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Photos of the West Texas Desert
Survivalist86
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Very nice. That sky shot is amazing I can only imagine what that is like in real life. Thanks for the photos.
Can't sleep. Figured I would share some of my VERY amateur photography I have snapped while working out in the patch.
86-Any of those shots close to Stratford-Amarillo-Plainview[?][?]
Further west...South of Jal New Mexico. 3-4 miles into Texas.
My Lord is that a rig actually working and not stacked?!?! That's becoming a rarity.[:(]
It was. That is the flagship rig for a certain drilling company out here. Super High Tech M class Rig. It stacked out last week. Puts their rig count at 1 in West Texas. That is not much for the worlds largest Drilling contractor.
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Doug
thanks for sunset photo. The Patch is going to get worse - hang on.
You ever make it further ito NM? I am from Ruidoso.
Lance
That area in the Jal/Hobbs/Carlsbad triangle is a huge oil patch. I am an oilman. Believe it or not, I have never been to Ruidoso. Sent my wife there a few times. Unfortunatly she returned.
Somebody once asked me what i missed most about South Texas - i told them great dove hunting, cooking with mesquite heartwood and the sunsets....
thanks for sunset photo. The Patch is going to get worse - hang on.
Actually the patch has bottomed out. It will start recovering withing the next couple of months.
quote:Originally posted by zink
You ever make it further ito NM? I am from Ruidoso.
Lance
That area in the Jal/Hobbs/Carlsbad triangle is a huge oil patch. I am an oilman. Believe it or not, I have never been to Ruidoso. Sent my wife there a few times. Unfortunatly she returned.
Drove for Halliburton out of the Roswell camp in the 80's. Head up there some day (ruidoso), you will like it.
Lance
They even have a Web site to track the Poppies.
Them big pulleys there on that Nabors drilling rig........ I made them, get oil back up to $75 we are all in business again
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Them big pulleys there on that Nabors drilling rig........ I made them, get oil back up to $75 we are all in business again
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Ah..so you build the pulleys for the drawworks eh? Cool. Oil up to almost $60.00
[br\] The Patch is going to get worse - hang on.
You think? I think it's on the upswing now. None to soon also, because they are talking about cutting hours to 40.
quote:Originally posted by texaswildman
[br\] The Patch is going to get worse - hang on.
You think? I think it's on the upswing now. None to soon also, because they are talking about cutting hours to 40.
It is on the rebound. Got laid off around the low of $39.00. It is up to almost 60. Another 8-10 and a stabilization will prompt drilling again.
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quote:Originally posted by Kodiakk
quote:Originally posted by texaswildman
[br\] The Patch is going to get worse - hang on.
You think? I think it's on the upswing now. None to soon also, because they are talking about cutting hours to 40.
It is on the rebound. Got laid off around the low of $39.00. It is up to almost 60. Another 8-10 and a stabilization will prompt drilling again.
I'm lucky. I work for a smaller but still worldwide oilfield company that planned ahead and didn't lay anyone off yet. They did use this time to get rid of some folks that were begging to be fire though. I hope your work comes back real quick and sorry to hear about the layoff, but such is the beast in the oilfield. I always make sure to warn them greenhands to save money for a rainy day because the oilfield is worse then a rollcoaster with its ups and downs. Bad thing is most worms coming in don't have enough sense to heed the warning.
That is the opposite end of the earth from where I live, here in the rainy North Carolina mountains.
I would like to be out there in the desert at night to look at the stars.
Clouder..
quote:Originally posted by Survivalist86
quote:Originally posted by zink
You ever make it further ito NM? I am from Ruidoso.
Lance
That area in the Jal/Hobbs/Carlsbad triangle is a huge oil patch. I am an oilman. Believe it or not, I have never been to Ruidoso. Sent my wife there a few times. Unfortunatly she returned.
Drove for Halliburton out of the Roswell camp in the 80's. Head up there some day (ruidoso), you will like it.
Lance
I drove a nitrogen truck for Halliburton back in the 80s also. I was up in Indiana Pa. Then all the drilling up there stopped and everyone was layed off.
Man those pics of Texas makes me want to break out the 300 H&H and do some 1000 yard shooting. All that wide open space. I live in SC now and hardly able to shoot 300 yards on my property. And I can shoot 300 yards only because I cut down trees to clear a way. A thousand yards out there would be no problem at all.
quote:Originally posted by Survivalist86
quote:Originally posted by Kodiakk
quote:Originally posted by texaswildman
[br\] The Patch is going to get worse - hang on.
You think? I think it's on the upswing now. None to soon also, because they are talking about cutting hours to 40.
It is on the rebound. Got laid off around the low of $39.00. It is up to almost 60. Another 8-10 and a stabilization will prompt drilling again.
