The editor of The Driller, Mr. Jeremy Verdusco, gives us column writers wide latitude in choice of subjects. This article was going to be about the marriage of my granddaughter, Samantha, to a fellow named Trevor, a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve, the event to take place in four days.
Picture yourself five years ago when selling a barrel of oil would net you a steak dinner in a nice restaurant (if you brought your own wine). Fast forward and these days it seems trading oil is only resulting in macaroni and cheap beer.
Consider a new approach to your drilling operations. Making a career change is one example of trying something new, but there are many opportunities to try something new in all aspects of life.
I have stated that drilling is 80 percent knowledge and 20 percent luck. Bad luck happens when a driller encounters a loss zone, thus preventing the driller from finishing the hole.
In my travels I find that many businesses today are owned by a person or persons that know nothing about the business they own. Some own several businesses and in many cases these people attempt to micromanage a business that they know nothing about.
Got a call from a driller I had met on Facebook, and we had discussed jobs for quite a while. He said he had an irrigation well that was pumping sand, and had been doing it for a while.
As I wrote in my last column, the pitless adapter is a rather simple but important device used to complete a modern well. All of these have a way of keeping pumped water below the freezing point or frost line.
Since 2005 with my current employer and before that working for distribution, I have heard the “I drill with water only” conversation. To a new territory or distribution person, this argument leans toward the driller as his record is on his side. Sooner or later that lucky driller won’t be so lucky.
I think a lot about business-related issues, and do my share of writing about them in this space and on my blog at www.thedriller.com. Recently, I wrote a post there discussing the limits that small and mid-sized contracting firms face as they attempt to grow.
Pumping professionals face the ever-growing daily challenge of recommending and installing the most efficient system for customers. Digging through the uncertainties of efficiency regulations, mandates and parameters is tough, especially when efficiencies alone don’t tell the whole story.