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by Gary Bartholomew, submitted by Tim Rasmussen Dear Friends, I am writing from our headquarters in Puptun, Guatemala. The Government Ministry of Health asked us to drill at their health clinics in San Antonio and Santa Amelia. These clinics, as is common with other similar village clinics, have no water. Any items needing to be washed have to be taken to the river ¼-mile away. Several hundred people live in each of these villages. Santa Amelia is a large village with no motels, lots of pigs, and bare-butt little boys. Dave Rutledge from Arlington, Washington, and his brother-in-law Monte Johnson from Phoenix, Arizona, came to the project yesterday and were eager to get drilling. Bucky and Speedy had spent two days doing service and maintenance on the rig. Today, we moved the drill rig to Santa Amelia. After leaving the pavement north of Poptun in Machaquila, we had 31 miles of dirt road in terrible con- dition to negotiate. It would take us four hours through worse-than-usual potholes, bumps, and ditches. I stopped at about 16 miles, and went back to see how the guys were doing. Dave said he was hoping we had at least gone 25 miles, instead of only 16; and Monte thought we had arrived at the site. He couldn’t believe we were only halfway. Just a little way back, across from a house selling tortillas, I saw a sign that said, “Tumulo, Alto” and had a great laugh, wishing we could go fast enough to need a warning to slow down and stop. I told the guys drilling the well would seem really nice after this ordeal. When we arrived at the clinic there was a large group of villagers eagerly waiting for us. The rig sank deeply into the rain- soaked mud just a few feet from the building, so this determined where we would drill. We had previously arranged for the vil- lagers to bring water for drilling from the river, and they dutifully began nearly running the distance, carrying their five-gallon containers to fill our open-headed barrel. The derrick was being raised when I left the site for the drive back to the shop. We will likely get just one well done in this area this season as we have other villages waiting anxiously for us. As I headed back, my thoughts were, “We need a small rotary drill here to allow us to drill four wells instead of one.” Arrangements had been made for Dave and Monte to “sleep in the village and be provided with safe food”. I am anxious to know how they will get along. Gary Bartholomew If you would like to help, contact Gary Bartholomew at 509-466-5075 or 509-939-1941 Tim Tim Rasmussen may be contacted via e-mail to michele@worldwidedrillingresource.com WTR 49 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® MAY 2018 Rudolf Diesel designed a revolutionary engine in 1892 to use the previously discarded by-product of petroleum refining we call diesel fuel. Diesel fuel was thrown away as an unusable by-product of petroleum refining for more than 40 years. LNG (liquefied natural gas) is made when natural gas is cooled to temper- ature of -260ºF (-162ºC). When it becomes liquid its volume is reduced 615 times, which can be done by cooling the gas.