Rig Drills Into Some Kind Of Reserve and BOOM..

Well then.. can't say I expected this to happen when I started watching. What starts as a little bit of fluid running.. quickly turns into something MUCH bigger.. Worth watching to the end!
What do you think they drilled into to blow like that?

[@jamesfreach1022]

I used to drill domestic water wells and twice I drilled into artesian pockets, and the pressure blew the drill stem and bit right out of the hole.

[@tujuprojects]

But not the pipes?

[@jbfiveash636]

Did those places make good fresh water wells?

[@adamkerns-isley8634]

I used to drill for DMD years back either they hit an artesian intentionally or someone mixed up the paperwork for that wells expected depth lol good thing they didn't hit what we used to dub a natural.....

[@curtisbrown5939]

This is a work over rig, they were probably drilling into an existing well.🤠

[@jamesfreach1022]

@@jbfiveash636 yep over a hundred gallons of water a minute. We had to put a water tight cap on the casing. I doubt those wells will run dry even in the worst drought .

[@Jack-Surreal_Panes]

On a related note, Lake Mead water levels mysteriously dropped.

[@CSGATI]

Drought is no mystery.

[@billboyd03]

Nice one.

[@phroggie69]

First thing that popped in my 🤯

[@Jack-Surreal_Panes]

@@phroggie69 You an picture a guy in a row boat fishing what is left of the lake and a whirlpool begins to form. What in tarnatuon?

[@jerryparisi2885]

@@CSGATI I Think You Missed The JOKE! LOL

[@eddyperry]

That isn't a drilling rig, it's a workover rig. They pump brine water down the well to "kill" it, which is water mixed with solids to make it heavy enough to control the pressure down hole. Probably a gas well. This was probably after they had finished whatever work needed to be done and they were swabbing the water back out of the hole . They probably got enough water out of the well that the gas pressure started pushing the remaining water up and their snubber wasnt working , or they didn't know how to use it. Given that they stood there watching it flow slowly in the beginning, says that they didn't know how to stop it. Everybody was just walking around wondering what to do...there was enough time to act before it really started ripping. The danger is that after the water is expelled, then you are dealing with a live gas well.

[@jimjab3631]

They no abla

[@russelmurray9268]

You gotta be the only one with a brain. Thanks for the explanation. I was a oil worker for awhile n never saw this happen but I've seen oil workers do crazy shit. I made $48. An hour and $48. To show up $450. A day 7 days a week . Sometimes there would be only 3 people show up to work n no Kelly spinner n the driller was drunk n so was his brother n it made for one crazy fucking shift. But we never had a blowout but I've seen men get crushed when we'd breakdown to move . Real poor boy rig. The platform was made out of small sheets of metal welded together and the rig moved around under your feet like you were standing on a moving boat lolhahahaha. Saw some bad fights but mostly just fine. Lots of weed n alcohol n pills.

[@bobstud3754]

Dude thanks for said info. Yes nowadays morons are plentiful.

[@flowerenki9818]

Interesting. Thank you. My first time to see this. I always wonder what you guys do out there on the rigs

[@omegalgo297]

Thank you!!!👍

[@joetuktyyuktuk8635]

I worked on a drill rig when I was younger...given the terrain around the site, to me it's pretty obvious what they hit... a Graboid! 🙂

[@shexdensmore]

If you hear shrieks, hide the heat, if they blast their ass. Better cover yours.

[@jeffro7p202]

Call burt gummer

[@shanegray7739]

Need to send in Kevin Bacon 😁

[@joetuktyyuktuk8635]

@@shanegray7739 Might be useful, if a "dance off" is required... 🙂

[@ogrehaslayers605]

Ha! 😂

[@scottdoubleyou563]

The drill bit was filled with Mentos, and the reservoir was filled with Diet Coke

[@shaunobrien534]

😂😂

[@edoe87]

Lmao

[@Kevthebish]

Exactly. You don't need a geologist to figure that out

[@ticklemeandillhurtyou5800]

God bless all our Oil Workers around the world you guys help keep the lights on and gas in my truck

[@artmchugh5644]

And fuel in our Ducati !!!!!!🏍🏍🏍🏍🍺🍺🍺🍺😀😀😀😀

[@alpaz7634]

That wasn’t oil that’s a water drill rig.

