No Ordinary Post Hole
And yet, almost from the beginning there was a different feel to this well. The drillers and the roughnecks sensed something they hadn’t often encountered before: hope. It was hard to pin down, but it was there.“ Just when most of us felt we had a tiger by the tail is difficult to say,” said George McClintock. “ But all of us were convinced that we were dealing with no ordinary posthole. Favorable evidence was accumulating constantly.”
As Vern Hunter was to say later, “All the way down from the first 2,000 feet (610 meters) or so, we started to pick up a little (natural)gas and signs of oil in the Cretaceous. The whole thing was alive. And when we got down to the D2 (a layer of Devonian rock), well, that’s when the whole thing started for Western Canada.”
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