Journey to Rolla Camp Amid Oil Town Echoes
The narrator describes leaving towns with shops police post hospital and moving toward Rolla described as a thriving oil era locale. They swap a Model T for a horse and wagon on a rough trail and meet bush country pioneers including Bad Eye Brown and One Eye Jones. John Taylor hauled drilling gear linking Grande Prairie and Rolla and a camp near Rolla houses a cookhouse bunkhouse and a warehouse with a cooling spring.
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Rolla
Bad-Eye Brown
One-Eye Jones
John Taylor
Grande Prairie
Titled Horse Equipment and Early Drilling Methods
A historical note describes using a cable tool drill to rig up and spud in after ten days of work. The crew drilled twelve hours daily, six days a week, dropping a steam hoisted chisel into a hole. Although rotary rigs exist, cable drills remain common in southern Ontario for shallow drilling.
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Ontario
Oil Field Memoir of Peril and Persistence in the North
A veteran recounts geophysical methods used to locate oil and gas, from magnetometers to seismographs, and describes the perilous winter drilling life in a Canadian camp. A deadly gas explosion,救 efforts, rescue by sleigh, and a long recovery in Pouce Coupe are vivid highlights before the narrator resumes global drilling assignments in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru.
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Tropics
Colombia
Venezuela
Ecuador
Peru
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Imperial
Canada
RE Ft
Imperial Oil
Edmonton
Taylor
Kansas
Pouce Coupe
Bee Gee
Bear Tools CO. Ltd
Nols Co
Nce
Fort St. John
Harry Mertz
Cougar Tool CO. Ltd
60Th Avenue
Alberta
Christensen
Ipier
Christenser
Paris
Peter Bawden Drilling Services Ltd
Monkman Pass
B.C
Quasar Petroleum Ltd
Fred Morton
Syd Robertson
8Th Avenue
S. W
Calgary
Bawden Drilling Services Ltd
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