Taylor Sheridan - an education in a 1-minute read....

[JAS-SH]

This guy is right now one of (if not) the best writer/producer of TV shows, probably in history. He owns the 6666 ranch in Texas- 260,000 acres - And he has a message - to wit - a monologue in his latest series called "Landman". The series is about currently getting oil out of the ground in Texas and here's the quote:

"It's from Sheridans's Landman, a soapy-actiony drama that premiered in November 2024 and that’s set against the fracking-fueled West Texas oil boom. Billy Bob Thornton plays Tommy Norris, a roughneck fixer “Landman” for a fictional wildcatting outfit called M-Tex. The company’s snarky young lawyer is surprised when Tommy tells her they use wind farms—what she calls “clean energy”—to power pumps so remote that they’re off the grid. He claps back, “They use alternative energy. There’s nothing clean about this.” She throws him a Zillennial eye roll: “Please, Mr. Oilman, tell me how wind is bad for the environment.” So he does—with impassioned, profane eloquence—as they stand under a towering 400-foot wind turbine that stands on a concrete pad that covers a third of an acre and sits 12 feet deep."

“Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix that much concrete?” Tommy schools her. “Or make that steel? And haul this s—t out here and put it together with a 450-foot crane? You wanna take a guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that f—n’ thing? Or winterize it? In its 20-year lifespan, it won’t offset the carbon footprint of makin’ it. And don’t get me started on solar panels or the lithium in your Tesla battery. And never mind the fact that if the whole world decided to go electric tomorrow, we don’t have the transmission lines to get the electricity to the cities. It’d take 30 years if we started tomorrow.”

He isn’t done: “And unfortunately for your grandkids, we have a 120-year-old petroleum-based infrastructure. Our whole lives depend on it. Hell, it’s in everything. That road we came in on. The wheels (tires) on every car ever made, including yours. It’s in tennis rackets and lipstick and refrigerators and antihistamines. Pretty much anything plastic. Your cellphone case, artificial heart valves, any kinda clothin’ that’s not made of animal or plant fibers. Soap, f—n’ hand lotion, garbage bags, fishin’ boats—you name it. Every f—n’ thang. And you know what the kicker is? We’re gonna run out of it before we find its replacement…. Getting oil outta the ground is the most dangerous job in the world. We don’t do it because we like it. We do it ’cuz we run outta options…. There ain’t nobody to blame but the demand that we keep pumpin’ it.”

Gotta love a Texan character!

 

[91Eunozs]

Yeah, I tried really hard not to get sucked into that one when a friend showed me a clip of Billy Bob’s character having a conversation with his daughter about her boyfriend, and I was…well, shocked. And will just leave it at that.

Don’t get me wrong, it was funny as hell, but shocking.

But then in a fit of boredom last weekend I watched an episode…And two hours later had binge watched all available episodes, LoL.

Damn good show.

 

[sierracharlie338]

Wife talked me into watching it and did the same thing watching every episode over the course of the day when I had some down time. Pretty good so far.

 

[6.5SH]

 

[Major Wader]

I grew up in the oil industry and still sell to them. My first job at 18 was working in the pipe industry supplying pipelines, and I have been in every level of support for upstream, midstream, and downstream since.

Only incorrect statement in his monologue is that we will run out. There's enough to run the world for centuries, more likely millennia.

It's a by-product of the chemical reactions happening deep under the Earth's crust, and has nothing to do with fossils. No such thing as "fossil fuels". That's a made-up term to suggest limited availability, pushed by Rockefeller in the late 19th-early 20th century.

I hate to type, so if you want to discuss further, PM for my cell number. I can speak facts for hours on this.

 

[1911hombre]

Only incorrect statement in his monologue is that we will run out. There's enough to run the world for centuries, more likely millennia.

This is 1000% true. Biggest scam of all time.

 

[dirtybores]

Its an entertaining show. I grew up with half the family in oil and gas and the rest in agriculture floated by it. Worked in it twice myself and have interest in a few leases. Never once encountered an independent landman doing basically anything that character does, in the Barnett, Eagle, or Permian. But he's funny.

 

[mosin46]

I grew up in the oil industry and still sell to them. My first job at 18 was working in the pipe industry supplying pipelines, and I have been in every level of support for upstream, midstream, and downstream since.

Only incorrect statement in his monologue is that we will run out. There's enough to run the world for centuries, more likely millennia.

