[razorback-bert]

If anyone finds an oil well below 20,000' anywhere in the world, I'll personally fly him and his family to Houston and buy them the biggest steak in town!!

Well...one of the seven sisters was going to drill one to 25,000 ft. south of Pyote, but the mergers came first.

What do we have now, the four sisters?

Our company workload is down 60% right now, that is why I am home instead watching a rig turn right, first Thankgiving in ten years at home.

[COB1]

"first Thankgiving in ten years at home."

Congratulations, bert!
I came home last evening, but the times I've been home for Thanksgiving have been few and far between.

I've worked a lot of wells around Pyote and Cayanosa, and if I remember correctly the Ellenberger comes in at about 22,000' the same as it does in the Gomez Field around Ft. Stockton.
I assume they permitted to 25,000' intending to drill to about 23,500' or just past the Ellenberger.
When I first went to the Gomez in about 1967, it was taking over a year to drill those 24,000' wells.
When the journal bearing bits came into being, we chopped that time to about seven months.

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, old podnuh!

[COB1]

BTW: Those are all gas and condensate wells from the Ellenberger.
In fact, some of the best gas wells I've ever seen has been in the Gomez.
Coastal brought one in at the airport in Ft. Stockton that potentialed for a little over a billion cubic feet per day, and several hundred million was common place.