Oil Well Downhole Camera Video (1/2)

[@dbupp]

I just learned a whole bunch of things about oil/gas production I never even knew I didn't know. Thanks for posting this video!

[@mrjpb23]

Yeah, like how common leaks are.

[@thespicywolf8818]

Agreed

[@hokiepokie333_CicadaMykHyn]

You need to take this camera to Oak Island!

[@pjousma]

this looks unexpectedly more interesting than expected :)

[@danstrayer111]

That is because it is the most complex industry in the world.

[@crispyspa]

I was under the impression that there would be a solid oil stream coming up the pipe. I never imagined it would be oil water mix.

[@Fenriswaffle]

I believe relatively more recent methods of oil drilling involve some shaft like this with other shafts that pump water, sand, etc to pressurize a deposit and force it in to this shaft.

[@abrahamvenzor630]

This is why they frac once the well is ready for production they pump all this water an oil to a nearby battery location where theres oil water an gas separators putting the right of amount of each substance in each battery at various pressures

[@Backyardmech1]

I found this fascinating when I watched it first hand in the back of the camera truck. I was looking down rig supply wells in the Eagle Ford shale area in South Texas 10 years ago. Deepest depth on video was ~1700 feet BG, through the casing, perforated section, and to the bottom of the borehole. Even got 90 degree shots at static water level and found that it fluctuates quite a bit in a short time.

[@kylesenior]

"Fortunately they're leaking oil" lol

[@epistte]

"I wouldn't be showing you this if they were my companies...." I love his subtle comments.

[@curtisjerrom2666]

These are nice DHV videos from the 1993 era of fiber optic cameras! I remember doing some of them!

[@gungunggadung6792]

Damn interesting. I was a hand back in the early 80s. Wondered what the hell was going on down there.lol If you would've told me I would be typing this on a phone for all the world to see one day, I'd a had another beer. Dont mind if I do!

[@manfredvonrichthofen4738]

yea me too worked for sterling oil and caldwell well service

[@bigbarty8648]

I worked for Eastman Whipstock from 1975 to 1982.

[@SeventhSamurai72]

This is so cool! Seeing things that were impossible to see before! Thank you for posting!

[@p.s.4777]

Same here. Great piece of edycation. I knew a great portion of the content but never fully understood it (and I'm sure I only know a touch of it). Seeing it visually was great thanks aging for the post.

[@I_Stack_Metal]

This is the perfect video for one of those jump scares.

[@questionablebackyardmeows]

Giving the Earth a colonoscopy

[@billmckinzie]

We've done this in water wells. In oil wells, you can get a coating that hinders the view. We also have other techniques for borehole imaging.

[@aaronadamczyk88]

Down Hole Video = DHV, the company that Expro purchased. These cameras are still ran today and are getting better all the time! Great video and a great presentation of the many amazing things we get to record on a daily basis.

[@flight110]

Does Bob Ross have another life we never knew about..?

[@GoldensonArena]

That was very informative.. Thanks a lot!

[@UrSoMeanBoss]

really curious of what camera is being used.

[@MrMardello]

brilliant! one of them things you always wondered, but never knew

[@northerncaptain855]

Very nice video and explanation. I was Captain on a number of ultra deep water semi submersible rigs.

[@DingXiaoke]

This is really really interesting..this could be an excellent art exhibition. Photos of inside of different wells, because every well looks different.

[@DunePanda]

pretty awesome to see actual down hole footage. i design cleanup tools, this footage really changed the impression of downhole conditions that i had. is the camera run on coil tubing? guessing from the tripping speed.

[@Zubatec]

Greatvid, thanks for posting !!

[@TheSebastian5978]

This is extremely fascinating. Thanks!

[@aliengunrunner]

I miss working for Expro America’s. What a fun job. Running cameras down hole.

[@paulparsons9529]

Great video. Do you mind if I use it in an oil and gas training course?

[@PSYK0MANT1S]

This is hard core quality. 2023. Content STILL paying off!

[@easymac79]

Very insightful! Learned a lot, answered some questions, asking more questions, I opened 4 searches prompted by this video.

[@loslosbaby]

Can you recommend a textbook that reviews the exploration-through-exploitation process with the steps and the equipment, and some basic economics? Great vid btw!

[@mqbitsko25]

Coolest thing I've seen today! I'll remember this next time I fill up.

[@vanguard9067]

This is crazy - I could watch this video with the narrator for hours.

[@PowerSlide134]

where can you buy such a camera? Need for those same purposes

[@godbluffvdgg]

1:19 - 2500 meters...THAT'S A TOUCH OVER 1.5 MILES! I wonder how that tech is doing today...So many years later...Full color; checking temps, infrared, x ray...etc etc etc... Thanks for the upload...

