I get a lot of criticism for suggesting the United States is on the threshold of crude oil and condensate scarcity. A whacko peak oil nut, I am called.

The key word is affordable crude oil and condensate. Profitable oil to find and produce. Indeed, we'll never run out of oil, that is a stupid concept used to deflect from reality. There are depleted oil fields in the country that would produce millions of barrels per day, in 4 BOPD increments. So what? We're not ever going to run out of oil.

The government does not "subsidize" companies to produce oil in America; that's liberal dung heap. We don't get checks in the mail to drill wells.

Private enterprise and capitalism in the U.S. are in charge of our hydrocarbon resources. It has to be profitable, this extraction, or it fails. I know that is difficult to understand given the…

Apologies if this has been posted before. Jean Lahererre is a 94 year old Frenchman who updated his US oil and gas production forecast in December 2025:

Fortunately the US has plenty of coal to do the synthetic fuels thing. For a while.

With all the heavy moments lately and nutty real life oil business shenanigans going on, maybe what we need is a laugh.

If you were an operator in the fictional world of tv and the silver screen,

which of these well control experts would you call on if you had a blowout/fire (Sorry no Chance Buckman).

A. Pinky Noonan (Dallas)

B. Angus "Mac" Macgyver (Macgyver)

C. Forrest Taft (On Deadly Ground)

Putting things together for David Thompson's family I found a photo that will walk us through a short lesson in well control 101.

I suspect this was a production well; the rig has been pulled out of the way and everything cleared from around the well, some mates laid down to stay out of the water the well is making.

The damaged(?) tubing head was removed, here's how: Ignition chances are low, so hands got into the well head and unbolted the flange with hammer wrenches, most likely, then air powered socket wrench like you hear in the tire change place.

To keep from hair lipping everybody before the last two bolts are undone, a large C-clamp with a steel bracket on the back of the clamp is placed on the two flange halves and tightened down. The last two bolts are broken out of the flange-to-flange connection, and everybody…