Oilfield 101

One well. Survey to plug & abandon.

Short, plain-English videos that follow a single Bakken-style horizontal well through its whole life, in order.

New hire or just curious? Start at Episode 1 and go in order. Each video is under a minute and ends by naming the next step.

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Later series

After the lifecycle series wraps, these get their own playlists, built the same way.

About

Free, plain-English explainers of how an oil well is built, run and retired. Educational only — not a substitute for site-specific training or your company's procedures.

The example well is an onshore horizontal well in North Dakota's Williston Basin. Regulatory references are examples only; rules vary by state, and federal and tribal land have their own processes. Numbers are typical, not universal, and illustrations are not to scale.