Evening all, I was sitting here thinking about modeling an oil well, you know the ones that sit in an open field and look like a dinasor. maybe a oil tank in the area. Has anyone ever modeled this? Where would you find a HO oil well? Thought it might be a nice touch, you could put one almost anywhere. The state capitol in Okla. have them in the front lawn.
Mike
I wait to see this. Modern or an old wooden one??
I was thinking of more modern 1975 ish. Mike
Walthers has oil derricks in their 2006 HO scale catalog. They had a walking beam pump in the 2005 issue, with a motorizing kit.
I don’t have the 2005 issue handy, but the Walthers catalog number of the Glenwood No. 2 Oil Derrick is 152-716, and they show the pump with it in the catalog.
Walthers sells an Oil Pump #933-3170 with a motorizing kit. LASERkit sells an oil derrick to fit the Walthers pump.
Great , I am getting alot of response on this, I haven’t thought of a derrick was more interested in the actual pump, but that puts ideas in my head. I will defentally check this out. Mike
I check Walthers’ web site, they’re both in stock - here are the links:
http://walthers.com/exec/productinfo/152-716
http://walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3170
By 1975 the drilling tower would have been removed immediately after the well proved out. If the well was dry (the more usual case) it would be capped at ground level and would all but disappear. If there was enough oil to warrant it, a walking beam pump would be installed, along with a cooker and a couple of small storage tanks. The cooker (looks like a skinny vertical tank with a chimney) separates the well output into water, crude oil and natural gas - some of the latter recycled on the spot to heat the cooker.
The small collection tanks at the well head were usually connected by pipes to larger tanks, which would be connected by still larger pipelines to either a refinery or a major transshipping point with some really serious holding tanks. A working field would have a “spiderweb” of pipelines, usually on or just above the ground. Trucks would only go to a wellhead to service the well. Only isolated wells that didn’t produce enough to warrant a pipeline connection would ever see tank trucks loading crude at the individual wellhead.
If you ever drive I20 through Midland, Texas, plan a stop at the Petroleum Museum. Exhibits include several generations of drilling rigs, pumps, wellhead accessories and other artifacts - including a nitroglycerine truck (!) and an aircraft once used for aerial inspection of the pipelines in the Permian Basin. Five bucks buys a fascinating and very informative couple of hours.
Chuck (whose major energy source is coal, not oil)
Today wells are drilled with portable rigs. They haul in the base usually in 4 or more sections and have a crane set them. The derrick is in 2 sections and brought in on trucks. It is also assembled using a crane and a heavy fork lift. There are a bunch of ancillary shacks and a bank of diesel engines that go with all this. They also have a mobile home for the supervisor and another one or two for the crew. They just finished a natural gas well on our land and I’ve got pictures of the whole process. The whole thing makes one heck of a mess. Now that the well is producing there are 3 10,000 gal storage tanks, a compressor and a seperator by the well. Trucks come in to haul off the water and the oil that is collected. The gas goes out in a 6 inch pipeline.
The whole process is interesting to watch but I don’t want to go through all that again. We’re still trying to get them to clean up the frac pit.[:(!][banghead]
I photograph old oil wells back in the early 1970s and built this OPERATING model of a Jack Line type oil field. The model itself is almost 40 years old and still works and squeaks like the prototype. http://www.geocities.com/espee9164/field.mod.html
I just scooped this oil tank in brass
is this a storage tank at trackside?
or where will this type be found?
I’m told its 5 3/4" x 2 1/2" so im not sure
JUST COMPLETED SPINDELTOP No.4. PLANS BY GEORGE ALLEN. CAN’T REMEMBER WHAT MR IT WAS IN,BUT BET SOMEOTHER MODELER WILL REMEMBER
A well is drilled using a truck delivered or mounted drilling rig, it drills the hole, if they hit oil they cap the hole, remove the rig, then mount a pump(those bobbing horsey looking things) the oil either goes to a large holding tank beside the pump jack(where a truck picked up the oil and drove it away) or to a pipeline to a larger pipeline, those old tall wooden derricks in old photos were the drilling rig and the pump after. ----it depends on the date of your layout which above ground equipment you have.
If you desire to put more than one oil well to define your oil field, you only need one set of storage tanks, etc., for all the producing wells. In the oil industry these facilities are refered to as a “battery.” Connect all the wells by a pipeline collection system to the battery. If you are in farm country, bury the pipelines because a farmer will desire to plant and harvest crops, and does not want any unnessary surface equipment which can compromise his pattern of plowing and harvesting. Have the pipelines come out of the ground at the battery. Also at the battery, you can put a vertical pipe at the separator to serve as a flare stack to burn off any excess gas. You will want to put a simle gravel road into the batttery and the well heads for service access by oil field personal.
Also put a fence around your equipment. Also put some small direction signs on access roads to help workers find the correct well location. Name your wells; give them the name of a nearby town and the geographic location (township, range, etc.) of each indivdual well. If you do not know, make something up. For eaxample, for one well Hickville -12-24, for a second well Hickville 8-6, third well Hickville 6-36, etc… A direction sign (similar to “Open House” direction signs) would read Hickville 12-24 with an arrow below the name.
Also you may not even need a pump jack. In some cases, the subsurface oil reservoir has a reservoir pressure that is greater than the hydrostatic pressure (e.g., the total wieght of the oil column in the drill hole from the surface to the depth of the reservoir). In this case the oil will flow to the surface without the need of a pump. Just run a pipe from the hole to your battery.
Badger
Here is an oil well I got of line some where,I think it is “N” scale?It is sharpe looking
JIM
well guess I have a nice water tank
here is the oil
