Homemade oil drilling rig - video

**Jon** · Aug 20, 2020, 06:09 PM

Oil drilling rig. By adam courville. 5:49 video:

Previously: Water well drilling rig - video

**Duke_of_URL** · Aug 20, 2020, 07:41 PM

That looks like a water drilling rig that's putting casing in the ground. No way that thing drills for oil.

**Frank S** · Aug 20, 2020, 08:08 PM

Drill rig NO. but workover rig eventually. it was pulled way too green to be of much use as even a workover rig but maybe he is just testing to see if it is going to work. Before he even thinks about pulling rod or pipe he needs to loose the chain and invest in a good pair of bails and an elevator.
And put on a hard hat for cripes sakes
On most small workover rigs the hands work from near the ground. except the derrick hand.
I couldn't see any form of a rotary drive either a table or a top drive so not able to drill.
That 2 /38 tubing would only be good for around 300 feet with a 4 5/8 bit.
Also there was no swivel so how to pump fluid or air down the hole to lift the spoils?

**Crusty** · Aug 20, 2020, 08:26 PM

Seems to me that the lack of a blowout preventer is a serious oversight.

But looking again, the lack of a well head even makes me think that it's not an actual drill site.

**Frank S** · Aug 21, 2020, 01:08 AM

Originally Posted by Crusty

Seems to me that the lack of a blowout preventer is a serious oversight.

But looking again, the lack of a well head even makes me think that it's not an actual drill site.

there are or were a lot of wells drilled around Navarro county back in the early 1980s under 500 feet that produced a light greenish crude many were drilled with medium sized water well rigs that never had BOPS used on them. The same thing in Archer county where the wells ranged from 1500 to 3000 ft many of those were wild catted without BOPS. I know where a lot of wells were drilled and they didn't even set surface casing. But I also know where a lot of wells are that had 300 feet of 12" surface then they drilled to the 1000' depth with a 11 3/4" button bit so they could set a 1000 ft of 10" aquafer protection pipe before continuing after installing a double stack with one of the annular preventers we made on top of the stack that's like wearing a belt and suspenders on bib overalls