As interesting as the technology was, the whole oil & gas thing lost the shine for me once I began to poke around and look “behind the curtain” in financing and upper management. Milk it for every penny, cozy up to the majors, run the unit until it won’t, then build/but/acquire a new rig.
I like my car, I like the my outboard on the duck boat, I have a use for a quad at camp, and I certainly like heat and light…but I drive a 4cyl Rav4, run a low emission 4 stroke, heat primarily with wood, and put a sweater on when it cools off in the fall. We can use fossil fuels for our life (it is everywhere in almost everything), but use it responsibly, and, at lesst for me, to give the money grubbing, to-heck-with-the-rules exploration side of Big Oil as little of my money as possible.
Drilling companies have cycled through men and machines with little regard for the future. The heck with them.
(Nope, not bitter at all…just frustrated lol)