Today at work one of the things I was doing was hole punching a bunch of articles my manager had pulled out of various oil and gas magazines. Some of the pages needed to be turned so that the articles title would be facing up.
For some reason an article about a well in Kentucky caught my eye. The article was from 1991. A long time oil man had drilled over 7,000 wells over a period of 39 years. But none of them had been really great ones. He always had the dream to find an amazing discovery.
By a fluke of luck, he happened to acquire the mineral rights to a patch of land near the Kansas and Tennessee border. On it were a couple wells already that were producing, but not very much.
He chose one of them to deepen.
Several days after the redrilling began, his drilling foreman ran over to him with a worried look on his face. The well, which had previously been producing only 5 barrels of oil (BO) a day, was now GUSHING oil.
There just so happened to be a man at a nearby gas station with a couple backhoes on his way to another job. They got this man to come to their well and start digging pits to put the oil in - because otherwise it was going to go into a nearby creek.
The man with the backhoes stayed for 3 1/2 days and dug 10 pits for the oil. All of which filled up as fast as the pumpers they hired could drain them.
The well was now producing upwards of 300 BO per HOUR!
Needless to say, this was the fulfillment of a lifetime long dream of the oilman. He never gave up, even after drilling over 7,000 wells all over the world and 39 years.
I was just completely riveted by this story. I really wish I had a link to it so you could all read it for yourself.
It just spoke to me. I have dreams that I sometimes wonder if it's even worth it anymore to even keep dreaming about. Dreams I've had since I was little. But here's this man who never gave up after 39 years - and he finally made it!
If he could keep his dream alive, then so can I!
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There is this Cat/Dog blog which I check on a daily basis. There is this amazing story of how a dog helped an old man and how God works in our lives.
*link fixed - sorry about that!
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I have new posts on my blog. Today I talked about a really special gift that my mom made me.
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I shopped at Walmart tonight. $29.02 for 3 bags of groceries. Ugh. And . .I forgot to get bananas.
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February 12th, 2009 at 03:46 am 1234410373
I'll fix the link in my post -- but here is the real link to the dog story:
http://blog.ourdoglog.com/2009/02/what-love-of-dog-can-do.html
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February 12th, 2009 at 07:31 pm 1234467070
when up from the ground came a bubblin' crude!"
Am I not the only one with this ear worm now?
February 13th, 2009 at 12:58 am 1234486718
Crazyliblady, I'm glad you liked it - hope your DH does too.
Joan, Hah! Jethro! LOL!