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Hitting the Mark: A Father’s Day Tribute

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

spent his entire working career as a drilling engineer for Texaco, Inc. He said, “In drilling a well, what you really have to watch for [this was speaking as an engineer] is the ‘marker zone.’” During the drilling process, drill cuttings were floated up by the drilling mud.