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Wellwell,

"Definitely acid. The only plausible explanation for this latest thread of nonsense."

If the latest thread is nonsense, why try to find plausible explanations for it?

I too have heard a little rumour (thanks, guys and gals! you know who you are!), but I'm keeping my trap shut about it. Once bitten, twice shy. Lemons weren't mentioned, though.

feelinlucky,

"lemon juice......that could be handy in cleaning up?"

Best use for lemon juice I can think of is when mixing up a nice Marguerita. Maybe FS22 has been on the tequila again.

Tt&ta,

"Great post by SecretBluePrint on UJO board."

Maybe. Not sure.

If I'd seen photos of what was being moved out, I could identify it. Has anyone got any links?

I looked at the UJO BB, but it's just too full of speculation, I gave up. But one poster mentioned that the coiled tubing unit had gone. This makes sense, and is good news, if it's not needed again.

The thing is, do the people reporting on these 'backloads' actually know what they're seeing? I sometimes look at the UKOG BB for laughs (never invested there), and I remember a while back a flurry of posts about a 'big pump' being moved into Horse Hill. Finally someone gave a link to a twitter photo, and the thing wasn't a 'pump', but instead a section of a blowout preventor!

If coil has gone, that will include all associated stuff. So how about instead of a 'separator' being moved, it was the cryo conversion unit? Oil storage tanks? Maybe try the nitrogen tanks, instead. Then there's the powerpack, toolhouse, injector plus stand, not to mention a piping rack, the 'Wendyhouse' and the coil itself. Five flatbed / lowboy loads easily accounted for.

Pictures, please. And as I say, if coil is no longer needed, that's good news.

Novykluk,

"can you explain why "swabbing" is "outlawed" in some parts of the world? ..."

First of all, here's something I found showing the principle. The animation illustrates swabbing being used in a 'remedial' situation, but it's the same for initially 'bringing a well in'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOU0RPU_tlo

Like most oilfield operations, swabbing carries a certain amount of risk: it has to be performed by skilled and experienced people. If performed by people who don't properly know what they're doing, the risk of hurting or killing oneself is very real. So it's a procedure which is frowned upon by the fun-sucking HSE people. Maybe 'outlawed' is the wrong word to use, but I don't think swabbing operations are permitted in the UK, for instance, and certainly not offshore.

Bloobird,

Thanks. I receive the Times online, so have read the article already. It's a reasonable summation of what working on an oilrig is like just about anywhere, not just the States.

Simon_Said,

"Don't fall in the trap of thinking something is only worth having if it's a thousands of BOPD gusher."

And don't get me wrong! I quite agree with you. It's all about context. I'd love to have a 200 bbl/day oilwell in my back garden! It'd certainly cure a few financial headaches.

LONGWAIT,

"It wouldn't do me, Pete."

It'd do me. Sometimes you've got to look the tiger in the face. Despite all hopes, I now don't reckon this share is going over 82p in the anywhere near forseeable future. And for me, living in euro-land, 82p doesn't pay for a baguette, let alone the small blind in the smallest poker-game I know of.

I'm just waiting for the next 'spike', and I'll be 85% out of here.

Bloobird,

"Back in the early 80's, when I lived in North America, I read an article by a group of Americans who worked for BP in Alaska.
They were expressing their disappointment that BP had now been privatised because they said that before that they used to feel like they were working for the Queen."

And there was a word for those yanks. Twerps.

Uggy100,

A technical question to which I feel qualified to reply.

"does anyone know how long it takes to swab a well ?"

It's quite possible that most oilfield people here (despite their qualities) have never even been involved in 'swabbing' operations. They're 'outlawed' in many parts of the world.

The answer is (though it may sound trite), getting a well onto natural production may take just two 'runs' over an hour, or it may take a fortnight. After which, evenif the swabbing runs may have brought the well in briefly, then it stops working 'naturally', at which point calculations are made as to whether it's commercially positive to install a 'nodding donkey' pump, which in some ways is just a 'swabbing machine' but working fulltime.

Those calculations and decisions are based on the cost-effectiveness of having a workover rig (and its crew) continuing 'swabbing', the results seen, and thus whether to turn the well over to a machine (which nevertheless requires people to maintain it), or just to pull the plug on the whole thing.

RBD's California stuff is great, for what (let's face it) is a little company like Reabold. Good for we shareholders we, we hope . Positive cashflow. But 200 bbl/day isn't breathtaking.

