w Schweer you may have to wait to get the 1/4th but I would wait and try for the 1/4th.
osage/slawson has 25,sites ready,and/ or drilling in logan county now
Chesapeake also assigned a large amount of leases to Slawson Exploration.
Ronald
Can I stop my Bedonkohe Rain Ritual Dance now?
Lone Chimney Lake
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Virginia
my time was the late 70s in Oklahoma, shallow wells-and early 80s in Texas-record setting deep land wells. All straight holes, except when a 22 year old driller tried to impress and corkscrewed a 5 mile deep hole. In Texas it was a Hunt company with nice equipment but still no bunks or meals for anybody but the tool pusher and geologist.
about that shortage of hands - I keep reading the prisons can’t compete with the oil fields well enough to have enough guards. Lately the current guards are about to revolt - tired and miss their families. Sounds kinda like old times there to me. It was pretty easy to find work on a rig if ya didn’t mind real work and getting dirty.
db,
I never heard of using soda ash to wash clothes. I will try that next time my husband get his clothes greasy working on the farm equipment. I think I still have some soda ash that went into the pool. Thank you.
i roughnecked while in college, used to get some( soda ash ),from the rig to wash our clothing
R W & Ronald,
You are about to make me cry. We used to hand milk a lot of cows, but one was very special to me. She was a hook horn Jersey that we raised on a bottle. She could take her horn and hook it around the grain bin latch to eat the grain. Then she would come to the back door and cry for you to milk her. She was the easiest cow I ever milk. What wonderful memories. Didn’t even mine the dust from plowing back in those days. Now I go to the farm and work to remember why I moved to town. But, still have great memories. I even remember when all the wells back fired and it sounded like someone shooting and at night we had lots of flared gas to light things up. Time has changed things and it’s even hard to find good re-runs on Griffith movies. Now it’s see if you can get treated fair with oil companies, etc.
We din’t have no oil well booms but right in back of our 120 acres ran the old Frisco Railroad over a bridge/overpass where a den of coyotes lived, Hank Williams woulda loved it, at night the train would w
histle and the coyotes would howl until long after the train got over the bridge. I wouldn’t trade that stuff for all of the oil in Oklahoma.
Chad,
A roughneck works the rigs and don’t pump the wells. What you are looking for is a pumper to get the information that you are needing.
You can go to the well site and read the meter and if it’s an old well it will have a big round gauge which a paper chart for gas. If it’s a new well it’s electronic metered. It’s hard to explain how to read the chart. If the pumper is nice, you can ask him how to read it. Then you can measure the oil tanks, but this has to be done over several days/weeks.
I doubt if it would do you any good as Chesapeake has had lots of cases again them and very few have won. I believe it was John McFarland from Austin, a really good attorney lost a case for a group of Ft. Worth people against Chesapeake. It was thrown out of court in Oklahoma. Plus if you do go to court, you are probably looking in the upper 2 digital figures or more. Unless you have lots of mineral interest, they aren’t worried.
Chad,
You don’t have to lease to them, but your lease can be sold or traded to them after you sign a lease. Of course, you can put a clause in your lease that it can’t be sold to them or their partners, but it could make it harder to lease. They have us over a barrel. One more thing that people need to put in their leases. That you have the right to request a copy of the pumper records without charge. You can request a monthly or quarterly report than, otherwise you do not have the right to get this report. It’s even hard to get for a court case unless this is in your lease. It’s only one more clause, wonder why my lease is so long.
Oh my. This just keeps getting better and better (heavy sarcasm). One more thing learned…no rights for my family to even see the reports for the gas pumped from their property. So, yeah, the next time (consequently my first time being active in the process), add this clause to the lease.
In the late 1950’s my cousin from Comanche festooned every fence post along the road for several miles next to his ranch with coyote carcasses. He was not alone. All the local ranchers started breeding and raising whippets and greyhounds as “chase” and “kill” dogs. A few years after that I worked in Ardmore for the Federal Aviation Agency. One day we found that almost all of our 1/2inch diameter coaxial cables, in the attic, had been chewed through the outer vinyl insulation then through the metal braid into the inner insulation. Next all of our government autos that were left outside began missing the insulation from the battery cables and the tar on the old six-volt batteries. We next saw grandfathers wheat field west of Duncan being mowed down one day as if a phantom sidebar mower was at work. Seems the coyotes kept the cotton rat population under control. A few years later after most of the cotton rats died from starvation or quit breeding the coyotes started coming back. My Taos Indian friend explains that old coyote is called the trickster in their culture and clearly we shouldn’t mess with Mother Nature.
In the interest of history, I wrot a song and made a video about Coyotes in Kansas and Oklahoma, that was awarded the BEST OF SONGU in Nashville a couple years ago. Really, it is so cool.
One more thing, them is real live coyotes in the song howling, I recorded them on a cheap Sony tape recorder one night about 2 a.m. just outisde of Quapaw Oklahoma. They yapped a lot every night, and I saved the tape years before I used them in this song. :0
@db, thanks for that, much appreciated…Was that on your land or is there a resource to find such information? BTW, I read your post saying you used to do some roughnecking…impressive. While on a rig (or after the “pumper” is installed, is there any way to look and find out how many barrels/mcf the well has produced? Didn’t know if there was a guage or “meter” or something to the effect. I ask, because after reading about the suit against Cheseapeake by the group in Ft Worth( I think), I’m really tempted to drive out to Texas County to see for myself if CHK has been ripping off my Grandmother there. Thanks buddy!!
Thanks Virginia. As far as Aubrey’s scam artists go, I am afraid that beating them is probably a lost cause. <snif snif> However, if enough people speak out on their shady practices, the less likely future mineral rights owners will lease with them. That’s something I guess…thanks for the info (as always) on Mcclendon’s McScam’s, and the info on well meters…much appreciated.
Don,
You are right, we shouldn’t be messing with mother nature. I can remember when they had coyote hunts and all the neighbors got together to hunt them. Cut their ears off and the government would give you $5. Then the rats/mouse/rabbits took over and ate everything.
I keep wondering what is going to happen when we got all the oil out from fracking. I know it’s a long ways down there, but will we start having sink holes someday? Who knows for sure except the man upstairs.
Ronald,
I like the basset hound, but where is it’s song? The picture of Paris was nice, but I still like Switzerland a lot better. Now I know you do write. Let’s get the song out about the oil bloom of Okie. That should be your best. And write in the C key to make it happy. I don’t like sad songs.
They claim water from both rining onsite and drainage from the Rockies will fill up the caverns left from fracking. Makes sense to me. I grew up in a world calld WOLF HUNTS, in Kansas, the goal of eliminating coyotes forever.