It's a by-product of the chemical reactions happening deep under the Earth's crust, and has nothing to do with fossils. No such thing as "fossil fuels". That's a made-up term to suggest limited availability, pushed by Rockefeller in the late 19th-early 20th century.

I hate to type, so if you want to discuss further, PM for my cell number. I can speak facts for hours on this.

OK. being a conspiracy theorist and opponent of most conventional wisdom,i am down with some learning about what you have said. a book title or some links would be appreciated. agree our entire world wide system is totally dependent on petro.
i too thought that our fuel came from long dead dinos and as of the '72 embargo always thought that we should have been working on a viable replacement for the last 50yrs. an alt to add to our system would have been good IMHO. the current solar,wind abortion should be obvious to all. but,most are stupid,so...
i get nuc too. but everything has a risk and some of the probs with it haven't been addressed very well.

 

[Short-bus]

I grew up in the oil industry and still sell to them. My first job at 18 was working in the pipe industry supplying pipelines, and I have been in every level of support for upstream, midstream, and downstream since.

Only incorrect statement in his monologue is that we will run out. There's enough to run the world for centuries, more likely millennia.

It's a by-product of the chemical reactions happening deep under the Earth's crust, and has nothing to do with fossils. No such thing as "fossil fuels". That's a made-up term to suggest limited availability, pushed by Rockefeller in the late 19th-early 20th century.

I hate to type, so if you want to discuss further, PM for my cell number. I can speak facts for hours on this.

So tempting. This is a topic I would love to know a lot more about.

 

[chevy_man]

OK. being a conspiracy theorist and opponent of most conventional wisdom,i am down with some learning about what you have said. a book title or some links would be appreciated. agree our entire world wide system is totally dependent on petro.
i too thought that our fuel came from long dead dinos and as of the '72 embargo always thought that we should have been working on a viable replacement for the last 50yrs. an alt to add to our system would have been good IMHO. the current solar,wind abortion should be obvious to all. but,most are stupid,so...
i get nuc too. but everything has a risk and some of the probs with it haven't been addressed very well.

There's an oil field under the bakken that dwarfs all of Saudi Arabia. It's hard to get at, but with newer tech like liquid CO2 cooling it's not out of reach anymore.

We're still getting at the easy stuff.

It's not so much fossils but just decayed carbon matter. Anywhere there's plant and animal life there will be oil under the ground. It's just one big cycle like everything else.

 

[Thumper580]

Perfect role for Billy Bob....

 

[akmike47]

I grew up in the oil industry and still sell to them. My first job at 18 was working in the pipe industry supplying pipelines, and I have been in every level of support for upstream, midstream, and downstream since.

Only incorrect statement in his monologue is that we will run out. There's enough to run the world for centuries, more likely millennia.

It's a by-product of the chemical reactions happening deep under the Earth's crust, and has nothing to do with fossils. No such thing as "fossil fuels". That's a made-up term to suggest limited availability, pushed by Rockefeller in the late 19th-early 20th century.

I hate to type, so if you want to discuss further, PM for my cell number. I can speak facts for hours on this.

PM number, I just want to send nudes

 

[Aftermath]

I have been in the oilpatch for many years. Engineer and fracturing specialist. I've worked in every state that has oil except Kolorado and Kalifornia. I've been out of the USA. I've been trying to get out off the oilpatch since 2018 and finally made it!!! I start a new job and work from home starting January.

We will never run out of oil.

Some of the older and assumed depleted fields just needs new tech to get to the oil left behind. It's not sitting in a big puddle down there you just stick a straw in a suck out. There seems to always be some new find, too.

CO2 (btw) is one of the absolute worst and most expensive ways to get at that oil. H2CO3 is nasty and hard on everything production related. Not to mention that just cooling off the surface equipment so it can pump liquid CO2 vents more CO2 to the atmosphere in about 20 minutes than the entire Boeing factories in Washington State are allowed to emit over a years time. Then it has to be repeated to pump the next stage...there might be 50 stimulation (frac) stages per oil well and we generally work on 3-4 at a time.

High rate (100 barrels per minute) slickwater (17,000 barrels of chemically treated water) with somewhere in the neighborhood of 500,000 to 750,000 lbs of sand PER STAGE is where it's at currently. EDIT: 42 gallons = 1 barrel

The problem I have with this industry is the water. That water is potable with a little bit of treatment. It gets pumped into the earth and we get much of it back with the hydrocarbons during production. That water is no longer easily treated to be potable. It has salts of all sorts in it now. It often gets pumped into a disposal well and won't be part of the water cycle for maybe an eon.