[@mandoggydogg2262]

Interesting I’ve never knew you could send cameras down there, I’d love to see more of the inside of the caverns

[@jannejohansson3383]

I don't know answer but pressure can be more than 1200BAR

[@devon9822]

What would it cost to look down a 2&7/8 well that pumps on a string of 1inch tubing?

[@coytcox8741]

so i have a question about this? so when wireline goes down and blows up there shit how does it not mess everything up? or was i just told false stuff about wireline?

[@dickberkhemer6697]

Man your comments are funny please send in some more!

[@epistte]

I'd love to see what a fracked shale well looks like. I live in the Utica shale play.

[@gregbrown4009]

I'm watching this in my wide-open house and I feel soooo claustrophobic!

[@andrewwilson8317]

You working for Schlumberger? Saw some similar footage in Brunei. Still as interesting as ever! Can you imagine seeing something move in those caverns? Might be a good video edit joke?

[@Zubatec]

Wtf the cavern ?! Thanks a lot for uploading !!

[@epistte]

I wonder if the drilling crew noted that zone when the drill string advanced faster than normal as it was being drilled?

[@metropolitandream]

@@epistte its "lost circulation" from pumping mud. they did not hit a cave, they made a cave in soft porous material while drilling.

[@Mr-Vega]

is the well on over balance or under balance, when you run the camera, and how about oil based mud wells. do you run camera

[@ShortArmOfGod]

Yes.

[@bret9741]

I’d love to see more. In particular explain what we are seeing as far as the casing. Is it new, old or mid life or needing replacing. Can you pull old casing and put in new or do you just relive the old leaking casing. When I was a kid, I grew up on a cattle ranch in NM. My dad bought several Thousand get of used oil well casing. I believe it was 6”. We cut it and welded to make cattle corrals. Usually had about 1/2” of tar like oil on the sides.

[@eddydogleg]

"Can you pull old casing and put in new or do you just relive the old leaking casing." They can run a casing patch. Use the search terms "Casing Repair Schlumberger".

[@bret9741]

@@eddydogleg I wish the oil industry would spend some $$ advertising and making infomercials. People have no clue how much oil is used in their lives.

[@rinner2801]

This is actually fascinating.

[@caelanreeves9760]

Are those caverns common? Is it like a sink hole cavern made from eroded sandstone or what?

[@RichardWilliamLawson]

Caelan Reeves ? Anybody know or there

[@jamieklingenberg2885]

In my somewhat limited experience in doing cavern work, they were salt caverns either eroded out naturally or in some instances have been carved out artificially to be used as storage for either co2 or natural gas. If you Google natural gas salt caverns it should provide some more information.

[@eddydogleg]

@@jamieklingenberg2885 If the properties of the drilling fluid (mud) are not suited to the formation you can create a cavern while drilling. A well I was on near Cynthia Alberta the company man cheeped out on the mud and one of the formations was a water sensitive shale. The water sensitive shale swells and crumbles off the sides of the well bore in pea gravel sized pieces. Judging by the heap of shale at the end of the shale shaker we had one hell of a cavern down there. The roughneck were some sad about all the shoveling they had to do.

[@jamieklingenberg2885]

@@eddydogleg ah that’s fair. Actually heading to fort sask area today to do a gas storage cavern pressure test. East of saskatoon towards humbolt there’s a cavern there with a string of drill pipe in it too.

[@eddydogleg]

@@jamieklingenberg2885 I was on a Simmon's rig back in the 80's. We drilled a couple of gas storage wells and a disposal well out at Prud'Homme.

[@Norfolk250]

‘Straddle Packers’ I love learning new catchphrases!!

[@tobuslieven]

Amazing. What's that flowing downwards at 5:48 in the bottom left of the screen?

[@tonycarpaccio9550]

tobuslieven maybe salt?

[@flaplaya]

I wondered same. Good answer Dave, salt brine is heavier.

[@eddydogleg]

I thought it was sand.

[@LetsGetSocialLaMonroe]

It's so safe ?

[@brainwashingdetergent4322]

Are these all vertical well bores or are any of them horizontal?

[@6181green]

Our wells here in eastern Kansas are real shallow we get good green oil at 250 feet where I am at and 10 miles south is the dark black nasty stuff at 500 feet I have heard the Texas wells are 5000 feet deep

[@BigEvy]

Oil floats on water... why would I never have thought to use water to get oil out.

[@attilarza]

Watching this feels scary somehow!

[@SillyGoose69]

Thank you

[@MrRoca65]

What a wonderful sight.

[@MrRMM8]

this is the first time I can see a production well, maybe this question can be some obvious, hmm this well is producing oil, gas and water?

[@MohannadGoesRawr]

yes like 90% of all wells

[@Devast8r34]

Awesome video

[@Sergeant1990]

So ther is constatly leaking oil in the ocean? of this, I

[@williammorales9185]

There is what is called natural oil seepage. It happens all over the world in oceans and on land(most notably the La Brea Tarpits in Los Angeles). Combined, there is more natural seepage of oil than from drilling.