Furthermore, the Grampian Sovereign is sitting happily at Aberdeen anchorage. And has been for a few hours now. Which I think puts paid to silly rumours tht the boat had been taken off its support duties for the Lancaster FPSO to hotshot more brine to the TOL to top-up immense 'fluid losses' which our new batch of 'experts' seem to think is the be-all or end-all.

Personally, I've almost stopped 'shipwatching'. It was interesting in late 2016, when lots of things hinged on it. But it no longer is. Because essentially one tanker-load from Lancaster goes a long way to paying for a new well. But that's not really important either, 'cos the current drilling campaign is already bankrolled by Spirit.

Sure, I 'watch out' occasionally, but just when marinetraffic sends me an alert that a boat's heading for Scrabster, because that usually means that Petrofac's screwed-up again. But no big deal.

"So SotB are you saying the DST kit has remained on board since WD?"

That's what he said back in 2016. Even if there was no DST planned for Lincoln.

"GS going offshore.. destination?"

Aberdeen Anchorage!

HH,

"Having had a look of the past track of the Grampian Sovereign it is intriguing."

I don't think we'll be able to make any (very approximate) guesses until we see where the Grampian Sovereign heads for. If it's the TOL, yes, that becomes interesting. But if it's just back to the AM, people will have been getting their knickers in a twist over nothing.

Mr Toad,

" Of course the AM needs mud! To fill the mud gun magazines, ready to repel the giant squid."

Be careful what you say! The Am will not be equipped with things called 'mud guns', but the TO Leader certainly is, though they don't involve 'magazines'. They're installed in the 'mud pits', are supplied by centrifugal, pumps, and aid in 'shearing' the drilling fluid.

Wellwell,

"Cheers AK. Always nice to agree, or should I say have agreement. What about my ‘expert’ opinion on your view at the time that nominal losses being a good thing was in fact a bad thing?"

B*stard. No-good lowlife SOB. Knave. Rotter.

Kicking a man when he's down.

Listen, I ought to be in a foul mood, but I'm not, because I can be stoical and philosophical at times. But I'm back from an eight-hour poker session at La Rochelle, where I fell foul of another really unlikely hand which made everyone at the table gasp. (Mind you, play enough poker and you get used to seeing some really improbable stuff). But this year has been remarkable. My max full house being beaten by a royal flush by some maniac holding QJ, quad kings vs quad aces (figure the probablilities) but luckily I ducked out of that hand pdq with my pair of tens, so the major damage was to the person the kings, but today, with me drawing to top flush and a possible straight, ended up with a straight flush, but lower than my opponant's straight flush when a queen landed on the river, so my ace became worthless.

Enough to make a man eat his bairns. With the result that I drove home after eight (I must admit rather enjoyable, as in good company) hours, having made just enough to have paid for my diesel and two or three beers. Which I chucked down my throat as soon as I got back to town.

Listen, I interpreted those nominal losses on WD completely wrong, and have admitted to that more than once, subsequently, on this BB. It's a reason I'm not too unhappy that my rumourmill newsflow has rather dried up regarding the current well. What I don't hear, I can't misinterpret.

But you want to rub my nose in it again?

Listen, you and I have clashed swords frequently on the BB over what is now a matter of years. I'm used to it, and so are you. But it wasn't yourself who I was disparaging as a so-called 'expert'. Instead, it's one or two 'newbies' here who have come in with all barrels firing, but one or two of them seemingly aimed at their own feet. Or instead thinking that the old lags are scared of the noise.

mallye,

"With regard to losses, have a look on page 50 of the CMD Presentation. "

Thanks for pointing that out! Something I'd overlooked.

Must admit that the CMD was an 'event' which 'came and went', though quite a lot was revealed there that was new. Now looking again at the presentation slides I can see I was remiss in not having printed the pdf as a further addition to the (now quite hefty) 'HUR tech information' library!

A thing to do tomorrow!

Desmond45,

Yes, I must agree that carbonates are frequently fractured. Bit their performance as commercial reservoirs is not necessarily dependent on this. I agree with WWN and his 18:39 post.

PPPS..

Wellwell,

Sorry, I didn't see your post before replying to GF. We're both saying much the same thing. Agree.

PPS...

Will someone remind FS22 that we're playing lowball stud in this hand? His quad aces are useless.

PS....

Somehow I've inadvertently hit some shortcut key again! The paragraph at the end of my last post should be further up the page, as it refers to watching out for equipment on the deck of outbound boats.