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

Thats a WATER well !!!! DUUUUUHHHH!!!!!!!

[@geetar82]

Nobody cares about your ignorant platitude.

[@ticklemeandillhurtyou5800]

@@alpaz7634 what does that matter

[@bubbakemp5817]

That escalated quickly!🤣 Run Forrest Run!🤣

[@kevinmcgiffin10]

Drillins like bunch of pockets...dont know whatcha got til ya drill inside 😆😆😆😆😆

[@greggreg2263]

There she blows!!!!!!! now the rig is clean 🧼 as a whistle😁👻🙌

[@BobSmith-mc7uq]

Rinsed. There was no detergent involved.

[@kevinboyd3543]

They're blowing the well it's called Developing The well open discharge. you have to do this after Completing a well to see what it will yield and to blow out drill cuttings and sediments. And that 1 is getting it easily 500 to a 1000 gallons a minute She's a gusher. In certain areas you have to do this to fracture the rock as well.

[@haroldreardon1407]

This is NOT how fracing is done at all nor how a well cleaned out for 'development'. There is no BOP on the well and it appears to be a very sloppy operation.

[@kevinboyd3543]

@@haroldreardon1407 Because it's water you idiot Is not gas

[@mysock351C]

@@haroldreardon1407 Looks to be somewhere in the Middle East. Safety probably isn’t even going to be an afterthought, let alone any sort of handwringing over the environment like westerners will do. Don’t know what the various ratios of gas, water, etc. were but I guess they figure standing 10 feet away should do it if it decides to turn into a giant tiki lamp.

[@nahnah6765]

@@haroldreardon1407 it's a 3rd world country.. do you really think they do it right in those countries 😂

[@passthetunaporfavor]

As a operations geologist that has brought many wells online, this is not how you perform the initial flowback of a completed well.

[@glennbrymer4065]

Thanks for posting. Really liked watching this.

[@dallasanderon7875]

That a work over rig. Mostly water and natural gas blow by. Most times they will pump salt water down the production pipe to kill the well. Pulling production pipe or sucker rods will stimulate a blow by. This time all salt water and gas. No oil.

[@jlh55]

Back in the 70s in the oil field boom I worked for a trucking company and we did tear down and rig up, when I pulled in location the the well was on fire a 32ft floor and triple derrick, there was drilling pipe and collars blown out towards the front yard, destroyed the top doghouse and pipe crushed the tool pusher shack, with one fatality, took about 6hours and the A leg folded up and the derrick twisted and fell into the mud pumps and mud house, thankfully it wasn't a poison gas well, that's when we started having welders cut up the pipe and we were loading out, so trucks could get on location, I was on location 3 days, a Red Adair crew arrived and as soon as we had all the iron hauled off and they put it out, which I had to watch from the end of lease road on the section line road, it was amazing non stop stream of trucks pulling in on location and I had a gin truck poled up and loading out once in a lifetime

[@jlo7770]

​@@jlh552 years ago we had some bone head kids botch putting on the bop and started tripping pipe they took a kick and shut the bop but the ring gasket was all f'ed up so it just blew oil/gas all over location. It caught fire and there was 4? Maybe 5 wells in a row and all but one caught on fire took like a week or two to put the fires out. No fatalities surprisingly, the rig burned for a day maybe little more and she went over at night, lots of cool videos people took of it on fire and going over. Whole site was a complete loss lol. Pumping units, workover rig bunch of trucks all burnt up. Usually once a year a workover rig catches on fire here and burns for a couple days because dumb kids don't pay attention to what they're doing

[@anthonyromero7822]

When the operator says the BOP works and it doesn't. But that's one way to wash the rig. Lol 🤣

[@jeronimomod156]

Looks like an aquifer coming down from the mountain you just poked a hole on the bottom side of a pool basically

[@kennethmeeker6369]

This is very common on a pulling unit especially if you don’t have a snubbing unit or Bop to shut it , the leaning over listening at the well should have gauges to read backside pressure and tubing pressure but obviously he don’t lol , can’t tell if someone closed a valve or it died out idk 🤷

[@Mr.CJohnson]

This is not a pulling unit its a drilling rig. You can tell because its got a Kelly...the Kelly hose is a dead giveaway.....

