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Slant Drilling

The last paragraph states that Slant Drilling was used to drain the Bandy Tract. This was certainly not the case. The case was that a common reservoir was underneath all of the land, and that the oil in the Bandy Tract was drained by Rule of Capture as the other wells produced oil. This is legal. This also suggests that the Bandy Tract was probably central to the reservoir beneath the land, and could have produced the bulk of the oil if drilled at the same time, and thus provided the most capture, and actually drained oil from the fields that Daniel Day-Lewis' character held.

2nd, the final scene was in 1927, and Directional Drilling was not even pioneered as a process (instead of a drilling error/accident) until the 1930's.

Wiki on Directional Drilling: "In 1934, H. John Eastman & Roman W. Hines of Long Beach, California, became pioneers in directional drilling when they and George Failing of Enid, Oklahoma, saved the Conroe, Texas, oil field. Failing had recently patented a portable drilling truck. He had started his company in 1931 when he mated a drilling rig to a truck and a power take-off assembly. The innovation allowed rapid drilling of a series of slanted wells. This capacity to quickly drill multiple relief wells and relieve the enormous gas pressure was critical to extinguishing the Conroe fire.[2] In a May, 1934, Popular Science Monthly article, it was stated that "Only a handful of men in the world have the strange power to make a bit, rotating a mile below ground at the end of a steel drill pipe, snake its way in a curve or around a dog-leg angle, to reach a desired objective." Eastman Whipstock, Inc., would become the world's largest directional company in 1973.[citation needed]"

25 years experience in the offshore drilling industry. Msjayhawk (talk) 19:45, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

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