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David Thompson, 1952 - 2026
For Immediate Press Release
Renown oil well firefighter and blowout specialist, David Thompson, passed away peacefully in a hospital in San Antonio, Texas on the evening of Saturday, April 25, 2026. He was 73 years old.
He died of complications related to being hit by a car, as a pedestrian, in downtown Boerne on the afternoon of April 6, 2026. David had just dropped his wife and best friend, Kim, off to get a pedicure and was exiting his pickup at a clothing store on main street, Boerne. It was a heartbreaking way for David to have gone, given where he had been.
David Thompson began work for Boots and Coots, Inc., Houston, in 1984 under the tutelage of legendary well control specialists, Boots Hansen and Coots Matthews. He eventually became a senior well control specialist with the company, went on hundreds of blowout events around the world, and played…
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CDaringer
Apr 30
I was honored to work with David at CUDD. We both shared a district location that was plagued with rogue raccoons, and how we dreaded Monday mornings and raccoon battles.
I wasn’t a “far fighter”, or even a field hand, I was an office employee that always felt part of his team.
God speed David, you were a gentleman, friend and warrior, and a mighty fine raccoon warrior too. See you on the other side. Peace and love to your family and friends.
This surprised Me......
I'm a pretty conservative guy, well at least fiscally ( I've been known to tear it up on occasion ) but never really liked Glenn Beck. However I kind of liked the column he posted yesterday about....oil.
Take a gander if you like at https://glennbeck.com/read/articles/why-are-gas-prices-so-damn-high-despite-us-oil-production and let me know what you think.
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dckpttn
Apr 16
But the oil really isn't that cheap, not by historical terms. Fracking is expensive. The US drilled 15,000 oil and gas wells last year, and 11,700 of those were horizontal. This year we will have to drill another 15,000 wells. The days are gone of drilling a vertical well that yielded 1,000 bpd for 20 years.
$60/barrel oil isn't cheap, yet fracking loses money. A lot of fracking companies have gone bankrupt. The good old days are gone because we are fighting depletion and geology, and geology is winning.
Sinkholes in the Permian
I saw a video today, and maybe I can get feedback on it.
There is a 200' deep sinkhole in Winkler County. It's growing.
Under the Permian, there is a large layer of compressed salt. The salt used to be stable, but now the salt is slowly being dissolved by deep injection of produced water. Other causes are abandoned wells and the fact that groundwater is able to seep deep underground due to so much alteration of the subsurface due to drilling.
The result is caverns under the Permian. Every once in a while, the ground collapses and forms a sinkhole. There are about 50 areas in the Permian with this problem, and some of them have pipelines, tanks, towns, etc. over them.
No one has a solution to stabilize the ground. Professor Mike, is this true? Ever heard of this?
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Sean Nolte
Mar 19
Everytime I hear sinkhole I think of Lake Peigneur (I think I actually spelled that one correctly) and the lesser known Corne Bayou. And I'm not even counting the "sinkholes" found all around Chicagoland due to shoddy asphalt work 😁.
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A fitting tribute, Professor (although you guys deserve way more). Got a smile from me with David's "love letter" to his wife from the Kuwaiti oil fields. As always, take care.