In this video blog, Derek explores the Oceanstar Museum in Galveston, TX to learn more about the basics of offshore oil and gas operations. In the video, Derek learns a little bit of everything ranging from offshore drilling platforms & …
In this video, Derek walks through an old abandoned wellsite and provides his thoughts on the potential dangers and issues with abandoned wells.
In this video, we interview Scott Gillespie with Apergy, a company centered around artificial lift. Their rod-lift model is perfect for visually observing what happens downhole! In the model, we have a pump barrel, a traveling, and a standing valve. The traveling …
In this video we examine the wellhead setup of a conventional well on rod lift. Please note that wellheads in particular can be setup many different ways, but the fundamentals are always the same. Watching the video is always going …
In this video, I check out a local conventional wellsite in SW Ohio. This site, like many across our country, has a vertical conventional well on rod lift (with a pump jack). I start off by discussing some basics of …