted on
07/24/2010 11:37:03 AM PDT by
jonascord
(We've got the Constitution to protect us. Why should we worry?)
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