We might very well run out of water that is safe to drink.

 

[ggmanning]

The music playlists of his stuff are always good, usually have a nice conservtive undertone to the shows. Exception is the Lioness thing. Made it just a little bit into that until 115# woman whips men in hand to hand and is CIA tier I badass meat eater.......nope.

 

[EddieNFL]

The music playlists of his stuff are always good, usually have a nice conservtive undertone to the shows. Exception is the Lioness thing. Made it just a little bit into that until 115# woman whips men in hand to hand and is CIA tier I badass meat eater.......nope.

That and I think being a little more friendly towards those that may have come for you when the plan goes tango uniform would be a smart play.

 

[GrayRyder]

Wonder if they got bit by chiggers out there in that field?

 

[stevieb92]

I wonder how many seasons this one will run until it stops and makes people wait a year or two for the next season? I enjoy watching all of Sheridan's series, but it's getting old waiting around for the next season. By that time, I've forgotten what happened in the previous ones! Sheesh...

 

[502Chevelle]

I actually liked the Lioness series. You just have to look past the 115 lb woman bullshit. It’s Hollywood, and it’s going to be there. Didn’t care for the lesbian bs. They are cramming that stuff down our throats. Also more porn than that Scottish porn show called Outlander.

 

[Ironman1959]

Its an entertaining show. I grew up with half the family in oil and gas and the rest in agriculture floated by it. Worked in it twice myself and have interest in a few leases. Never once encountered an independent landman doing basically anything that character does, in the Barnett, Eagle, or Permian. But he's funny.

Yea, walking up to a simple pressure Guage on that worked over well and coming up with a flow calculation was impressive, lol

 

[TexPatriot]

Keep that Kevn Costner "I'm with Liz" cocksucker off of it and Ill sign on and watch it. A buddy thats a retired landman says it's good.

 

[jrassy]

I enjoy Taylor Sheridan shows, I haven’t seen the Lioness yet. In Landman, Billy Bobs character reminds me of my little brother almost to the T, He could tell the President of a subcontractor firm to go to hell in such a way that the guy would enjoy the trip, then get thrown out of the strip club that night. My brother Pete worked in commercial construction in Texas, I worked with him several years, both of us were Superintendents. I miss him every day.

Now in Landman, how factual was the stuck valve explosion scene?

 

[Sean the Nailer]

As factual as a Space Shuttle Door Gunner....

 

[mosin46]

I have been in the oilpatch for many years. Engineer and fracturing specialist. I've worked in every state that has oil except Kolorado and Kalifornia. I've been out of the USA. I've been trying to get out off the oilpatch since 2018 and finally made it!!! I start a new job and work from home starting January.

We will never run out of oil.

Some of the older and assumed depleted fields just needs new tech to get to the oil left behind. It's not sitting in a big puddle down there you just stick a straw in a suck out. There seems to always be some new find, too.

CO2 (btw) is one of the absolute worst and most expensive ways to get at that oil. H2CO3 is nasty and hard on everything production related. Not to mention that just cooling off the surface equipment so it can pump liquid CO2 vents more CO2 to the atmosphere in about 20 minutes than the entire Boeing factories in Washington State are allowed to emit over a years time. Then it has to be repeated to pump the next stage...there might be 50 stimulation (frac) stages per oil well and we generally work on 3-4 at a time.

High rate (100 barrels per minute) slickwater (17,000 barrels of chemically treated water) with somewhere in the neighborhood of 500,000 to 750,000 lbs of sand PER STAGE is where it's at currently. EDIT: 42 gallons = 1 barrel

The problem I have with this industry is the water. That water is potable with a little bit of treatment. It gets pumped into the earth and we get much of it back with the hydrocarbons during production. That water is no longer easily treated to be potable. It has salts of all sorts in it now. It often gets pumped into a disposal well and won't be part of the water cycle for maybe an eon.

We might very well run out of water that is safe to drink.

you have hit on the big problem for this and following centuries. it was said a few years ago that the next wars will be about water not oil. true i think. look at kali and it's water problems-stealing it from other states. we even start to have water probs in fl. draining the rivers to feed the cities. big sugar has been polluting so fl and the glades forever. salt water encroachment,pollution of shallow water along the coast with runoff. big problems that need attention soon.

