CSi has been awarded a multi-vessel decontamination and retirement project in northern PA for a major Appalachian Basin oil and gas production company.  In total, CSi anticipates retiring ~ 40 vessels previously used for storage of produced fluids such as crude oil, brines, and drip gas.  We anticipate ‘kicking off’ this project within the next few weeks. 

CSi’s Rig #5 (Green Rig), was deployed to northern West Virginia earlier this morning for use on long term well plugging and abandonment (P&A) projects for a major coal mining company.  CSi is now focusing its efforts on preparing/constructing Rig #6 (Gray Rig) for deployment in upcoming weeks.

CSi held a christening breakfast and ceremony for its newest drilling/servicing rig, Rig #5 (or Green Rig) earlier today.

In the early 1960’s, there was a migration of rotary drilling companies and their crews to central West Virginia from Texas and Illinois to meet the large demand for drilling services in the region.  Once here, these companies and their employees recruited and trained new employees from the area in the art of rotary drilling and instilled a generational trade for many families in central West Virginia.  Since the 1960’s and until today, central West Virginia and CSi’s home of Roane County is known throughout the eastern US as the major supplier of employees in the oil and gas industry.

As such, CSi dedicated its Rig #5 (Green Rig) to one of the early and now defunct rotary drilling companies in our area and its many employees - FWA Drilling Company (whose company colors were also green and yellow).  As guest of honor, CSi invited Kenneth ‘Mo’ Rainwater, a former FWA toolpusher and drilling superintendent who moved to Roane County from Texas many years ago.  Today, CSi employs second and third generation oil and gas rig workers and owes much of its success to FWA, Clint Hurt & Associates, Den-Mark Drilling (owned by Richard L. Mann and later partner of David A. Freshwater) and the other pioneering rotary drilling companies and their employees for moving into West Virginia.