[@kennethmeeker6369]

@@Mr.CJohnson you can rig a pulling unit with Kelly as well , that’s a very small rig if it is .

[@markfox1545]

Never mind the snubbing unit or bop, what about the inklegrooner flange?

[@kennethmeeker6369]

@@markfox1545 ive heard of a inconel flange idk lol , there’s a bunch of them .

[@DavidDeans-j5m]

Nope, it's not a drilling rig. There's no flowline, no pits......it's a bullshit rig with a kelly rigged up doing some kind of production bullshit. Judging by their lack of awareness during the early part of the hole unloading, these guys should stay away from drilling rigs.

[@IRONHORSE427RACING]

Either a plug blew or they just found an underground spring !

[@larryrunnels1190]

In the first place this is not a drilling rig. It's a workover rig and it looks like the didn't have their blowout preventer installed. No company in the US is allowed to just let drilling fluid or produced fluid run everywhere like this. They are not speaking English either. It sounds like a middle eastern language.

[@danielmoose1273]

That was pretty spectacular 🙂 ...

[@not1fromyourworld]

When i used to do underground tunneling the two worst things were drilling into a water vein and after blasting ,,during mucking,,having slabs the length of mobil homes falling from the celing,,thats some scary shit

[@Freeman-Dl70]

Me and a friend were in a horizontal mine, the floor was clear on the way in, on the way out however, there was a ginormous piece of the roof laying in the center. Not a sound was heard, and I had to get out. The thought of being pulverized into dust was more than I ever wanted to think.

[@remijiomendez1698]

!!!! BLOW OUT !!!! 😂 !! KICK THE B.O.P IN !! 😂 Looks like it made it a fun day on the job. To all the oil field workers around the world, no matter the race, any day you get a day like this or worse and you get to go home and hug your family is a fun and good day at work.....Keep up the great work and thank you.......

[@SeymourBalz]

Thst wasn't an oil rig/drill . That was a water well drill. Oil rigs are like 10 times that size. Not truck mounted for sure.

[@remijiomendez1698]

@@SeymourBalz I know, I was being a worm. I work on a singal stack drilling rig. Drilling for shallow gas, oil, and water. Did one hitch with Gray Wolf before they got bought out back in the day.

[@SeymourBalz]

@@remijiomendez1698 All good . I hauled drill equipment for years. It took like 15 - 18 Wheelers just to get a set up started for a land rig. Same for casing and drill pipe. As well, there's NO containment area on that site. The videos "Hype" to get ppl fired up.

[@kkingquad]

I LITERALLY just finished watching Deep Water Horizon before seeing this on KZbin! I’ve seen a small kick in person when I was in the oilfield. I’m glad it was a small kick…

[@godofplumbing]

Where's the Kaboom, there's always a kaboom.

[@trainnerd3029]

I was expecting an earth shattering kaboom as well…

[@carrollcameron7472]

It was a "Boom". They hardly make any noise, compared to a "KABOOM"! 😂

[@silverstake88]

😁

[@nsbstrong3624]

When Wichita falls so falls Wichita falls

[@mrmyth5846]

Guessing that was just water. Amazing pressure level there.

[@kb3809]

Yeah boss, we cleaned the rig today

[@Ghhyuttgg]

A giant earth zit

[@dougalexander7204]

Much respect to the men and women workers in the oil fields.

