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We were working a deep lateral out in the basin. The frac crew was moving fast, everything running smooth on a cased hole wireline job. My team was setting up for a wireline perforating run, and I requested the base log depth to tie into. The client handed me the numbers from a previous crew—looked …
There’s one rule I never let my crew forget: never start prepping a setting tool unless you can finish it in one go. That rule didn’t come from theory. It came from experience—specifically, a hectic cased hole wireline job where an operator was pulled away mid-prep. The tool ended up with mismatched explosives and a …
It was a fast-paced stage frac operation—high pressure, tight turnarounds, and everyone moving in sync. We were working a long lateral in a cased hole wireline job, running back-to-back stages with little room for error. The crew was sharp. The wireline truck was live. Our logging cable was 12,000 feet deep. We had just finished …
We were on day two of a tight multi-stage perforation well project. Everything was on track—wireline truck parked and grounded, frac crew ready, logging cable tension good, and the next perforating gun already staged. And then the storm rolled in. Now, we had a choice: push forward and beat the weather—or stop, check conditions, and …
You can tell a lot about a wireline crew by how they handle explosives—not when everything’s going right, but when the pace picks up, the client is breathing down your neck, and you’re five stages deep into a pump down perforating job. I remember one particular perforation well out in West Texas. Wind kicking up, …
The thing about wireline logging is that you can have the most advanced wireline tools, the sharpest crew, the most dialed-in wireline control systems—but if your base log isn’t accurate, everything that follows is built on sand. I learned that lesson early in my career, during a cased hole logging job where we were prepping …
It was one of those high-tempo jobs. Multiple wells, fast frac cycles, and a tight window for every pump down perforating run. We were mid-way through a cased hole wireline stage, tools were on the deck, and the client was asking for tighter turnarounds between runs. That’s when it happened: we had a misrun. No …
We were deep in the Permian, mid-stage on a high-pressure pump down perforating job. The frac crew was in sync, plugs were landing, and we were hitting depths right on time. Then—on stage 6—we fired, but the plug didn’t hold. That kind of failure changes the tone of a job site fast. We pulled the …
It was a routine cased hole wireline job—nothing exotic. Standard pressure stack, full wireline perforating string, basic plug and perf sequence in a horizontal lateral. We’d done these jobs a hundred times before. The crew was solid, the wireline truck was humming, and the tools were already racked and ready. Then the call came over …
I’ve been around long enough in the wireline business to see what happens when something small—like an o-ring—gets overlooked. A few years back, we had a string of failures with our Baker setting tools during a perforation well job. Three plugs failed to set. Three jobs stalled. The total damage? Over $100,000, not including the …