I'm lucky. I work for a smaller but still worldwide oilfield company that planned ahead and didn't lay anyone off yet. They did use this time to get rid of some folks that were begging to be fire though. I hope your work comes back real quick and sorry to hear about the layoff, but such is the beast in the oilfield. I always make sure to warn them greenhands to save money for a rainy day because the oilfield is worse then a rollcoaster with its ups and downs. Bad thing is most worms coming in don't have enough sense to heed the warning.
Oh, I have a lot of moola in the bank. No credit cards, no debt. I can live a long time. The worms never listen. Most of their money goes down the toilet on Saturday night.
quote:Originally posted by zink
quote:Originally posted by Survivalist86
quote:Originally posted by zink
You ever make it further ito NM? I am from Ruidoso.
Lance
That area in the Jal/Hobbs/Carlsbad triangle is a huge oil patch. I am an oilman. Believe it or not, I have never been to Ruidoso. Sent my wife there a few times. Unfortunatly she returned.
Drove for Halliburton out of the Roswell camp in the 80's. Head up there some day (ruidoso), you will like it.
Lance
I drove a nitrogen truck for Halliburton back in the 80s also. I was up in Indiana Pa. Then all the drilling up there stopped and everyone was layed off.
Man those pics of Texas makes me want to break out the 300 H&H and do some 1000 yard shooting. All that wide open space. I live in SC now and hardly able to shoot 300 yards on my property. And I can shoot 300 yards only because I cut down trees to clear a way. A thousand yards out there would be no problem at all.
I used to have a 7.5 x 55 Swiss Schmidt Ruben for that...until my safe was struck by lightening...and melted into *.
Nabors, Lewco, Bulldog, etc..... not sure about drawworks that doesn't ring a bell. The pulley behind me is for M & M Mars 72" dia for one of their mixers.
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Our Nabors rigs out here are all M or F class rigs. All computer controlled these days.
quote:Originally posted by Kodiakk
quote:Originally posted by Survivalist86
quote:Originally posted by Kodiakk
quote:Originally posted by texaswildman
[br\] The Patch is going to get worse - hang on.
You think? I think it's on the upswing now. None to soon also, because they are talking about cutting hours to 40.
It is on the rebound. Got laid off around the low of $39.00. It is up to almost 60. Another 8-10 and a stabilization will prompt drilling again.
I'm lucky. I work for a smaller but still worldwide oilfield company that planned ahead and didn't lay anyone off yet. They did use this time to get rid of some folks that were begging to be fire though. I hope your work comes back real quick and sorry to hear about the layoff, but such is the beast in the oilfield. I always make sure to warn them greenhands to save money for a rainy day because the oilfield is worse then a rollcoaster with its ups and downs. Bad thing is most worms coming in don't have enough sense to heed the warning.
Oh, I have a lot of moola in the bank. No credit cards, no debt. I can live a long time. The worms never listen. Most of their money goes down the toilet on Saturday night.
Sorry to say, but I was guilty of the same thing. [:D] Come back from being offshore for 2 weeks and knew I only had a day or two before I had to head back out. I single handly probally put a good 10 to 20 strippers through college before my wife hooked me.[:I]
quote:Originally posted by Survivalist86
quote:Originally posted by Kodiakk
quote:Originally posted by Survivalist86
quote:Originally posted by Kodiakk
quote:Originally posted by texaswildman
[br\] The Patch is going to get worse - hang on.
You think? I think it's on the upswing now. None to soon also, because they are talking about cutting hours to 40.
It is on the rebound. Got laid off around the low of $39.00. It is up to almost 60. Another 8-10 and a stabilization will prompt drilling again.
I'm lucky. I work for a smaller but still worldwide oilfield company that planned ahead and didn't lay anyone off yet. They did use this time to get rid of some folks that were begging to be fire though. I hope your work comes back real quick and sorry to hear about the layoff, but such is the beast in the oilfield. I always make sure to warn them greenhands to save money for a rainy day because the oilfield is worse then a rollcoaster with its ups and downs. Bad thing is most worms coming in don't have enough sense to heed the warning.
Oh, I have a lot of moola in the bank. No credit cards, no debt. I can live a long time. The worms never listen. Most of their money goes down the toilet on Saturday night.
Sorry to say, but I was guilty of the same thing. [:D] Come back from being offshore for 2 weeks and knew I only had a day or two before I had to head back out. I single handly probally put a good 10 to 20 strippers through college before my wife hooked me.[:I]
All the boys that worked for me had some real bad...expensive habits. Dope, women, cars, or drinking. I tried to convince them otherwise...but Kids never listen. Saw one of them working at McDonalds the other day. [:D] He said he wished he had listened to me!!!
Don't think they have my job off shore though.
never understood how anyone could want to live in that barren dustbowl..why it won;t even grow a stand of grass[;)][V]
Beauty is in the eyes of the beerholder.....
I love west and south Texas