[@RareVBlue]

Ummm that's water you idget.... they are drilling a water well... smh and I'm actually in the oil field industry. 🤣

[@gardiloo]

I know, I wonder what it would be like to have the livelihood of you and your family depend on a resource that half the world is fighting the development of. All these goobers have no idea how important oil is to not only millions of families, but also to their own daily lives, yet they are brainwashed into thinking it’s evil.

[@dw4956]

What woman.....Woman do not drill, build infra or fight wars. This whole world is built and shaped by men.

[@RareVBlue]

@@dw4956 as a man that works in the oil industry I can honestly say you are quite misinformed on 2 counts. Men in the oil industry, even on oil rigs, still work with women. While it may be true that most of the women in the oil industry mainly handle things such as business aspects and other duties that require organization and paperwork, there are women helicopter pilots, woman boat and ship captains, women dispatchers, etc. And then you have some that are typically of what we will call a 'masculine variety' that have more weight and muscle mass that get right out here and drill. You also see these types as chemical tankerman on ships and barges as well. Then we have women welders. The oil industry isn't just about drilling. It's an entire infrastructure. Much of which is actually handled by women if you want to talk about the logistics involved with all of the finances and organization skills required to keep track of everything. Typical men are still at the top making the final decisions but these women do alot. And like I said, some drill. You watch too much Andrew Tate.

[@dw4956]

@@RareVBlue I've been in the army for 15yrs. Woman are not a compliment to the workforce. Desent studies in the US army shows a clear drop of a staggering 25% of efficency and productivity when woman are forced into male workplaces by feminism. What you state is an opinion, not fact.

[@timbradeen8459]

Won't need to water things in that area for awhile. That's amazing!

[@Sharpshooter99100]

We used to come across this frequently whilst using drill and plug method in Saudi. Its pockets of artesian water trapped and lets rip once its penetrated. Normally goes down quite quick though

[@parttime9260]

What causes the pressure to be so high?

[@Sharpshooter99100]

@@parttime9260 seismic shifts underground causes the compression of soil and rock and inturn increases the water pressure. thats also why the pressure goes down quickly and it settles

[@parttime9260]

@@Sharpshooter99100 thanks for the info

[@bhays05]

Well you won't have to sandblast when you go back to paint the rig.

[@donaldpowers5557]

Yep I was thinking the same thing

[@Marcovian04]

"And the fountains of the deep were opened!"

[@Toekneepowers]

Did they load up the truck and move to Beverly….hills that is…swimming pools….movie stars.

[@victorjeffers1993]

Pretty fun holding you heads directly over the drill site

[@ronniepirtlejr2606]

Sandblasting the rig with a mixture of water and sand!👍

[@paulawaldrep5286]

A pocket of the Lord's bountiful supply! 👌💙

[@JDMatthias]

And....that's how old faithful was created! Adam and Eve drilling an oil well

[@lawrencedennerle5303]

Water, water, everywhere and not a drop to drink!

[@davesnothereman7250]

Its like a giant Earth zit!

[@ejasonrichmond]

The foam was the funk of forty thousand years.

[@frankg6245]

That's one way to clean the rig.. 😂😂

[@soundwve]

Artesian well. Well under pressure. They're gonna have a heck of a time getting it under control.

[@jlo7770]

It literally died during the video lol

[@mikeellis7286]

Why the lake drained.

[@crispinjulius5032]

Is this how the sunshine and rainbows that power my car and industry is made?

[@t.b.a.r.r.o.]

Looks like they found where the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man was buried.

[@cecilgimp6406]

It brings back memories of yesteryear....that special event in ones life surrendering to it's overwhelming out of body experience that makes you wonder can this be served on A daily basis and if so, how does one begin to patent this product.

[@archangel20031]

And we are still waiting for the BOOM!

[@robertstephens3889]

Booom💥

[@chevchelios3700]

That's the black X-Files spooge!

[@stopcallingmeshirley]

That is well development. High pressure air is lifting the drilling mud and water

[@orzyrok6849]

That looks natural to me unlike those who tried to use electricity to run everything.

