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Commentary: Drilling with Charlie – Blizzard in the Badlands
[Note: a true story from the oil fields. You may have burned some of the associated gasoline.] I am no longer in the directional drilling business due to the industry downturn. Since many of us will not be returning to the oil fields, those who have this experience will be fewer in number, and the demands on their time will be great. My work with horizontal drilling began in 1995 in the Williston Basin. Previously I had
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I am a directional driller, one of those fellows who steers a drill bit into petroleum targets thousands of feet beneath the surface of the earth. Recently

