WorldWide Drilling Resource

15 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® JULY 2017 Oil/Water Exploration by Harold White Where is the water shortage? I have been rained on for months. My whole property is a mess with mud puddles. I have been doing house well locations in the rain. Now a fire department wants a well location, so I will be looking to find an underground creek a little larger than I would for house wells, or stock wells on a cattle ranch. Soon, I will be in California setting up well sites for irrigation wells - at underground creeks which will produce the gallons per minute (gpm) these wells require (300-1000 gpm). A lot of testing of each and every creek will need to be done to see if they are big enough to produce the volume of water neces- sary. I also check to see the creek is a freshwater one - not oil, gas, or hot water. This all takes time to gather the information and be accurate enough to say, “Drill here.” I have a friend in Kentucky who has an oil well which was drilled to 1500 feet and has 700 feet of oil showing. He has a down hole video of the oil and gas bubbling up. It is close to an area I was researching. Nearby, an oil lease was being sold at auction. The place was a low-production lease (average of 3-5 barrels per day for the last 10 years). Everyone was by a well site. When the lease was sold to a guy standing there, the people asked him where he was going to drill. The buyer said he would just drill that one deeper and the crowd laughed at him, thinking it was a joke. My friend told me later, the guy drilled that well, expected to go considerably deeper, but he only drilled about 20 feet, and it started flowing at 1000 barrels per day. These are shallow oil wells, and my Kentucky friend knows most of the humorous stories. The statements and comments in this article are based on information and references believed to be true and factual. If you have any questions or comments, please forward them to me in care of WWDR . Harold Harold White may be contacted via e-mail to michele@worldwidedrillingresource.com Alaska Miners Association Phone: 907-563-9229 Fax: 907-563-9225 ama@alaskaminers.org www.alaskaminers.org Alberta Water Well Drilling Association Tel: 780-386-2335 awwda@xplornet.com American Exploration and Mining Assn. Phone: 509-624-1158 Fax: 509-623-1241 info@miningamerica.org www.miningamerica.org Atlantic Water Well Association Tel: 888-242-4440 Fax: 902-435-0089 nsgwa@ns.aliantzinc.ca • www.nsgwa.ca WorldWide Drilling Resource ® is a proud member of these associations. Australian Drilling Industry Association adia@adia.com.au Black Hills Chapter of the ISEE President: Doug Hoy www.bitwconference.org British Columbia Ground Water Assn. Tel: 604-530-8934 Fax: 604-530-8934 secretary@bcgwa.org • www.bcgwa.org National Drilling Association Tel: 877-632-4748 Fax: 216-803-9900 www.nda4u.com New Zealand Drillers Federation, Inc. www.nzdrillersfederation.co.nz Northern Plains Chapter of the ISEE President: Billy Obermire Tel: 307-689-0050 www.bitwconference.org Nova Scotia Ground Water Association Tel: 888-242-4440 Fax: 902-435-0089 nsgwa@ns.aliantzinc.ca • www.nsgwa.ca Ontario Groundwater Association Tel: 519-245-7194 Fax: 519-245-7196 ogwa@ogwa.ca • www.ogwa.ca Women In Mining 866-537-9694 wim@womeninmining.org www.womeninmining.org