Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 61
tanks. Where there is considerable gas, but notenough to lift the well full of oil and make agusher, we may make the oil flow by packingthe well, instead of pumping it. The smallpipe is put in, but without the sucker-rod, andthe space all around it, at the bottom, is closely 48 BORING FOR OIL.… … AND MAKING IT packed with a rubber ring made for the purpose.This leaves but a small hole for the oil to flow upthrough, and the pressure of the gas through thissmaller hole is often sufficient to raise the oil to thesurface ; and the well flows. When a well does notproduce much oil at first, or…
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