 

[JAS-SH]

I grew up in the oil industry and still sell to them. My first job at 18 was working in the pipe industry supplying pipelines, and I have been in every level of support for upstream, midstream, and downstream since.

Only incorrect statement in his monologue is that we will run out. There's enough to run the world for centuries, more likely millennia.

It's a by-product of the chemical reactions happening deep under the Earth's crust, and has nothing to do with fossils. No such thing as "fossil fuels". That's a made-up term to suggest limited availability, pushed by Rockefeller in the late 19th-early 20th century.

I hate to type, so if you want to discuss further, PM for my cell number. I can speak facts for hours on this.

I agree. First read about this many years ago and the information came from Russians that would close a well down when it was dry, then open it up again 20 years later and find it fully productive again....

 

[higginsworksforme]

If they don't work "It ain't got no gas in it" into William Robert Thornton's lines they've done us all a disservice.

 

[Aqua Mark]

Actor, writer, director, executive producer, businessman, and cowboy. Not a bad resume.

 

[DOA]

Sheridan uses the same format for all his shows. 1883 was pretty good. 1923 not so much. Lioness didn't need the lesbian crap.Its overly done now.

 

[atomic41]

1883 was one of the best shows ever made.

 

[Animal357]

1883 was one of the best shows ever made.

It is like watching grass grow

 

[DOA]

1883 was one of the best shows ever made.

Godless was better.

 

[91Eunozs]

Sheridan uses the same format for all his shows. 1883 was pretty good. 1923 not so much. Lioness didn't need the lesbian crap.Its overly done now.

Other than Zoe Saldana’s magnificent bare ass, the “lesbian crap” is the best part of watching Lioness!

And referencing someone above, Billy Bob was perfectly cast in Landman…as were Ali Larter’s rocking naked bod!

I’m sensing a theme in Sheridan’s shows.

And I’m buying it!

 

[Holliday]

Taylor like sure likes to punk women with his strong, independent female characters…..

 

[Redlion]

This is 1000% true. Biggest scam of all time.

Not to mention the 511 billion barrels of oil (and NG) awaiting to be extracted off of Antarctica (at some point).

Russia's Rosgeo uncovered oil and gas reserves in British Antarctic territory, estimated at around 511 billion barrels

 

[Holliday]

1883 started awesome!

Then it quickly devolved into the love life of little blonde miss “she who shits butterflies “.

Then she tells her dad how beautiful the twister that just came through was after it took lives and destroyed families’ wagons, everything they had in the world.

The zenith of her omnipresence was after having been shot in the liver “she who farts rainbows” decided she needed to be on horseback for the remainder of the trip.

What an epic waste of a potentially great story and decent cast.

1923 (the year my Dad was born) so far has put both “Yellowstone” and 1883 to shame. Yea there are some pretty blonde nonsense but it does not dominate…… It has been what the other two could have been.

 

[earthquake]

Yeah, we ain’t running out of fossil fuels any time soon. They’ll just be harder to get to, but we will find a way. Until the past 20 years or so, the formations they’re fracking now weren’t tapped until the technology (hydraulic fracturing) was invented. We’re always working on figuring out the geology.

 

[SpaceDyeVest]

That speech, it's a powerful mindbender to the folks who drank the team blue energy/environmental koolaid. Lots of Hollywood types will be forced to watch since TS is scoring big wins.

Timing is good too, team blue still on the mat wondering what went wrong.

 

[Holliday]

I really like Elon and think he is a genius. That said it is hard to see current EVs as our future. I just don’t see how this works on so many levels.

To me EVs are like what CD’s were to music. A stopgap to the destination…..

 

[Ironman1959]

I enjoy Taylor Sheridan shows, I haven’t seen the Lioness yet. In Landman, Billy Bobs character reminds me of my little brother almost to the T, He could tell the President of a subcontractor firm to go to hell in such a way that the guy would enjoy the trip, then get thrown out of the strip club that night. My brother Pete worked in commercial construction in Texas, I worked with him several years, both of us were Superintendents. I miss him every day.

Now in Landman, how factual was the stuck valve explosion scene?