[@Cultural_Optics]

Legend has it she's still going

[@cupwalker24.7]

Just another day of Drilling 💪anything that can happen will 🤠🙏

[@spunkydoo5112]

GOOD WAY TO CLEAN RIG!!!!😆😆😆😆😆☀️👍👍👍

[@parker6334]

This is why you call before you dig

[@bubbakemp5817]

Hey, where's the derrick hand?!!!🤣 He better be glad he was not up there!

[@cautious1343]

Very cool! How often does this happen?

[@Mylifelovingit]

Every Thursday apparently

[@donjohnson9117]

That's very impressive

[@RobertoMartinez-zq6qe]

They'll have the cleanness rig for sure !

[@JunnyB124]

That’s one way to clean a rig

[@collierdodson9806]

That’s great y’all have found lake mead, water

[@yohann1960]

Primary Water table. Very deep.

[@williamt5837]

A giant earth zit! 😁

[@sledgenwedge]

Well at least if you look at the bright side nobody's got a pressure wash the drilling rig that's for sure LOL

[@thatsbollox]

Noone seems that fussed about it. Title says they were drilling but looks a workover rig. Either way that water would be a nice temperature for a bath. If drilling likely they drilled into a faultline above an aquifer which can be much higher pressure.

[@kapaomegatau]

Me pregunto a que comunidades habran dejado sin agua.

[@jadneves]

Pois é, até o Rio Eufrates secou depois que perfuraram 1300 poços até 500 metros de profundidade.

[@Daniel-dc4xm]

Some people just like to hear their own gums bump. This ain’t rocket science folks. There’s a few here that get it, the rest? Well, the company won’t even let you put air in your own tires and with damn good reason. For the guy that put your head down by the deck, you and your buddy next to ya are fired!!! Oh, and keep your hard hats. You obviously need them! 🤣

[@10toppers]

First sentence is ironic considering the wall of text lmao

[@jamesfreach1022]

On all KZbin channels most of commentors are uninformed and have nothing better to do than make stupid remarks. Only someone who has pushed a stem understands what happened and could have happened.

[@hvacexplained9341]

Hello, Mr. George!!!

[@joshjones3408]

Holy shit y'all drilled into my garden house 😆😆 for tho wow👍👍👍👍

[@danmart9087]

That is what you call an artesian well

[@omegalgo297]

Thank you!!!!

[@namvet4792]

The boom on that drill rig is supposed to be LEVEL. Look at the angle.

[@frankkarkoska8980]

What looks like a light well workover rig, I don't see the usual Bowen Oil Tools blowout preventers. Unless that huge horizontal mass on the rig floor just above the ground may be the preventers. Blowout preventers would not have allowed this well to unload like it's depicted in the video.

[@williamscoggin1509]

Workers are drilling a water well.

[@frankkarkoska8980]

@@williamscoggin1509 ah ha! I also thought that looked like a water well drilling rig what with the structure itself not appearing as the heavy duty well drilling rigs we have in Texas and several other states I worked in or visited. Thanks William, for the info. 🙂😊😉

[@frankkarkoska8980]

@@williamscoggin1509 Actually, in the petroleum industry this particular rig is what is known as a workover rig but much much sturdier.

[@jlo7770]

​@@frankkarkoska8980that's 100% a workover rig and I can assure you they're not drilling water. A workover rig would be over kill and terrible as they're not exactly set up for drilling per say

[@frankkarkoska8980]

@jlo7770 yep, it's a workover rig. I studied the area when the camera panned a little, and I do not see a wellhead (Christmas) tree nor a pumpjack. So I don't know what they are doing. Also, there isn't any tubing laid down. The crew did release a pocket of gas, which is indicative of not having a heavy enough fluid to prevent the gas escape. This well may have been an oil well that had a submersible pump and a surface pump jack at some time. That is evidenced by the small concrete flooring opposite the rig where a pump jack may have once stood. I need more information to solve what the heck the company is doing to the well.

[@dallasanderon7875]

Should have been a blow preventer at ground level so the could shut the rams. Old well bad rubber in rams?

