The stories
beneath the well.

Identify the earliest individual wells from original records. Keep the Saskatchewan Geological Survey’s 1944 commercial-discovery milestone distinct from the contemporary 1945 production milestone. Historical production tables need their original definitions and reporting periods.

Resolve the December 1951 and January 1952 Fosterton milestones using the well record. Collect original logs, formation descriptions and early pool maps before drawing a detailed trap. Build a sourced follow-on for Wapella rather than inferring its chronology from modern maps.

Use the WCSB Atlas discovery years—Midale 1953 and Weyburn 1954—as starting points. Retrieve original discovery-well records, historical pool boundaries and geological sections before creating spatially exact maps or reservoir animations.

Separate the discovery, test and production dates using the California Standard Daly well file. Collect early logs and field maps. Keep Manitoba’s Lodgepole Formation distinct from the Alberta community and its 1982 blowout.

Check contemporary newspapers behind the Oil Museum of Canada’s correction identifying John Shaw and 16 January 1862. Attribute folklore explicitly. Confirm image permissions and avoid presenting a photograph of another well being shot as Shaw’s actual gusher.

Build accurately labelled original diagrams from manufacturer technical papers and experimental research. Separate matrix-body properties from diamond-cutter properties; define angle conventions; qualify performance claims by rock, depth of cut, hydraulics and test conditions.

Source documented hybrid-bit designs and comparable field or laboratory results. Explain crushing and shearing without promising universal performance gains. Connect bit response to BHA dynamics, vibration, formation changes and operational context; identify promotional claims as such.