I just read the comment on Facebook. In reply, the conductor pipe is all that is installed so far. The conductor pipe is what you attach a BOP to, but would not be needed until you are ready to drill out the shoe and finish the well to depth. Right now its jut a piece of pipe running into the ground to a point beyond the water table and cemented into place. I haven't a clue what his problem is. Every well is started with a big hole opener; I think we have merged the conductor pipe with the surface casing operations, only because our wells at this location are so shallow. After drilling to total depth of operation, each well will be logged and cased, then perforated if we have found commercial quantities of oil. Maybe the guy is a mud engineer and he thinks you can't drill a well without all the peripheral mud equipment. We need clean mud if we are drilling with mud but there is more than one way to skin that cat. Oiljob