[@debbert7027]

Need casing to rig up BOP'S and different rig. That's a small kick when over in 4 minutes.

[@williamscoggin1509]

Just drilling a water well

[@Wanderingpyro]

Well there goes that water that somebody would have needed 150 years from now

[@fxnewbie9173]

When MOTHER EARTH SQUIRT😏

[@GERRYMALONEY47]

Looks like me when I sit on the toilet after I eat Chipotle or Taco Bell

[@TractorWrangler01]

Somebody is gunna have some great water pressure in their shower.

[@nealdietz7063]

That's what you get when you try drilling in Yellowstone

[@Anthony-os8id]

At least the truck's clean

[@davidbarr2283]

That’s is water rig not oil. Oil rigs have blow out preventers. That doesn’t. It is water not oil coming out. That is called an artesian well.

[@brendacreek9912]

Water. It ain't K-1 kerosene. I don't think. 😜

[@Michael-zs6gt]

There’s water in them thar hills!

[@leewithey2014]

Awesome!!! 😺

[@jon-qd4gb]

not a drilling rig, called a PULLING UNIT, used to pull rod out of casing for maintenance, pump is getting close to surface that is water above pump coming out, no where fir it to go but out of casing.

[@danotorioust2867]

Is that just water or have they been injecting foam very cool either way

[@H43339]

@Karl Childers give it a rest Carl, Really !!

[@martinjohansen8100]

They must have hit a chocolate milk Vein.

[@kiwisroad]

Good water pressure up in them there hills

[@Yahweh-Chase-Bella]

That's impressive. Imagining someone sitting on it right before it goes boom. Wonder if it would shoot them up, throw them off to the side, or cut through them? I have no idea but would be something

[@haroldhenderson2824]

IF they are wearing their safety harness (to prevent falling to their death), the water and crud will just beat them to a ragged, bloody pulp, then wash the pulp away. The guys on the ground will scoop up the person's clothes, shoes and any bones they find.

[@davelowets]

One large enema...

[@jlo7770]

It'd toss them like a rag doll. That's blowing out a solid 50 feet over the crown which will be around 100 feet that's gotta be several thousand psi shut in pressure, they had to be fairly deep/heavy or it'll blow the pipe out of the ground with it

[@lisafisher8081]

What a shame to waste all that fresh water...

[@raystanczak4277]

Earth: Ahhh… that’s better. Back to sleep.

[@navydogsadventures3500]

At least there wasn't a big boom!😁

[@brianthompson1838]

Si we just drilled into a 36 inch line from lake Powell senor!

[@emdm16]

“And the Turkish Olympic swimming team soon found themselves in the deep end of the pool with no way out” 📰

[@NateWilliams190]

Did these guys just hit their target - an aquifer? They don't seem overly concerned and it appears they shut down the flow with some type of pre installed pressure valve

[@rdm5190]

Akbads bunkes water supply just got poked

[@TheCulichy]

Sería muy interesante ver un video completo, que detalle como funciona todo desde tuberías y me imagino alguna válvula que controla la salida de el agua, de cualquier manera esto es un video muy bueno.

[@antoniotroncoso8232]

La Reina Isabel 2da tenía ya un video preparado para mandártelo pero que crees? Se murió así que no hay video 😁😄😆

[@MrCaliboy70]

Looks like they hit their mark with a free wash as a bonus

[@MW-xm1rc]

As Curley of the 3 Stooges would say, “It’s a Geezer”!!

[@LosDoyerss]

Nailed an underground river.

[@illumination101]

Based off mts in back I'd say an underground spring/water system

[@stefanlageambecker6077]

Water line...🙈

[@michaelmcclure8673]

I think the hit the bottom of lake Mead. Know wonder it's drying up. 😳😳😉😅🤣

[@williamscoggin1509]

And that is a small single stack with a drilling table. They are just drilling water wells and hit a pocket of water that has some gas pressure. This is not all our gas drilling, notice no one is panicking they just step back a few steps.