Show THE POOR MANS DRILLING OUTFIT the okell well machinery company of los angeles is pardonably proud of the fact that it was one of their portable combination rotary rigs that brought in the first well in nevada that of the fallon fallen oil gas company a little over six weeks ago oil was encountered at a detthof dep feet and the driller in charge completed the well in eighty six hours of drilling the okell drilling rig is characterized as the poor mans drilling outfit for getting oil in a poor mans oil country the company says it is poor mans territory when a rig can be purchased for instead of and oil can be struck for 1000 1 concerning the outstanding features of tha rig the company says claims for okell rig combination machines embody all the necessary arrangement of design so that the four different processes for getting a hole in the ground can be used these machines possess this feature in a marked degree which processes can be classed as follows the fast rotary y process for sand etc the rotary core barrel for the hard rock and sampling purposes and also for opening bottom of oil wells that have been cemented in shutting off water the mud scow or drilling sand pump for gravel and placer work and the cable tools for boulders etc these machines are the only type that will give satisfaction for wild cat oil work or testing for minerals water etc from an economical point of bf view they embody a low first cost and a low operating expense we do not claim there is anything new in these processes as they have all been used for years but in the use of them we ve do claim our machine stands at the head of the class in the arrangement and ability to change from one process to another quickly and in design for ease of operation and small cost of upkeep |