Originally Posted by
billhart22
I was a driller. In other words I ran the rigs and drilled the holes (like the lunkheads that you see on that T.V. series "Black Gold". I did work on huge rigs though that used to drill between 20,000 and 30,000 feet, not those little ones like in that series).
Consequently, I don't know anything about the formula for calculating production numbers or guesstimating. They had engineers for that and those calculations were done after we tore down and moved to the next hole.