Volume One
The following files comprise volume one of my personal history. To view them, simply double click the title. To download a file, right click and then choose “Save link as.” (Please be patient as the files download for you to view. Some of them are rather large.)
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The title page for all three volumes of my personal history. |
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Lots of people helped me through the years as I created this history. Some helped me before I even started writing. |
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Along with your curiosity, which has apparently precipitated this act of opening my personal history, I feel sure you are wondering why an average individual, such as Grandpa Tom, would bother to embark on an effort of this magnitude.
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The table of contents for volume 1, which includes chapters one through eight.
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The title page for the first part of my personal history titled “Growing Pains and Young Adult Experiences.” |
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Chapter One – My Birthplace and Early Years I was born of goodly parents (as Nephi said) in Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois on May 1, 1928 in a hospital whose name escapes me. I guess neither my reading ability nor my newly formed brain was fully developed at that particular time. In fact, many who know me today are still waiting for those two events. My mother had a picture of it, at one time (the hospital not my brain, silly).
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Chapter Two – School Days in Boise It was in the second grade at Whittier school where I first remember being taken advantage of by a school bully. I was bigger or at least taller as I remember, but he was tough and knew it. Unfortunately, I thought so too and only knew I was scared.
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Chapter Three – My Forest Service Years I learned how to swing an ax . . . as well as how to sharpen one and properly care for it. This proved to be good experience for the future smoke-chasing job I was able to land after reaching the ripe old age of 16.
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Chapter Four – The United States Air Force Years I reported for duty on May eighth 1951 . . . I, along with others reporting, was then placed on a slow train to San Antonio, Texas, home of that U.S.A.F. basic training Mecca known as Lackland air Force Base. I had been assigned to the 3720th Basic Military Training Group. Little did I know what the ensuing weeks would bring on why the base had received the name of “Lackland”. Needless to say, I rather quickly found out . . .
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The title page for the second part of my personal history titled “An Overview of Technical Aspects Involved in My Oil Field Career.” |
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Chapter Five – An Oil Exploration, Drilling & Production Overview The oil business is composed of an extremely complex group of operations involving many major disciplines of science, engineering and business. My objective is to present a view of that portion in which I was most closely associated so as to make my personal history more meaningful and understandable to the uninitiated.
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Chapter Six – Schulmberger Technique, Geophysics So Magnifique Schlumberger technique is indeed magnificent when it comes to the application of geophysics to oil field problems. |
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Chapter Seven – Schlumberger Open Hole Measurements As I indicated in chapter 6, this particular chapter will concentrate on geophysical measurements in uncased or so called open-hole. You were introduced to the general equipment associated with all logging in that chapter as well as the concept of depth control and the logs and records that are made. This chapter will deal with evaluation of the formations the well has penetrated so a decision can be made whether to run casing or not.
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Chapter Eight – Schlumberger Cased Hole Services Back in chapter five, I referred to “completion services” and described to a limited extent the completion of an oil or gas well. In this chapter I intend to describe those completion services offered by Schlumberger to the industry in some detail, much like the open hole services described in chapter seven of this monumental work.
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