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ELECTRICITY

DIRECTIONS FOR WIRING

Mount the generator in the engine house and connect with steam supply. Connect wires to positive and negative terminals and run wires up wall and connect switch at convenient place. Carry wires out over walk and into derrick and round the four sides of derrick at the first girt. Extend wires up in one corner of derrick to crown block. Connect lamps to line as follows: one in engine house, one over walk, four to eight strung around first girt to light the derrick, one on crown block and one about halfway up in derrick. Solder all wire connections and then carefully tape them. If impossible to solder use extra care in taping. For supporting wires use the porcelain split knobs.

SIMPLE RULES TO FIND POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE WIRES IN A GENERATOR

(1) Cut a potato in half and apply half to the two wires about one-half inch apart. Start generator and in a few minutes the potato will turn green round the positive wire and it will bubble round the negative wire.

(2) Immerse the two wires in a salt solution: the negative wire will cause bubbles.

LUBRICATION OF A DRILLING OUTFIT

The following lubricants are usually used:

Engine, cylinder:

Engine, bearings and working

parts:

Cylinder Oil, Tallow.

Engine Oil, Cup Grease.

Note: The drilling engine is usually equipped with a two-quart sight feed lubricator in which cylinder oil should be used. For the old style lubricator or tallow cup, tallow will answer.

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LUBRICATION OF A DRILLING OUTFIT (Concluded)

Crown Block and Pulleys:
Walking Beam Center Irons:
Calf Wheel and Bull Wheel
Gudgeons:

Sand Reel:

Wire Drilling Cables, Sand
Lines and Casing Lines:
Note:

Engine Oil.

Engine Oil.

Jack Post Grease.
Engine Oil.

Light Graphite Grease.

Some wire rope manufacturers supply a special lubricant

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The following formulas for lubricants were supplied by E. S. Durward, of the Shell Oil Co., Coalinga, California. Formula for lubricant for rotary tool joints:

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Melt tallow, add white lead, mixing well. Then add oil, stirring continually. Then add graphite and mix all together.

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Mix lead with some oil, then melt the tallow.

Gallons 30 Finally mix every

thing together and continue stirring until thoroughly mixed. * Bureau of Mines Bulletin 182, by Thomas Curtin.

CHAPTER XVI

STATE LAWS RELATING TO DRILLING, ABANDONING AND PLUGGING OIL AND GAS WELLS AND TO OIL AND GAS

ARKANSAS LAWS

An Act to Conserve Natural Gas Resources of the State of Arkansas

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas:

Be it enacted by the people of the State of Arkansas:

Section 1. In order to determine the open flow volume of gas produced by any well, it shall be the duty of the State Gas Inspector or his duly authorized deputy to test all wells producing gas in the State of Arkansas, from which gas is being used or marketed, between the 1st day of December and the 1st day of January in each year, and as often thereafter as in his judgment it may be necessary-for the purpose of determining the open flow volume and rock pressure of said wells. The State Oil and Gas Inspector shall be paid a fee of $25.00 a day and his actual expenses by the person, firm or corporation whose wells are tested by him or his deputy under the provisions of this Section.

Section 2. In determining the open flow volume and rock pressure of said well, said Gas Inspector shall first close the well for a period of five minutes, and then take a test, to determine its closed-in pressure. He shall then immediately open said well and flow it for five minutes, and then take a test of its open flow volume, with approved instruments and devices in use for that purpose.

Section 3. Immediately after the said tests are made, the Gas Inspector shall furnish the person, firm or corporation owning or operating said well or wells with a copy of the

tests made by him, showing the amount of gas which said owner or operator may take from each of said wells daily, and shall file his report of said tests with the county clerk of the County in which said well or wells are situated, showing the closed-in rock pressure and open flow volume, size of the tubing with which said well or wells are closed in, and the condition of the well or wells at the time the test was made; said report to be verified by said Gas Inspector and preserved by the County Clerk in the County records.

Section 4. Before making said tests, the Gas Inspector shall give five days notice in writing to the person, firm or corporation owning, operating or controlling said gas well or wells, of the time when said tests will be made, and the person, firm or corporation owning, operating or controlling said well or wells, or any other person interested therein, shall have the right to be present when said test is being made, and shall afford to said Gas Inspector every means and facility possible for the purpose of making an accurate test of said well or wells, as provided in this Act.

Section 5. If, in the judgment of the Gas Inspector, it shall be deemed advisable or necessary to test said wells oftener than set out in Section 1, he shall have the right to do so, and for the purpose of making said tests and determining the amount of gas taken therefrom, he shall have access to all wells and to all well records, and all companies, contractors, drillers, lessees or owners of the land upon which said well or wells are located shall permit said Gas Inspector or his deputy to come upon any lease or property owned or controlled by them, and to inspect any and all wells and the records of said wells, and to have access at all times to all wells and to any and all records of said wells used, owned or operated by any person, firm or corporation or the lessees or owners of the land upon which said wells are located.

Section 6. Uniform rules of procedure must be followed by said Gas Inspector in making the tests hereinabove set out, so that all wells tested by him under this Act shall be

upon the same basis and under like conditions, to the end that all wells shall show accurately their rock pressure and volume as closed in at the time said tests are made, and shall be tested under similar conditions.

Section 7. In addition to the annual test provided for in Section 1, it shall be the duty of the Gas Inspector, within ten days after the gas from any well is being used or marketed, to make a test of said well as provided for in Section 2, and to make out and file his report of said test with the County Clerk of the county in which said well is located, as provided in said Section 2.

Section 8. When the gas from any well is being used, the flow of production thereof shall be restrained to twenty per cent. of the potential capacity of said well; that is to say, in any day of twenty-four hours, the well shall not be permitted to flow or produce more than twenty per cent. of the open flow capacity of said well, as shown by the last test of said well made by the Gas Inspector.

Provided that whenever the rock pressure of any well, when tested as provided in Section 2, is reduced to one hundred pounds, by putting gas into the pipe line under its own volition or pressure, the provisions of this section shall not apply. Section 9. All gas produced from gas wells drilled in this State, when sold or used from said well, shall be accurately metered through proper devices, in order to determine the amount of gas taken from said well, which said meters shall be read at least once in every forty-eight hours, for the purpose of determining the amount of gas taken from each well, and such meter readings shall be subject to the examination of the Gas Inspector or any other person interested, for the purpose of determining whether or not the amount of gas being taken from said well is in excess of twenty per cent of the daily open flow of the well as shown by the last test made of said well by the Gas Inspector, provided that when the rock pressure of any well falls below one hundred, this Section shall not apply.

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