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 …
As you drive across the vast United States, you might just see a lot of pumpjacks depending on where you’re at. This is for a number of reasons. In this video, we go on site to a pumpjack in the …
All across the oilfield, many items are called weird names and “monkey boards” are no exception. In this video, I sat out to show you what monkey boards are as I drove by a local rig. My timing was impeccable …
As we recently explored in “Why So Much Traffic,” one of the most prevalent impacts to the communities surrounding oil and gas activity is that of increased traffic – and not just pickup trucks. In this video, Derek drives along …
In this video, Derek and Sebastian go through the four different types of petroleum engineers: drilling, completions, reservoir, and finally production engineers. As current college students and future petroleum engineers, understanding the four main types of petroleum engineers is a …
One of the biggest complaints that the public has regarding oil and gas development is the traffic that everyone must put up with. Small one-stoplight-towns can boom overnight with a sudden increase in truck traffic, and they’re not small trucks …