[@DRTerabyte]

What camera and wiring is used for this type of recording?

[@LinasVepstas]

this vid is from the early 1990's .. they were recording on VHS tape, for chris sake!

[@simonpender8331]

very interesting thank you

[@jhyland87]

1:46 That's an 80' wide cavern, 1,765' below the surface? That's awesome! Kinda creepy seeing it like that in the black and white footage, idk why. Can someone explain why I find this interesting at all?

[@johnnymitz]

I too was kinda spooked by it dunno why.

[@spradeepkumarschandrasheka672]

Awesome. Tqs for video. I got know how we get oils. Thoamba kushi aytu sir tqs

[@shaungaming7531]

the first 5 seconds is like that video in the ring

[@GrafKrolock82]

06:51 the "Event Horizon" tunnel

[@Elmaln]

Out of curiousity, which downhole camera was used to produce these images?

[@LinasVepstas]

whatever camera they were selling in 1993?

[@Willam_J]

I remember seeing something exactly like this, when I was being born.

[@npickle54]

You must have horrible dreams

[@Willam_J]

@@npickle54 - I used to, but now I enjoy them! 😂

[@TigreDemon]

Took me a while to notice it wasn't the same one

[@scrotiemcbogerballs8286]

He said that’s not our packer or I wouldn’t show it leaking

[@rossbryan6102]

VERY INTERESTING!

[@dixiefix6055]

Doesn't look like I was expecting it to

[@2drunksracing]

Sure wish could hear it!.....

[@Mrn0]

So cool

[@davidmaddison2628]

Interesting.

[@waswestkan]

Far out man, f mydad was still alive he would have gotten a kick out of watching this. I was helping a cable tool crew pull some ratting tubing and rods and it parted the driller said they need to get a picture. I sorta thought it was possible the had a camera, but the camera turned out to be a tar filled socket to get an impression. And I thought I going to see some hi tech :) . this was about '74

[@YourDeformedGod]

waswestkan they still use the lead block to get impressions today. Cameras are not common at all.

[@DrugsAndInternet]

Oil and fish Japan: where?

[@tammy7087]

I'm in the engineering field. Geodynamics is fascinating Greek though.

[@npsit1]

this is pretty awesome.. sweet.

[@datikit01]

It's all about trying to minimize the ingress of water.

[@nguyenvuhoanglong3418]

miracle !!

[@Shnick]

If you’re gonna leak, it might as well leak oil.

[@stevef.m.2188]

Great Thanks

[@R1j0hn]

@ 5:45 ---> what is that flowing DOWN the hole ? 🤔 It wasn't present @ 1272 ft...

[@costicapop8389]

Whats price of camera video?

[@vonrechner9618]

Is that Pecos Hank talking?

[@braddywarbucks]

I like when my videos whisper sweet nothings to me

[@subsailor1]

VERY COOL

[@Emanemoston]

Very interesting.

[@alimohammond6323]

can't seem to find my easement check, u guys keep taking oil underneath my house!

[@InfiniteRhombus]

this video is giving me claustrophobia,, thanks

[@scatdog1]

Watched this whole damn thing and didn’t see one fish.

[@helio6540]

Why am I here? ... I don't know Am I leaving? ... I don't think so

[@clempat4]

I want to see this in 4k

[@Sergeant1990]

What are they talking about a fish?

[@markvolker1145]

Anything that has been lost down the well is considered a "Fish" in the oil and gas industry. A fish can be a drill bit, drill pipe, down hole tools, tool parts, pipe wrenches, chains, green hat's, ECT.

[@user-tu8fx5go8k]

Mark Volker green hats 😂😂

[@LinasVepstas]

because you need a fishing hook to catch it and pull it out.

[@RobSars]

you tube: Oil Well Downhole Camera Video me: um, sure 8 minutes later me: why tf?

[@darcymcnabb9259]

Hey ma I'm looking down the hole .

[@gabemiller3072]

yeh thats no chemical cut rofl

[@heyitsvos]

Gabe Miller yeah somebody was bullshitting the company man when they sent a severing tool down there 🤣

[@richb.4374]

They use the same type of cameras up our asses at the pump...seen the gas prices lately?

[@thomkeeton3298]

Nothing really new here. First time I ever saw one used was back in the 70's when I was a 'young' Driller on a Semisubmersible in Brasil. We used a down-hole camera during fishing operations. I'll admit, the resolution is a great deal better these days !!

[@torkdork69]

Pretty intimate setting you have here. Thank you sir but I’ll take my girlfriend back if you don’t mind.

[@johniedebt6522]

It's not supposed to do that 🤔 it's leaking is a common word for oil/gas drilling companies 👎🏻

[@ragandoil]

bloody briil

[@RanchoBurger]

Well fuck my hat

[@agoogleabuser1233]

I don't understand a fuckin word he's saying.... but okay