Replies to post #43340 on Hemi Energy Group Inc. (fka HMGP)

[Big Mur]

Then please... point it out

Here's some more detail...

Nope, that's not a meter(but it IS the wellhead):




Nope, this isn't a meter either:





I think I see Waldo though.

[bdahl385]

Sputnik - small production oil wells like these in SEK do not have flow meters mounted on the production lines by the pump jack. The most common way to read production is from gauging the tank. You literally drop a steel tape measure or wooden stick into the oil storage tank and record the number of inches from bottom of tank to the top of the oil. Each tank has a conversion rate to show # of inches equals how many barrels.

Sounds kind of crude (no pun intended) but that's the way I gauged my oil production in TX in 1988-90. From my memory, my oil storage tank conversion was 1.2 inches = 1 bbl of oil.

If you saw any kind of meter on the well head, it was probably a simple pressure gauge to monitor the gas build up since most oil wells also produce some gas also.