They were all wearing 4 gas moniters on shirts, if valve or well head was leaking, should have been a screaming alarm picking up vapors.valves do stick but we get a longer wrench or a cheater pipe. Steel hammer on pipe wrench not so much. but they had to make it look good.
Static electrical spark would have not look good on TV

 

[Major Wader]

I really like Elon and think he is a genius. That said it is hard to see current EVs as our future. I just don’t see how this works on so many levels.

To me EVs are like what CD’s were to music. A stopgap to the destination…..


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We don't have the electric infrastructure to run the country 100% at the current demand. Zero possibility that we could do so at triple the demand.

When Doc Brown comes back from the future with Mr. Fusion, electric cars can make sense. Until then, oil will remain king.

 

[mosin46]

A+ for fusion

 

[K80/6.5]

They were all wearing 4 gas moniters on shirts, if valve or well head was leaking, should have been a screaming alarm picking up vapors.valves do stick but we get a longer wrench or a cheater pipe. Steel hammer on pipe wrench not so much. but they had to make it look good.
Static electrical spark would have not look good on TV

Those were just h2s monitors but you’re right they should have alarmed. Plenty of little things wrong if you watch closely.

 

[XP1K]

I enjoy Taylor Sheridan shows, I haven’t seen the Lioness yet. In Landman, Billy Bobs character reminds me of my little brother almost to the T, He could tell the President of a subcontractor firm to go to hell in such a way that the guy would enjoy the trip, then get thrown out of the strip club that night. My brother Pete worked in commercial construction in Texas, I worked with him several years, both of us were Superintendents. I miss him every day.

Now in Landman, how factual was the stuck valve explosion scene?

That scene wasn't very factual at all. I don't really see an instance where someone would be beating on a pipe wrench like that. That said, it is very possible to cause an explosion with hand tools like that. I've done work in chemical plants and refineries where we had to be under fresh air, wearing bunker gear, and strictly using brass tools. No fun.

We had a well blowout in my neighborhood when I was a kid. Thankfully it never found an ignition source. It was blowing crap at least 80-100' in the air. Way over the workover rig that was set up. They brought in something and capped it somehow, then they flared it off. Burned for three days.

 

[jrassy]

Kind of what I figured, thanks

 

[Major Wader]

Pipeline workers use brass and copper hammers to avoid sparks. Copper hammers are expensive. You can buy an 8 lb steel sledge with a fiberglass handle for about $25. An 8 lb copper sledge is about $150. Harder than brass, non-sparking.

 

[dhuf]

The part I found not believable about the blowout is the previous day that crew was on a rig, the next day they're out doing roustabout work on a producing well???
I've not seen that before.
That combined with hammering on a pipe wrench vs using a cheater pipe but I guess the spark had to come from somewhere.

I've spent the last 15 years in the Bakken in the industry and had high hopes for the show, the attitudes and a lot of the sets are very realistic but a little more attention to detail would have drove that scene home.

Up here it's not on regular TV after 2 episodes so I'm probably done with it anyway.

 

[chevy_man]

I agree. First read about this many years ago and the information came from Russians that would close a well down when it was dry, then open it up again 20 years later and find it fully productive again....

There's one somewhere in Louisiana that they documented having a light brown crude when it was drilled in the 1920s.
By the 1970s it was pumping black sludge and not making enough money to pay the power bill, but was left on for research.
It started pumping light crude again in the 90s and has been ever since.

 

[Aftermath]

 

[EddieNFL]

We don't have the electric infrastructure to run the country 100% at the current demand. Zero possibility that we could do so at triple the demand.

When Doc Brown comes back from the future with Mr. Fusion, electric cars can make sense. Until then, oil will remain king.

Niece’s husband is CEO of a power coop. If I remember correctly, four Flying Js setup to serve
electric trucks would require about 25 percent of the state’s electricity (SC).

 

[Mike Casselton]

To me EVs are like what CD’s were to music. A stopgap to the destination…..

What has happened since the demise of the LP & CD?

We have streaming, which is awesome, but the sound quality is shit compared to ^^^^.

Am I missing something?

 

[supercorndogs]

you have hit on the big problem for this and following centuries. it was said a few years ago that the next wars will be about water not oil. true i think. look at kali and it's water problems-stealing it from other states. we even start to have water probs in fl. draining the rivers to feed the cities. big sugar has been polluting so fl and the glades forever. salt water encroachment,pollution of shallow water along the coast with runoff. big problems that need attention soon.

As our water needs as country are steadily increasing our water storage capacity is being purposefully decreased while our stored water is being purposely wasted.