On May 4, 9:31*pm, "A.Boater" wrote:
On *4-May-2010, anon-e-moose wrote:

*From Yale. Good work. Didn't you graduate from Yale?

You didn't graduate from Yale?

WTF would cause you to reach into your huge bag of confusion and pick some
assumption (out of all the schools on the planet) that I ever attended Yale?

Do you EVER get anything right?

This all reminds me of the first business I started, Rocky Mountain
Pressure Survey, Inc. Me and a two other oil field trash friends
leased two pressure guages and 10,000' of multi-conductor stainless
armored cable, some stainless strapping and a device to apply it
around tubing and we leased two of the old Osborne "portable"
computers (this was 1981). We were going to put the guages in wells
for months and then go around measuring them in real time with the
computers via phone line. The guages would be at the bottoms of the
wells and the cable strapped to the outside of the tubing as it was
run into the well. Knowing the pressure was critical to knowing how
the efforts to stimulate an old depleted oil field was responding to
injection from nearby wells. Our scheme was to instrument every well
in a field with each connected via phone to a computer.

We actually had an agreement with Chevron to test 5 wells in the
Midwest field north of Casper, WY but our timing was bad with the
collapse of oil prices so did our business and they cancelled the job
but they did pay for our equipment lease. I went back to grad school
and my friends both went to work offshore Argentina. Now, I know it
was all for the best that it failed because it it had sorta succeeded,
I'd still be in the oil business and that was a young mans game.

However, it did lead to my first patent attempt, a scheme to measure
fluid levels in wells using microwaves using the tubing as a
waveguide. By measuring the standing wave ratio, and its position on
a "Smith Chart" one could determine not only the fluid depth but the
nature of the gas/liquid interface. Being in grad school at the time,
I could not interest anybody in an oil patent so I had to drop it.

I figger that if the carbon credit scam ever got going, I'd buy up
abandoned oil wells near cement plants because cement plants produce
huge amounts of CO2 and inject the CO2 into one well to stimulate
production in another. Not only would I get the CO2 for free, I'd be
able to sell the carbon credit AND produce a small amount of oil
(about 3 barrels/day) for free.