25 DECEMBER 2021 WorldWide Drilling Resource® RENEW - SUBSCRIBE NOW! ion but only when it serves to reduce the time and cost required to do a certain task. Just ems that wouldn’t exist without it. er bag says to use one bag per 1500 square feet, do you use ten bags of fertilizer on not to mention all of the unnecessary chemical runoff it creates. hould be automated. When the automation starts costing you time and money to deal ve it around. rectory entitled: Tesla’s Big Problem: Excessive Automation. The other is linked within ted”. The article goes on to say that while automation is an important part of manufacturing, it’s not the “magic bullet” many people esults. It was a disaster and cost GM billions of dollars. Not only were there costs with flawed and unreliable equipment, there were x it. automation wasn’t there. They cite side-by-side auto manufacturing facilities: GM's Hamtramck plant which had around 5000 workers d plant was “outproducing Hamtramck by a wide margin”. 4 workers and produced 357,809 vehicles. By contrast in 2016, Tesla had about 10,000 employees which manufactured just 83,922 fference in productivity. n small steps, all the while constantly testing and refining the process for minimal disruption. Automation should be evaluated using e. ritt to michele@worldwidedrillingresource.com e Swamp: Big Cypress National Preserve Permit? piled the Editorial Staff of WorldWide Drilling Resource® ig Cypress National Preserve and has now applied for Florida permits to construct well pads and access roads in the preserve, a prenett Oil Company filed the initial applications in late January, just days after the Trump administration gave the state permitting authority g to the permit applications, the company is asking to build the infrastructure in two new locations south of Interstate 75. They refer p to 33 feet wide in the Nobles Grade and in the Tamiami areas encompassing more than 30 acres, but not to any drilling activity. ng industry. The surface of the 729,000-acre preserve is overseen by the National Park Service, but mineral rights to some resources Collier family who donated land for the preserve in the 1970s, kept the mineral rights and still has control. An oil prospect called the oil per day, according to Collier Resources Company reports. ollier Resources Company the right to explore for and extract oil. No federal leases are required because it doesn’t belong to the govnd production requiring access to privately-owned oil prospects inside the preserve. Although leasing may be a private matter, Burnett eview gas and oil permitting on government land, so time will tell if a permit to drain and drill the swamp is approved. with NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) regulations. The environmental specialists engaged in the project do not foresee an for a final determination.” “We are committed to using the least impactful methods for extracting the private minerals underlying the preserve and compensating orizontal directional drilling once underground to reduce its footprint. In addition, they will remove the well pad and road fill at the tere National Park Service and Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection to formulate a compensatory mitigation plan - effectively G&O
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NDk4Mzk=