The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-15
Mai. Vim. F .Tebbets rites of Great Oil
 Industry In Texas
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 is timed; the other is by an electric spark that is set off through batteries. This explosion loosens the soil, thereoy releasing the oil
 Test well-The first well to be drilled on an nsundeveloped lease
 Dry Well-It is called dry because 1t does not contain the precious liquid gold sought for A dry well means the loss Of from 1000 to s25,00O or more invested in the expense of drilling.
 Duster-Another term for a dry well.
 Csasser-A producing gas well
 Salt Water Well--A worse than worth less reward for the wildcatter, well that reaches the sand and finds It fuied with salt water instead Of oil.
 Wildcat Well-A well drilled outside of producing oil or gas territory
 Wildcatting-The occupation of search
 ing for gas or oil in undeveioped ter ritory.
 Wildcatter-The pioneer in the oil and gas business, who does the costly ven- turing/ referred to in the proceeding paragraph. The man whose nerve and faith and money have brought into existence every great producing oil and gas pool in the world
 Tank Farm-A tract of land sometimes only a few acres. sometimes several hun dred acres on which are erected the large steel storage tanks used by the oil refineries and the big producing corpora tons
 Storage Tanks-The large tanks. which have capacity usually of 250 barrels built of wood and used as a receiving 1 tank into which flows the oil from the wells on a lease. As fast as this tank is filled up. the oil is gauged and run into the storage tanks. The big pipe line companies and oil purchasing companies run their pipe lines direct to these tanks As fast as they are filled the oil is guaged and emptied into the pipe lines. ! A run ticket certifying as to the exact number of barrels of oil taken out Of each tank is issued to the lease owner by the purchasing company or the pipe line | company.
 ! Pumping Station-A house containing an engine and pumping machinery which I is used to pump the wells on lease where pumping is necessary. Pumping tequipment is installed over each we'll and connected by iron rods to the central sta .
 ion and this one station furnishes the power which pumns all of the wells
 Lease Man-The man in charge of l the pump station and all the gauging
 on each lease. This is about the only 1 operating expense connected with oil producing leases after the wells have been completed and equipped r Drilling Crew-A drilling crew con ! sists of four men--the driller. the en- gineer helper and tool dresser, on l standard rigs and on rotary rigs con-
 sst of the driller, the engineer. anu 1.-two he'onrs called rough -necks. These crews work in 12-hour shifts I called towers. Two crews are used ir
 drilling each we'll. and drifting opera tions seldom cease from the time the
 well is started untD it is completed. Brought In-The term used after ar oil well has been completed and tho \ oil being actually produced. 1 Flowing Well--An oil we'll tha
 flows of its own force without the ait
 of pump.
 Pump well--An oil we'll that re quires the aid of pump to bring tn, ] oil to the surface.
 ! Gusher--An oil well of mendou :, force and exceptionally large produc Il ton Any large well. which on bein. II brought in flows naturally. An arte fI sian oil we'll.
 ,l Deep Test-First deep well drilled ol , certain lease or in a certain section :. | to prove up the land for deep pa. T sand strata.
 ei Casing Head cas-Wet gas. escau al Ing from oil wells. During past fev V years many plants have been ereete, : to extract the gasoline from casinl
 head gas. The Burkburnett Field